HEDGE END youngster Ryan Flood is hoping to launch his professional career with First Division newcomers QPR. The 15-year-old goalkeeper has signed schoolboy forms for the West London club after trials with Saints and Reading came to nothing. Ryan, pictured
Nic Pothas WILL be fit to face top-of-the-table Notts at the Rose Bowl tomorrow - despite missing his first game of the season with an ankle injury yesterday. Wicketkeeper Pothas had treatment for most of the afternoon while his Hampshire teammates were
Today's Principal Arrivals: Oriana, passenger, 0645, 106; CFF Seine, roro, 0730, 25; Cypress Pass, roro, 0730, 43; OOCL Rotterdam, container, 0800, 207; Ville d'Aquarius, container, 1330, 206; NYK Castor, container, 1400, 205; Autosky, roro, 1830, 46
IN A move which would have infuriated the grumpy 'Blakey', star of 1960s TV comedy On The Buses, the new man at the wheel of a Southampton bus company is to demand staff are nice to customers. The new Solent Blue Line managing director wants to banish
MYDDELTON and Major are letting eight office/workshop units at Home Farm Business Centre, in Lockerley. Lockerley is on the border of Wiltshire and Hampshire; 15 miles from Salisbury, 16 miles from Andover and 13 miles from Southampton. In a rural setting
PLANS to give Totton town centre a £22m facelift could be doomed, residents have been warned. Campaigners say a huge question mark is hanging over proposals to transform the main shopping area - dubbed one of the worst in Hampshire. As reported in the
A COURT case was dramatically halted after jurors were accused of not taking it seriously enough. The bombshell happened after a furious female juror wrote a letter to the judge complaining of the attitude of other people listening to the evidence. She
IT'S National Volunteers' Week and the Daily Echo has teamed up with the Eastleigh Volunteer Bureau to salute some of the people who willingly give their time to others. BARRY Devlin from Chandler's Ford is a remarkable man by any standards. At the age
THE suspicious white powder that sparked a chemical scare and almost ruined a Hampshire couple's big day is believed to be from a fire extinguisher. Police have recovered an empty extinguisher from close to a wedding marquee which was the centre of a
SICK days are costing the New Forest taxpayer more than £1m every year, the Daily Echo can reveal. Staff at New Forest Council take an average of nine days' leave a year - a total of 7,349 taken last year - because of ill health. A staggering £1.6m was
A DEDICATED cancer information and support centre could open its doors in Southampton as early as next spring. Centre manager Jac Broomfield believes the facility could be up and running within a year if fundraising goes to plan. Macmillan Cancer Relief
A D-DAY service of remembrance will be held by the Mayor of Fareham at the Warsash Memorial this Sunday at noon. Mayor Marian Ellerton will also unveil a new information panel on the memorial, which marks the spot where almost 3,000 commandos embarked
DETECTIVES are continuing to investigate after a Fareham teenager was the victim of a serious sexual assault as she walked home from a nightclub. The 18-year-old girl was making her way home from Martha's Nightclub in Portsmouth when she was attacked
BARRY Devlin from Chandler's Ford is a remarkable man by any standards. At the age of 57, he suffered a brain stem stroke which left him only able to move his eyelids. His medical team were amazed he survived and it took many months of care and physiotherapy
JUNIOR athletes from Basingstoke and Mid-Hants AC achieved a number of individual successes at Down Grange recently. Double wins were gained in two events - the 100 metres and triple-jump - when Basingstoke hosted a National Junior League meeting. In
BASINGSTOKE and North Hants recorded their first win of the season on Sunday, beating Epsom by nine wickets in the Evening Standard Trophy. The victory wiped out the disappointment of losing by 134 runs to visiting Home Counties League leaders Henley
Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard was hoping to be given the chance to play for his Euro 2004 place tonight against Japan. Sven-Goran Eriksson has been weighing up whether to start Lampard or Nicky Butt in midfield in not only tonight's warm-up game, but
Chris Tremlett will spearhead Hampshire's attack against table-topping Nottinghamshire as a capped player tomorrow - and with his England ambitions on hold. Southampton-born Tremlett has taken 112 wickets in 35 first class matches for his home county
Burley CC all-rounder Paul Yates has hit another record-breaking double century - the third of his career. Playing in Burley's Hampshire League Regional Division 1 South match at Fawley, Yates smashed an unbeaten 204 in his side's total of 267-3. It is
THE WAIT is nearly over. June's edition of Business South Magazine is hitting boardroom tables across the county this week. Targeted at business movers and shakers, June's pages offer an unrivalled resource of must-have information. Turning the spotlight
FORTY years of loyal service was rewarded with a carriage clock and a champagne reception for one Southampton Marks & Spencer employee. Delighted Gloria Gailor, 61, was then whisked away for a night on the town in London's West End and a stay in a
FINANCIAL services firm TML Financial Solutions has begun the final countdown, with just 50 days to go before it moves to stunning new headquarters at Whiteley, near Fareham. Major expansion has led to the firm, one of the fastest growing direct to consumer
NEW Forest residents are being urged to put their best feet forward in a joint fundraising bid. Participants will walk or cycle to as many churches as they can on Saturday, September 11. All money raised will be divided between the Hythe United Reformed
IT WAS a far cry from the vision of green loveliness that was stunning Page Three model Jo Guest, wearing just a sprinkling of fresh watercress. Despite hopes that this year's Mr Watercress competition would see scores of honed hunks of the male equivalent
SOME choose to float off on the sea, some choose to be blown away from a mountain. But when the final whistle blows for Saints' striker James Beattie, he wants his ashes scattered on the St Mary's pitch to be trampled into the ground by a generation of
ONE OF Southampton's most colourful and controversial politicians is on the comeback trail. Former city housing and regeneration boss, Paul Jenks, pictured, is standing for the Labour Party in the Bassett ward after a 12 month absence from city politics
DEVASTATED members of a Hampshire project which provides work for disabled people were today counting the cost after thieves stole vital gardening equipment. More than £1,500 of tools were stolen from a lock-up used by members of Branching Out - a scheme
TRANSPORT bosses in Test Valley are on the look out for volunteers who could help give housebound people a new lease of life. Volunteers would train as drivers for a fleet of new community minibuses - available for ferrying elderly people to the shops
TOTALLY Tennis is one of 23 tennis centres to be hand-picked by the Lawn Tennis Association to take part in a pilot scheme to encourage 10 to 18-year-olds to become more involved in tennis. The pilot, which started over the weekend at the Basingstoke
A HAMPSHIRE charity for young people had a much-needed cash boost thanks to an opening of a new supermarket. The Rock Solid Youth Project based in Valley Park, Chandler's Ford, received £500 from the community's new Tesco Express store after borough councillor
WEYBROOK Park's Andrew Cloke led the qualifiers for this year's Hampshire PGA Matchplay Championship at Hartley Wintney Golf Club. Cloke was joined by Eddie Raw-lings in shooting a two-under-par round of 69 at Hartley Wintney to book his place in the
