JORDAN Grand Prix's technical director Mike Gascoyne is geared up to raise the starting flag at the launch of the South East Regional Technology Network next month at the Botleigh Grange Hotel, Hedge End. He will be speaking to an invited audience about
RESIDENTS have welcomed a huge clampdown on abandoned cars in Southampton. But many are calling for extra parking spaces to prevent untaxed vehicles being dumped and vandalised. More than 200 cars were being towed away to face the crusher in a two-day
ONE of Southampton's final links with medieval times is probably about to be severed. For over 600 years citizens have been making their way to the St Mary's district to sell their goods. It was the era of the Wars of the Roses when they first received
CONTROVERSIAL plans to build luxury homes on an historic site in the heart of Winchester have won the backing of the city's residents' association. Middlesex developers Try Homes are seeking planning permission to build ten £400,000 town houses on the
LYMINGTON schoolgirl Melisa Kummer is the first youngster to win the Lesley Errington Award for community service. The award was set up last year in memory of the late Councillor Errington from Ringwood. But the first name in the record books will be
In Port Today's Southampton arrivals: Emerald Highway, vehicle carrier, 0730, 202; Magic, refrigerat, 0730, 104; Tricolor, ro-ro, 0730, 34/35; Arno, ro-ro, 0830, 201; Autoracer, vehicle carrier, 0930, 105; Century Leader, ro-ro, 1030, 43/44; UKD Seahorse
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A FURIOUS mum shopped her own daughters to police after reading in the Daily Echo how a teenager had been knocked unconscious by a girl gang. Stunned staff at Southampton Central Police Station couldn't believe it when the woman frogmarched her teenage
A 64-year-old mystery surrounding the world's most famous aircraft, the Spitfire, has finally been solved thanks to a set of long-lost documents found in a Lyndhurst house, the Daily Echo can exclusively reveal. The world of aviation is now buzzing with
NEW solutions are being sought to ease the congestion at Whiteley, including special bus only routes. Last year The Daily Echo revealed that a planned relief road - Whiteley Way - was going to be permanently shelved. Since then members of Hampshire County
THE city of Southampton yesterday bestowed its highest possible honour on those who have served in Hampshire's defence of the realm. The captain and crew of HMS Southampton and the commanding officer and all ranks of 17 Port and Maritime Regiment, Royal
HAMPSHIRE villagers fighting a major new housing development in the Bursledon countryside have lost their battle - despite a plea for help to the Prince of Wales. Residents of the Jarvis Fields housing estate contacted Prince Charles' office over fears
ROAD safety campaigners have expressed anger and alarm at the speed of traffic using one of the busiest routes in the New Forest. A large number of drivers are flouting the 30mph speed limit at Gosport Lane, Lyndhurst, members of the New Forest Road Safety
A HAMPSHIRE motor company has vowed to work with residents to solve claims that it is causing a noise nuisance. Bosses at Rowles Picador say they plan to continue consulting with homeowners - and, meanwhile, everything possible is being done to make sure
SAINTS star Matthew Oakley kicked off a charity fundraising event in Southampton. The Southampton footballer was on hand at the opening of a new recruitment agency in the city to sign footballs for charity. The five balls, together with a Saints shirt
WHEN sprightly centenarian Daisy Towner from Lee-on-Solent came face to face with a burglar she knew exactly what to do. Daisy stood her ground and gave the would-be thief a few choice words. He fled empty-handed. She was saluted by Gosport Lions at a
