STUTTERING promotion chasers Bashley will be hoping to rid themselves of the curse of Kent at Chatham Town tomorrow night. For the second week running, Barry Blankley's men had a fruitless journey to the Garden of England, crashing 1-0 on Saturday at
Steve Tate believes his young Newport IoW side are not yet streetwise enough to hold their own against hardened Eastern Division campaigners. Their naivety was all too evident as Dartford completed a league double over the Islanders with a 3-0 win at
Poole Town haven't looked back since former Lymington and New Milton manager Graham Kemp joined their ranks. Kemp was the cornerstone of another impressive performance at Micheldever on Saturday which saw Poole beat the Division 1 side 3-0 to move into
Gosport hot shot Neil Scammell could be out for the rest of the season after damaging ankle ligaments in a 1-1 draw at Cowes Sports. Forty-goal Scammell hobbled off ten minutes into the second half, when Mick Marsh's side were trailing to a 29th-minute
BAT boss Andy Leader set his side a target of three wins from their last six games after a dramatic late defeat at Christchurch. Ex-Saint Dave Puckett broke the deadlock from six yards in the first half after a mix-up between Neil Massie and Phil Langdown
SOUTHAMPTON Saints waved goodbye to two more precious survival points in yesterday's 1-1 draw at Leeds United in the FA Women's Premier League National Division. Although Winchester-based Kirsty Bell fired them ahead with a 25-yard cracker two days before
FORMER Chelsea and England greats Ray Wilkins and Kerry Dixon will visit the Camrose next month to take on a Basingstoke Business XI in aid of local charity Wel-Care. An all-star side, featuring Chelsea veterans from the '70s, '80s and '90s, will play
BASINGSTOKE firefighters will meet this month and vote whether to go back on strike or accept the latest pay offer from their employers. Fire Brigades Union members at Basingstoke have been examining the revised deal - a 16 per cent pay rise, linked to
THE innovative technology which Basingstoke residents will use to register their votes in May's council elections has been unveiled. The borough is one of only 18 in the country to take part in the electronic electoral trials, after winning Government
NOISY young anti-war campaigners marched through the centre of Basingstoke to mark the opening of the military campaign to disarm the brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. A group of around 50 young people - mostly students at Queen Mary's College - paraded
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a 30-year-old man and an 88-year-old woman died following accidents on two separate stretches of the A339. In the first incident, at around 10.45am on Saturday, 30-year-old Richard Martin, from Reading, was travelling
CAROLINE Pont was chosen to make her judo debut for Great Britain at the Belgian Open. The Basingstoke-based black belt first dan competed at over-78kg bodyweight. The 23-year-old is the daughter of Brighton Hill coach John Pont but now competes for the
SOUTH African fast bowler Charl Willoughby will return to Basingstoke and North Hants Cricket Club as captain for the coming season. The 28-year-old, Home Counties League joint top wicket taker in 2001 with 58 wickets, missed last season due to a dislocated
Bramley United 2 Wellington Social 1 BRAMLEY had the edge over holders Wellington Social in a well-fought North Hants May Cup final at the Camrose Ground on Saturday evening. But it took a deflected goal from Tony Dixon 10 minutes from time to decide
THE UNDER-14 girls team at Basingstoke Town Colts are hoping to excel this season in new kit sponsored by Southern Electric. The team received their new kit from Southern Electric under the company's kits-for-kids sponsorship programme, which supports
Basingstoke Buffalo 10 Milton Keynes Thunder 6 THE BUFFALO maintained a perfect start to the play-offs as they beat visiting Milton Keynes Thunder on Saturday night to go two points clear at the top of their group. The home side won the contest thanks
The Hampshire Chronicle will be covering the war with an emphasis on Hampshire soldiers and their families. If you have a husband, wife or other member of the family fighting in the gulf and don't mind being interviewed by the Hampshire Chronicle, please
In a performance that beggared belief, Gosport & Fareham missed the chance to head London Division Two South by going down in desperate fashion 27-10 to a highly charged Wimbledon outfit. The result leaves the peninsular side still in second, but
SOLENT STARS 76 (23, 45, 64) - WARE REBELS 87 (25, 39, 64) Solent Stars' season spluttered to halt with an away defeat against lowly Ware Rebels. Already without American Howard Jackson, Solent suffered a late withdrawal by Adam Willis (hamstring) and
PRO-GROW, Hampshire's own organic peat free soil conditioner, has just been at the centre of a royal visit. HRH The Princess Royal had first-hand experience with the compost as she planted a tree to mark the launch of a new sensory garden. The garden,
THE historic Black Swan country pub and restaurant in the picturesque Test Valley village of Monxton, near Andover, has changed hands. This pub was sold on behalf of the lessee, Graham Marchant, to an unnamed private buyer for an undisclosed figure. The
THE golden age of disco is brought to spectacular life at Southampton's Mayflower theatre from tonight with the classic Seventies musical Saturday Night Fever. Based on the 1978 film starring John Travolta, the touring theatrical version has been a smash
