A new film about Jack the Ripper has already ruffled feathers in Millbrook. So did Inspector Abberline hit the bottle? ALI KEFFORD met an avid Ripperologist who has his own theory on the crimes... THE KNIFE glinted just once in the weak gaslight before
MOVES to give Hythe Hospital a much-needed facelift costing more than £700,000 have been hit by health service re-organisation. Part of the long-awaited improvement scheme has been put on hold pending the launch of the New Forest Primary Care Trust. The
Britain's entry in the next America's Cup has been formally accepted after a submission by the Royal Ocean Racing Club on behalf of Peter Harrison's £17 million GBR Challenge. British team boss Harrison said: "I'm thrilled that we are officially entered
With only a few weeks to go before this year's Mercantile Credit Warsash Spring Series, an exciting selection of entries have generated. All the usual classes are in place, ranging from bowsprit, Hunter 707s, Cork 1720s and Mumm 30s to make up the White
A DILAPIDATED building used by people with learning difficulties at Totton is to be closed down and replaced with a temporary satellite day centre. The property, adjoining Lyndhurst Fire Station, is used by 30 people each week, but its poor condition
RAIDERS have broken into three Gosport homes during the day and escaped with goods and jewellery worth thousands of pounds. The burglaries happened at Halyard Close, Rowner, Molseworth Road, and Cleveland Road, during night Wednesday. At Halyard Close
PLANS to build a new railway station at Chandler's Ford could be delayed by at least 18 months, a leading county councillor has warned. It is a major setback to the immediate hopes of creating a commuter line to free up roads which are being traffic clogged
Published by Hodder and Stoughton, priced £12.99 Barbara and Jenna Bush were once just teenagers living in an everyday world. They could go where they pleased, speak to who they liked, do what they wanted. But now the 19-year-old twins have become America's
Today's Principal Arrivings: Celtic King, container, 0230, 206W; Hojin, vehicle carrier, 0800, 43; Fiori, general, 0815, Marchwood; Vans Princess, ro/ro, 1130, 105; MOL Loire, container, 1900, 205; Autoline, vehicle carrier, 2200, 201 link; Velox, general
SUPERMARKET giant Sainsbury has lost a planning appeal against Eastleigh council's decision to refuse permission to put up a huge new "brand wall" sign on a flagship out-of-town store at Hedge End. The company wanted to replace opaque glazing at ground-floor
THE Hampshire Gymnastics Grades Championships at Basingstoke were a springboard to higher things for the youngest members of the Dynamo School of Gymnastics. Eleven girls, aged eight and nine, all passed with distinction - six of them qualifying to represent
HAMPSHIRE'S senior side look to have retained their division one status after chalking up two wins in their latest round robin fixture at Southampton's Redbridge Sports Centre. Hampshire enjoyed a comfortable 7-3 win against Kent II. They were led by
A BUSINESSMAN at the centre of a planning controversy has had one of his cars vandalised. Charles Miller, of Lindley Gardens, Alresford, said his Mercedes had been scratched, with damage estimated at £500. He said: "I think I know who did it. It is all
On current performance a one-boat commercial operator using Halmatic boats may only have to buy four boats in any one century, if the experience of Hampshire boat builder Halmatic and the Sussex port of Shoreham is anything to go by. After 25 years of
MORE than 150 of the region's top business people will be gaining a first hand Budget low-down at the Posthouse on Wednesday. The Budget party has been organised by Burnett Swayne, and the Southampton-based firm expect to be the first chartered accountants
THE TYPICAL image of a classical ballerina is a young woman standing on her tip-toes with a stomach like an ironing board. Most new mums wouldn't fit the bill, but the lead performer in the new production at Southampton's Mayflower Theatre is fitter than
STAFF at Wycko Electro Mechanical Services in Southampton proved they were a cut above the rest when they had their heads shaved to raise money for charity. The brave workers didn't flinch as they were shorn of their crowning glory in order to collect
WATCH this space - all 2,400 square feet of it. This is the new Oakhaven Trading Company warehouse, which will be helping make more cash for the local hospice from next week. The huge warehouse next to Lymington railway station will provide extra sorting
POPSTAR fever came to Hampshire when television's most famous act arrived to be mobbed by young fans. The band without a hit but an appearance on the Brit Awards and the Pepsi Chart Show, arrived for their first show in the county. Hear'Say, better known
A GOLDEN haul of yachting medals from last year's Sydney Olympics has seen the Eastleigh-based Royal Yachting Association (RYA) sail away with a civic award. The honour, from Eastleigh Borough Council, celebrated the commitment to training and development
AN entire block of flats was evacuated after a fire broke out early today. Forty residents had to stand outside for more than half an hour in freezing temperatures while firefighters battled the blaze. One man is seriously ill in hospital with severe
INVOKING a rare truth, director Lasse Hallstrom's follow up to the brooding Cider House Rules is a beautiful, sensuous celebration of the human spirit. It is 1959 in a small French village where life has hardly changed in the last hundred years. The Comte
IF golf is a good walk spoiled (thanks, Oscar!) then surely a film about golf is a good watch spoiled ...? Not so. Robert Redford's delightfully languid film of Steven Pressfield's book is a graceful allegory of a man who conquers the ghosts of a painful
Saints have fixed up a quickfire double-header against French Second Division side Le Havre next week. They travel to France on Tuesday for the first match (kick-off 6.30) and then play a return against their twin town at The Dell a week today. Prices
A FORMER Tory Party chairman has spoken of how losing touch with people had cost the Conservatives the last general election. Lord Tebbit, still one of the party's top guns, was brought in as the Conservatives firmly set their sights on recapturing the
