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  • Working together

    THE ability to demonstrate value for money and provide excellent after-sales service, has won truck specialist Locators new business with Portsmouth-based Lucy Housewares. The new trucks will be used in the company's 50,000 sq ft warehouse for off-loading

  • Travel Pound

    Australia 2.48 dollars Austria 21.54 sch Belgium 63.01 fr Canada 2.14 dollars Cyprus 0.90 pounds Denmark 11.66 kro France 10.28 fr Germany 3.07 dm Greece 527 dra Holland 3.44 guilders Ireland 1.23 punts Italy 3,030 lira Japan 159.15 yen Malta 0.63 liri

  • In Port

    In Port Today's Southampton arrivals: Kaskelo, yacht, 0700, 39; Minerva, passenger, 0730, 106; Canterbury Star, 0730, 101W; P&O Nedlloyd Drake, container, 1000, 206; SB Victor, sailing barge, 1000, 38; Estoril, vehicle carrier, 2300, 201; Hual Carolita

  • Alan leaves dry land for a day at the races

    CELEBRITY gardener Alan Titchmarsh never misses a chance to go out on the water and take part in his second favourite outdoor activity. And this year at Cowes was no exception. A keen sailor, he enjoyed a day aboard Skandia Life's Leopard 2000 - Britain's

  • Comedy club's £10 bond was no joke

    A GROUP of hen night partygoers, one a 70-year-old grandmother, had to change their plans after a comedy club told them all to stump up a good behaviour bond. Bride-to-be Michelle Thomas, 24, and 16 friends were set to celebrate at Jongleurs in Southampton

  • Axe looms over health watchdog

    PATIENT watchdog groups across the South have been left reeling from the shock news that they are to be abolished. Community Health Councils, which have battled for patient rights since 1974, will be ditched within two years in a new shake-up of NHS services

  • Burner plans spark road fears

    RESIDENTS worried that a new waste burner would turn their Hampshire village into a congested rat-run have told planners: "Go back to the drawing board." At a public meeting arranged to inform locals about the £40 million energy-from-waste incinerator

  • Media plan faces delay

    PLANS for a major media centre on the banks of the River Itchen in Southampton could be put on ice until regeneration chiefs find new funds. City policymakers have been told a scheme to revamp part of Itchen Waterfront may have to wait until next year

  • Scout seeks aid for Nelson test

    A YOUNG sailor who hopes to work with disabled seafarers in this year's Tall Ships Race is making a desperate appeal to readers to help him raise enough money to take part. Christopher Pitt, 15, from Sway, near Lymington, hopes to join the crew aboard

  • HODDLE HOMES IN ON START LINE-UP

    Glenn Hoddle will tonight tilt the angle of his pre-season balancing act towards the big kick-off. The first four warm-up games have been mainly about giving fitness work-outs to as many players as possible but at Gillingham tonight the emphasis will

  • West Ham's Angus to follow Rio road

    WEST Ham's former Cherries manager Harry Redknapp has given AFC Bournemouth boss Mel Machin the go-ahead to sign loan target Stevland Angus. And Redknapp has sounded out a warning to the young defender, who follows the route followed by England star Rio

  • Oulton crash won't put brakes on Crockford

    John Crockford is prepared to ride through the pain barrier to safeguard his place as top privateer in the British Superbike Championship. The 26-year-old road racer from Totton tore his hamstring and damaged his knee ligaments in a frightening spill

  • Old classrooms to be patched-up

    DECADES-OLD temporary classrooms at five south Hampshire schools are to be touched up to extend their lifetime. The move is part of a ten-year strategy launched to tackle the problem of the county's deteriorating SCOLA buildings - which could ultimately

  • Glowing report at special school

    A FAREHAM special school has received a glowing report from Ofsted inspectors. An inspection report said Heathfield School, catering for children of three to 11 years old with a wide range of special needs, continues to be excellent. The report followed

  • An actress, a bishop and a prisoner of war

    THEY'VE been entertaining audiences since 1965 and the Chandler's Ford-based Chameleon Theatre Company is still going strong. So strong, in fact, that the group's latest three-night production of the Philip King farce See How They Run at The Ritchie Memorial

  • Thousands lose in jobs swindle

    THOUSANDS of residents across the South have been conned in one of the UK's biggest-ever work-from-home scams, it emerged today. Police said three people, thought to be behind some of companies that offer money-spinning "home-working" schemes, have been

  • Relocation to mean jobs go

    MORE than 30 jobs are to be lost with the closure of AEP Industries in North Baddesley. The company shares the site with Borden Chemical but both companies are set to vacate it by the end of next year with job losses across-the-board. Borden has already

  • Looking back at the South...

    KEITH HAMILTON looks through past editions of the Echo and reviews the issues which made the headlines 50 Years Ago Hampshire police began an exhibition tour of the county aimed at helping to cut the crime rate. "The police will shortly have the added

  • £15M LIFELINE

    THE lives of thousands of people will be improved in Southampton thanks to a £15 million windfall. The cash is the biggest slice of a regeneration handout for the South East announced by the government this morning. The city council had spearheaded an

  • Public driven to use danger road

    EASTLEIGH'S spiralling grass explosion is driving pedestrians onto a busy road and into danger. That's the claim of one disgruntled resident fed-up that the borough's southern parishes have been left to go to seed. Hound parish councillor Rodney Cummins

  • First-hand input for special guide

    A WINCHESTER woman has contributed to a ground-breaking new guide to help parents with special needs children. Joanne Suffield, 23, of Saxon Road, has written about her experiences as a young adult with learning difficulties in the guide, which aims to

  • Bathsheba Trophy is lifted by Hodgeson

    Russell Hodgeson won the Bathsheba Trophy at Skandia Life Cowes Week yesterday only days after taking delivery of his new IMX 40 Maverick II. Hodgeson came in less than a minute ahead on corrected time of Guernsey-based Swan Spirit of Jethou on a day

  • Race dedication for Dan

    Team spirit on Jacobite was more dogged than ever yesterday with the Lymington crew dedicating their day's success to one of their former crewmembers who lost a battle against cancer on Monday. Coming in second behind the Reflex 38 T&G, driven for

  • Tomas takes a rain check

    Tomas Scheckter underlined his massive potential as a racing driver by taking second place in only his second FIA Formula 3000 race. The series is just one step down the ladder from Formula One yet South African Scheckter from Laverstoke near Salibsury

  • Emma suffers a double blow on the long road to Sydney

    IT'S just as well that Emma Davies has a naturally cheerful disposition because luck has not been on her side in the build-up to next week's AAA/Olympic Trials in Birmingham. Bizarre circumstances have forced Andover AC's 21-year-old Commonwealth Games

  • Simply dazzling

    SAINTS put on a dazzling performance last night as they unveiled their new corporate hospitality packages to the cream of county commerce. Many of Hampshire's top businessmen and women joined a 750-strong crowd at a gala evening at the QE2 terminal for