July 2007 News Archive

Hayling Bookshop lands best selling Author for book signing Local people will have a chance to meet and chat with best selling author Gervase Phinn on July 10th when he visits The Hayling Island Bookshop as part of his national book tour to promote ...

The hoarding which surrounds the old Rainbow Snooker Club site has been allocated as an urban graffitti display centre. "The Rainbow snooker club is to have an art project done to decorate the boarding that has been put up around the perimeter. Si...

New Steam Locomotive Planned for Hayling Seaside Railway. The EHLR Society, volunteer support group of the narrow gauge Hayling Seaside Railway, which runs for one mile between Beachlands and Eastoke Corner. Have voted overwhelmingly in favour of ...

Nine players from the Hayling and Havant based Meridian Judo club attended the Aldershot youth Games in June, most of the players aged 8- 12 had only just recently taken up Judo, but despite this came away with two Gold’s, three Silvers and four Bron...

The Hayling sea front road now sports a new electronic speed sencing sign. It is located west bound and towards the fun fair end of the Sea Front road. Now while it is not an actual speed camera that will take a picture it does measure your speed an...

Children’s Author and Storyteller at Hayling Carnival Sandra Horn, the award winning author of picture books and early readers will be at the Hayling Island Carnival on Saturday August 4th. Her books include Tattybogle, The Tattybogle Tree, No...

Deborah Meaden, the Dragon's Den star, is set to reap a second multi-million pound fortune from the sale of caravan park operator Weststar Holidays to rival Parkdean Holidays, in a deal that will value the newly-merged group at around £250m. Parkd...

News Release………………..News Release………………….News Release………… The Scarecrows Are Coming! Over 70 Scarecrows will be lurking on Hayling Island from July 28th until August 4th when the first ever Hayling Island Scarecrow Festival week takes place. Sev...

This week sees the start of the large mural painting on the hoardings at the old Rainbow club site at the Funlands roundabout. Portsmouth Housing association (new owners of the former Rainbow snooker club) have kindly allowed the Portsmouth Arts and...

As you may already have heard, the travellers who were encamped on Bosmere Field left last night and are now encamped at Broadmarsh Business Park and on the highway at Southmoor. The gentleman who came to the field to serve the evicton process papers...

The small chain of three and four star hotels is working with Hotel Broadband and Zyxel to give its customers free high-speed broadband access. Paten Hotels has rolled out free broadband internet access across its portfolio in the Midlands and Sou...