GRAHAM RIX has warned his side need to bounce back immediately from their biggest defeat of the season in tonight's Fratton Park clash against Nottingham Forest. After seeing Portsmouth concede three goals for the first time in Sunday's evening encounter
MATT Jones's magical scoring touch did the trick for Bashley as they lifted themselves off the foot of the Dr Martens League Eastern Division. The former Havant & Waterlooville and Eastleigh midfielder netted his fourth goal in as many games to spark
A LATE goalkeeping blunder consigned Blackfield & Langley to a 3-2 first-leg defeat at Andover last night in the Jewson Wessex League Cup second round. Having twice fought back from behind through Pat James and a spectacular, 35-yard Nathan Renyard
FRIENDS of a Hampshire man who was paralysed from the chest down in a fall proved their support once again by raising more than £500 at a fundraising golf day. Players at Ampfield Golf Club, where Paul Smart used to be a member, are his latest bunch of
TOP young motocross prospect Tommy Wright is entering the most critical phase of his short career. The multi national schoolboy champion from Bitterne has had the worst season by his own towering standards. He broke a wrist in a racing accident earlier
RHYTHMIC South returned with a medal of every hue from the National Grades Finals at Burton-on-Trent. The rhythmic gymnastics competition attracted a record entry of girls from all over the country, including Scotland and Northern Ireland. Top performer
Southampton Diving Academy members helped the south coast Division 12 team to third place in the finals of the English Schools Championships at Tonbridge Wells. Seven of the eight-strong team train at the Quays and had all qualified at the preliminary
A HAMPSHIRE widow is suing a hospital trust and two GPs over her husband's death. Margaret Nesbit has accused two doctors at Nightingale Surgery in Romsey and Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust of negligence in their treatment of her husband,
Lord of the Flies, Salisbury Playhouse, Pilot Theatre Company HAPPILY, although Lord of the Flies is about a group of schoolboys who crash-land on a desert island, this production was performed by adults rather than precocious escapees from drama school
NEIGHBOURS of a heat and power plant intended for the Crescent Industrial Estate in Nursling should still get a good night's sleep if it gets built, a planning inspector heard. The huge electrical generator will create only background noise, which would
ONE of the Labour party's leading councillors has been snubbed by his own party. After 12 years representing the inner-city ward of St Lukes, Councillor Paul Jenks has failed to be selected for next May's local elections. Boundary changes mean St Lukes
That was the tale of Winchester's 3-1 win over London Edwardians - a scoreline which keeps the city club in contention in the Hants/Surrey Regional League promotion frame. A 15th minute strike by the effective Justin Brooking, and debut first team goals
PLAUDITS from Hear'Say and BBC producers haven't gone to the heads of the Southampton band The Tenterhooks, after a support set at the live Children In Need concert in Southsea. It was the response from their own hard core base of fans which really warmed
Southampton Running Club's Rod Finch ran his second fastest 10K ever to help Great Britain to tenth place in the Chiba Ekiden Relay in Japan. Despite a lack of sleep adapting to the change of time zone, the Army man completed the opening leg in a wide-awake
WINCHESTER & District AC's men have stamped their name firmly in the frame for team honours in the Hampshire Road Race League. The in-form cathedral city club chalked up their second team win in the first three league outings at the Hayling 10 on
HAMPSHIRE'S 18th sortie into the annual cross-country international in Coutances, France brought success right across the board for their female contingent. Finding athletes was difficult due to a clash with other races being held on French soil, but
CABBIES are calling for security camera surveillance to be stepped up after an Eastleigh taxi driver was threatened with a carving knife. The terrifying incident happened while 39 year-old taxi driver Trevor Smirk was parked at the town centre rank and
HOPES of the pioneering Leukaemia Busters setting up a new headquarters on the edge of Eastleigh have been crushed. Last night borough councillors went along with a recommendation from planning officers and kicked out proposals for a technological and
CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a 30ft mobile phone mast just inches from a busy Totton road have been branded a threat to road safety. BT Cellnet has drawn up proposals to site the mast on a grass verge beside Ringwood Road, just east of the Crabbs Way
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SHOPPERS were urged to keep those gifts under wraps and not make it a special Christmas for the light-fingered fraternity. The Bobby Lobby Saturday session at Asda's Chandler's Ford supermarket switched into festive gear to drive home the message that
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Today's Principal Arrivings: Scandanavian Reefer, refrigerat, 0600, 101W; Autofreighter, ro-ro, 0630, 203; Bass, container, 1000, 204E; Hyundai Freedom, container, 1000, 206; Le Castellet, ro-ro, 1300, 201; Bremen Express, container, 1400, 205; Atlanticar
