News from around the Sea Angling clubs HAMBLE SAC: With all the matches completed for the current season, Colin Searles has become the new beach champion with 289 points, followed by Tony Spridgeon and Greg Nolan with 274 and 258 points respectively.
A HAMPSHIRE woman was inspired to find out about her family's past thanks to her creative writing class, and discovered how a tragic twist of fate was to affect her family. Mother-of-four Mary Gallifant, 63, of St Bonnet Drive in Bishop's Waltham, became
IT continues to get tighter in the Vendee Globe with Cowes' Ellen MacArthur having trimmed leader Michel Desjoyeaux's lead from 130 miles to 60 miles with less than 5,000 miles to the finish. The two front-runners were today on day 76 of their epic round-the-world
Ever wondered what your moggy is thinking? ALI KEFFORD speaks to Rachel Casey, a vet whose life revolves around the world of cats YOUR pet cat Fluffy rolls over and waggles her feet in the air, purring loudly. "Ahhhhhhh, what a sweetie" you sigh softly
Graeme Massie focuses on The Smugglers, a Southampton pub on a site owned by Oxford University. Southampton's pubs and inns come in all shapes and sizes. Many are large brewery or chain-owned, others are still small traditional family-run freehold establishments
FAWLEY'S Hampshire county councillor Alexis McEvoy literally went "up the wall" at Calshot Activities Centre. Management and staff at the centre were staging their climbing and snowboarding festival, when anyone could go along and have a go. Mrs McEvoy
JUSTIN ROSE was today preparing himself for the rigours of tournament qualifying just hours after narrowly missing out on a maiden European Tour victory in the Alfred Dunhill Championship. Rose carded a final round of 69 at Houghton Golf Club for a 20
PLANS to improve a run-down town centre, branded the worst in Hampshire, have moved up a gear. County councillors have decided which part of Totton should be the first to benefit from an urban regeneration scheme promised for the town. A wide range of
BOWLERS in the South are boycotting a new outdoor rink at Totton because it lacks a bar. Players at Totton and Eling Bowls Centre have been hit by a shortage of teams willing to visit the town. Now the bowlers have asked Totton and Eling Town Council
Sian Porter is stunningly emulating her big brother out on the golf course. While England international David Porter was hoovering up the nation's main under 18 trophies in 1999, Sian was swinging a golf club for the very first time. Now, at just 12 years
Striker Lee Mills should get his first taste of action for three months when he turns out for Portsmouth's reserves against Fulham tonight. Mills has been out with a knee injury, but is expected to feature against a Fulham team parading more than £2m-worth
NON-LEAGUE strike legend Dave Leworthy is ready to be cut loose on his old club Farnborough Town in tonight's intriguing Hampshire Senior Cup quarter-final at Westleigh Park. Leworthy struck twice for Havant & Waterlooville in Saturday's 2-2 Dr Martens
HAMBLE Parish Council is less than impressed with Eastleigh council's new set-up of having a leader with an executive cabinet. The village authority has been consulted over Whitehall proposals to change local government in a bid to make councils more
POLICE talked a man down from the top of a row of shops at Rowner, Gosport, after he threatened to throw himself off. The young man was standing on the edge of a balcony of the arcade on Lawrence Walk between 6pm and 7pm last night. Police were called
A DEFENCE minister will be quizzed on the future of a Hampshire military hospital. Lewis Moonie will be asked to abandon Ministry of Defence plans to move Royal Hospital, Haslar, from Gosport to create a scaled down wing at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham
THEY ARE the budding City whizzkids who have shown major stock market players how things should be done. Three pupils from Thornden school, at Chandler's Ford, have increased a £100,000 investment by a cool £24,379 profit in just two months. The money
ATHERLEY'S quest to become English indoor club champions was halted by Wey Valley's Young stars. Although Atherley won overall in Surrey and took one of the contests at Hill Lane, they were undermined by the 29-12 home defeat suffered by Colin Thresher's
A SOUTH East MEP has backed a suspension of the use of depleted uranium weapons. Fears have been raised over the health effects of the shells, with tests to be done on British veterans who served in the Balkans and the Gulf War. As reported in Saturday's
SPEECH and language therapists in and around Southampton have won a royal seal of approval and shown they're among the best in the country. Staff in the speech and language therapy service, run by Southampton Community Health Services NHS Trust, have
ROMSEY MP Sandra Gidley joined councillors and more than 100 residents to hear an impassioned plea not to allow further expansion of Chilworth Science Park. Members of the Chilworth Residents Committee, which was set up in November, in a bid to halt the
