THE number of ships calling at Southampton docks just keeps growing, with HUAL Transporter and HUAL Ingrita the latest to be added to the list. After being delivered from the ship-yard in Gydnia, Poland, the 57,967 gross ton vehicle carrier HUAL Transporter
WORK started this week on a multi- million-pound investment programme at Philips Semiconductors in Southampton, which will create more than 150 new jobs in the region. Deputy general manager Martin Housham said the £5 million project would provide the
IT is a truth universally acknowledged that had Jane Austen known a letter she penned would be worth £12,500 more than 200 years later, she may have felt rather faint indeed. The letter, written by the famous Hampshire author to her sister in 1798, is
IT STARTED with a simple track and two steel containers. Now it has grown into one of the most successful private rail companies in the land. Tucked into the corner of a country park, Eastleigh Lakeside Railway is going at full steam and living up to
BARRY Blankley has ended weeks of specula-tion by accepting the manager's post at Bashley for the second time in his career. Assistant boss Blankley has been mulling over taking the job at the Dr Martens League Southern Division side since Jimmy Case
A YEAR ago Darren Henley didn't make it through the qualifying rounds for the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Golf Championship. On Friday at Brokenhurst Manor he'll be starting out as one of the favourites! Such have been the strides that
A SCHOOLBOY could be scarred for life after an alleged race attack in Southampton. Young Delroy Gordon was injured after claiming he had a chemical squirted in his face and set alight. The 12-year-old suffered burns to around his eyes and part of his
THE INDUSTRIAL unrest at Southampton shipbuilder Vosper Thornycroft escalated today as bosses refused to let about 600 workers start their shifts. Unions have attacked the move as a "lock-out" while managers say they have no choice but to lay off staff
RATHER than blue lights, hose reels and arson, it's lights, camera, action for Hampshire87 - two fire engines that answer to a different type of emergency call. And tonight on ITV's The Bill, as a massive nightclub blazes in a dramatic storyline, these
A LUCKY Hampshire family is off to Disneyland Paris after winning a competition in the Daily Echo run in association with P&O. Lesley and David Phillips, and their children Danielle, 6, and Samuel, 4, will enjoy three fun-packed days in the theme
A GRANNY has gone to great lengths to raise money for the Magpie Scanner Appeal at Winchester's Royal Hampshire County Hospital. Irene Gallagher, 54, from Eastleigh, has had her shoulder-length, highlighted hair shorn off to raise more than £2,000 for
WAR veterans met at a special commemorative service to pay tribute to colleagues who left these shores for the D-Day landings, 55 years ago. Mayor of Fareham Roger Price, attended the ceremony at the war memorial in Warsash - the point of departure for
FIREFIGHTERS rescued a screaming woman from the window of a blazing Southampton flat this morning. Fire crews arrived at the property in St Mary Street to find the terrified woman sitting on the ledge of a second-floor window trying to escape the toxic
A HAMPSHIRE town has raised funds for families living near its namesake community in tornado-hit Oklahoma. Ringwood was already planning to celebrate its ties with Ringwood, USA, when parts of Oklahoma were devastated by killer winds. Now cash collected
FOR generations, the carnival has been at the heart of community life in Hampshire and numerous other counties across Britain. These festivals of fun could be relied upon to bring thousands of onlookers out to line the pavements of towns and villages
HAMPSHIRE's new chief con-stable has pledged "I'm here for at least seven years." High-flyer Paul Kernaghan, who at 43 will become the one of the youngest police bosses in the country when he takes up his new post later this year, today told the Daily
ALEX MORRIS will maintain his record against Yorkshire at Basingstoke tomorrow - by not playing. The shin injury picked up by the Hampshire seamer a couple of weeks ago will keep him out of the side for the annual trip to the wilds of north Hampshire.
PAUL JONES is aiming to give Mark Hughes a pair of helping hands in his quest to land the Welsh manager's job. The Southampton keeper knows if he can keep a clean sheet against Denmark at Anfield tomorrow it will provide a massive boost to his club colleague's
SOUTHAMPTON is to be a millennium port of call for the replica 18th century frigate used in the popular Hornblower TV series. The three-masted Grand Turk, which will be a star of next year's millennium celebrations, will sail into 11 British ports as
BUS users have been promised better services and new facilities under the first "quality partnership" scheme to be set up in Hampshire. A special ceremony in Winchester marked the official signing of the partnership between the county council and the
