AN ARMED masked robber threatened to shoot a 48- year-old woman cashier in a terrifying raid on a filling station at West End. As exclusively reported in last night's Daily Echo, the armed raider held up the cashier at gunpoint before escaping with £140
BASINGSTOKE's world-beating cancer surgeon Professor Bill Heald and his wife Bounce have spoken of their joy after it was anounced that their daughter Lucy and her tennis ace husband Tim Henman are to have a baby. Professor Heald said: "I'm absolutely
PROPOSALS to upgrade the sporting facilities at Down Grange have been met with a mixed reaction by residents. The major proposed improvements include giving Basingstoke and Mid Hants Athletics Club an extra two lanes to make an eight-lane track, a 250
HARDCORE school skivers and lax parents had better watch out from Monday as Basingstoke police set out to teach them a lesson. Teams of police and education welfare officers will be sweeping the town as part of a week-long operation carried out across
Today's Principal Arrivings: Estime, general, 0100, 47S; Hual Trinity, ro/ro, 0630, 43; Hudson Leader, ro/ro, 0630, 34/35; Jampi, general, 0730, 107; MOL Integrity, container, 0800, 207; Hercules Highway, ro/ro, 1000, 105; Autoprogress, ro/ro, AM, 201
UNDERDOGS Saxons lifted the Basingstoke B Cup after an extra time victory against favourites Headley at the Camrose Ground on Saturday evening. Three goals in a devastating seven-minute extra-time spell left Headley shaken and beaten. They had gone in
WHITCHURCH are still looking for an elusive three points to make them safe in the Jewson Wessex League. Tomorrow Cowes are the visitors to Longmeadow, followed on Tuesday by Bemerton. Whitchurch have a major worry over goalkeeper Carl Clayton, who came
ANDY Bonner broke a world senior record for the first time as he earned the chance to defend his world powerlifting title at the weekend. The 45-year-old Basingstoke Powerlifting Club member successfully defended his under-90kg senior and masters titles
BASINGSTOKE Town will once again have a chance to influence the league championship title race, when second-placed Canvey Island visit the Camrose tomorrow. The Essex outfit are currently two points behind Gravesend and Northfleet, who leap-frogged Canvey
ONE of the New Forest's biggest summer festivals is again smarting after being refused district council cash. The Waterside Arts Festival, which provides a fortnight of art, craft, music and drama in the Hythe, Fawley and Marchwood areas, applied to the
ROMSEY MP Sandra Gidley accused the government of failing to adequately support a deaf and disabled British charity worker jailed in India on drugs charges. Mrs Gidley was speaking yesterday at an adjournment debate called because of her strong belief
SALUTI. Gales brewery's managing director Nigel Atkinson raises a glass of Hampshire-brewed HSB to the Italians. Hampshire's George Gale and Co has just made history by becoming the first British brewery to introduce real ale to the Italian palate - and
UP TO a third of Hampshire's sub post offices may close under a huge cost-cutting scheme. Between 40 and 50 of the 146 branches scattered across Southampton, Eastleigh, Winchester, Alresford, Lymington and North Baddesley may be forced to close. In the
A long lost Southampton landmark that was a feature of everyday life in the city for decades has been re-discovered. The Daily Echo clock, a familiar sight for so many local people, has been tracked down after being missing for years following the demolition
A long lost Southampton landmark that was a feature of everyday life in the city for decades has been re-discovered. The Daily Echo clock, a familiar sight for so many local people, has been tracked down after being missing for years following the demolition
A MASKED robber held up a terrified cashier at gunpoint before escaping with cash from a filling station at West End. The armed raider - who brandished a revolver-type gun - burst into the Texaco Star service station in Townhill Park Way early yesterday
UP TO a third of Hampshire's sub post offices may close under a huge cost-cutting scheme. Between 40 and 50 of the 146 branches scattered across Southampton, Eastleigh, Winchester, Alresford, Lymington and North Baddesley may be forced to close. In the
MAGISTRATE Julie Hind missed out last year on fulfiling her ambition of running a marathon before her 40th birthday because of a knee injury. Now the mum-of-three is determined to make up for lost time and complete the London Marathon on Sunday. Every
UP TO a third of Hampshire's sub post offices may close under a huge cost-cutting scheme. Between 40 and 50 of the 146 branches scattered across Southampton, Eastleigh, Winchester, Alresford, Lymington and North Baddesley may be forced to close. In the
HAMBLE skipper Neal McDonald will have his sights set on overall victory in the Volvo Ocean Race when Assa Abloy starts the fifth leg from Miami to Baltimore on Sunday in second place. An exhausted McDonald and his weary crew arrived in Miami last month
Maiden II crossed the start line in Cadiz, heading for San Salvador. The 110ft maxi-catamaran encountered 25 knots of wind from 310 degrees, gusting up to 35/40 knots. A nasty cross sea of 3 metres slowed progress, yet the mixed crew has managed to average
Lymington Town Sailing Club is holding an open day on Saturday April 27 when anybody can come along, meet the members, see the boats they sail and the facilities the club offers and get a special membership offer. Said spokesman Iain Sutherland: "Some
