SCOTT IS ready to return from the cold, icy wilderness where he found himself, to a warm, welcoming embrace. Under Tony Pulis, Pompey defender Scott Hiley was left with colder shoulders than Captain Oates near the tent flap so the former Saints defender
CYCLE thieves wheeled away a blue Claude Butler men's mountain bike which had been left unlocked in a garden at Chalvington Road, Chandler's Ford.
A HAMPSHIRE MP has given her backing to a campaign that hopes to save small abattoirs from closure. Sandra Gidley, pictured, Lib Dem MP for Romsey, is supporting a call by a coalition of organisations, including the Soil Association and the Country Landowners
A WINCHESTER architect has drawn up new plans for the controversial redevelopment of the Mildmay veterinary clinic in the city. Huw Thomas has produced a scheme for 12 large town houses on Eastgate Street. The previous scheme was vigorously opposed mainly
CONTROVERSIAL plans for more holiday chalets at a Winchester golf course have been thrown out by city planners. City councillors went against their officers' advice and look set to reject plans by South Winchester Golf Club at Oliver's Battery for nine
THIEVES unhitched a black Falcon men's mountain bike which had been secured to the back of a camper van in Winchester Road, Fair Oak.
TWENTY-year-old Becky Freeman, from Eastleigh, has joined the growing band of women working in the construction industry with a career as an estimator at Hampshire-based EBC. Becky originally joined the company a year ago as an administration assistant
I'D never set foot inside a penthouse apartment - especially one that cost the best part of half a million - until I went along to meet the cast of a new play called Perfect Days. The main character in this romantic comedy is Babs Marshall, an attractive
SIGMUND Freud has incurable jaw cancer and awaits death in the study of his West Hampstead home. Enter an unhinged young woman who begs for help from the father of psychoanalysis. He tells her to leave. When, instead, she rips off her clothes and locks
PROPERTY developers are already queuing to buy land at Vosper Thornycroft's shipyard in Southampton, it emerged today. They are eyeing up the prime waterfront site after the company - a household name in the city- confirmed its future operations are to
QUESTIONS were being asked today about a controversial Hampshire park sculpture which cost £70,000 of public lottery money. The artwork, called Enclosure, was unveiled by Southampton City Council as part of its £4.5 million National Lottery-funded overhaul
ALL that one-eyed Star the kitten wanted was tender loving care, but fate decreed he was dumped in a box and abandoned. Not only was he homeless and at risk of drowning in torrential rain, but the scrap of fur could not even see out of his two badly-infected
A FORMER senior academic at Southampton Uni-versity and Winchester College has been acquitted of motoring charges arising from the death of a pensioner. Sir Bryan Thwaites was cleared of careless driving, failing to stop after an accident and failing
THE world of amateur operatics owes a debt of gratitude to Sir Arthur Sullivan. Southampton Operatic Society certainly does. If it wasn't for the astonishingly popular works he composed with W S Gilbert, which have formed the backbone of the group's output
A THREE-YEAR planning battle has ended with the all-clear for the bulldozers to move in and knock down a Roman Catholic church on the edge of the New Forest. The Church already has permission to demolish the large St Michael's Church at Hythe and build
ALL that one-eyed Star the kitten wanted was tender loving care, but fate decreed he was dumped in a box and abandoned. Not only was he homeless and at risk of drowning in torrential rain, but the scrap of fur could not even see out of his two badly-infected
PREDATORY shoplifters taking advantage of the generosity of Eastleigh residents have pushed the goodwill of a team of charity workers to breaking point. Frustrated staff manning the NCH charity shop in the town centre have seen thousands of pounds' worth
A THREE-YEAR planning battle has ended with the all-clear for the bulldozers to move in and knock down a Roman Catholic church on the edge of the New Forest. The Church already has permission to demolish the large St Michael's Church at Hythe and build
James Beattie is ready to seize his second chance if it comes at Everton tomorrow. With Uwe Rosler out for at least a month following a groin operation, Beattie is well aware that this could be his big opportunity to establish himself. He recently had
