A ?SOUTHAMPTON man has ?received? ?one? ?of? ?the? ?most? ?prestigious? ?awards? ?in ?sailing in recognition of a life spent inspiring thousands of people to take up the past time.

A SCHOOLBOY who was apart from his soldier dad for four months was stunned when he turned up out of the blue to pick him up from class - just in time for Christmas.

BOMB disposal units have rushed to a Hampshire beach.

SHE’S the woman behind such beloved creations as The Gruffalo, Zog and Stick Man.

NEARLY a decade since the last sell-out tour, Les Misérables is touring again and is back at Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre.

INTERVIEW: By Hilary Porter

FORGET James Bond or Jason Bourne – there’s a new spy in town. And he’s not dressed in a tuxedo or head-to-toe camouflage, but a garish Hawaiian shirt.

In recent years, scores of pubs across Southampton have shut down.

THEY raced over obstacle courses, juggled about on drum races, strenuously made stakes, mended punctures and rode a furious musical chairs on motorcycles.

ALTHOUGH the city of Southampton emerged as winners of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight games on July 8, 1979, it was the district of the New Forest East who took the glory.

THESE pictures were snapped at a football tournament in Millbrook on November 7, 1999.

ROLAND Tilley pedalled his way to victory in the senior race of the Crabwood CC’s East Street Centre series around Hoglands Park, Southampton.

A LADIES’ night of food and fashion raised £700 for a cancer charity.

STOKE Park Infant School was built in 1988/89 to replace the Victorian building which became an infant school in 1958.

HE may have made his first on-screen appearance more than ninety years ago, but in 1989 he showed his happy face at Marks and Spencer, Southampton.

Cue sports have enjoyed a long life – stretching back to their inception in the 15th century.

THE annual event was one which saw local residents flock to the streets to catch a glimpse of the colourful and humerous floats as they trundled down the road.

A POLICE probe continues as part of efforts to catch a masked flasher.

A FURTHER four people who have tested positive for coronavirus have died in Hampshire in the last 24 hours.

A HELICOPTER has launched over the Solent to rescue an injured sailor.

POLICE are appealing for witnesses following a serious incident.

SAFETY will come first in all plans for recovery in Hampshire, it has been revealed.

A MAN used homophobic slurs and threatened to "spread coronavirus" towards two Southampton police officers after he broke a window.

A DAILY Echo campaign calling on the government to scrap tuition fees for student nurses doing their part in the battle against coronavirus has been backed by civic chiefs.

A POPULAR Hampshire town market has began to make steps towards opening more stalls following their closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.

JOBS are at risk at a well-known Hampshire engineering company.

NO further deaths from coronavirus have been reported in Hampshire hospitals in the past 24 hours.

I have a really romantic view about taking my child to a festival. The reality is very different. We went to Let’s Rock last week. She is of course bored by the time we reach 2 metres past the entrance, but I persevere and blow up an air lounger which entertains her for approximately 5 seconds because she has her own personal bouncy castle. But, after she has fallen into 10 people and knocked over five drinks, it's time to put it away. This will carry on for approximately five hours while I try and drink a pint of cider and watch a band.

SOUTHAMPTON'S buzzing live music scene has always been criminally underrated in my humble opinion.

AFTER more than a quarter of a century of record-breaking arena and stadium tours, Take That have now turned their attention to staging a musical phenomenon.

THE Eighties has never left our house.

Well, that's it, my career has reached a pinnacle and I can now retire.

WELL I didn't see that one coming.

X FACTOR and Strictly Come Dancing have come to mean it's nearly time for Father Christmas to fall down the chimney of TV addicts.

By Hilary Porter

HE'S a snooker legend, get him in there!

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A NEW digital publication will allow Hampshire Cultural Trust to keep its doors open online.

AN AWARD-winning folk singer is bringing music fans from across the world into her little Hampshire cottage with her weekly Facebook live concerts.

A NEW public artwork for Southampton is a step closer.

WICKHAM Festival organisers are still hoping to go ahead with the 2020 event amid a host of other coronavirus cancellations to Hampshire events this summer.

HAMPSHIRE's own Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls have announced the release of a new album, Live In Newcastle.

LIVE Art Local are set to ease Covid-19 isolation boredom with a series of free online creative workshops later this month.

PILOTS monitoring the stricken Hoegh Osaka in the Solent have been sent back to land as 75mph gales threaten to bear down on the region.

RESCUE crews are today weighing up whether to return to the stranded Hoegh Osaka before 75mph gales are set to hit the region.

DIVERS are today set to return to giant Hoegh Osaka transporter ship marooned in the Solent.

THE operation to pump water from the stricken Hoegh Osaka has begun.

A car carrier which was stranded next to a busy shipping lane could be towed back to port as early as Wednesday, according to the Marine and Coastguard Agency (MCA).

Pumping of water from a car carrier stranded close to a busy shipping lane has completed as salvors prepare to tow the ship back to port.

SHE has been at the centre of one of the biggest and most dramatic rescue operations ever launched in the Solent.