WHEN you need keep up to date with the affairs of business and commerce in the South, you can't do better than read the Daily Echo's Business South. Day by day we bring you the latest information about the companies, organisations and people who affect
LAST week BMW pledged to invest £3.3 billion in Rover's Longbridge plant, in a deal said to be the largest ever inward investment in the UK Car Industry and set to safeguard almost 9,000 British jobs. It was also reported that BMW was unlikely to see
STRIKE action over pay at Southampton shipbuilder Vosper Thornycroft was sus-pended today. The decision by unions to halt the one-day stoppages, which have paralysed the Woolston yard for the last five weeks, came late yesterday afternoon after hours
"LET'S go fly a kite" was the call to arms of countless kite flyers who converged on Southampton at the week-end. The airborne activity, organised by Solent Kite Flyers, took place at Lords Hill Sports Ground in Redbridge Lane. Flyers old and new, novice
A BRAND new primary school at Chandler's Ford was celebrating a double success after staging its first summer fair. The main aim was to bring the new Knightwood School in Bellflower Way and the community together. But the event - which brought school
SOUTHAMPTON hospital chiefs have launched a crack-down on the tide of violent attacks against staff. New statistics obtained by the Daily Echo reveal that there were 140 physical and verbal assaults on Southampton hospital staff in the first five months
JASON Cundy became the first new soldier of Alan Ball's revolution yesterday with the promise of more new recruits to come. Former Chelsea and Spurs central defender Cundy completed a free-transfer move to Fratton Park from Ipswich, and alongside him
SPORTS Minister Tony Banks and players bosses today found themselves in opposition over how Manchester United should react to the Football Association's offer of a "one-off" exemption from next season's FA Cup. Banks told the House of Commons how important
ONE OF amateur golf's biggest lotteries, the south-east qualifying round of the EGU County Championship, comes to Stoneham on Saturday. Hampshire will be among 11 of the leading golfing counties in Southern England trying to win the one place available
SOUTHAMPTON Running Club and Team Solent each had cause for celebration as the Hampshire Road Race League reached its conclusion at the Brading 10K. SRC completed the task of securing both the men's A and B Division team trophies after an exciting duel
TOTTON residents had stars in their eyes as they saluted some of the best films and musicals ever made. The town's annual carnival gave groups from Totton and Eling an opportunity to pay tribute to the world of show business. The theme of this year's
THANKS to work by Ordnance Survey in Southampton, users of satellite navigation equipment can instantly convert readings to match precise locations on OS maps. Satellites which are part of the global positions system give co-ordinates for the surface
MARKETS as diverse as BMX bikes and the medical world are being targeted by a new business in Southampton. Gus Fergus has set up Expanse Product Design with help from the Prince's Youth Business Trust and has ambitious plans for his future. Born and bred
DUNCAN Swift and Darryl Whitehead have increased the local partner strength of leading business advisers Grant Thornton. The firm, which prides itself in providing partner led service to growing owner-managed business, now has ten partners located at
THE international spotlight falls on Southampton next week when delegates from the global commercial marine industry gather in the city for a major exhibition and conference. This year's seawork 99 is only the second event of its kind to be held in the
FAWLEY went carnival crazy as the fun-loving village enjoyed its annual knees-up. A large number of groups entered floats in the parade, which set off from the Gang Warily Community Centre in Newlands Road. The floats had earlier been judged by a group
TODDLERS beetled off with the top prize at a village carnival after their millennium bugs theme scored a hit with float judges. The West End pre-school youngsters dressed up as creepy crawlies to take the honours at the annual summer spectacle of fun.
LONDON may well have its Millennium Dome, but one Hampshire school has proved you don't have to run up a £758 million bill to mark the dawn of the 21st century. Excluding the cost of a bag or two of cement, the total for this piece of artwork, entitled
A YOUNG man took advantage of a simple act of kindness from an 88-year-old disabled widow - to steal her pension savings. Rosina Whitfield, who has failing sight, agreed to fetch a glass of water for the caller at her Hampshire flat. The theft left her
IT'S the splash of blue that draws attention to the most ordinary of houses - showing that once, maybe just for a while, someone famous lived there. The first blue plaques were put up in London 130 years ago and English Heritage, which now runs -the scheme
A GROUP of children suffering from the aftermath of the nuclear power station disaster at Chernobyl spent a day being pampered at West Hill Park prep school, Titchfield. Boarding pupils entertained the 14 Ukrainian youngsters, who suffer from radiation
HAMPSHIRE captain Robin Smith reckons England are going into the Test series against New Zealand with the wrong man at the helm. As the two current lowest ranked Test playing nations face off for the wooden spoon on Thursday at Edgbaston, Smith says:
ZAC MORRIS hasn't exactly had heads turning this season but he could find himself providing Hampshire with a spinning alternative for Wales. The younger of the Morris brothers could find himself heading across the Severn Bridge tonight towards Hampshire's
THE Hampshire Schools Cricket Association have signed a lucrative sponsorship deal worth £35,000 for the coming season. The deal with Scotthall BMW, Aztec Computers, Sportsmatch and the Perry-Lewis Memorial Trust, was finalised last week and will be used
A WINCHESTER composer has earned the chance to write Hampshire's musical celebration for the millennium. Martin Read beat four others to the appointment and will compose a collection of pieces for the Hampshire Music 2000 commission and at future events
