HAMPSHIRE Fare member Grayshott Pottery has been reinforcing its links with the local community with the production of a series of dedicated stoneware plates. Set up 40 years ago, the company employs more than 30 people and has helped put Hampshire on
SOUTHAMPTON International Airport is planning to host a family fun day on Sunday in conjunction with the Royal Mail. The aim is to raise funds for the Princess Anne Special Baby Care Unit at Southampton by providing a day out for staff, families and friends
BOSSES at Southampton shipbuilder Vosper Thornycroft today appealed for workers to end their strike over a pay wrangle. About 630 staff held a one-day stoppage yesterday in the first of a series of walkouts planned for the next few weeks. Managers have
GOSPORT Borough Council has voiced delight at a 225-job bonanza for the town. CPG Logistics, which already employs 120 people at its Fareham Reach premises, Fareham Road, Gosport, is to build a 100,000sq ft warehouse at the site, once the home of top
CYCLISTS will find out if it is the end of the road for a major cycle track in Hampshire when the results of a £1.4 million lottery bid are announced on Saturday. If a city council bid for funds to revamp Southampton sports centre is successful users
A CAT owner is warning animal lovers to be on their guard after her six-year-old pet was blasted in the eye with an airgun pellet. Student Helen Lock, 19, of Weavills Road, Bishopstoke, was devastated after the callous attack damaged her cat's eye so
LAPSES in recruitment policy - uncovered by a Daily Echo investigation - were not acceptable, regeneration bosses have admitted. At a meeting of the board governing Southampton's £80 million inner-city regeneration project, Councillor Paul Jenks said
CORMORANTS Team Silly Baits Richie Yeo, just back from his honeymoon, proved the star performer in the fourth round of Financial Consultant Nigel Turner's Sunday Series on Broadlands Estate's Longbridge Lake. Despite a drop in temperatures Longbridge
WINCHESTER'S brave - and unexpected - effort to reach tomorrow's Southampton final of the ladies tennis National Club League ended last night. Winchester had continued their Premier Division campaign in style over the weekend with two wins and a narrow
ENGLAND has called up Winchester KS pace bowler Billy Taylor, who has been selected to play for the English Cricket Board in a three-day match against British Universities at Durham, starting on Tuesday, writes Mike Vimpany. Taylor, 22, has been in top
STEVE FRANKLIN has quit as manager of Hampshire League Division 1 club Colden Common. Franklin, who began a second spell as manager in January 1998 and guided Common to the Hampshire League title in 1996 during his first spell at Main Road, quit after
HOUNSDOWN and Foxhills Junior schools from the New Forest returned home from the National Schools Acrobatics Championships in Nottingham looking bronzed. Competing in the under-11/13 and over-13 girls pairs, the under-11 and under-13 groups and tumbling
HAMPSHIRE-based DIY chain B&Q helped parent company Kingfisher report a jump in spring sales. B&Q saw like-for-like sales, stripping out income from new store space, jump 11 per cent over the 13 weeks to May 1 compared with the previous year -
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save a community swimming pool used by hundreds of children and disabled people in Hampshire have failed to lift a controversial closure threat. They walked out of a meeting disappointed after hearing under-fire Southampton City
A LEGAL challenge which could delay the Saints new Dell has been thrown out by Southampton City Council. Lawyers for a group opposing the stadium have threatened to take the case to a judicial review if they don't get clarification about how the council
