JAMES Vince hit the first Hampshire hundred of his career, and then declared: "Now I want more." The 19-year-old crafted a magnificent 122 not out as Hampshire made 367-3, a first innings lead of 45, on the penultimate day of their LV= County Championship
“WE have to stand up to the big boys and one thing we can beat them with is our customer service.” That is the defiant message from independent Southampton newsagent Kevin Shovelar, who has been nominated for the Daily Echo Newsagent of the
CASH-and-carry giant Costco is planning to open a huge wholesale store in Southampton bringing more than 250 new jobs. The American retailer has drawn up proposals for one of its low price big box warehouses on part of the BAT site in Millbrook
THIS restaurant is just one of a handful of gastronomic treasures that could attract discerning diners from Southampton and Winchester to the streets of Eastleigh. The plush eatery with its modern setting would not look out of place in the top curry
Sitting down with a cup of tea is one of life’s little pleasures but it can also have huge health benefits. Taking a break with a cuppa is a time-honoured tradition. More than 165 million cups are brewed here every day – but many experts believe that
On a sunny afternoon in April, 1914, people flocked to St Andrew’s Park in Southampton to witness the unveiling of the memorial to the engineers who lost their lives on the Titanic two years earlier. Now the famous memorial, with its angel
BESTIVAL organisers are pulling out all the stops to ensure the traditional close to the festival season at the Isle of Wight’s Robin Hill Country Park is greener than ever before. The festival was one of only 13 worldwide to scoop an “outstanding
RESIDENTS are celebrating after students lost a second bid for later hours at a Southampton university nightclub. More than 100 residents objected to the application by the University of Southampton Students’ Union to extend the opening hours
THERE is a special milestone being celebrated this weekend when the British Powerboat Festival takes place on the Isle of Wight. The Festival – one of the most keenly contested competitions in world motorsport – sees the 50th anniversary staging of one
FIRE and floods which raged across the Isle of Wight 130 million years ago made the Island the richest source of “pick’n’mix” dinosaur remains of that age anywhere in the world, according to a new study. It revealed that the Island’s once-violent
SOUTHAMPTON pupils have good reason to celebrate as they are leaving school with better grades than ever before. The city posted a four per cent jump in the number of secondary school leavers achieving the Government benchmark of at least five
WE have broken every record in the book! That was the delighted assessment of this year’s GSCE students from Woodlands Community School in Southampton by proud head teacher Joanna Anslow. This year saw the benchmark five A* to C grade rise by eight
IT’S been a recordbreaking year at Upper Shirley High School, with 68 per cent of the Year 11 pupils getting at least five high passes. The proportion leaving with good grades has jumped eight percentage points from last year, and the number
I have a business and it seems my invoices are going astray as no one seems to really want to pay them! It's causing quite a bit of cash flow problems so I have looked at factoring as a possible solution. Any thoughts on its suitability. Factoring
A SOUTHAMPTON man admitted twice assaulting his partner and sending her a website messages threatening to slit her throat. Judge Patrick Hooton heard of a “difficult” seven-month relationship between John Baylis and Emma Richards that culminated
When I was in Spain on holiday recently I ended up talking to someone who was involved in trying to reduce graffiti on historic buildings in a small town in central Spain where we were staying. It was interesting to hear how he and the authorities had
A COUPLE who dumped exotic reptiles in dustbin bag were tracked down after their fingerprints were found on the binliner. The five bearded dragons were found in hedgerow after they were abandoned and left for dead by civil partners Andrew Bews-Foster
A Southampton bookmakers has been broken into overnight. Residents awoke to find the Ladbrokes shop, on Aldermoor Road, Aldermoor, with its glass front door smashed in, but it is not yet known whether anything was taken. They said incidents like this
BORDER officials have found four illegal immigrants trying to smuggle themselves into the country hiding in a yacht on the back of a lorry. The boat they were discovered in was destined for Hamble Point Marina. The four men, from Vietnam, have now been
DESPITE a slight drop on last year’s results St George Catholic School still had plenty of reasons to celebrate as over the last three years it has improved its 5 A* to C grades including maths and English by 30 per cent. Twins and an aspiring
WORK has started on a £3m revamp of Southampton’s shabby central train station which a Government minister once dubbed “the lowpoint of his week”. The station will be completely refurbished with improved facilities for passengers including
FRONTLINE WORKERS at one Hampshire council are fearing for their jobs after bosses revealed 42 posts may be axed. Fareham Borough Council announced they could be forced to give frontline staff the chop by the end of the year as they prepare to see a
ALAN Pardew shrugged off last night’s Carling Cup defeat to Bolton, admitting he’s not “overly concerned where we are now”. Saints dominated much of the second round tie at St mary’s but slipped to a 1-0 defeat after Ivan Klasnic’s first-half
FIREFIGHTERS tackled a blaze of hay bales after a suspected arson attack. Fire engines from Redbridge and Totton attended the incident involving a number of bales in a farmer's field off Jacobs Gutter Lane, near Marchwood at around 9.30pm last night
A community-run café project that will transform the lives of disadvantaged people has received a £20,000 donation from Southampton’s container port. The cash will fully kit out a commercial catering kitchen in the new café as part of a revamp of St
ZURICH insurance, which has its UK headquarters in Hampshire, has been fined a record £2.28m after losing the intimate details of 46,000 customers and not telling them for more than a year. Already the highest individual fine ever imposed for data security
A MAN was spotted trespassing the railway as he picked blackberries. Now British Transport Police have appealed for information after the man in his fifties, wearing a blue T-shirt and blue jeans caused a minor disruption to the service and