Havant & Water-looville have no intention of selling leading marksman James Taylor even though he is likely to be left on the bench for a third game running in the FA Cup at Dartford on Sunday (3pm). Despite scoring eight goals in eight games, the
Basingstoke entertain Reading in a National League 3 South match at Down Grange tomorrow with both clubs acutely aware this game is vital to their prospects of avoiding relegation even at this early stage of the season. Reading have picked up just two
LOCKHEED Martin UK Integrated Systems in South Hampshire has been awarded a study contract to explore the integration of the US Navy's Co-operative Engagement Capability (CEC) into the Royal Navy. CEC optimises the use of sensors and weapons in a taskforce
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Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Hyundai Baron,container, 0330, 206; St Angelo, vehicle carrier, 0600, 201 link; APL Iolite,container, 0630, 205; Autosky, vehicle carrier, 0830, 201/2; Hual Transporter, ro-ro, 0930, 40; Autofreighter, vehicle carrier
A POLICE crackdown in a Southampton community plagued by noise and vandalism has been hailed a success. Extra patrols were ordered in the Polygon area after residents and traders complained bitterly about late-night problems. The blitz on anti-social
A TAXI firm pulled up by Southampton's licensing bosses for breaking advertising sign size regulations by just half an inch has been granted a last-minute reprieve from a deadline inspection. As reported in the Daily Echo, the owner of West Quay Cars,
AUDITIONS will be held for boy choristers in the Winchester Cathedral Choir on Saturday, November 11. Places are available for boys aged between 7 and 10, for entry to the choir in September 2001. The boy choristers, of whom there are around 20, are educated
MOVING tributes have been paid to a four-year-old New Forest girl who has died from a brain tumour. Jessica Girling spent the last few weeks of her life playing "big sister" to her brother Joshua, who was born three months ago. Jessica's illness was diagnosed
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to an accident that left a Totton pensioner critically ill in hospital. The crash happened at a Totton junction that has been the scene of several accidents in the past few years. A Renault 19, driven by a 70-year-old
AN anti-hunt campaigner woke today to find the mutilated rem-ains of a deer dumped in his front garden. Ken Golding, a League Against Cruel Sports co-ordinator for Southampton and Waterside, said his wife made the grim discovery as she left for work.
ARRESTS for domestic violence have almost doubled in the Fareham area after a change of police policy. Graham Tann, Fareham police's domestic incidents manager, said the changes in tackling the 40-50 incidents reported every month had come after domestic
A TALK on living with Asperger's Syndrome is the focus of a special one-day seminar being held in Eastleigh next week. Organised by Hampshire Autistic Society the seminar, entitled A View From Within, will be led by 26-year-old Asperger's Syndrome sufferer
AN AMATEUR naturalist is raising concern about the health of a large number of trees in the Solent area. Retired broadcaster John Monfort lives in leafy Locks Heath, but is worried about a leaf blight which threatens to turn many gardens and verges into
THERE are those who will pick at the layers of Disney's dino-extravaganza like some bitter archaeologist brushing at the strata of movie semantics. Then there is the great majority who have been patiently awaiting the arrival of some serious screen magic
JUST when you thought the high school/college goofball comedy was dead and buried, along comes a real treat in the form of Road Trip. Films like Animal House, The Sure Thing and, to a lesser extent, Porky's, rule the roost in this rowdy corner of the
BILLY ELLIOT (15): A miner's son discovers he has a talent for ballet dancing - UGC Cinema, Ocean Village, Southampton; The Screen, Winchester; Odeon, Southampton. O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU? (12): Set in Mississippi in the late 1930s - Odeon, Southampton
COMPLEX diversions around the New Forest's capital Lyndhurst will be needed at some stages of the major road improvement scheme, due to start in the village at the end of this month. County highways bosses have revealed detailed plans for the five-month
