Silver surfers' get online experience
First Published: Thursday 25 September 2003
THE Waterside's very own `silver surfers' have been clicking onto the Internet to mark Grandparents Online Week.The week is part of a new government initiative to introduce older people to the web...At Blackfield Neighbourhood Centre, near Hythe, the message has certainly been getting across.

Vandals' Building Site War
First Published: Wednesday 24 September 2003
TEENAGE hooligans have been waging a campaign against contractors on a Waterside building site.Local youths wanted a skateboard park to be built at Heather Road, Blackfield - and were furious when work started on a £350,000 day nursery.

Hands off our school, say worried parents
First published on Wednesday 04 June 2003
PARENTS at a popular New Forest school last night sent an overwhelming "hands off" message to Hampshire County Council after listening to a list of options which could include closing it down. About 60 mums and dads turned up at a special consultation meeting held at the 196-pupil Blackfield Infant School, which is one of several in the Totton and Waterside areas having their futures closely looked at.

WE'LL SAVE OUR SCHOOL
First published on Wednesday 28 May 2003
PARENTS in the New Forest have launched a campaign to save one of the area's top schools. Families are furious at moves to close the highly successful Blackfield Infant School and merge it with an adjoining junior school.

First pupil joins in school's celebrations
First published on Monday 14 April 2003
CELEBRATING a Hampshire's school's 50th anniversary was a piece of cake for one of its ex-pupils. Plant engineer Mike Birkett, 56, was among the first children to be taught at Blackfield Infant School, which opened in 1953.