EASTER has been on the mind of people, young and old, across Hampshire all week.

Chicks, bunnies, bonnets and hundreds of the inevitable chocolate eggs have been appearing all over the county.

Ruth Wilkins, a part-time animal keeper at Paultons Park, Ower, clearly had the holiday weekend on her mind when she put on her unique Easter hat.

The second year animal management student at Sparsholt College, Winchester, will be working at the leisure park over the weekend.

Meanwhile youngsters at the Little Explorers nursery school at the Ordnance Survey offices in Romsey Road, Southampton, staged an Easter bonnet parade.

The youngsters made rabbit-ear hats and bonnets adorned with chicks as well as taking part in an Easter egg hunt and egg-and-spoon race.

A group of Navy bikers roared into Southampton General Hospital to bring Easter cheer to sick children.

Ten members of the Royal Navy Motorcycle Club based at HMS Sultan, Gosport, delivered chocolate eggs to youngsters on the children's wards.

Staff at Asda in Totton entered into the Easter spirit and raised more than £150 for the NSPCC.

Workers held a competition to see who could eat the most Cadbury's Creme Eggs in three minutes. The winner was Danny Potter, an Asda produce worker, who ate seven eggs.