ROMSEY MP Sandra Gidley joined councillors and more than 100 residents to hear an impassioned plea not to allow further expansion of Chilworth Science Park. Members of the Chilworth Residents Committee, which was set up in November, in a bid to halt the
BURGERS and chocolate are strictly off the menu for Winchester cyclist, Ricky Lee, as he gets in trim for a mammoth bike ride from Rome to London. Ricky, 30, of Fairdown Close, is taking on the biggest challenge in his life to help raise money for leukaemia
HAVING a Sky digital mini-dish put on the outside of his bungalow proved to be a major headache for one Hampshire man. For the dish was fitted so close to the ground that Derek Lewis, a 38-year-old six-footer, was in danger of bumping into it every time
BURGLARS got away with loose cash amounting to £100 after breaking into King's School in Allington Lane, Fair Oak. The intruders forced the door to an assembly room in an outside classroom and broke down an adjoining door to the woodwork room. They selected
THE South Coast firm behind Sea Life centres, such as that in Portsmouth, is putting its expertise up for sale. Merlin Entertainments currently operates 18 marine life centres in eight countries and has now launched Sea Life Aquarium Projects. At the
WHOEVER invented Irish dancing could never have foreseen that it would one day be staged anywhere more "showbiz" than a village barn. But thanks to the unnaturally tanned but exceptionally talented Michael Flatley, Irish dance groups are now big business
A MAN left fighting for life after being beaten up outside Southampton's Leisureworld complex was today critically ill on a life-support machine. Andrew Heath has received round-the-clock care in intensive care at Southampton General Hospital since the
SOUTHAMPTON City Council workers will be balloted for strike action if redundancy notices are issued to ease the current financial crisis at the Civic Offices. The Daily Echo has revealed that up to 30 members of staff could lose their jobs as the Labour-led
MULTI-million-pound plans to build a healthy living complex in Southampton's inner city will be discussed at a meeting tonight. Proposals to build a £4.5 million centre on the old Co-op store site in Charlotte Place are now progressing after the scheme
A PUBLIC meeting has been called over plans to prevent travellers setting up camp on a Southampton green. The proposals to restrict vehicle access to Freemantle Common, in Peartree, have just been drawn up. Peartree Community Action Forum chairman David
LYMINGTON Players step back in time to late 17th century London when they present William Wycherley's The Country Wife in the Malt Hall Theatre, Lymington Community Centre. Tales of seduction and marital conspiracies are cleverly interwoven around womanisers
TEAM SOLENT'S Angus Maclean is still making the overall senior men's running in the Lunnons Hampshire Cross-Country League despite missing the fourth round of the series at Overton. In his absence, Lee Rodriguez of New Forest Runners finished in his now
A CALL has been made for a crackdown on the new craze of micro-scooters after it was revealed a legal loophole means they cannot be banned from pedestrian precincts. Youngsters with scooters and on in-line skates are causing anger among pedestrians and
THIEVES broke into a Fareham centre for people with mental health problems and stole their training allowances. Intruders escaped with a safe containing £550 in cash from the Skillploy Workshops in Salterns Lane, run by Winchester Alliance for Mental
YOUNGSTERS can kick-start the year with taster dance sessions at The Point dance and arts centre at Eastleigh. Former Wyvern School pupil Nina Dietman will be leading Kickstart Dance - workshops for eight to 12-year-olds. Nina, who recently graduated
Someone is going to cop an almighty beating from Saints - just as soon as they find their finishing touch. That's the warning from Glenn Hoddle who believes his side are due to dish out a pasting with the amount of chances they are creating. The Southampton
MARKS off The Needles have once again produced some cracking action with a group fishing from the Lymington based boat "Challenger", skippered by Mike Cottingham, landing a number of double figure cod. Cottingham also showed that he is pretty handy with
A RAPIST lit a cigarette after subjecting a 16-year-old New Forest girl to an horrific attack in a secluded bin area behind flats in Southampton. The man had befriended the teenager at a nearby bus stop before persuading her to join him for a walk "to
GOLFING pub teams from Hampshire will be among those across Britain invited to tee off in one of the UK's biggest amateur golfing tournaments. Bass Ale, together with pub trade newspaper The Publican, are staging the four-man team event for which a pub
POLICE are warning children not to take pills stolen from a car in Gosport. The anti-depressant propenol tablets were in a brown bottle taken from a car on Western Way, yesterday. The car was parked close to Bay House Secondary School and it is feared
A PLAN to demolish an old Bishop's Waltham house and redevelop the site has been unveiled. Berkeley Homes (Hampshire) Ltd is seeking permission from Winchester City Council to knock down Colehill House, Winchester Road, and build two four-bedroom homes