Chandler's Ford kart racer Chris Derrick retained the Two Counties Kart Club Formula Blue 2001 Championship. He fought off an ex-national champion for the title by a combination of sheer speed and consistently good results. The Two Counties Kart Club
HANTS and Berks Motor Club were toasting member Martin Davies after the 52nd Eight Clubs Race Meeting at Midlands venue Silverstone. Davies won the Scratch Race for faster cars in his Ford Sierra Cosworth. It was tight with Davies having less than a second
CITY OF SOUTHAMPTON'S Emma Wicks shone brightly at the Haslemere Open Meet with a hat-trick of gold medals. The teenager, competing in the 13-year age group, also collected three silver and two bronze medals from her eight swims to be named top 13-year
TEENAGER Steve Turner overcame a family tragedy to reach the finals of the National Youth Championships. The Lymington-based youngster was close to pulling out of the Bristol semi-finals after his grandfather died the week before, with the funeral held
ABOUT 15 2CV drivers pulled up in their little Citroens outside Jeff Colmer's Romsey workshop to mark its opening after a major refit. When Jeff, 50, set up his 2CV repairs business there six years ago his workshop was nothing more than a chicken shed
A SMOKE detector that alerted residents to a blaze at a block of flats in Fair Oak early today was being hailed as a possible lifesaver. The detector roused residents after fire broke out in an electrical cupboard in a communal stairwell on the first
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SOUTHAMPTON City Council has thrown its weight behind plans for a new dock which it hopes will take the port to new frontiers and levels of prosperity. The council lost no time in telling a tense audience of around 350 people at the Applemore Recreation
A NEW radio station aimed at Southampton's Asian community is banking on success after receiving a cash boost. Radio Art Asia, on 87.7FM, hit the airwaves last week and will broadcast for the next month. Bosses from Barclays Bank in The Avenue, handed
Wayne Shepheard hit a hat-trick as Trojans swept to the top of Hampshire League Division 1 with a 5-2 win at Aldershot & Farnham. The fourth successive victory took Trojans a point clear of Fleet, who surrendered their leadership after being held
Trojans teenager Alex Danson has been short-listed for the inaugural BBC Television Young Sports Person of the Year award. Danson, 16, who made her full England debut against Germany in Cologne last month, was among 600 athletes nominated by viewers of
Who will be the second winner of The Echo's Player of the Month award, sponsored by Cricket-Hockey.co.uk (pictured is John Williams from the Fordingbridge-based equipment specialists? Winchester teenager Charlie Swann was the October winner. But who was
THE NEWEST live music venue, Greene Cellars in West Marlands Road, has a couple of classy bands on offer this week. Funky four-piece Big Boss Man take the stage on Thursday with a hip hybrid of Sixties-style pop and soul, with stylish R&B band Hershey
TWO Hampshire police officers were hailed heroes today after rescuing a pensioner from her burning New Forest bungalow. Sgt Bernadette Smith and PC Philip Deeprose rushed to the property at Everton near Lymington after 88-year-old Mary Hammond activated
A FOREST of Christmas trees is to take over a Victorian church in Lymington next week. The United Reformed Church in the High Street is hosting its second annual tree festival, and up to 40 decorated firs will turn the nave into a blaze of colour from
FOXHUNTERS in the New Forest are asking the government to stop dragging its heels and give them the go-ahead to begin hunting again. Foot-and-mouth disease restrictions have stopped hunting in the Forest since February, but New Forest Foxhounds say there
FAREHAM civic chiefs are facing a difficult choice over balancing the books. People will blame them whether they raise council tax bills or cut services. Council leader Sean Woodward is pinning his hopes on the government to bail the council out of a
LONG-RUNNING plans for a new rail link to the south of Eastleigh will change the face of train travel in Hampshire. Backers of the scheme to open the line - dubbed the Eastleigh Chord - say it will free more services for daytrippers and commuters and
A CONTROVERSIAL housing development scheme planned for Allbrook was last night shown the red card by Eastleigh councillors. They kicked out a recommendation by planning officers to grant planning permission for nine homes to built in two flat-roofed terraced
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IT was penalty heartache for Saints last night as Gordon Strachan's side cruelly crashed out of the Worthington Cup. Southampton twice battled back to draw level at Bolton, only to bow out in the shoot-out 6-5 after Chris Marsden saw his effort saved
THERE was hurt and heart in equal measure for Saints as they crashed out of the Worthington League Cup on penalties. It was another hugely encouraging display in terms of chances and character as they twice came from behind to force a sudden-death shoot-out
