DURHAM'S dish of revenge tasted oh-so sweet, even if it did leave a bitter taste in Neil Johnson's mouth. Johnson's century counted for nothing as he was upstaged by 18-year-old Nicky Peng as Hampshire somehow contrived to snatch defeat from the jaws
AN audience of over 200 enjoyed a 'Live on Stage' event when Test Valley Lions Youth held their end-of season presentation at Harrow Way School in Andover. All the players in the Andover-based club's under-10, under-12 and under-13 teams received trophies
ANDOVER New Street and Stockbridge will be lining up in the new Hants Premier Division next season - with all 22 clubs having floodlights for the first time. Both local clubs had contrasting seasons last term,with Danny Mulberry's New Street side having
FLYING Scot Steve Hislop heads the title chase as the British Superbike Championship powers into Thruxton for the double race sixth round this Sunday, 1 July - the MonsterMob Ducati rider is the man in form having hit double top in each of the last two
WENDY LINE returned to Southampton in triumph after helping England regain the Home International title at Kilmarnock in Scotland. Although the Hampshire celebrity has been an England player since 1983 she nominated this international series as one of
HAMPSHIRE are out of the Middleton Cup following Saturday's 18-4 defeat by Berkshire at Reading. Having lost their opening group match to Oxfordshire, Hampshire needed to win handsomely to keep alive their slim chance of reaching the quarter-finals and
"A barbaric attack" on a pensioner brought a major police operation to a Winchester housing estate this week and an appeal to find the attackers. Police were called to Dennett House, a high-rise block of flats on Winnall Manor Road, in the early hours
In the very week Winchester police chose to launch a deception crime campaign, several elderly folk have fallen victim to tricksters. One 81-year-old Winchester man was robbed of his savings of £2,000 and, in another incident in the city, an elderly woman
Winchester city councillors are expected to choose land at Barton Farm, north of the city, to build 2,000 houses. Officers are making their recommendation today (Friday) to members of the local plan panel, meeting at Colden Common. Predictably, it has
Police are hunting an armed raider who walked into a Winchester post office, waving a gun and demanded money from the staff. Morn Hill PO was targeted by the masked robber on Friday at 4.20pm. He pointed a gun at postmistress, Diane Riggs and ordered
Young Winchester artist, Tess Johnson, has just finished an extraordinary work of art, turning her room into a painting you can actually walk into. Now the room in her home at Highcliffe Road is to be opened to the public. Having covered walls, floor
Winchester Guildhall was taken over by the Hampshire branch of the Institute of Directors on General Election night when more than 250 members and guests met there for its annual dinner. But there were no politics on the menu... Instead, guest speaker
New homes in Winchester city centre should not have on-site parking, say planning consultants. The recommendation is in a report on the city's conservation area strategy, presented at a public meeting in the Guildhall. Consultants say that parking has
After a hugely successful season, Hamble Old Boys Hockey Club is holding an open day on Saturday to try and attract new members and build for the future. The men's first XI were runaway winners in Hampshire Division 1 and the Hampshire Trophy Cup last
SEGENSWORTH-based telecommunications firm Telsis has won valuable new work for BT Cellnet's pre-pay mobile phone users to make calls abroad by just entering a special code. Cellnet is rolling out Telsis's roaming system ahead of a new global standard
THE Ordnance Survey Balloon and Flower Festival - one of the biggest annual events across the south - kicks off in Southampton tomorrow. The free festival takes place on Southampton Common until Sunday and includes about 80 balloons during the three days
IT was a fairly normal Wednesday shift for the ambulance technician who was manning an Eastleigh ambulance on his own because his work colleague was sick. But then a 999 call came in which left him with a decision that no-one should have to take. Desperate
After a hugely successful season, Hamble Old Boys Hockey Club is holding an open day on Saturday to try and attract new members and build for the future. The men's first XI were runaway winners in Hampshire Division 1 and the Hampshire Trophy Cup last
AROUND 30 children escaped an inferno last night as the massive heath fires that have plagued the south coast made an unwelcome visit to Hampshire. The youngsters were blissfully unaware that a huge forest fire was raging just yards away from where they
POLICE were today hunting a hit-and-run driver who ploughed into a cyclist in Southampton. The 54-year-old victim was left with head injuries, several broken ribs and a possible punctured lung after the crash in Burgess Road, Swaythling, just after 7.50pm
TWO teenage thugs who terrorised businesses in a series of raids in the south have been locked up for nine years. The serial robbers - dubbed Little and Large - had returned to their evil ways within weeks of being released on licence from young offenders