After hanging up his stethoscope, Adrian Lukis has gone back to his theatrical roots and later this month he'll be playing Macbeth at the Salisbury Playhouse. ALI KEFFORD caught up with the former Peak Practice star during rehearsals... MY WORST fears
Ron Wain and his young family spent a week in north Norfolk, where they discovered a seaside world with huge horizons and stunning scenery... IF THERE had to be a world capital of crabbing, this surely had to be it. I mean, everyone was at it, bridging
FORMER POMPEY boss Steve Claridge will ponder over his future from the Fratton Park stands on Saturday - but one place he won't be going is Cambridge. An ankle injury to Claridge will deny new boss Graham Rix the striker's services for tomorrow's home
A plea to increase clean-up operations at Warsash Hard beside the Hamble River is to be discussed by Fareham councillors. Villagers are demanding action because of the state of the Hard. A 405-signature petition from residents, calling for measures to
A run-down of the top-ten paperback and hardback books this week, with Waterstones of Southampton... PAPERBACK 1 White Teeth - Zadie Smith 2 Marrying the Mistress - Joanna Trollope 3 Luvtlk: ltle bk of luv txt 4 Chocolat - Joanne Harris 5 Hannibal - Thomas
ALTHOUGH one or two postponed league fixtures have been rearranged for tomorrow, the main focus of attention locally this weekend is on the Hampshire Caffrey's Cup and Bowl semi-finals which are being played on Sunday. Both cup semi-finals feature games
A ONCE-controversial opera festival held at a derelict mansion near Alresford looks set to expand in a £4 million scheme. Grange Park Opera, whose productions are performed at Northington Grange, is planning to improve the venue. The plans for the revamp
THE battle over the siting of mobile phone masts near homes and schools in Winchester is to be taken up with the Deputy Prime Minister. County council bosses, who have added their support to the campaign, spearheaded by local residents, have also called
MOVES to spark a full-scale rebellion over the future levels of housing in Hampshire have been slammed by the county's planning bosses. Battle lines have been drawn over the proposal of Eastleigh Borough Council's leader to ignore the demand for up to
HAMPSHIRE-based Aerospace giant BAE Systems predicted it would resume earnings growth in 2002 after unveiling a dip in full-year profits for the last year. The figures, which were in line with City expectations, contained no further surprises after the
CRAIG David's public relations company today denied claims that the singer received death threats after he played at London's Wembley Arena. Rumours were flying after the Southampton garage star's gig last night but a spokeswoman for Slice PR said there
POPSTAR fever came to Hampshire when television's most famous act arrived to be mobbed by young fans. The band without a hit but an appearance on the Brit Awards and the Pepsi Chart Show, arrived for their first show in the county. Hear'Say, better known
TWO multi-million-pound shopping centres fighting for custom on the South Coast claim there is enough to ensure neither will become white elephants. The partial opening of Portsmouth's delayed £150 million Gunwharf Quays shopping and leisure centre has
A TAXI driver died after suffering an apparent heart attack at the wheel just minutes after his passengers helped him repair a puncture in Southampton. Police said the victim, who has not been named, was certified dead after losing control of his red
A ONCE-controversial opera festival held at a derelict mansion near Alresford looks set to expand in a £4 million scheme. Grange Park Opera, whose productions are performed at Northington Grange, is planning to improve the venue. The plans for the revamp
A HAMPSHIRE workman engulfed by a fireball while digging up a Southampton street was awarded thousands of pounds in compensation - only to have it taken back minutes later. Eastleigh magistrates awarded a £4,000 hand-out to labourer William Halpin after
ONE OF the South's MPs has dismissed speculation that Southampton's Ordnance Survey (OS) agency is to be sold off. The OS, Britain's national mapping centre, is currently undergoing a top-to-bottom review, and privatisation is one of several options on
STATE-of-the-art family rooms allowing parents of sick children to stay close to their youngsters while in hospital are to officially open next week. The Ronald McDonald Family Rooms at Southampton General Hospital have been provided by a £250,000 donation
WITH his strange time-warped hairdo - something between a punk cut gone to seed and an out-and-out mullet - and occasionally surly manner, Ray Davies might strike you as the archetypal ageing rock star. But the singer who made the Kinks serious competition
THE composer of the score for Eyes Wide Shut will be making an appearance at The Turner Sims Concert Hall later this month as part of a brief UK tour. Jocelyn Pook is best known for her work on Kubrick's torrid tale of marriage and deception starring
Tranmere 4 - Saints 3 TALK about a game of two halves! How can a quality Premiership team lose a 3-0 interval lead against the team bottom of Division 1? That is the question haunting Glenn Hoddle, who was clearly numb with disbelief at the latest in
TALK about art imitating life. The story of a muscular hero who consoles a beautiful woman whose husband is lost to her was played out for real - if you believe the tabloid frenzy last year - when Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe were filming Proof of Life.
BRIXTON, Georgia is the kind of place where nothing is secret. Clairvoyant Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett) is held at arm's length by many of the town's hierarchy. They don't trust her skills and are uneasy about how much she knows of their lives. And wife-beating
Want to know which films are showing this week in Hampshire? Look here! 102 DALMATIONS (U) **: Odeon Cinema, Southampton. THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY & BULLWINKLE (U)*: - UCG Cinema, Ocean Village; Odeon Cinema, Southampton. ALMOST FAMOUS (15)***: - Odeon
Paul Jones is aiming for six of the best and to chalk up a club top-flight record tomorrow. The Saints keeper has kept five successive league clean sheets, matching the club's previous Premiership best of March, 1992 when Ian Branfoot's side drew 0-0