The Elixir of Love, The Mayflower WELSH National Opera have taken a break from tragedy with a wine-fuelled Mediterranean holiday. A set that could grace an Italian tourism brochure, bright lighting and frothy '50s costumes gave an appropriate lightness
TALKS between unions and council bosses to try to bring an end to the long-running dispute between striking workers and Southampton City Council have ended in deadlock. A day-long meeting between union representatives, council finance chiefs and industrial
THE charity behind Southampton's threatened Asthma and Allergy drop-in clinics is making a massive effort to save the facilities. Based at Southampton General Hospital, the Asthma, Allergy and Inflammation Research (Aair) Charity funds the clinics which
CHILDREN and teenagers all over Hampshire are to enjoy football coaching from Southampton students. Twenty sports enthusiasts from Southampton Institute and the university are to join the Saints' Football in the Community programme. Already the football
THIS is the image detectives hope will lead them to the killers of Southampton teenager Hannah Foster. An actress re-enacts the final moments in the life of the 17-year-old student before she was kidnapped and murdered during a five-minute walk to her
COALITION forces were today attempting to locate two British soldiers missing in Iraq. The Ministry of Defence confirmed this morning that the soldiers have not been seen since an attack on British vehicles in southern Iraq yesterday. The two British
AS IF getting married and moving house wasn't stressful enough, one Southampton couple decided to up the ante by starting a new job as well - all in the space of just four days! Game newly-weds Timothy and Yonca Barnard are now relaxing after tackling
"FUNKY blues you can't refuse" is promised when Motor City Josh and The Big 3 play at Talking Heads, Southampton on March 26. Currently based in Atlanta, Georgia, the American blues band were formed in Detroit in 1994. Since then Josh and his crew have
JAMES BEATTIE became the first player this season to score 20 Premiership goals on Saturday and in the process ended the nine-year wait for a Saints player to reach that milestone. The last Saint to hit 20 Premier League goals in one campaign was Matt
SAINTS will not be erecting a giant screen at St Mary's to beam the FA Cup semi-final back to the thousands of regular fans who cannot get a Villa Park ticket. The Daily Echo has taken phone calls and emails from fans asking if Saints could show the club's
For its second week, the Raymarine Warsash Spring Series enjoyed sparkling conditions, sunshine and a good force 3-5 sailing breeze from the east. The same rather unseasonable weather system destroyed Geronimo's chances of beating the Jules Verne round-the-world
Below-par Pompey had to settle for a draw at Deepdale after lively Preston grabbed a deserved late equaliser. Then Blues' assistant manager Jim Smith bemoaned 'showboating' and lack of killer instinct for the loss of two points in the drive towards the
From goalscorer to goalkeeper, Pete Moore has been a jack of all trades on the pitch for Brockenhurst this season. The surprise is that the 46-year-old grandfather of three is supposed to be the team manager! With first-choice number one Ollie Rastall
The sheen of Havant & Waterlooville's sparkling FA Trophy run is rubbing off on their league form. The Westleigh Park outfit made it 13 points out of the last 15 in the Dr Martens Premier Division by cutting fourth-placed Worcester City down to size
Basingstoke edged back into fifth position in the Ryman Premier Division after a 2-0 victory over Billericay at home. It was an all-round confident team performance by Ernie Howe's side with Bitterne-based marksman Craig McAllister bagging his 29th goal
An early goal from Malc Callaway that went in after shaving the underside of the crossbar gave Nursling a hard-fought win over unlucky Sporting BTC who had a goal disallowed. Botley Village and Mottisfont remain on their heels after fine wins. A Phil
A CHRISTMAS Day drinking binge led to the death of a Basingstoke man, an inquest heard. Alan McDonald, 44, had spent Christmas Day at the home of his friend Derek Mead, in Scotney Road, Oakridge, and it had been arranged that he would spend that night
ANXIOUS mothers have banned their children from playing in nearby parks after they picked up potentially deadly used syringes. A group of mums living in Millard Close, Oakridge, Basingstoke, have collected a bag full of needles that their children had
A DRUG-BUSTING squad is getting ready for action as the police mount a major effort to keep dealers out of Basingstoke. The team is due to start operating at the end of this month on the back of February's "Operation Dixon" raids, when 15 suspected dealers
Today's Principal Arrivals: HMS Goodwill, general cargo, am, SCT; APL Pearl, container, am, 207; Autoline, ro-ro, am, 201 link. Today's Principal Sailings: P&O Nedlloyd Jakarta, container, am, 204; Celtic King, general cargo, am, SCT; Nordsee, general
ALL FIVE Basingstoke UKTA Tae Kwon-Do School students who took part in the annual English Open championships in Exeter returned with medals. The sparring and patterns categories produced a medal haul of six. Black belt Michelle Coles extended her recent
INDOOR rower Kevin Peebles lowered his competition best time in one of the strongest fields assembled on the world calendar. The Nottingham grand prix featured many of the world's leading competitors and was the last of a British grand prix series of
