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Page last updated at 17:44 GMT, Friday, 6 November 2009

Hounsdown School
Hounsdown kids' heritage garden
Broadcaster and naturalist Chris Packham officially opened a new vegetable garden, transformed by students out of a patch of disused land.
Hounsdown School's new garden

Glanville Fritillary Glanville Fritillary
The rare butterfly is found on the Isle of Wight and is named after an early heroine of natural history.

Blue Tit Winter bird-watching locations
Spotting birds who spend winter on the south coast and find out how to help them in your own back garden.


MORE NATURE
Autumnwatch: Get closer to nature
Wildlife havens' revamp complete
Heavy horses working in Harbridge
Wetland restored to help wildlife
Work will restore river's curves
Nature thrives among gravestones
The Itchen Navigation's clean-up
Weed cutting on the River Test
Magdalen Hill Down's butterflies
The Isle of Wight's Bat Hospital

Nature webcams
Discover the moths in your garden
New Forest's commoning touch
Geese decline 'caused by climate'
Blue Adonis on the Isle of Wight
Fawns emerge in the New Forest
Cost to farms of greedy swans
South Downs National Park
Hants/IoW BBC Breathing Places
Watership Down

NATURE ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB
RSPB - Hampshire
National Trust Solent Region
Hants & IoW Wildlife Trust
Isle of Wight Nature Reserves
Hampshire Countryside sites
New Forest National Park
MORE NATURE ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB

Poetry Season Poetry Season
Exploring poets' work, life and legacy
Telephone dial pad Get in touch
How to contact the BBC in Hampshire and the IoW
Tomato Dig In
Dig in and grow your own grub anywhere

Autumnwatch

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SPORT
Aldershot v Macclesfield
Johnstone's Paint Trophy semi draw
Southampton v Brighton
WEATHER
TRAVEL

TV & RADIO

BBC Solent

96.1FM, 103.8FM & DAB

South Today

Watch Now Mon to Fri: 13.30, 18.30 & 22.25

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Pudsey's Big Night In, Friday from 7pm on BBC One and BBC HD.


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