A shortage of combat pilots during WWII saw the Air Transport Auxiliary service recruit civilian aviators. VIV MICKLEFIELD takes a look at Hamble’s incredible female fliers, for whom the sky was the limit | Photos: Courtesy of the ATA Museum

Beaulieu’s Mary Montagu-Scott discusses the emergence of the New Forest post-lockdown

Basingstoke’s Joanna Jensen’s award-winning Childs Farm skincare range is a best-seller among parents, now she’s launched Farmologie for adults

From palazzo pattern challenges to kick-ass kilts, Winchester woman Clare Bradley stormed to stardom during the Great British Sewing Bee. All the while saving lives on the front line at Portsmouth’s QA Hospital.

When MasterChef winner Shelina Permalloo was forced to temporarily close her Southampton restaurant this spring, she immediately looked at how to continue serving the local community. VIV MICKLEFIELD gets a taste of what happened next

Author Jessie Keane about her latest novel and her life growing up as a Romany Gypsy in Winchester.

Fortunes of War writer, Olivia Manning may be Portsmouth’s most underrated author

300 years ago, a man named Gilbert White was born in the little village of Selborne. Little did they know then that this man would turn out to be the first ever ecologist.

As we mark 80 years since the Battle of Britain, we remember two of the Hampshire ‘Few’ who gave their lives to save others.

This month marks 400 years since the iconic Mayflower docked in Southampton with its pilgrim passengers hopeful for a new life in America, but it wasn’t all plain sailing.