HAMPSHIRE trainer Brendan Powell ended a fruitful week for his Winchester stable in style when Eau de Cologne made virtually all the running to land the Stan James Handicap Chase at Newbury on Saturday. Powell has done well in his first couple of seasons
Basingstoke Town 2 Billericay 0 BASINGSTOKE TOWN manager Ernie Howe knew it was going to be a good day just 15 minutes into this game. Having seen central defender Steve Hemmings put his side ahead with a header on the quarter-hour, Howe then discovered
Basking in the shade of its trees and shrubs Sir Harold Hillier Gardens is a rural idyl but for how long can it stave off a bricks and mortar invasion? Jamie Thompson reports... IT'S one of the most idyllic towns in Hampshire, the ideal setting for one
The Hampshire Worthing-ton's Bowl will once again be heading away from the county mainland as Jersey-based Les Quennevais stormed to an unexpected, but fully deserved, victory over New Milton & District, coming through 41-29 winners. In a superb game
Totton teenager Alex Savage became the new British 100m butterfly champion last night and put herself in contention for a trip to the World Championships in Barcelona. In-form Savage, 17, who swims for Ferndown Otters, rounded off the most successful
Taunton's College under-19 girls' excelled at the British schools' trampolining finals at Burgess Hill. Having won the divisional and zonal rounds, the A team wound up second in the open category, with Claire Madigan coming a fantastic fourth considering
INSOLVENCY practitioners at Tenon Recovery are battling to save a company name which has been a leading light in the British dairy farming industry for nearly 80 years. Gascoigne Melotte established a proud reputation for making milking machines and equipment
Jenufa - The Mayflower IF YOU know your Jancek, there could hardly be a better production than Welsh National Opera's Jenufa. A strong ensemble is stripped of traditional operatic flamboyance by director Katie Mitchell who opts for the raw material of
A LEADING church figure has called for cinema bosses to withdraw a film promo that declares "We're Going In" following the outbreak of war with Iraq. Odeon Cinema in LeisureWorld is distributing a mock newspaper for a new film, that also carries a headline
PLANS to build a huge £30m "urban village" in Southampton have been given the green light by city bosses. Southampton's largest remaining brown-field site in Chapel will be turned into a housing estate which will include 152 flats and 22 family homes.
THE trial of a Hampshire police officer charged with indecently assaulting three schoolgirls will have to be heard again after a crown court jury failed to reach a verdict. Jurors at Lewes Crown Court had deliberated for 13 hours on whether or not to
HUNDREDS of visitors from around the region turned out to make Southampton International Airport's first major holiday show a resounding success. The free show - supported by the Daily Echo - provided a whole day of entertainment for all the family including
PEGGY Charlton is old enough to remember the thrill of Saints winning the FA Cup 1-0 against Manchester United. But if they pull off a repeat of their performance in 1976 the 81-year-old is hoping this time she can watch the match at the Millennium Stadium
Illegal Eagles, Salisbury City Hall THIS is country-rock harmony at its best. Launching into Take it Easy, Tequila Sunrise, and Peaceful Easy Feeling, five experienced and multi-talented musicians entertained a packed City Hall for over two hours in this
TESTS are being carried out on a detainee at the Haslar immigration removal centre to discover whether he has tuberculosis. Staff at the Gosport centre raised the alarm after symptoms similar to TB were spotted. The man is now being treated at a "local
CURIOUS visitors to Titchfield Haven who want to find out more about local bird life will be in for a treat on March 27. That's when bird experts will be on hand to point out all the different species at the Hill Head nature reserve. They will share their
AND they're off! More than 1,000 runners pounded the streets in ideal conditions in the popular B & Q Eastleigh 10k road race yesterday. Report, pictures and results will appear in tomorrow's Daily Echo.
THE trial of a Hampshire police officer charged with indecently assaulting three schoolgirls will have to be heard again after a crown court jury failed to reach a verdict. Jurors at Lewes Crown Court had deliberated for 13 hours on whether or not to
AN Eastleigh school that boasts excellent sporting achievements - despite battling against poor facilities - could finally get a new £1.25m state-of-the-art sports hall to match its ambitions. Currently pupils at Alderman Quilley Secondary have PE lessons
CRACKING crime using the beady eyes of Neighbourhood Watch schemes has been given a hi-tech boost in Eastleigh with the launch of a dedicated website. There are more than 500 Neighbourhood Watch schemes covering 18,000 households in the Eastleigh and
AN URGENT save-our-carnival appeal has been issued by Fair Oak and Horton Heath Parish Council with a warning that unless volunteers step forward the popular event may not be held. Carnival capers in Fair Oak were relaunched in 1976 and the annual event
The Royal Southampton Yacht Club is pleased to announce, in collaboration with the Real Club Maritimo de Santander, a double handed "Solent to Santander" race this summer. Starting on Saturday 12th July, the course will take competitors from the Solent
