Firefighters were tonight called to a fire at a high-rise block of flats in Southampton city centre. Reports of a blaze in a second-floor flat in Telephone House, High Street, came in just before 10pm but the small cooker fire was out as crews from
Four wickets for Ajmal Shahzad put Yorkshire on top against Hampshire on the second day of the LVCounty Championship Division One match at Headingley. Twice the England all-rounder claimed a wicket with the second ball of a spell on his way
A MAN was today found dead in a Hampshire home contaminated with potentially hazardous chemicals. Police found the body of the man in his mid-fifties when they were called to his house in Wych Lane, Gosport, at 10.53am following a concern for welfare
A POPULAR ‘rat run’ for motorists along a narrow country lane near Romsey could be closed for good. Test Valley’s highway chiefs are planning to close sections of Lee Lane between Romsey and Nursling for a trial period to see if it improves
THERE was double delight for Chandlers Ford Central Club A this week. After pipping Woolston Conservative Club A to the snooker Super League title by just one frame, Terry Azor’s ‘lads’ met their great rivals again in the 62nd Burroughes & Watts final
SAINTS fans can help out the club's former defender Kevin Moore at next week's programme and memorabilia fair. Organisers of the benefit fund in aid of Moore, who suffers from a rare form of dementia, have been collecting donated old shirts
SAINTS’ promotion-winning heroes are being treated to a major end-of-season celebration – in Las Vegas. The players will mark the club’s return to the Championship with a visit to the ‘Entertainment Capital of the World’ over the weekend.
A MAN freed after 27 years of wrongful imprisonment for the rape and murder of a Southampton woman may face further time behind bars after he admitted sexually assaulting a young woman. Sean Hodgson was freed in 2009 after having his conviction
AN out-of-town homeware retailer is opening a new store in Fareham creating more than 100 jobs. Dunelm Mill is opening a 33,100 sq ft air-conditioned store in Southampton Road that will be open seven days a week. The store has been designed
WORKERS in Southampton will soon be able to wobble away the flab with the country’s first walk-in mobile express fitness centre. The new business venture, being piloted in Southampton, is offering time-pressed staff a high-speed, sweat-free workout.
THE owner of Southampton superclub Oceana has been thrown another lifeline by banks despite announcing more huge losses and falling sales today. The Luminar group, which has 77 outlets branded Oceana, Liquid, and Lava & Ignite, cut its debt last year
With Cheryl Cole tipped for super stardom as a judge in the US version of X Factor, she has embraced America’s supersize phenomenon by sporting voluminous hair. Sparking a trend that has spread throughout Hollywood’s elite like Sarah Jessica Parker, why
THE former head teacher of teenager Emily Longley has described “a gentle and caring” girl who was planning for the future. The 17-year-old Brockenhurst College student who was born in Britain but emigrated with her family to New Zealand, was found dead
Eastleigh College, will be taking part in Dance For Life, at 'The Point' in Eastleigh this evening. Their piece looks at the work the British Red Cross does helping people with visible skin conditions – such as burns and scars and birthmarks. The British
POLICE are today searching marshland on the Isle of Wight for the body of missing teenager Damien Nettles. Damien, 16, from West Cowes, went missing nearly 15 years ago after spending the evening at a party with friends. Police this
CITY leaders have told of their “disappointment” for Hampshire workers after a wind turbine firm announced plans to create 2,000 jobs – in Kent. More than 400 workers were laid off when Vestas closed its Isle of Wight factory and sister facility in Woolston
THE mother of missing teenager Damien Nettles has welcomed the arrest of five men suspected of his killing. Damien, 16, failed to return home after spending the evening at a party on the Isle of Wight with friends nearly 15 years ago.
POLICE have named the woman who plunged to her death from a bridge over a busy Hampshire commuter route. Voluntary worker Rebecca Mae Wheeler, 41, from the Ringwood area, fell onto the A31 at Poulner Hill just after 4.30am yesterday.
A FORMER Southampton nightclub and bar has been put up for sale after plans to reopen as 1,400-capacity superclub were rejected. The New Yorks nightclub and McCluskys bar in Queensway, Southampton, ceased trading six years ago when councillors refused
A FRIGHTENED pensioner was woken up in the middle of the night during a break-in at her home. The 89-year-old first heard banging on the front and back doors of her house in Dodds Lane, Swanmore, before the intruder came upstairs and knocked on her bedroom
TWO people accused of drug-dealing in Winchester have appeared in a magistrates’ court. Micah Blake, 18, of Streatham Common South, has admitted possessing crack cocaine and heroin both with intent and possessing cannabis at a flat in Trussell Crescent
BURGLARS targeted a Hampshire lifeboat group and caused hundreds of pounds of damage. The Venturers search-and-rescue organisation is counting the cost of a break-in at its training building in Newlands Road, Blackfield. Nothing was stolen but
