Shane Watson's maiden double hundred helped Hampshire to a record Rose Bowl score against title rivals Warwickshire. Only two players had scored a double ton at the Rose Bowl before Watson stroked an unbeaten 203 as Hampshire declared on 576-6, the county's
Eastleigh & Otterbourne have won the Hampshire Cricket League championship despite losing their final County Division 1 by four wickets to St Cross Symondians II. They pipped BAT Sports II to the title by five points - but at one stage looked as though
TRAVIS frontman Fran Healy and Lord Nelson may seem odd bedfellows but they have helped give tourism in the region a multi-million-pound boost. Healy was among the music stars who drew 30,000 fans to the Isle of Wight Festival, while Nelson's victory
MID-MARKET private equity firm LDC has appointed Kevan Leggett, one of the most successful dealmakers in the south, as its new regional director. LDC, part of Lloyds TSB, backs ambitious, entrepreneurial management teams seeking between £2m and £50m of
PIRRIE Park left their mark on the Hampshire finals when winning the benevolent triples at Banister Park. Katherine Page, Wendy Long and Maureen Hawkins polished off Redhill Park (Bournemouth) 17-11 in the semi-final before gaining a 17-13 final success
Members of the Southampton Diving Academy travelled to Barcelona for the prestigious annual international club competition which attracts teams from all over Europe. It meant a very challenging environment but the team of ten competed outstandingly well
The Kings Toyota Greenridge Farm afternoon series saw a fabulous finish to the series when just three points separated the top five anglers. Graham Tappenden (Homestores Sensas) had three section wins in a row plus a second in section in the final match
WINCHESTER'S waterways are at their lowest levels in almost 30 years, environment chiefs have warned. Only half the amount of water normally seen in the city's rivers and streams is currently flowing. With almost all the water used in Winchester coming
WINCHESTER health bosses say they are winning the battle to end the problem of blocked hospital beds. Managers at the Royal Hampshire County and Andover War Memorial hospitals are delighted with the latest figures. They show that the number of beds blocked
A DEVELOPMENT of affordable flat-pack homes is likely to be built in Hythe, housing chiefs have revealed. Work on the site of Trafalgar House in Seward Road could get under way as soon as this autumn, according to New Forest Council housing supremo Peter
AN IRANIAN family fighting deportation to their homeland, where they say they will face death, have won a reprieve to stay in Southampton. Immigration minister Tony McNulty has given Lisa Khameneh, husband Khalil, who are both blind, and their teenage
RAISE your glasses and cast your vote for Hampshire's best blooming pub. After weeks of tough competition from watering holes across the region, judges have decided on the top six taverns in the Daily Echo's first ever Pubs In Bloom competition. Brilliant
A SOUTHAMPTON family is facing a race against time to find their missing pet dog. Staffordshire bull terrier Ollie suffers from diabetes and needs insulin injections every day. Now owners Elaine, 37, and Chris Hemy, 44, fear their pet could die within
AN international speaker on autism is to revisit Hampshire. Wendy Lawson, author of the book Understanding and Working with Autism, is travelling from Australia to share her experiences of being autistic. The Hampshire Autistic Society seminar takes place
A SEVEN-year-old boy is today being treated in hospital for head injuries after he was in collision with a bus on a busy Southampton road. The accident happened on the A3024 Northam Road as the Solent Blueline operated single decker bus travelled towards
Dame Ellen MacArthur officially goes on standby today in her attempt to smash the west-to-east solo transatlantic record. The yachtswoman, 29, is now in New York with her 75ft trimaran B&Q waiting for favourable weather to cross the Atlantic. Dame
Southern Electric Premier League - Division 3: Easton & Martyr Worthy (174 all out) beat Fair Oak (109 all out) by 65 runs OAKS lost their last game of the season but were happier than victors Easton - they stayed up, while the hosts missed out on
No panic at City despite dramatic slump in fortunes WINCHESTER City are hoping for an upturn in fortunes tomorrow (Sat 3) when they make the long and difficult trip to Portland for a Wessex League encounter. City visit slumped to their third successive
A GRANDFATHER of nine is gearing up for a mammoth six marathons in six days - in the world's toughest foot race. Former Royal Marine Commando Roger Robinson is one of 40 runners to take on the 175-mile challenge, which starts on September 4 in Great Malvern
POLICE are hunting joyriders who went on a wrecking spree, demolishing part of three derelict buildings in Hedge End. The raiders broke into the site of the former Simmonds Engineering Works in Botley Road and took a 45-tonne caterpillar-tracked excavator
Fabrice Fernandes ended 18 months of Saints hell when he joined Bolton on a free transfer yesterday. The French midfielder thought his deal with the Trotters would collapse yesterday after Reebok chairman Phil Gartside announced the move was off due to
Like Hampshire, John Crawley has won every Lord's final he has played in. The former England batsman, right, was a key member of the Lancashire side that won two Benson & Hedges Cups and two Natwest Trophies in the mid to late 1990s. In 1995, Crawley's
Hampshire Under-13s finished creditable runners-up in the ECB Junior County Championship finals at Oundle, near Peterborough. They were beaten by four wickets by Yorkshire in the final. Having beaten Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Wales to reach the four-county
ATHERLEY'S Anne Pearce deprived Julie Saunders of a unique four-timer when beating the newly-crowned English champion in a gripping final for the Hampshire two-wood singles title at Banister Park. Saunders, right, had already won the national and county
Parking charges would soar for some in the New Forest under controversial plans. Civic chiefs want to revamp the parking clock scheme, which has operated across all the district's council-run car parks for most of the past two years. They say the new
HE may only be nine inches long but he's already the centre of attention at Marwell Zoo. Keepers are looking after the baby red panda called Tingri, pictured above right, who is named after a region of the Himalayas, in the hope he will survive into adulthood
HAMPSHIRE'S cricket mascot Harry Hawk has been banned from roaring on the county's players at Lord's on Saturday. The popular cheerleader has been told he must stay at home because he breaks the home of cricket's strict dress code. It means he will miss
HOSPITAL bosses at the centre of the row over the future of Southamp-ton's highly acclaimed cardiac heart unit have promised people two more days to make their point. Yesterday the Daily Echo called for more time in which the public could give their responses
FILM and television director Ken Russell will officially open Hordle Village Fair on Saturday. Mr Russell, pictured, will perform the honour in the New Forest village at 2pm. Music from Poole Dolphins Marching Band is scheduled to begin at 2.05pm at the
MATTHEW Waissen last week became the first Totally Tennis player to win a national title. A member of The Gazette-sponsored performance squad at the War Memorial Park centre, he shared the under-14 boys' doubles title at the national junior championships
FRIENDS and family of New Zealander Mark Parker, who was tragically killed in the Bali bombing of 2002, met up for the annual sixes competition and for a second 'England vs New Zealand' all day game recently. Mark's adopted club, St Cross Symondians,
Basingstoke Town 1, St Albans City 1 ERNIE Howe admitted Town were "very lucky to get a point" from Saturday's Nationwide South fixture with visiting St Albans, who dominated proceedings but came up against an inspired goalkeeper in Rob Bullivant. They
A GRANDFATHER of nine is gearing up for a mammoth six marathons in six days - in the world's toughest foot race. Former Royal Marine Commando Roger Robinson is one of 40 runners to take on the 175-mile challenge, which starts on September 4 in Great Malvern
HARRY REDKNAPP wrapped up his summer rebuilding last night by bringing in two foreign midfielders before the transfer window slammed shut. The Saints boss was true to his word when he admitted that any last-day signings would be free transfers. Both Polish
