Photos of Chelsea Flower Show 2014



University consortium receives funding to develop state-of-the-art communication network

The University of Southampton is part of a consortium that has been awarded £2.5 million to develop a national infrastructure that will allow experimentation on future internet technologies. The UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) has provided the funding for a new National Dark Fibre Infrastructure Service (NDFIS), which will enable the University’s researchers to […]



Summer Open Studios – The Sorting Office

The Sorting Office is holding its Summer Open Studio on Saturday, June 14 from 10am to 5pm. This is a chance to see behind the scenes of this vibrant artist and designer-maker studio and to chat with its 16 resident artists about their individual work. There’s also the opportunity to buy unique gifts and to […]



Sparsholt College Centenary celebrations launched by bees

Sparsholt College celebrated the return of bees to its 400 acre campus at a special event which launched the start of the College’s centenary celebrations, marking 100 years of land based education and training on its current site. Special guests and VIPs including College President Lord Malmesbury joined the Principal and the Sparsholt team to […]



Bluebells in flower for Easter as Exbury celebrates RHS wins

The mild winter has brought forward one of the south’s most spectacular sites as thousands of bluebells are bursting into flower along the hedgerows and woodland paths of Exbury Gardens in the New Forest. With a late Easter this year, families visiting the gardens on their Easter break will be greeted by a display that […]



Hampshire community organisations invited to apply for grant

Hampshire community organisations invited to apply for grant Every year, Spectrum’s Community Forums, groups of Spectrum’s residents who are part of the governance structure and are appointed to guide the business and develop housing services in their respective local areas, search for worthy causes to donate to over the course of the year. The financial […]



45th anniversary of Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s circumnavigation of the globe

Legendary Hampshire sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, now 75, celebrates the 45th anniversary of his historic solo circumnavigation of the planet on 22nd April 2013. On that date in 1969 he sailed into Falmouth and into the record books as the first man to circumnavigate the globe non-stop and single-handed in his 32-foot boat Suhaili. He […]



Southampton Professor wins prestigious award

Professor Cyrus Cooper of the University of Southampton has been awarded The 2014 ESCEO-IOF Servier Pierre D. Delmas Prize for his distinguished body of work in the epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorders. Presented at the opening of the World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases in Seville, Spain, the prestigious annual prize honours an outstanding […]



Work starts on new skatepark in Winchester

Skateboarders, BMX bikers, roller-bladers and scooter-riders can look forward to a new state-of-the-art skatepark in Winchester at the end of August. Work starts on the landmark £270,000 skatepark at North Walls on Monday 7 April, with funding of £170,000 from Town Forum open space funds; £100,000 from the Veolia Environmental Trust, made through the Landfill […]



Exbury Gardens Azalea Bowl

Photos of Exbury Gardens and Steam Railway

The beautiful Exbury Gardens and Steam Railway in pictures