What better way to start your special event than a drive along the tree-lined carriageway to Winslowe House?

The other day as I scurried away through the door of my bank, I collided with the grim reaper passing me on his way into the building.

Winchester Bloke asks...Have you seen this dog?

The old saying; ‘You might get run over by a bus tomorrow’ took on a sinister edge recently...

Coronavirus Journal: restrictions are easing across the region and state Bay Area health officials have eased some restrictions in the latest shelter-in-place order that's at curbing the coronavirus outbreak.…

An emergency anti-hypothermia system has a thermally insulating vest that is sufficiently portable to be carried for emergency use in a pocket, purse, backpack, compartment of a vehicle, ski pole or other location, with the vest providing thermal insulation by being made with thermally insulating air impervious material that also provides for its inflation. A multiplicity of interconnected inflated chambers situated about the vest, provides thermal insulation by anti-conduction, anti-radiation and anti-convection in a highly portable system. An outer surface having radar reflective properties further improves visibility of the vest.

This is a warning to everyone with a mortgage. The rates on new mortgage deals are getting more expensive, and there is a plausible chance of UK base rates increasing. If you have a mortgage, you should check urgently if you can slice the rate down – you may gain £1,000s right now.

The mood music for savers isn’t good. The world economic outlook is gloomy and there’s huge uncertainty here in the UK, so the City’s long-term interest rates have plummeted. And it’s these that many fixed savings rates are based on – so they’re dropping too. On top of that, the two top easy-access savings accounts cut their rates within days of each other.

POLICE are investigating a incident in which shots were fired outside one of Southampton's best-known pubs.

POLICE have arrested a man for assaulting officers after he was told he was breaching the new coronavirus laws.

A HAMPSHIRE charity has launched its annual search for local good causes that need a cash boost.

WINCHESTER Sings! a local community choir, held a fundraising evening in May to raise money for Winchester & District Young Carers (WYC).

HAMPSHIRE Masons have raised funds to help provide specialist equipment for children and young people at Hampshire hospices.

IT USED to be known as the largest village in England.

A QUIRKY pub in Winchester has 'the widest diversity of customers you can find in the city' according to its landlady.

IT is the pub with the best garden in Winchester.

IT is the Winchester watering hole that brings in “thousands of tourists” each year.

TWO first-time landlords are having 'lots of fun' running their Winchester pub – and hope to become a key part of the local community.

FORMER Hampshire star Glenn Maxwell blasted 88 off only 39 balls as Australia romped to the highest team total in cricket World Cup history.

Former Hampshire all-rounder Glenn Maxwell's World Cup heroics were not enough to earn him a place in Australia's Test squad for the Ashes series against England or a preceding tour of the West Indies.

Kevin Pietersen marked his long-awaited return to domestic cricket with 170 for Surrey against Oxford MCCU.

Eastleigh came from behind to defeat struggling Chesterfield and move themselves safely into midtable in the National League.

Saints had a battle on their hands after Leicester scored two goals in the first 19 minutes of play. No further goals were scored.

Pictures from the Barclays Premier League clash between Manchester City and Southampton.

A third clean-sheet in a row for Saints must be a positive to cling onto - view pictures here.

A fantastic game at St Mary's, but that is of no consolation to Saints, who ended up on the wrong side of a five-goal thriller.

Check out pictures from Saints v Liecester

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

West Brom have sacked Tony Pulis, the club has announced.

WATERSIDE angler Arran Harmer was rewarded with a personal best pike of 23lb 2oz when he tackled a Southern Stillwater.

DAVE Malone is standing down as Winchester City’s director of football at the end of 2018.

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

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

IT SEEMS very un- Saintslike, almost unnatural, to go into the last day of the season with nothing to play for.

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

A BRAZILIAN restaurant is set to bring the carnival atmosphere from the streets of Rio to the heart of Southampton as Brazil face Colombia in the quarter-finals of the World Cup tonight.

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.

St Mary's Stadium, Championship, Saturday September 10, 2011.

St Mary's Stadium, Carling Cup third round, Wednesday September 21, 2011.

MARIO Lemina wants to remain at Galatasaray beyond the end of the season.

SAINTS remain in support of Project Restart despite other clubs voicing their concerns.

RETIRED engineer Brian Cramp is a medical pioneer.

THE Road Not Taken has been selected as the theme for a national playwriting festival to be launched in Hampshire this week.

GOALS, goals,goals!

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

A SOUTHAMPTON orchestra is going virtual - and global.

STUART Mott doesn’t play for AFC Totton too often these days – but when he does, it’s usually memorable.

AFC TOTTON fear midfielder Liam Crook’s season may be over.

PRO-LEVEL tributes to Oasis, Queen and the Foo Fighters are to headline at a festival celebrating fakes in Southampton this weekend.

Ryan Garner has been inspired by the recent Featherweight thriller between Josh Warrington and Carl Frampton and believes 2019 is his year.