Price of today's Echo shares 3i 825 -6 AB Ports 326 +2.5 Abbey National 1026 -28 AIM 217 +30 Alldays 66 Allders 117 Alliance & leics 808 -9 Allied Zurich 716 -13 AMEC 256 - Avon Rubber 572 BAA 639 -12 Bass 854 -34 British American 499 -8 Blue Circle
Today's foreign exchange rates Australia 2.3858 dollars Austria 20.2 schillings Belgium 59.33 francs Canada 2.3116 dollars Cyprus 0.8475 pounds Denmark 11 kroner Euro 1.51663 euro Finland 8.7672 marks France 9.6368 francs Germany 2.8837 marks Greece 480.18
LOOKING for something to spend that spare £2 million on Then a visit to next month's Southampton Boat Show might just solve the problem. The Sunseeker Manhattan 84, the ultimate in luxury afloat and one of the biggest craft of its type ever to be manufactured
TOMORROW is D-Day for school leavers across the South aiming for a passport to work and further education. The release of A-level results will bring to an end weeks of anxiety, one way or the other. Most should secure their places, but even if the news
A 94-YEAR-old Hampshire man died just days after a conman tricked his way into his home and stole £100 of his savings. Fred Marsh died at a Netley nursing home a week after the theft at his Bursledon home. Now his grieving son and neighbours believe the
TOP TV news presenter Alex Lush has been axed - just two weeks before she is due to give birth. Lush was due to leave BBC South Today on maternity leave on Friday, but instead BBC chiefs have terminated her contract. It is the latest twist in a bitter
FEARS of big cats stalking the New Forest have been rekindled after a dog walker spotted a panther-like creature at Marchwood. Sharon St John was in a field next to Saints training ground in Staplewood Lane when she caught sight of a jet black cat prowling
A HAMPSHIRE council is urgently seeking the owner of a parcel of land near Fareham, which has become a dangerous illegal dumping ground. Winchester City Council wants the site in Bere Farm Lane, North Boarhunt, to be cleared as soon as possible following
HAMPSHIRE touring car driver Rob Collard showed he has courage as well as great driving skill with a superb start-to-finish win at Knockhill. The Cove ace achieved only his second win of the season in the Vectra SRI V6 Challenge just days after walking
RIDING LEGEND Mark Todd will join more than 600 other competitors at the Brockenhurst Park Horse Trials this weekend. The 43-year-old former Olympic champion is in excellent form after winning the British Open at Gatcombe earlier this month for the fourth
SOUTHAMPTON Institute's Business School is launching a new post graduate course which will help fill the skills gap preventing many businesses from realising the full potential of electronic commerce. The new certificate in electronic commerce begins
HAMPSHIRE law firm Moore & Blatch has become one of the few law firms in the South to achieve the nationally recognised Investors in People award. It demonstrates the firm's commitment to staff and achieving best practice in the business. Human resources
Principal arrivals and sailings Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Arroyofrio Dos, ro-ro, 0100, 30; Falstaff, ro-ro, 0630, 34/5; Bess, ro-ro, 0730, 40; AB Bilbao, general, 0830, 24; Margareta B, container, 0930, Con Port; Stuttgart Express, container
MARWELL Zoo and actor John Cleese are uniting to raise cash for a new small carnivores enclosure. The zoo is focusing on meat-eaters in a week-long event starting on August 25. Captivating Carnivores features talks, a quiz and trail, themed touch tables
THIS is the face of beautiful Southamp-ton University student Lesley McMurray - pictured just months before she was brutally murdered. Detectives on one of Hampshire's longest-running murder investigations have taken the unusual step of releasing the
TODAY, following a Daily Echo campaign which reached as far as Parliament, Winchester celebrates the news that the city's greatest son has been saved from the dustbin of history. Thanks to support from many high profile figures, A-level bosses have performed
AN ANGRY community is urging a council to get its skates on and sort out a new rollerblading and skateboard facility. Bursledon parish councillor Jack Helgeson said the village authority handed over £8,000 last November for the special equipment to be
POLLUTION concerns could spell the end of the traditional ice cream van in Southampton's parks. The city council has put forward a scheme to ban diesel-engined ice cream vans from its central parks and replace them with electric trailers or fixed units
POMPEY were satisfied to come away from their Worthington League Cup opener on level terms but they didn't return home from Devon completely unscathed. Alan Ball's men survived a a stern buffeting as Torquay stepped up the pressure later in the game but
KEVIN DAVIES has put career before cash to rejoin Saints in the exchange deal which has taken Egil Ostenstad to Blackburn. The former Southampton favourite has taken a massive wage cut to rejoin the club where he shot to prominence. But the England Under
STEVE BRUCE has made veteran defender Ken Monkou his eighth signing since taking over the reigns at Huddersfield during the close season. Monkou, 34, has agreed a three-month contract after leaving Southampton and that deal is expected to be extended
