HAMPSHIRE insurance group Bishopsgate is poised for increased growth by joining forces with Gloucester-based Northern Star. It comes about with the acquisition of the Gloucester company by Bishopsgate parent, the international banking and insurance group
SOUTHERN Water is hosting three workshops to help smaller companies deal with the millennium bug. The company is backing the joint Action 2000 and industry initiative to help smaller firms who are less likely to be ready for the millennium change without
AN artillery museum may not be renowned for its friendly welcome but that's what is on offer at Fort Nelson where staff have recently completed the Southern Tourist Board's Welcome Host customer care training. Fort Nelson marketing manager David Goodwin
EASTLEIGH building contractor EBC Construction has won a £1 million contract from the Ministry of Defence to refurbish facilities at Larkhill Garrison near Salisbury. The contract is the fourth MoD project the company is currently working on and involves
TWO young Hampshire women have spoken of their narrow escape from the clutches of multiple rapist Richard Baker. Denise Bryant and Kelly Kempster both became friendly with the muscular British DJ - described at his Old Bailey trial yesterday as one of
IT'S as English as warm beer and cricket on the green - the sight of Royals taking to the water in the annual end-of-season fun at Cowes Week. But the regatta's most famous patron - Prince Philip - may well have to curtail his traditional Solent jaunt
THE Hampshire village of Wickham was anything but a one-horse town yesterday when hundreds of horse traders met to strike deals in the hazy sunshine. To the untrained eye the event may look like just another day out for the family, with candy floss, toffee
A COFFEE revolution is set to sweep Winchester with the opening of the city's second coffee shop in the last two weeks. Xpresso! was officially opened by Meridian TV news presenter Fred Dinenage. The shop is the first in a new chain, which hopes to spread
BURRIDGE are looking to left-hander Matt Compton, their rising Hampshire Cricket Board NatWest Trophy batting star, to stave off the threat of a third successive Peter Cooper Volkswagen Southern League defeat against Bournemouth at Botley Road tomorrow
SALISBURY City Football Club were remaining tight-lipped today after millionaire businessman Raymond McEnhill revealed that he may quit the Wiltshire club. Manager Geoff Butler delivered a blunt ''no comment'' when tackled about the subject, while McEnhill's
Free with Saturday's Daily Echo and Pink A super 16 page review of another tense season packed full of pictures, stories, facts and figures. Converted for the new archive on 25 January 2001. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion
ALEX SAVAGE was in sparkling form with four individual and two relay wins as Romsey & Totton's A team secured a third place finish in the third Hants & South Coast Minor League qualifying gala. They finished some way behind Hart and hosts Alton
A 12-HOUR bowling marathon has raised nearly £2,000 for the Piam Brown Ward. Debbie Law and Troy Taulbut handed their cheque to Jane Buchanan, fundraising co-ordinator at the Piam Brown ward. With them are Bitterne Bowl's Richard Herbert and Kevin Winkworth
CANCER fears have inspired a Hampshire father-of-three into a five-year campaign to safeguard his children's safety. Roy Drysdale believes his three boys, Robert, 3, Thomas, 5, and Ross, 8, may be at risk from potential radiation emissions caused by communications
KEEN swimmer Vicky Parker has been making fundraising waves for a Hampshire hospice appeal. Vicky, 22, of Westwood Gardens, Chandler's Ford, covered about two miles in a sponsored swim of the pool at Eastleigh's Fleming Park Leisure Centre. Her job as
THE long-running saga of the liner Edinburgh Castle, which has become a dockside landmark in Southampton, is coming to an end with the sale of the vessel to the Merseyside shipyard of Cammell Laird. The troubled 32,800-ton liner was sold to the yard as
WINCHESTER'S escalating homelessness problem has sparked off calls for more affordable housing throughout the district. The city council now has 54 people on its books officially categorised as homeless, compared to 42 during 1997-98. The manager of the
A SHOCKED Peter Jaques was convinced someone was playing a practical joke when the Daily Echo contacted him to say he had won the newspaper's Find the Ball jackpot. The £24,000 windfall was a late birthday present for the commercial illustrator who had
HAMPSHIRE'S Will Kendall proved Middlesex's Nemesis for the second day running in the PPP County Championship match at headquarters. On Wednesday, Kendall (pictured right) took three catches to deplete the Middlesex order and yesterday went on to stand
FORMER Saints and Liverpool legend Jimmy Case has resigned as manager of Dr Martens League side Bashley. The former Dell favourite Case said: ''I've decided to resign for personal reasons. It was my 45th birthday on Tuesday and every Saturday since I
KEN MONKOU is preparing to hear whether he will be playing for or against Saints next season as he sits down for contract talks tonight with chairman Rupert Lowe. The popular Dutch defender is now a free agent under the Bosman ruling which means he is
ONE of the richest road races in the world breezes through Hampshire next week when the Prutour wheels its way around Britain for the second time. Some of the best riders in the world, including Britain's Chris Boardman, make up 18 colourful teams of
FOLLOWING the launch of her dynamic Vendee campaign, Ellen MacArthur is back in action this week, taking part in the Double-handed Figaro Tour of Brittany in her Kingfisher-backed Figaro. The Isle of Wight-based yachtswoman is using the Tour de Bretagne
A TEAM SOLENT trio will be aiming for a Fast Track and smiling for the cameras in the season's first big domestic meet tomorrow. Ashley Swain, Angus McLean and Chris Bennett all get their first taste of big time track & field with their selection