MORE than 140 homes are to be built on Hampshire County Cricket Club's former ground in Southampton after planners gave the development the green light. Despite numerous objections from local residents, the controversial scheme for 143 homes on the ex-county
THE LOVING owners of animals rescued by the RSPCA have told of their joy living with their new pets. Yesterday the Daily Echo reported the stories of Ginger the under-fed cat and Brush the chip-fat burned dog. Two-year-old Ginger - now called Horace -
ANDOVER carnival cannot be resurrected unless the community gives vital support, say organisers Andover Round Table. That was the stark message this week from table chairman Jim Toole who has apologised for its last-minute cancellation but stressed that
A SCHEME aimed at using rugby to keep youngsters on Andover's main housing estates out of trouble during the holidays is to be launched. In the 'Testway 7s' competition each of the seven major housing estates in Andover will have their own team and will
WHO would have guessed that stamps arriving on letters and packages could help the recipients on their way to being millionaires? It happens to Yvonne Morton, chairman of Andover Stamp Club. "When the questions on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? are asked
FIRST Grateley Brownies have raised more than £150 for Action Research with their Bring a Bear evening. The youngsters took the bears to the fun evening and enjoyed a selection of games to raise money for the charity. All 24 Brownies were sponsored to
WOODMAN Maxie Lane may be 85 but he's still capable of artistic endeavours. But even he was taken aback by a recent delivery to his Weyhill home. It was a huge elm table, a return gift from a multi-millionaire who bought the five feet wide piece some
A HEAD shave with a difference at Upper Clatford has raised more than £350 for Andover Hospice. When 21-year old Graham Marchment decided to lose his locks he opted for a style which has been dubbed the 'Beckham Cross' or a sideways Mohawk. Unlike the
A HISTORICAL event to mark the end of an era is being held next Saturday, 7 July, at John Hanson School. The field farewell party marks the final days of the field before it is handed over to Bryant Homes for housing development as part of the school's
AN elderly woman from Andover is pinning her hopes on an eagle eyed passer-by, who might have spotted an old, gold brooch which she lost at the weekend. The pensioner from Eastfield Road went out with friends on Sunday for lunch at the Jack Russell Inn
TWO Liberal Democrat councillors representing some of Andover's 'deprived' estates have called for Test Valley chief executive Alan Jones to produce an action plan. One suggestion is to run a regeneration project, similar to the one that was of such benefit
FORMER Brockenhurst boss Cliff Huxford is back in football. The ex-Southampton skipper is joining forces with returning boss John Pyatt at Hampshire League Premier Division outfit Lymington Town. Pyatt was assistant boss at the New Forest outfit during
DEREK Binns was yesterday unveiled as boss of Bashley Football Club - by the Foresters' new chairman David Malone. After weeks of speculation, Binns has quit Lymington & New Milton to achieve his goal of managing at Southern League level just a stone's
Lymington failed to win for a third successive game, drawing 1-1 at home to third-placed AFC Totton. AFC Totton old boy Stuart Hussey fired Lymington ahead against his former team-mates at Fawcett's Field, but there was little full-time joy for retiring
TWO weddings - one involving high jumper Jenny Reader - left Southampton City short of some key competitors for their Southern Women's League Division 2 match at Colchester. But despite being under strength to face three of the division's top teams, Pete
IWAN THOMAS swallowed his European Cup disappointment and pledged to return as a world 400 metres force in Bremen on Saturday. Southampton's European and Commonwealth champion was a shodow of his old self when trailing home seventh after a late call-up
A HAMPSHIRE school has taken the first steps to earning specialist status as a language centre. Brookfield School in Fareham is gearing up for its bid to receive the special status that it hopes will benefit its 1,500 pupils along with other schools and
SNOOPING Hampshire waste chiefs may rummage through residents' bins in an effort to stay Britain's top recyclers. However, angry residents have branded Eastleigh council officials as no better than stalkers for wanting to peek at their rubbish. The council
Saints are staging a special strip show a week tomorrow to launch their new away kit for next season. Several players, including new signing Anders Svensson, will model the new design on a special catwalk on the lower level of the WestQuay shopping centre
Fareham & Crofton cricketers were stung into action when a swarm of bees invaded their Hampshire League match against Amport and sent batsmen, fielders and umpires alike ducking and diving for cover. All seemed peaceful for 45 minutes or so as Martin
