POLICE launched a massive search and rescue operation today after a severely depressed man went missing from his home in Southampton. Simon Wilson's Volkswagen Polo car was found abandoned at Paddy's Gap car park near Milford on Sea overlooking the Needles
EX-Saint striker Dexter Blackstock struck against his former club and Ray Jones grabbed a second as Saints suffered their first home defeat of the season losing 2-1. The third-placed Saints, looking for a fifth successive win, got off to a perfect start
THE CELEBRATIONS were back on last night after Hampshire workers were told they would be part of Whitehall pension parachute scheme after all. It ended 24 hours of agonising uncertainty for pensioners at APW Electronics at Chandler's Ford who thought
DIGNITARIES and workers, past and present, yesterday said goodbye to the US Army base at RAF Hythe. A sombre casing of the colours ceremony marked the closure of the watercraft repair and servicing operation and brought an end to more than 200 skilled
THE only two remaining parent and child parking spaces at Winchester's River Park Leisure Centre have now been removed, in favour of more disabled spaces. While never demeaning the virtue of disabled parking spaces, this leisure centre and surrounding
IT is a quintessential English contest that is played out in village halls and social clubs up and down the country in the run up to Hallowe'en. But as the competition season begins afresh there is one fierce rivalry that will not be revived. The cancellation
CHERIE Blair is the only Prime Minister's wife in this country that has never learnt to keep her head down and her mouth shut. She of all people should know that when she shoots from the lip, as she does so often, it makes worldwide headlines and not
Christmas is a wonderful and special time of year, but can also be a sad occasion for many families as they remember loved ones who are no longer with them. Sadly, as cases of meningitis significantly increase during the winter, thousands of families
WHEN it comes to container ships and world trade, these days big is definitely beautiful and in a few years time Southampton will see some of the largest cargo vessels ever built. A radical re-structuring of the port will result in the near doubling
EUROPEAN traveller Rudi Skacel has had enough of the cosmopolitan lifestyle. The 27-year-old made Saints his fifth club in 35 months when he completed a £1.6m deal before the friendly against Panathinaikos in July. The Greeks, co-incidentally, were
ONE-BY-ONE they stepped forward for their moment of glory - and one-by-one they were shot down by John Higgins. The World No 3 delivered a master-class of potting and close cue-ball control to over 100 fans packed into Chandler's Ford Snooker Club.
TO the well-heeled residents of the neighbourhood it looked like any other imposing manor house in the sleepy Hampshire village. But behind the curtains of the exclusive detached house lay the sordid secret that the luxury property was actually being
IT is 2am and a teenager is doing school lessons that have been posted on the Internet because that is when he finds he works best. Another pupil has the option of coming into school at midday so that she can help her disabled mother get washed, dressed
THOUSANDS of Hampshire residents put the kettle on for charity as they took part in the World's Biggest Coffee Morning. It's the biggest fundraising event of the year for Macmillan Cancer and saw more than 1,150 groups, families, businesses and organisations
