SOUTHAMPTON youth football bosses are considering introducing a code of conduct in a bid to kick foul-mouthed parents into touch. Offensive touchline behaviour is forcing a growing number of referees in Hampshire to hang up their whistles. And a rising
IN today's frantic world, when most hot drinks are dispensed from anonymous vending machines, it's difficult to imagine an era when everything stopped for tea. Yet in the days when the great ocean liners left Southampton on a regular basis, a well-brewed
UP TO 300 jobs are set to be created in Southampton in a state-of-the-art call centre, the Daily Echo can reveal. Rapidly expanding city-based firm Interactive Telephone Services has confirmed it is already looking to move from its present home in central
AN action plan to help boost the economic prosperity of Hampshire's market towns during the 21st century has been launched by council business chiefs. Over the last decade, concern has been mounting over new patterns of living, shopping and transport
BOURNEMOUTH'S poor away form continued last night as Gillingham recovered in style from a fourth-minute goal by Steve Robinson. Robinson hit a superb 12-yard volley to give Bournemouth a shock lead as Neil Young's though ball dropped over his shoulder
MOORE will not mean less at Pompey according to boss Alan Ball. The expected signing of Bradford central defender darren Moore on Monday will not signal a clearing of the decks by the Pompey boss, who suddenly has a paper surfeit of central defenders
Solent Stars hope to be back to full strength this weekend as they play twice in 24 hours to decide their Uniball Basketball Trophy fate. Panji Grainger is expected to recover from the knee problem which has kept him out of the last four games but Chris
When you are in the mood for pizza, you would have thought a visit to an American-style pizza restaurant with a reputation for excellent pizzas and a salad bar to match, would be the perfect restaurant to ease your cravings. Sadly, this wasn't the case
CLOSE to the source of the River Meon, the unspoilt village of East Meon, with its Norman church nestling at the foot of Park Hill, provides the start for this 8 mile walk. Following well-surfaced tracks and roads for much of the way, the route, hilly
ALL manner of exotic animals have been slithering into the RSPCA's Stubbington Ark animal sanctuary lately. Over the last year, staff at the Ranvilles Lane centre have looked after everything cold-blooded from iguanas and snakes, to lizards and terrapins
In Port Todays principal Southampton arrivals: Arroyofrio Uno, ro-ro, 0230, 30; Peninsular Bay, container, 0530, 204; Tyrusland, ro-ro, 0530, Marchwood; Arcadia, cruise liner, 0630, 106; P&O Nedlloyd Southampton, container, 1000, 207; Theodor Storm
A MASSIVE public information campaign has swung into action to give Hampshire householders information about the millennium bug. Thousands of "bug" booklets will soon be dropping onto doormats across the South, providing guidance on how to prepare for
WITHIN the next ten days, the first lorry containing 10,000 shoeboxes packed with toys is due to set off from Southampton, headed for Kosovo - bringing hope and joy to children in the war-torn area. The Operation Christmas Child project, run by Samaritan's
SOUTHAMPTON'S Queen Eliza-beth 2 set sail from the city's docks for a new era in her long history yesterday. The flagship of the British merchant marine left Southampton for Bremerhaven, Germany where the 70,327-ton vessel will undergo a multi-million
MOTORISTS will be blitzed in a crackdown by police and a hit-squad of traffic wardens. Drivers who leave their vehicles on yellow lines, clogging town centres, are to be targeted under the initiative. The plan was unveiled by the New Forest's senior police
LAWRIE McMENEMY is backing England to triumph over Scotland in the Battle of Britain. But the former Saints boss is sad that it is not possible for both countries to qualify for next summer's Euro 2000 finals in Holland and Belgium. As Kevin Keegan prepared
ON Sunday April 25, 1915, while darkness still cloaked the shore, a great armada moved silently from the Turkish sea towards the Gallipoli beaches. On vessels such as the River Clyde and the Aquatania were thousands upon thousands of Hampshire troops
THERE was a bitter east wind blowing on the day I visited Furzey Gardens. Luckily, these lovely, informal gardens deep in the folds of the New Forest at Minstead, have many tall trees to provide shelter. As I walked around, it seemed as if the wind had