A 76-YEAR-old D-Day veteran who killed a pedestrian in the New Forest when his lorry jack-knifed because he forgot to attach air brakes to its trailer was yesterday ordered to do 240 hours of community service work and banned from driving for four years
STUBBINGTON Green Runners have undergone a minor name change after branching out into track and field athletics. From now on they will be known as Stubbington Green Runners & Athletic Club. The club's debut season in the Southern Men's League Division
Neil Pennock produced a career-best spell of 7-19 to set up Fareham & Crofton's Hampshire League County Division 1 victory over Calmore Sports - and then announced he was off on a bag-packing holiday to Australia for the next 12 months ! Ironically
LYNDHURST'S controversial traffic scheme has been given a warm welcome - now that it is up and running. The £800,000 Hampshire County Council project which involved narrowing the road to one lane while widening the pavements for pedestrians caused a wave
Hampshire soccer is mourning the death of Jimmy Searle, the former Fareham Town captain, who lost a brave and gallant battle against a debilitating illness. The former Fareham stalwart, diagnosed with motor neurone disease eight months ago, was 54. A
Homestores Select were impressive winners of the second round of The Reelcare Cup on Longbridge after a superb team performance saw them coast home 26lb clear of the opposition. The team of Ray Hayward, Graham Tappenden, Paul Sears and Mark Illingworth
The Marshall Rolfe Team Toyota Clubman Challenge fixture on Stoneham saw a runaway victory for Toyota skipper Gary Naylor. He recorded one of the best ever match weights on the Top Lake with a superb waggler catch of seven carp and eight tench for 58lb
AROUND 30 children escaped an inferno last night as the massive heath fires that have plagued the south coast made an unwelcome visit to Hampshire. The youngsters were blissfully unaware that a huge forest fire was raging just yards away from where they
FORMER Brockenhurst boss Cliff Huxford is back in football. The ex-Southampton skipper is joining forces with returning boss John Pyatt at Hampshire League Premier Division outfit Lymington Town. Pyatt was assistant boss at the New Forest outfit during
ALAN MULLALLY is ready to throw a huge spanner in the works for Hampshire against Derbyshire tomorrow. The big seamer returns from international duty with England into a Hampshire team that have done very nicely without him, thank you, providing Hampshire
A six-wicket haul by Phil Ransley, followed by a century opening partnership between Peter Tugwell and Paul Friedrich, swept Burridge to a six-wicket win over Locks Heath - and five points clear of Tichborne Park at the top of County Division 2. Ransley
AN ANGRY councillor is calling for an alcohol ban to be introduced on open spaces in the up-market Valley Park area of Chandler's Ford in a bid to combat unruly gangs of youngsters. The move follows a wrecking spree at the green lung between Taw Drive
ONE of the finest horses ever saddled by Hampshire trainer David Elsworth played her part in the last-stride victory of True Night at Salisbury yesterday. Dead Certain - winner of more than £200,000 as a two-year-old in 1989 - is the dam of True Night
NEXT season will be Ken Cunningham Brown's last at Andover, the Lions' treble-trophy winning boss announced this week. But in the meantime if anyone wants to take the club over then KCB said that he would be prepared 'to leave tomorrow if a satisfactory
TAG rugby players from Whitchurch School, who narrowly missed out on the top honours in this year's Hampshire county final, emerged triumphant by winning the Southern Region title at the Ford Tag Rugby Extravaganza at Newbury RFC last week. More than
SHAUN Justice and Jodie Scott, two of Andover's promising young guns, beat off the old guard to win the town club's respective men and women's club championships in glorious sunshine on Sunday. With temperatures soaring into the high twenties, the Winchester
Today's Principal Arrivings: CGM Pasteur, container, 0400, 204; Royal Princess, cruise ship, 0500, 106; OOCL Shanghai, container, 0600, 206; Autoline, vehicle carrier, 0645, 30; Tagus, ro/ro, 0730, 34/35; Le Castellet, vehicle carrier, 2300, 201 link;
IF you go to Spain and talk to their players about Wimbledon and grass court tennis, they will all reply that grass is good for one thing only, and that's for grazing cattle on. They absolutely hate the surface and some players refuse to come over to
If it was an exciting Saturday afternoon's sport you were looking for then Woolston Regatta had it all. Two boats overturning, and a further five sinking, kept everybody on their toes at the Woolston regatta. The safety boats, with the much appreciated
It's time to don your flower-power shirts and mini skirts on Saturday night (July 7) when 60s tribute band Hard Drive hold a summer dance to raise money for Solent Stars Basketball Club. If you like the Kinks, the Beatles, The Stones, Dusty Springfield
In his new role as Lib-Dem cabinet office spokesman, Winchester MP, Mark Oaten, will be up against pull-no-punches John Prescott--and he's relishing the challenge. He says he's delighted to have the chance to take on the deputy PM, now best known for
