Sunlight breaking through the trees in the New Forest
The MCE British Superbikes return to Thruxton on 12th-14th April for the second round of the 2013 Championship. The current standings after round one at Brands Hatch are as follows: 1 Shane Byrne – 41 points 2 Alex Lowes – 40 3 Josh Brookes – 27 4 James Ellison – 25 5 Jon Kirkham – […]
Whitewater Plant Centre grand opening event To celebrate the re-opening a weekend of events are planned over Easter. Activities include talks by award winning Chelsea Flower Show garden designers, nursery tours, plant advice and lots of special opening weekend offers including 3 for 2’s. Complimentary hog roast sandwiches from Hartley Wintney Traditional Butchers await those […]
One of Southampton’s tourist landmarks has just announced its 2013 sailing programme, ahead of a busy year that will mark its 25th anniversary ‘in preservation’. The SS Shieldhall, the largest steamship of her type still operational in Europe, was purchased by charity the Solent Steam Packet Limited in July 1988, and is maintained and manned […]
Sparsholt College is once again hosting an Easter Bunny and Chick Weekend, 29 March – 1 April 2013 for all those looking for something chocolatey, fluffy, outdoors and fun. Set amongst the College’s Animal Management Centre, families can meet the Easter bunny and the newly hatched chicks, enjoy an Easter egg hunt and take part […]
Mike Golding from Southampton set a new record as he finished the Vendée Globe 2012/2013 race in 6th place. As he came over the finish line in France he became the first person in the 24 year history of the gruelling solo round-the-world race to finish 3 times. The skipper of Gamesa crossed the finish on […]
Sparsholt College has officially opened its £500,000 Salmonid Rearing and Trials Centre, a unique teaching facility in the UK. Winchester and Chandler’s Ford MP Steve Brine and Robert Hughes from the UK and Ireland’s largest aquaculture feeds producer Skretting, who is also a leading figure, ambassador and campaigner for the UK Trout industry, unveiled the […]
The 2013 Chelsea Flower Show will again have a significant Hortus Loci stamp of excellence on tens of thousands of the plants supplied for the top show gardens, smaller gardens and many of the star trade stands including Alitex and Gaze Burvill who are collaborating for 2013. With just over one year of trading under […]
In typical Hardy’s style, plans are well under way for their grand pavilion display for the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show. This show will be especially important to Rosy and Rob as they will be celebrating their own quarter of a century as one of Britain’s most celebrated herbaceous perennial nurseries. Continual winners of coveted RHS […]
Hampshire’s Alex Thomson has come third in the world’s toughest sailing challenge – the Vendée Globe solo non-stop, around-the-world race. The sailor from Gosport crossed the finish line at 7.25am in Les Sables d’Olonne, France, on 30th January. He had spent 80 days, 19 hours and 23 minutes at sea. His achievement sent him into […]
The Bond in Motion exhibition at Beaulieu National Motor Museum features 50 original vehicles used in the James Bond films to celebrate 50 years of 007. It’s the largest official collection of James Bond vehicles.
