SOUTH Coast companies look set for another world-beating year of striking overseas takeover deals, according to a new survey. The KPMG Corporate Finance report showed Britain's overseas takeover activity was already near to beating its global record for
BUS DRAMA: Dawn Smith with mum Jean. A THREE-year-old toddler sparked a full-scale emergency rescue operation when she got her head stuck between the seats of a Southampton bus. Dawn Smith fell asleep next to her mother as the number six First Southampton
SOUTHAMPTON International Airport's managing director, Colin Hobbs has received the Investor in People award from Robert Hillier, chairman of the Hampshire Training and Enterprise Council. The Investor in people accreditation is a national standard that
SOUTHAMPTON International Airport's manag-ing director, Colin Hobbs has received the Investor in People award from Robert Hillier, chairman of the Hampshire Training and Enterprise Council. The Investor in people accreditation is a national standard that
FIFTY jobs could face the axe as Southampton Institute grapples with a spiralling debt crisis. Fears are growing of possible redundancies among both administration and teaching staff in a major shake-up plan. Institute chiefs are to consider proposals
A FORMER hotel, which entertained many passengers of the Titanic the day before they set sail, is to be trans-formed into luxury flats. South Western House near Southampton docks, formerly the Imperial Hotel, is a listed building currently on the at-risk
FIREFIGHTERS say they have been left in limbo while they await an overdue decision on their future role. The fire crews at Twyford and Titchfield were expecting a final judgement by Home Office mandarins weeks ago. The complexity of the inquiry has delayed
STAYING UP: Saints big defender Ken Monkou is confident. AS ONE of the most laid-back members of the Saints dressing room Ken Monkou is totally relaxed about Sunday's sud-den-death decider at home to Everton. The unflappable centre-back is focused and
WELL-PLACED: Justin Rose. FAMILIARITY, it seems, breeds content for Hampshire's young golfer Justin Rose. The wide and watery expanse of the Oxfordshire golf course where he made his one and only European tour cut a year ago, looked like an old friend
TEAM Solent will be relying on some fire from their Welsh dragon in tomorrow's British Men's League Division 2 opener at Stafford. Carmarthen-born sprinter Jamie Henthorn is on a hot streak of form having returned from training in Los Angeles to strike
SUPERSTARS: Gareth Hale and Norman Pace. SHOWBIZ couple Spice Girl Victoria Adams and David Beckham have thrown their weight behind a campaign backed by Daily Echo publisher Newscom to combat the deadly disease meningitis. New mum Posh who had her first
FINGER OF SUSPICION: Roger ludlam with the pennant and ransom note. ONE Hampshire publican has found out the hard way that Saints fans don't take defeat lying down. Lifetime Fulham supporter Roger Ludlam was proud to display his team's colours behind
FAIR DEALS: Deputy Mayor of Southampton Derek Burke with the trades and their certificates. EIGHTEEN car dealers have made a formal commitment not to rip off customers under a new scheme to improve standards creat-ed by the council's Trading Standards
SELL UP Pompey, Pompey sell up! The Fratton Park club have been bought for little more than half the money Saints received for Kevin Davies. Miami-based tycoon Milan Mandaric has paid £4 million for the ailing Division 1 club who were facing extinction
DEFIANT: Mark Hughes is adamant he won't let Saints be relegated. MARK HUGHES enters unchartered territory on Sunday when he experiences the gutwrenching tension of a sudden-death survival struggle for the first time. During a glittering career the Welsh
TWO American teams gave the British a run for their money in local waters in the recent Sigma 33 Association's Inter-Club Team Racing Championships hosted by the Hamble River Sailing Club. Teams from New York YC and Ida Lewis YC competed with crews from
TWO yachting legends got together to launch the new Clipper Reflex 38, unveiled at the Southampton Boat Show. Clipper Ventures boss Robin Knox-Johnston and lone yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur performed the ceremony at Shamrock Quay. Cougar Clipper is the
JUBILANT: The relieved defendents yesterday. A GROUP of residents accused of act-ing like a violent mob near the home of one of Hampshire's worst child sex offenders walked free from court yesterday. The trial of the eight Southampton residents was halted
ALTERED IMAGE: How Patrick Cosgrove may look now. DETECTIVES hunting the missing brother of Hampshire murder victim Patrick Cosgrove now think he has shorn off his thick hair. Kevin Cosgrove has been missing since his younger brother was found with fatal
