AFC Totton have parted company with three of the players brought in this season to heighten their chances of Wessex honours. Experienced former Southern League trio Nigel Mottashed, Paul Masters and David Goss have been told they can go in the wake of
A FRESH appeal for help has been launched by the parents of missing Hamble teenager Daniel Nolan. Massive searches of the River Hamble and waterfront areas have failed to trace the 14-year-old who disappeared after a late-night fishing trip with pals
A RETIRED Hampshire air traffic controller says he plans to take a Mediterranean cruise after scooping £2,400 in the Daily Echo's Find the Ball competition. Geoffrey Holloway, 79, of Oakhurst Close, St Mary's Road, Netley Abbey has been playing the competition
CYBER hackers have forced a Basingstoke internet company to close down - costing six people their jobs. The award-winning internet service provider, Cloud-Nine Communications, based at Wade Road in Daneshill, is the victim of "internet terrorists", according
THE head of the Portuguese orphanage where a Basingstoke mother's abandoned baby is being cared for has expressed "amazement" that no-one from the family has contacted them. Luis Villas-Boas, director of the Refugio Aboim Ascensao home in Faro where three-month-old
A British America's Cup team will enter a regatta for the first time in an America's Cup venue since 1987, when Peter Harrison's GBR Challenge takes part in the forthcoming International America's Cup Regatta. GBR Challenge will enter its two 2000 generation
THE newly-titled British Tennis Tour kicked off in Southampton this week at the Hampshire Tennis & Health Club, West End. Girobank have ended their sponsorship of the tour, which has operated for several years. Now the event, aimed at giving competitive
A DISGRACED Basingstoke football team has vowed to quit the league after being thrown out of a cup competition. Winklebury-based Three Barrels were told on Saturday that they were being dismissed from the Hampshire Junior A Cup following an incident during
Havant can ensure that the London 1 promotion contest is reduced to just themselves and county rivals Basingstoke, should they deliver a win at third-placed Staines. But that will rely upon the Down Grangers seeing off a wayward London Nigerians, who
Individual and team titles of the Wessex Cyclo-cross League will be decided on the playing fields of Oxford School in Cowley, Oxford within the next two weeks, and if everything goes to plan for Stuart Bowers (Hargroves Cycles Trant RT) he should return
Grand Jacques, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, 28 - 30 January The Nuffield Theatre is coming over all continental next week with a two-night tribute to the music and life of one of France's most celebrated singer-songwriters, Jacques Brel. The show will
Grand Jacques, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, 28 - 30 January The Nuffield Theatre is coming over all continental next week with a two-night tribute to the music and life of one of France's most celebrated singer-songwriters, Jacques Brel. The show will
IT has been a case of mixed fortunes for south coast sailors as the Volvo Ocean Race reached half distance in Auckland Hamble-based Neal McDonald was the hero, leading his Assa Abloy VO 60 to victory in the third leg of what is widely recognised as the
THE fourth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race starts from Auckland on Sunday with another gruelling passage across the Southern Ocean set to present the sternest test for the eight boats and their crews. Final crew lists show a host of changes from leg three
HERE'S a novel concept - a thriller with no thrills and only a modicum of common sense. The Glass House is bargain basement hokum, fuelled by outrageous twists and a splatter of far-fetched violence. David and Grace Baker (O'Keefe, Wilson) are killed
Films showing in the Hampshire region this week BEHIND ENEMY LINES (12) *:- A hot-shot naval aviator is shot down by rebel Serbs - Odeon Cinema, Southampton. BLACK HAWK DOWN (15) **: A Hawk helicopter is shot down and chaos soon turns into a 15-hour firefight
Portsmouth boss Graham Rix takes his struggling side into tomorrow's crucial clash with Wimbledon without a proven goalscorer. Top marksman Peter Crouch picked up a fifth booking of the season in the Bradford defeat and is suspended with Mark Burchill
Former Southampton Saints boss Vanessa Raynbird has swapped the red and white stripes for the blue of south coast rivals Portsmouth. The woman who led Saints' march into the national elite of the FA Women's Premier League has been appointed director of
Hampshire CCC have added another physiotherapist to their staff - Australian Patrick Farhart. Physio and fitness trainer Farhart, 37, has been employed by the Australian Cricket Board for the last four years and was in England last summer with Australia's
BULLIES are using threatening and abusive text messages to target pupils outside school hours. Several students at Richard Aldworth School in Basingstoke have complained to parents that they have received abusive text messages from unknown senders. Headteacher
A MENTALLY-ILL patient was this week put in a police cell - the second woman to fall victim to a shortage of secure beds at a Basingstoke hospital. Officers were called to Parklands on Wednesday afternoon after the patient, a middle-aged woman who has
THICK fog and a flat calm caused abandonment of the f irst week's racing, but thankfully the race management team was able to get right back on schedule running two races on Sunday January 13th The conditions were certainly tricky, with a southerly breeze
WHILE Ellen MacArthur has her sights set on challenging the record for the Jules Verne Trophy next year, a member of her Offshore Challenges Team has already been named as watchleader aboard the French 110 foot catamaran Orange, which is due to set off
Today's Principal Arrivings: Katharina B, container, 0300, Con Term; MOL Rhine, container, 0700, 207; Atlanticar, ro/ro, 0700, 30; Argus, military, 1100, 101; CMA CGM Debussy, container, AM, 206; Nordsee, container, PM, Con Term. Today's Principal Sailings
AFC Totton have parted company with three of the players brought in this season to heighten their chances of Wessex honours. Experienced former Southern League trio Nigel Mottashed, Paul Masters and David Goss have been told they can go in the wake of
Heliting International Properties is building on business as well as offices thanks to a finance deal with Lloyds TSB in Southampton. The Bournemouth-based property developer has grown dramatically, developing a portfolio with a current value of almost
DETECTIVES have raided a house in Southampton as part of a crackdown on drug-related violent crime. Six people were today in custody after being arrested on suspicion of drug-related offences. The five men and one woman were being quizzed at Southampton
CANCER sufferers will be able to get faster access to the latest treatments in Hampshire as part of a multi-million-pound initiative. The government unveiled plans today to build an £11m network of cancer research groups across the UK, including one in
CHARGES totalling £800 a time have been waived by Southampton council - to ensure the city gets in the party mood for the Queen's golden jubilee. As yet there have been only four inquiries about making road closures for street celebrations in the city
Gordon Haskell, The Brook January 26 and Salisbury Arts Centre January 31 CHRISTMAS number two artiste Gordon Haskell remains close to his roots with gigs in Hampshire and Wiltshire this month. After playing in bands Les Fleurs de Lys and King Crimson
FEARS over the future of the Volvo Ocean Race surfaced in Auckland last week after it was revealed that the organisers had called in consultants to review its format following a stream of criticisms. Kiwi skipper Grant Dalton, competing in his sixth race
FORMER Sports Minister Kate Hoey today reiterated her calls for the introduction of safe standing areas, by declaring: "If they can do it in Germany, we can do it here." Hoey, 55, asked the Football Licensing Authority to study new stadium designs in