Teenager, Amalia King, is fighting to free a man on Death Row in America from the shadow of the electric chair. Following the execution, by lethal injection, of Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh, Amalia (17) a Peter Symonds' student, has appealed
Winchester City Council is cracking down on motorists who refuse to pay parking fines. Nearly £100,000 is outstanding and the council has instructed bailiffs to recover the debts from non-payers. "We are making a major effort to get the fines paid," said
Bosses from Winchester's Royal Hampshire County Hospital fly to the Far East this weekend to take-on desperately needed nurses. The hospital has been hard-hit by the nationwide shortage of trained staff. The McGill emergency medical admissions unit has
A cyclist is in hospital with serious spinal injuries after a "road rage" incident. Police are appealing for witnesses to the altercation, at the junction of Stanmore Lane and Minden Way, Winchester, at around 3.25pm on Friday. The argument erupted after
Newly-won funding has given Winchester's Bird-in-Hand Activity Centre a much-needed shot in the arm. Less than a year ago, the centre which provides employment training for people with mental health problems and for victims of domestic violence, faced
Taking a different approach to fund-raising is Winchester taxi-driver, Steve Humphries, who will be walking backwards around the city for a deserving cause. He is hoping to help charity cyclist, Wendy Smith (34), from Winnall, who, despite being diagnosed
Copies of the Hampshire Chronicle Index for 2000 are now available for viewing at Winchester Reference and Local Studies Library. Compiled by staff of Winchester Reference Library since 1994, it forms an invaluable archive of the events and people who
The red hot favourite in the race to be leader of the Tory party, Michael Portillo, is to woo local Conservatives at a meeting on Saturday. Mr Portillo, who was the first of five eventual contenders to throw his hat into the ring for the leadership race
A MOTORIST had a lucky escape yesterday and walked away from this overturned pick-up truck unscathed. The man had a trailer and a two-tonne container on the back of his Ford pick-up truck when he lost control, sending the truck onto its side and catapulting
TWO 'self help' groups for people experiencing a mental health problem are about to start in Andover. One is the replacement for the Hearing Voices, now the Thought Disorder Group and the other is the re-launch of the Women's Group. The Community Mental
ORGANISERS of Chilbolton church fete put together a varied and interesting arena of entertainment at Northwood House on Saturday. The Wherwell Irish Folk Group, Colcannon, was followed by the equally musical but slightly different sound of The Loft Singers
CROWDS gathered at Whitchurch Fire Stat-ion's open day on Saturday and had the chance to see first hand what firefighting in-volves. In the glorious sunshine, visitors watched how crews tackle chip pan fires during a display with the kitchen fire safety
REMEMBER Frankie Goes To Hollywood? Nasher, the guitarist with the controversial Eighties supergroup, is back on the music scene with his own band and an album, Ripe, and will be playing at Talking Heads, Southampton tomorrow. Nasher is on stage at 10pm
HRH The Princess Royal spent the day with the military in Wiltshire on Tuesday. During the morning she was out on the Imber Ranges with the Tidworth based Kings Royal Hussars and their Challenger 2 tanks. The Princess, who is Colonel in Chief of the regiment
Lymington's Ben Craft and Charles Forward, the hard-hitting Old Tauntonians & Romsey left-hander, made hay in the sunshine, cracking big centuries in the respective Southern Electric Premier League Division 2 victories. Craft flayed the Hambledon
Frost is still thick on the ground but New Forest cricket club Pylewell Park is racing away with plans for the summer season. Members of the club near Lymington are working on a £16,000 scheme to get more local youngsters into the game. They have bought
Suzanne Woods ended Winchester & District AC's Hampshire Road Race League campaign on a high by winning the Brading 10K on the Isle of Wight. It was a timely day to notch her first ever league win and her time of 38 minutes 40 seconds over a hilly
ADRIAN Chalk is living proof of the treasure trove of talent that is unearthed annually at the BAA Southampton Airport Hampshire Youth Games. Almost a complete unknown on the county athletics scene when he made his Games debut 12 months ago, the 14-year-old
How desperate 999 call left ambulance helper in limbo IT was a fairly normal Wednesday shift for the ambulance technician who was manning an Eastleigh ambulance on his own because his work colleague was sick. But then a 999 call came in which left him
Fareham Ladies have completed an amazing season by winning Hampshire Division 3 in true style. The league winner was decided on the final match with Fareham meeting the league leaders, needing to win to come out as league champions. With the bare eleven
