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Stories for 22 May 1999

Alresford Features

Pet of the week

LAUREN Bagley's eight pets can all fit in the palm of her tiny hand.  more...

Alresford,Winchester Features

Cycling

THIS week's ride, based in Alton, has plenty to offer anyone with an inquisitive mind, and, indeed, some may have difficulty in leaving the actual town.   more...

Fareham,Eastleigh,Gosport,Romsey Sport

Summer game is already hotting up

HAMPSHIRE Men's Summer Super League season has opened up with an evening of superb darts.  more...

Hampshire Features

Eating Out

Toby Carvery Hinton, Chrischurch   more...

gARDEN OF SURPRISE

WHEN Sheila and Ashley Powell moved into their Titchfield home 35 years ago the garden was a wilderness of humps and bumps of grass and rubbish.  more...

Hampshire News

Support flows in for TV girl Sally

SALLY Taylor, the BBC TV presenter fighting the onset of breast cancer, has been buoyed by public support following the Daily Echo story.  more...

Hampshire Sport

Hampshire pair Lord it

A DEFIANT last-wicket stand by Derek Kenway and Peter Hartley transformed the County Championship clash between Middlesex and Hampshire at Lord's.  more...

Lymington,Southampton,New Forest News

Splitting up of sisters brings condemnation

HAMPSHIRE Social Services have been condemned for ignoring a cancer victim's dying plea and splitting up her heart-broken children.  more...

Romsey Features

Getting in a jam

Who better to test the 1999 line-up of National Trust jams than sweet-toothed school children We enlisted the help of six jam-starved pupils from Lockerley Primary School, near Romsey.   more...

Southampton Business

Investing in an old favourite

THIS WEEKEND you'll see count-less advertisements for different types of investment.  more...

Southampton Features

Out on the town

Our weekly look at what you're wearing out and about on the streets in Southampton.  more...

Why Surrogacy is the only option we have left

From the age of ten I have aspired to become a wife and a mother. It is all I have ever wanted. When I married David in June 1993 I took it for granted that within a year I would have a baby. This was not to be the case. In September 1995 I was -diagnosed as having -ovarian cancer and I had to have my right ovary removed. This did not deter me, but in May 1996, it was discovered that the -cancer had spread to my womb and to my left ovary. On July 4, 1996, I had to have a full -hysterectomy and oopherectomy to -eradicate the cancer. This came as one hell of a blow, not because I had cancer, but because my fertility had been snatched away from me.  more...

Southampton News

Fox saved from extinction

JUST a few months ago it looked as though Fox was an endangered species. With the future of ITV's smash hit television show Gladiators looking doubtful, Southampton's very own foxy lady - Gladiator Fox, aka Tammy-Marie Baker - was contemplating hanging up her costume.  more...

HARD-pressed train bosses in the South are set to introduce double-decker trains to meet a massive i

South West Trains is considering the trains, already in use in Europe and the USA, for the busy Southampton to Waterloo line.  more...

Pop best take to stage in city gig

SOME of Britain's brightest young pop hopefuls will be bursting onto the Southampton stage at a massive free gig.  more...

Southampton Sport

Kiwis home in on super sixes

NEW ZEALAND captain Steven Fleming reckons Twose company can prove there's no place like home, even if it is 13,000 miles away from the Land of the Long White Cloud.  more...

Southampton,Winchester Features

AFTER the Second World War it became a wilder-ness of weeds as the blitzed bomb sites of Southampton

When the post-war redevelopment came the area emerged as a rather anonymous part of Southampton compared to the riches that once stood there in past times.  more...

Totton News

It just Asda b Lineker

BRITAIN'S favourite crisp-snatcher brought a Hampshire super-store to a standstill.  more...

Totton,Southampton,Fareham,Eastleigh,Romsey Sport

Traditional clubs face uncertain future

FAREHAM Nomads pro-duced a stunning perfor-mance in the Southern Counties championships at Crystal Palace. But coach Stewart Crowe warned that the trend towards multi-club squads poses a real threat to the future of traditional clubs.  more...