FINE weather and frisky winds brought thrilling racing to the third round of the Barclays Marine Finance Warsash Spring Series last Sunday leading to overboardings, groundings, a broken rudder and an entanglement with a lobster pot line. Winds of 25-30
THE finish of the third race of the Royal Southampton Yacht Club's Spring Series on Sunday saw three boats X-Parrot, Big Boys Toys and Shakatak all with perfect scores of three wins each. In an easterly breeze of around 18 knots with gusts up to 32 knots
Portsmouth fans may never see Robert Prosinecki again after the Croatian superstar picked up a hamstring injury which could rule him out of his Fratton Park swansong. Prosinecki looks set to invoke a get-out clause in his Pompey contract to move to Japanese
A MULTI-million-pound building programme is set to in-crease staff and student numbers at a Hamble secondary school. Hamble Community School in Satchell Lane unveiled a new eight-classroom block as part of a £4.5m building scheme which will also see the
THERE was very little silence among the lambs this week as lambing season got underway. Northington Farm in Overton was alive with the sound of bleating twins and triplets whose cries gave farmer James Crosbie-Dawson some much-needed cheer after all the
ACCIDENT blackspots throughout the county will be monitored by new speed cameras in a bid to cut the number of deaths on the roads. Fixed and mobile cameras will soon be catching law-breakers in the 25 or 30 worst areas in Hampshire for speeding - but
A FATHER-OF-TWO accused of trying to rape two teenage girls is the innocent victim of coincidence, a jury has been told. Michael Traynor, 24, is alleged to have followed the 16-year-old girls as they walked home from Bud's Bar and to have attacked them
FIREFIGHTERS are joining forces with Basingstoke council to target abandoned cars in a new campaign to cut down on a toll of arson which has already cost the fire service nearly £30,000 this year. Basingstoke fire officers are reporting all abandoned
POLICE patrols have been stepped up in the South Ham area of Basingstoke following the brutal attack on a young couple last weekend. Basingstoke's top officer, Superintendent Alison Queen, has said the estate has been a lot quieter since the police presence
A PROTEST petition has been started after a heated public meeting heard how yobs are blighting a Basingstoke neighbourhood. Residents expressed anger towards the police and Kingfisher Housing Association representatives over what they see as a lack of
THE Princess Royal arrived in Cowes this morning for the naming ceremony of Wight Lightning, the latest British challenger for the America's Cup. She was met by the founder and chairman of the GBR Challenge team Peter Harrison. The name of the British
In conjunction with UKSA, RYA Sailability has launched a new sail training initiative. 20 young people are attending a three day pilot course for 13 to 18 year olds who have a disability but are sufficiently independent to attend a residential course
ALL EYES tomorrow will be on the results in south west division one to see which team will be coming to Down Grange for the national league promotion play-off. Basingstoke earned the right to stage the match against the second finishers in south west
A FIRE victim has hit out at New Forest planners after winning a five-year battle to replace a cottage destroyed in a blaze. New Forest District Council finally approved proposals to build a new house at the 400-year-old Langford Farm in Paradise Lane
BRITAIN'S only living survivor of the sinking of Titanic has opened an exhibition marking the 90th anniversary of the tragedy. Milvina Dean was only nine weeks old when the massive liner hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on April 15 1912, and sank,
TIPSY the black Labrador has been living up to his name - he got his head stuck in a feeding flap attached to his kennel. The mischievous dog was rescued by firefighters after staff at Southampton council's Warren Avenue Kennels in Shirley Warren found
A long lost Southampton landmark that was a feature of everyday life in the city for decades has been re-discovered. The Daily Echo clock, a familiar sight for so many local people, has been tracked down after being missing for years following the demolition
A FORMER Eastleigh basketball star will be running through the streets of London to help a cause close to his heart. Ex-Solent Stars' Andy Lynas is tackling the London Marathon to raise funds for the Hampshire Riding Therapy Centre, which from its Fisher's
PAST and present Eastleigh College staff are set to wander down memory lane. They are holding a reunion to mark the college's 40th anniversary on Friday April 26. It will be a chance for all those who have been or are still involved in the college to
The end of the first 24hr period sees us thundering along at 25-30kts on what has been as eventful start for the mighty blue boat to re-establish the record she broke 2 years ago. The crew consists of 16 people from 7 nationalities from extensive and
BRITAIN'S only living survivor of the sinking of Titanic has opened an exhibition marking the 90th anniversary of the tragedy. Milvina Dean was only nine weeks old when the massive liner hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on April 15 1912, and sank,
