Holiday Inn Express Southampton - M27, Jct7

Southampton Boat Show '09:

10th - 20th Sept '09

Luxurious bedding in all 176 new modern bedrooms means every night is
a great night and every day starts right. Experience relaxed dining in the
Conservatory Restaurant or simply unwind with your favourite drink in
our Lounge/Bar. Enjoy a great breakfast from 06:30am or a relaxing
home cooked meal in the evening. Our friendly team look forward to
welcoming you and ensuring that your trip to the Southampton Boat
Show is an absolute success.

Accommodation from £79.95 B&B per room per night for 2 Adults and 2 Children under 18 years sharing a room including Continental breakfast.

Special group discount rates available on request

Please call Zibu on: +44 (0) 2380 606055

Terms & conditions apply.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

PSP Southampton Boat Show's Ladies Day: Thursday 17th Sept '09.

For just one very special day, ladies are the stars of the Show.

Dress to impress and WIN

Ladies - if there was ever the perfect opportunity to dress up, show off the summer tan and ‘wow’ visitors to the Show – it’s on Ladies Day - and you could walk away with the prize of PSP Southampton Boat Show's ‘Best Dressed Lady’. The Southern Daily Echo along with a representitive from Show sponosr PSP will be judging the contest and taking pictures throughout the day so prepare for becoming a local celebrity! The winner and three friends will get to enjoy a power boat trip in a Jeanneau 42 S, lunch for four at Banana Wharf Hamble as well as enjoying a ride back! - all courtesy of Wise Catering and Delicious Dining.

In honor of this special day, the Champagne Bar will also be toasting ladies with champagne and entertaining with beautiful music.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Attractions
Hampshire Health & Tennis Club (0 KM / 0 MI )
Rose Bowl Cricket Ground (0 KM / 0 MI )
Southampton International Airport (5.4KM / 3.4 MI)
Marwell Zoo (8 KM / 4.97 MI )
St Mary's Football Stadium (9 KM / 5.59 MI )
Southampton Docks (9 KM / 5.59 MI )
Hamble and Itchen Valley (10 KM / 6.21 MI )
Leisure World and Ocean Village (11 KM / 6.84 MI )
Maritime Museum (11 KM / 6.84 MI )
Paultons Park (16 KM / 9.94 MI )
New Forest Visitor Centre and Museum (19 KM / 11.81 MI )
Beaulieu Museum (23 KM / 14.29 MI )
Winchester Cathedral (26 KM / 16.16 MI )
Gunwarf Quays Portsmouth (28 KM / 17.4 MI )
Spinnaker Tower Portsmouth (28 KM / 17.4 MI )
Isle of Wight (29 KM / 18.02 MI )

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hampshire's Top Attractions:

Beaulieu: Visit the National Motor Museum and see over 250 vehicles from World Land Speed Record Breakers to the earliest examples of motoring. Explore the rooms of Palace House and Beaulieu Abbey before taking a ride on the high-level monorail and the 1912 Veteran Bus. Click here to book.

Marwell Zoo: Set in a hundred acres of delightful Hampshire countryside, Marwell is a relaxing and fascinating Zoological Park at the heart of wildlife conservation. There is easy access from the M3 and M27 with free parking. Click here to book.

Paultons Park: Paultons, the family theme park with over 50 wonderful rides and attractions included in the admission price, has two terrific new attractions for 2008 - Trekking Tractors, a delightful family ride that meanders around a farm yard themed track; and Gold Rush Falls, where you can challenge the family to a game of Adventure Golf through an abandoned Californian gold mine.

Exbury Gardens: Visit the world-famous Rothschild Collection of rhododendrons and azaleas, in the heart of the New Forrest National Park. Explore 200 acres on foot, by chauffeur driven buggy or travel on the Exbury Gardens Steam Railway. Offering peace, tranquility and relation all year round. The neighboring "Exbury Maize Maze" is open during the summer holidays.

Intech Science Centre: Intech family science centre, Winchester is an under cover, all-weather visitor attraction and education centre. There are 100 hands-on interactive science and technology exhibits, ideal for the child aged 5-12. Programme of holiday activities and science shows. Easy access from the M3 or A31.

Blue Reef Aquarium: Take the ultimate undersea safari and enjoy close encounters with sea horses, sharks, frogs, otters and hundreds of incredible aquatic creatures. Explore the dazzling beauty of a coral reef and journey through the spectacular tropical ocean display in a transparent underwater tunnel.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Rose Bowl Plans approved:

Government backing clears way for Test cricket at Hampshire's Rose Bowl

A Multi-Million Pound Plan to transform Hampshire's Rose Bowl into one of the top Test cricket grounds in the world has been given the all-clear by Whitehall.

The Government Office for the South East (GOSE) has rubber-stamped the proposals which were passed by Eastleigh Council at the end of March '08.

It means that the final planning hurdle has been cleared for county cricket chiefs to fulfill their dream of a £45m super bowl with a seating capacity for 25,000 spectators.

It will make the Rose Bowl the second biggest English ground after the home of cricket in London and put it firmly on track to becoming the first of a new generation of Test grounds.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

12 – 21 Sept : Southampton Boat Show (40th Anniversary)
Celebrating its 40th year in the city, the Southampton Boat Show Mayflower Park and Surrounding Area.

25th September - 14th December Robert Bevan and the Cumberland Market Group
Southampton holds one of the finest collections of work by the Camden Town Group and related artists in the world and has long championed the promotion of that formative era. Of the more important of the 16 members (including Harold Gilman, Spencer Gore and Charles Ginner), Robert Polhill Bevan has perhaps been the most neglected. Robert Bevan was a founder member of both the Camden Town Group and its main successor, the London Group in 1914. His studio in Cumberland Market gave its name to the small group of artists (Bevan, Gilman and Ginner) who banded together after acrimonious demise of the former. In the following year a few progressive younger artists, John Nash, Christopher Nevinson and McKnight Kauffer were also invited to join. Civic Centre Art Gallery Galleries 1 - 4
9 November Remembrance Sunday Service
Annual service of remembrance. The Cenotaph
11 November Last call to Southampton of the QE2
After 41 years of service, the QE2 will leave Southampton for the last time before the famous ships starts a new career as a floating hotel in Dubai. Docks