Hampshire County, England News

PLANS to build another mega shed on Andover's former airfield look set to be given the go-ahead by planning chiefs.

The body of 41-year-old Elizabeth Jayne Craven, of Twyford Road, Eastleigh , was discovered by a dog walker on a leafy path leading from Twyford Road down to the Itchen Navigation canal at 8.50am on Wednesday.

POLICE have released an efit of man they want to find after a 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in Southampton .

That the question a Hampshire councillor is asking after a Valley Park woman was offered just A 50 compensation after a leaking gas boiler left her with carbon monoxide poisoning.

Paul East with the ornament at his father's grave at the Church of St Mary and St Michael, Stoke Charity A HAMPSHIRE man has criticised a village church after he was told to remove an ornament from his father's grave.

Jamie Chandler, 23, of Montserrat Road, Popley, was sentenced to 20 months behind bars after he threw pint glasses while at The Lamb Inn, in Hackwood Road, shortly after midnight on April 6. Winchester Crown Court heard that Chandler, who has 27 previous convictions dating back to 2005, had been drinking with friends in the busy pub.

The 51-year-old, who owns Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants, in Freefolk Priors, near Whitchurch, found out on Tuesday morning that she had secured the top prize for her 108 square metre display in The Great Pavilion at the London flower show.

THE mum of a 15-year-old boy falsely accused of rape said her son was the victim of a "horrendous" lie.

A HOUSING estate in Basingstoke is being used as a "rat-run" because bus gates which were meant to be installed years ago have not been put in place.

DOZENS of community groups in a Basingstoke suburb are under threat of closure after it was announced that the entire committee running the local community centre is stepping down.

A woman whose body was found following a fire at a house in West Sussex has been named as 29-year-old Gemma Bishop.

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

A HAMPSHIRE MP today issued an ultimatum to leaders of a Romsey school at the centre of sex abuse claims following a damning report.

POLICE at Eastleigh are appealing to two missing 14-year-old girls to contact them or their families as a matter of urgency.

The new group, which runs at Aldworth Science College , in Western Way, has 17 members made up of Beavers and Cubs, who made their promise at a special ceremony.

Ashley Emery, 29, was mixing chemicals in a bucket for the manufacture of explosives when the explosion happened in a building at the Atomic Weapons Establishment, in Aldermaston, leaving him with burns on his left arm and face.

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.