1. The seven, all from Gosport, admitted violent disorder.

2. In Hampshire alone Gosport, Havant and Portsmouth all slipped from their grasp.

3. Crop circle enthusiast Karen Alexander, from Gosport, Hants, said: "The phoenix is a mythical creature which symbolises rebirth and a new era in many cultures across the world."

4. Sir Peter Viggers, MP for Gosport, was told he would be stripped of the Tory whip unless he agreed to retire.

5. Mottashed, the regulation fireman, is one of four players Williams brought from Gosport.