Hampshire County, England News

All staff from Matthews Mist & Co will be joining the Wilkins Kennedy LLP office on Broadwater Road in Romsey to include partners John Mist and Christopher Matthews, who will be joining as consultants.

SOME of Hampshire's biggest tourist attractions are hosting a LEGO trail this half term with large scale replicas of landmarks.

Following the success of the first Microwarriors documentary, Health Point Productions is now working on the sequel: Microwarriors 2, with Leonary Nimoy lined up to narrate.

A MAN has been charged with producing cannabis with a potential street value of A 10,000 after the police found plants in a house.

More than 25 firefighters battled a blaze at a remote bungalow at Shootash near Romsey with one of their crew being taken to hospital after suffering a medical reaction to the fire.

Journalist Rowenna Davis is on the shortlist to become the Labour candidate to succeed John Denham in his Southampton Itchen constituency.

That is what a Big Issue seller accused of being part of a gang who murdered a Southampton man told a court as his defence case was officially opened yesterday.

A MAN today denied stabbing Jamie Dack in the eye with a bottle as he lay dead on the kitchen floor of a Southampton flat.

The Health and Safety Executive said the death of experienced maintenance engineer Gary Whiting, 51, was an ''entirely preventable tragedy''. BAE Systems Ltd of Farnborough Aerospace Centre, Farnborough, was fined A 250,000 and ordered to pay A 97,153 costs after pleading guilty to a breach of Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, at ... (more)

A police force that spent more than 11 million on a headquarters it has never used has announced it will sell the site after it has been empty for five years.

A THIEF bit off more than he could chew when he took a supermarket trolley stuffed full of A 1,040 worth of chewing gum.

BASINGSTOKE is one of eight places in the country to trial "ultra-fast broadband" connections directly to homes and businesses.

A CASE of poisoning is a serious matter - and it is one that certainly put Basingstoke college students to the test.

MOTHER whose son had to be admitted to hospital and kept on a drip for two days said the awful experience could have been avoided if a GP had agreed to see the three-year-old when she had first asked for an appointment.

THE new Mayor of Whitchurch will be well aware of what he's letting himself in for - he's taking up the role for the fifth time.

From left: Terry Thornhill, of Toucan Travel, Julian Ricketts, president of The Rotary Club of Basingstoke Deane, and Rafi Razzak, of Centerprise International TWO big-hearted and generous local businessmen have been awarded with a Paul Harris Award by The Rotary Club of Basingstoke Deane.

LUDGERSHALL and Tidworth 's MP Claire Perry joined a group of cross party MPs and peers to do the MoonWalk on Saturday.

Not the start of a joke, but a motley band who grew up in Whitley and who are now hoping to wow music fans in upcoming music festivals in Reading.

FIFTY women set off from St Catherine's Hill on a 25-mile trek in support of a Hampshire toddler with cerebral palsy.

The HMS Ark Royal steams into Portsmouth, England, for the last time on Dec. 3, 2010, in preparation for decommissioning.