Today's Principal Arrivings: Ouirgane, container, 0030, 206E; Autotransporter, vehicle carrier, 0530, 201 link; Ivory Eagle, refrigerat, 1330, 101W; P&O Nedlloyd Hudson, container, 1600, 206; Sir Tristram, military, 1630, Marchwood; Hyundai Highness
BOWLERS in the South are boycotting a new outdoor rink at Totton because it lacks a bar. Players at Totton and Eling Bowls Centre have been hit by a shortage of teams willing to visit the town. Now the bowlers have asked Totton and Eling Town Council
A REVIEW of a multi-million pound flagship library for Hampshire has been branded a "deplorable lost opportunity". The county council is backtracking from controversial plans to refurbish the city library in Jewry Street and is now seeking alternative
HAMPSHIRE'S most controversial school believes it may the first in the country to break from direct county council control. A proposal to seek foundation status has been unanimously approved by the governors of Kings' School in Winchester. Now they will
A HAMPSHIRE school is adjusting to life in temporary accommodation after opening its doors yesterday for the first time since Christmas. Staff and pupils at St Bede Primary School, Winchester, had been without a place of education since flooding hit the
AN interactive website has been launched to find the UK's fittest man and woman - with the site masterminded by Fareham-based Interweb. Fitness fanatics are being urged to log onto www.gymtrack.co.uk for a range of interactive services, and to enter The
IT IS a cause that has been trumpeted around the globe by the Princess of Wales and soccer star David Ginola. And now, a revolutionary land mine detector invented in Hampshire has scooped a prestigious business award. Romsey inventor Chris Richardson
GB Airways, the rapidly expanding sister company of Southampton-based Cadogan Travel, has won praise for its punctuality performance from a consumer watchdog organisation. The Gatwick-based airline, a franchise partner of British Airways, was highlighted
THE search is now on to find Hampshire's shining stars, with the launch of the Daily Echo's 2001 Hampshire Business Awards. Now in its second decade, the Hampshire Business Awards recognise the all-round excellence of the county's businesses, exciting
LYMINGTON Players step back in time to late 17th century London when they present William Wycherley's The Country Wife in the Malt Hall Theatre, Lymington Community Centre. Tales of seduction and marital conspiracies are cleverly interwoven around womanisers
FREE weekly mask and drama workshops for all ages are taking place in Southampton. They are being run by the Solent People's Theatre and Art Asia at St Mary's Church in St Mary's Street. Classes for 9-to-11-year-olds are every Wednesday, 12 to 15 years
IT'S a distinctly chilly tale of disaster and bravery in the ice-locked Himalayan peaks. But Southampton cinemagoers, who went to see the new film, Vertical Limit, at the Odeon this weekend, got a more realistic taste of conditions on K2 than they bargained
CAMPAIGNERS have won vital breathing space in the battle to safeguard hundreds of jobs at Southampton's British American Tobacco factory. New EU regulations meant the manufacture of cigarettes with a tar content of more than 10mg would be banned throughout
THE NATIONAL Heart Research Fund is searching for runners who have a place in the 2001 Flora London Marathon in April, to raise cash for them. Heart Research has provided funding for vital heart research at Southampton General Hospital and currently funds
A MAJOR study is under way in Southampton into the winter blues. The syndrome - Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) - affects an estimated 500,000 people in Britain annually. Patients at two GP surgeries in the city will be invited to take part in the programme
BLOOD Brothers star Barbara Dickson will be taking the lead role in another emotional rollercoaster of a musical at The Mayflower later this year. The actress and singer plays Viv Nicholson - the pools winner who became one of the most famous "big spenders
A LEADING New Forest school marked the centenary of Queen Victoria's death by turning the clock back to the 1860s. Victoria, who reigned for a record 63 years, died at the age of 81 at her beloved Osborne House on the Isle of Wight on January 22, 1901
NEW Forest District Council is to pump an extra £25,000 into helping to stem the devastating wave of flooding. Since October last year, the district has witnessed unprecedented scenes of flooding with the worst-hit areas being Fordingbridge, Ringwood
RINGWOOD should not be left as an "island" by excluding the town from the proposed New Forest National Park. This is the overwhelming view of Hampshire County Council planners, who have urged the Countryside Agency to include Ringwood within the park's
THE search was continuing today for the medical equipment at the centre of a radiation scare. Used to take readings of a patient's major organs, the BLA printer was taken at the weekend from a doctor's car in a West End street. Police fear for the health
