Archive 2008You are in: South Today > News Archive  A look at a prototype robot taking part in a MoD competition to find new technology to help troops.  Dragon's Den star Peter Jones has been in Southampton to judge the Enterprising Britain Awards.  A terrorism expert has raised serious concerns about the security at Bournemouth airport .  A new treatment for varicose veins has been offered on the Isle of Wight.  A couple from Hampshire have been re-living their family's Gypsy past.  Children on the Isle of Wight have been finding out how life would have been like during WWII.  A private soldier collapsed and died of heatstroke while undergoing punishment, a court heard.  A Portsmouth man has been run over after confronting anti-social behaviour.  A scientist has been leading a project to unlock the secrets of a sunken city off the Suffolk Coast.  A specially adapted golf club has been launched in Surrey for golfers with disabilities.  The Ministry of Defence has proposed to increase testing areas for flying surveillance operators.  A shopping centre has been tracking its customers by monitoring their mobile phones.  The family of a man who was paralysed after jumping off a pier in Southsea talk about their ordeal.  A new urban sport is performed with organ music at Portsmouth Cathedral.  A Hampshire laser expert has claimed that mobile speed cameras used by the police are not reliable.  A woman found a rare black widow spider in a bunch of grapes she bought at a local supermarket.  A man and his dog survive after a 4x4 vehicle plunged almost 200ft (60m) over a sheer cliff.  A man from Swindon has begun to work with schools to prevent youths getting into trouble.  A Sussex farmer has found llamas to be the perfect minders for his new born lambs.  The effects of rising fuel costs have been felt by businesses across southern England.  Soldiers fighting in Afghanistan have bought back to England two Victorian rifles used in the 1880s.  A crewman who died in a ship's ballast tank did not have the usual breathing gear.  A close look at the only known breeding colony of glow worms in the United Kingdom.  A bull mastiff lounging in his Bournemouth garden has found he can be watched all over the world.  Thirty schools in southern England get warned that they are failing to get children through GCSEs.  A look at the history behind Gatwick Airport as it marks 50 years since opening.  An Antarctic iceberg has been renamed "Melting Bob" by a six-year-old boy from Winchester.  Archaeologists are checking the condition of Roman baths which lie beneath a Chichester car park.  A postman admits targeting foreign nationals with racist letters in a terror campaign.  A mother hands in her son to the police after he burgled the family home in Bournemouth.  Homes and schools have been flooded after heavy rain swept across southern England.  A woman who bought an emu egg sold as a novelty food item manages to hatch it into a chick.  Great Britain's two best hopes of Olympic trap shooting medals have been training in Surrey.  The Queen has marked 55 years since her coronation by waving off the QE2 liner.  A woman who was told she had no chance of conceiving naturally, has become a mother of triplets.  King Abdullah of Jordan has visited the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst to open a running track. You are in: South Today > News Archive |
