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A HAMPSHIRE Cricket League match will start at 8.30am on Saturday so players can watch England’s World Cup quarter-final against Sweden.

SEVENTEEN points separate the top five in Hampshire League County Division 1 – after the leading three sides crashed to defeat.

Hythe & Dibden are Hampshire League County Division 1 champions – but only by a solitary point from Parley.

A CRICKETER who asked for his leg to be amputated to cure constant pain is back in the England team.

SOUTHAMPTON sports fans are in for a treat with the arrival of the city’s first ever cricket festival.

FORGET the fairytale, this is Cinderella for the 21st Century.

IT delivered the promised 'sparkle and shine' in spades.

JULIA Donaldson's beloved tale lends itself perfectly to a festive show with an appearance from Father Christmas and lots of lovely wintry scenes.

A FORMER Aston Villa striker has died after he was Tasered by police.

BROADLANDS Lakes have reported some good fish again this week.

LOCAL sport will be bidding a sad farewell to Alan Frederick, doyen of Southampton Schools’ football for close on 60 years and popular bowls enthusiast, tomorrow.

HAMPSHIRE legend Gordon Greenidge has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year honours list.

CIVIC chiefs are being urged to approve plans to replace a redundant New Forest theatre with better facilities for sports teams.

HAMPSHIRE fast bowler Chris Wood has opened up about his long-running gambling addiction.

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

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.

THIS game was a stark reminder that ultimately no matter what the fans or administrators do off the pitch, it is the players on it who will decide the team’s fate this season.

A HAMPSHIRE charity has provided food for pupils entitled to free lunches during the school shutdown.

AN EX-Barton Peveril student has been nominated for "Rookie of the Year" after playing football at an American college.

Updates and chat as England take on Costa Rica in their final game of this year's World Cup

Luis Suarez is set to learn his fate today as his lawyer claimed calls for the Uruguay striker to face a lengthy ban for biting Giorgio Chiellini were part of an Anglo-Italian conspiracy.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a cool package that Switch owners and fans of the original WiiU release will not want to miss.

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

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

VEHICLES stuck on a stricken ship after it ran aground in the Solent three weeks ago could finally start being moved from today .

THE Hoegh Osaka could be fully repaired by next week.

A NEW drive to urge people to stack their shopping trollies with healthier foods could help tackle Southampton’s shocking premature death rates, an academic has said.

IT was a landmark lifestyle change which transformed his life for the better at the dawn of the new millennium.

AN UNDER-FIRE health trust has admitted it missed chances to intervene when a mentally ill Southampton man was in “crisis”.

TRIBUTES have been paid to a "much loved" mum of three who died after being hit by a car.

If your idea of a beauty regime is normally just a splash of water combined with a bit of soap when you're really making an effort, read on.

RALPH Hasenhuttl admitted creating the SFC Playbook was a ‘huge project’ but it’s one that he hopes will benefit the club in the years to come.

A major co-production between five leading regional theatres of The Merchant of Venice will open in Southampton this autumn.

BE prepared for a Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On…

FORMER Strictly Come Dancing champion Kevin Clifton is to star in the 2020/2021 UK & Ireland tour of Baz Luhrmann’s smash hit Strictly Ballroom The Musical, which comes to Mayflower Theatre next summer.

GOALS, goals,goals!

THERE may well be many questions to be answered at Saints during the summer, but at least there is hope.

GENEROUS music lovers have secured the immediate future of an iconic Southampton music venue after a desperate plea for help over coronavirus cancellations.

QUEEN Extravaganza, the official Queen tribute band produced by Roger Taylor and Brian May, returns to the UK in 2021 following sell out shows across the globe. It celebrates 50 years of Queen with a one night only show at Mayflower Theatre on Sunday January 31 among 26 dates across the UK.

A SOUTHAMPTON orchestra is going virtual - and global.

LOCKDOWN is certainly suiting one Southampton dance music act.