THE introduction of the Hampshire Academy team into the league's second division is sure to add spice to a potential intriguing tussle for honours. County Second XI coach Tony Middleton plans to field three or four young professionals alongside his fledgling
PERHAPS the most intriguing of the foreign imports is Moeen Cheema, who will be the first American to ever play in Hampshire recreational cricket when he dons the colours of Burridge in Saturday's opener against Bashley (Rydal). A law graduate from Harvard
PAUL ARNOLD has quit as manager of Brockenhurst and is being hotly tipped to land the vacant post at Jewson Wessex League rivals Wimborne Town. Under Arnold, Brock finished the season with 12 out of 14 wins to wind up sixth but, after meeting the Brock
IF Sussex pace bowler Billy Taylor turns out regularly - he is primarily a one-day limited-overs player at Hove at the moment - Winchester will take some beating. Paul Marks and ultra-talented sportsman Jimmy Taylor are proven run-getters, while the arrival
SOUTHAMPTON Saints' women team have surprisingly parted company with head manager and coach John Donoghue. Women's team chief executive Paul Blanchard pointed to the team's disappointing eighth place finish in the FA Women's Premier League as a reason
WORK on replacing troublesome special-effect stones on Hamble foreshore's southern quay is due to last no longer than eight weeks, weather permitting, the parish council has been told. Councillors agreed to have the stones re-laid because they kept coming
A MAN who was missing from a Bursledon care home for more than 15 hours was found safe and well in Cosham. Police appealed for help from the public to trace John Eastel, 59, who had been missing from Bonhomie House, Dodwell Lane, Bursledon. Mr Eastel,
The Titanic, build by Harland and Wolff, has the same dimensions as the Olympic, which was also in collision last autumn, the other vessel being the cruiser Hawke, her length being 832ft, and her breadth 92ft. Her gross tonnage is, however, 43,682 or
Yesterday, after a most agonising suspence of four days, details of the loss of the great liner Titanic were received. The Carpathia, with 705 survivors, arrived at New York in the early hours of the morning. It now appears that there were 1400 passengeres
In Southampton people to the last moment clung to the hope that better news of the Titanic would be received, but on Tuesday afternoon the whole town was overcome with gloom. Flags were at half-mast on the public buildings and in the docks, and a meeting
The civilised world is suffering from the shock of a huge calamity, the sorrow attending which is brought home with particular force to our own town of Southampton. The loss of the White Star liner Titanic is a disaster of a magnitude which is unparalled
SOME OF THE LOST... Among those not accounted for are Mr. W. T. Stead, the famous journalist; Colonel J. J. Astor, the millionaire, whose young bride is saved; Captain E. J. Smith , R.N.R., the commander; Major A. W. Butt, President Taft's aide-de-camp
The Lord Mayor has opened a Mansion House fund for the relief of the sufferers from the disaster, which is being liberally contributed to. Among the earliest contributions received were sums of 500 guineas from King George and 250 guineas from Queen Mary
How strangely imagination may anticipate history has seldom been more remarkably shown than in the disaster to the Titanic. It was foretold in many of its details in a curious little novel by Mr. Morgan Robertson, entitled "Futility," published in the
The tragic fate of the Titanic naturally recalls other great disasters within memory. In the past twenty years the principal wrecks have been as follows:- H.M.S. Victoria, sunka fter collision with H.M.S. Camperdown, June 22nd, 1893 ... 359 Elbe, sunk
Ye mourners, be strong, be strong! Sing them a lullaby-song! They gave-thy men so brave- Themselves in a glorious trying, now richa nd poor are lying, Engulphed in a common gave. For them no sombre trappings-each in his hero wrappings- The cloak that
LOCAL interest in the awful Titanic disaster is for the moment transferred to the sister of that ill-fated ship, the Olympic. That great liner, which reached Southampton only on Saturday night last, was due to leave for New York on Wednesday at noon,
ONE OF Dibden Bay port's major supporters has admitted that the planned container terminal on Southampton Water could damage its bird life. Southampton City Council has established itself as the one firm ally of docks owner Associated British Ports' plans
Today's Principal Arrivings: Grace, refrigerat, 0630, 104; Aries, ro/ro, 0730, 202; Goodwood, vehicle carrier, 1230, 203; OOCL Los Angeles, container, 1300, Con Term; Autoline, ro/ro, 1300, 201 link; Triumph Ace, ro/ro, 1800, 201; Cap Polonio, container
AFC TOTTON finished third, two points behind the champions, after a Mark Osman inspired 4-1 win at off-colour Thatcham Town. Osman scored one and laid on the other three goals for Totton, whose victory was soured by a bizarre red card shown to Stuart
A regatta for Olympic classes is running in France this week and in the early stages Cowes-based Olympic gold medallist Shirley Robertson was dominating the newly introduced Yngling division. Sailing with Inga Leask and Sarah Ayton, this is Shirley's
ONE of Britain's big housebuilders has been fined £5,000 for building a sea wall on the shores of Southampton Water. Wilcon Homes, which is redeveloping the former Dreamland electric blanket factor at Hythe with 175 new homes, pleaded guilty to depositing
BRITISH American Tobacco, which has one of its major manufacturing plants in Southampton, is battling against a fall in sales. The company yesterday said the tough global economy was having an effect on sales, but that first quarter profits were still
A DISABLED youngster will be going on a dream holiday thanks to the generosity of a group of fundraising pensioners. Elderly residents from Weston Court care home, Weston, in Southampton, have been raising cash to send 11-year-old Matthew Bonney on holiday
SUSSEX band Easyworld bring their tour to The Joiners, Southampton on Monday May 6. The band plan to release their debut album in May. "Some bands we've toured with have worked and worked towards the release of their first album. "Then the album bombs
