Mountbatten School's community programme of activities is now fully restored following fire damage at the school in March.

The School's adult learning classes, sports, leisure and arts clubs resumed normal service on Monday for the first time since a fire at the school forced the cancellation of a number of activities.

Generators are still in use across the school while engineers continue working to restore power, and these are now in operation full-time so that evening, weekend and holiday activities can take place.

Some areas of the school have been available to allow daytime classes, sports clubs and the Mountbatten Holiday Club to continue, and some adult learning classes were moved temporarily to Romsey School.

The closure did force the cancellation of several arts events booked into the Lantern theatre, including movie shows and live music and theatre. Most of these events have now been rescheduled.

Tony McGovern, community manager at Mountbatten, said, "We've regretted the cancellation of many of our regular activities since the fire happened, but we are now fully reopen and it will be good to welcome our 80 clubs and classes back to the school.

"Our users have been extremely patient while we try to get back to normal. We're also thankful to our colleagues at Romsey School, who were able to accommodate a number of our classes during the closure. We were very sorry to have to cancel arts events in Lantern Theatre but most of the artists very kindly waived their fees or have rescheduled shows."