SUSSEX band Easyworld bring their tour to The Joiners, Southampton on Monday. The band plan to release their debut album in May. "Some bands we've toured with have worked and worked towards the release of their first album. "Then the album bombs and they're
HISTORY was made in Cowes on the Isle of Wight yesterday when the Princess Royal named Britain's challenger for the prestigious America's Cup trophy. However, a minor hiccup occurred in the ceremony when a bottle of Moet et Chandon champagne failed to
With work on the British America's Cup boat well underway in Cowes, syndicate head Peter Harrison has announced he is to build a second hull for completion next year. The decision was taken to make sure the British team is well prepared for the next America's
It was a historic day for British sailing on April 12th in Cowes when HRH The Princess Royal named "Wight Lightning", the first ever modern America's Cup boat to be designed and built in Great Britain. It was also a proud moment for Hamble Olympic medallist
THE British America's Cup team raised the stakes for the 2003 America's Cup in Auckland last Friday by unveiling a boat that looks set to cause an upset. For the first time in 16 years, Britain will be challenging for the oldest sporting trophy and, after
The GBR Challenge for the America's Cup more than fulfilled its modest ambitions for the America's Cup Jubilee when both of its entries advanced from the fleet racing portion of the event into a four-boat match racing series. But it took the International
The British Challenge rebounded from a poor showing on Thursday to beat Team New Zealand and advance to the finals of the America's Cup Class match racing series for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. The British team will meet the Prada Challenge, who easily
HAMPSHIRE coach Jimmy Cook (pictured) believes his side can follow up their last Benson and Hedges win against Surrey by taking two more points from The Oval. Two years ago, heavy rain reduced a group match at Surrey to ten overs a side at the beginning
FIVE South Africans, two Australians and an American form an intriguing overseas contingent who will be taking their bow in the opening round of 50-over games for 2002 on Saturday. Andover, Calmore Sports, Liphook & Ripsley, Portsmouth and South Wilts
HAVANT & Waterlooville's stalwart defender Ben Price will miss out on the showpiece finale to his testimonial season at the Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium tonight (7.45). The former Portsmouth youth team captain, who has spent a decade at Westleigh
SCAMMING car thieves stole a blue four-litre BMW sports car worth £28,000 after taking it out for a test drive. The owner of the one-year-old BMW 540 from High Street, Burlesdon, was selling the car and arranged with a man who responded to an advert and
Quietly and unostentatiously, without any blare of trumpets, the Titanic, the world's latest and biggest ship, steamed up the silent waters of the Solent and docked at Southampton at midnight on Wednesday, taking the same berth in the new wet dock that
A terrible disaster, unparalleled in the records of the sea, has overtaken the world's greatest ship, the White Star liner Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday in last week on her maiden voyage to New York. Shortly after ten o'clock on
Throughout the whole of Tuesay London lived in an atmosphere of suspense waiting for the wireless messages which came through the air with their words of comfort or desolation, or, almost worst still, bringing neither the one nor the other, but leaving
A Standard New York cablegram, dated New York, Tuesday, says:- "The most appalling disaster in Mercantile Marine history has resulted, so far as can at present be ascertained, in the death of 1,252 souls and the rescue of 868. All the latter are on board
The whole civilised world has been thrown into grief by the unparalleled disaster to the Titanic, and already this universal feeling has been expressed in a very striking way. The following message was received last night by the White Star Company:-"The
The first intimation in Winchester of the sad news of the wreck of the liner Titanic was received at the office of the Hampshire Chronicle at 10.44 a.m. on Monday morning, the following being a copy of the Central News telegram posted in our window shortly
To the Editor of the Hampshire Chronicle... SIR,-The Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral had set apart next Sunday for collections for the Church Missionary Society, but having regard to the appalling disaster which has occurred, and the fact that almost
To the Editor of the Hampshire Chronicle... SIR,-The appalling catastrophe of the loss of "The Titanic" with such a huge loss of life has stirred the hearts of the people of our own and of all nations. It cannot yet be estimated how many families are
Bashley boss Barry Blankley praised his team's strength of character after a 2-2 Eastern Division home draw with Histon, which left the Foresters tenth in the table. Having fallen behind to a 54th-minute Peter Munns goal, Bash hit back with two goals
TRIBUTES were pouring in today to the Hampshire mountaineer killed trying to climb Mount Everest. Peter Legate, 38, a business manager from Lymington in the New Forest, died as a result of a fall on the world's highest mountain. A Foreign Office spokesman
NATURE conservation plans to increase bogs in the New Forest have gone too far, risking flood damage to homes, a councillor has warned. Councillor John Clark from Brockenhurst said the Forestry Commission and English Nature were united in a "conspiracy
Five Guys Named Moe, The Mayflower, Southampton FIVE all-singing, all-dancing guys called, surprisingly enough, Moe, jump out of a radio to teach a listener a few lessons about life. But forget about the plot because Five Guys Named Moe is all about the
THE Balleto di Milano bring Verdi's Traviata to City Hall, Salisbury on May 1 The ballet is loosely based on the traditional story by Alexandre Dumas and tells the story of the tragic love affair of Alfredo and Violetta, a flamboyant courtesan. The Balleto
ESCAPE artists extraordi-naire Hamble ASSC can look forward to their 16th season in the Jewson Wessex League after dicing with death at Folland Park on Saturday. With just over a minute of normal time remaining in their must-win final game against Wimborne
A PAEDOPHILE has been jailed for three years for repeatedly sexually abusing a girl - starting when she was aged only seven. Bertram Way, 77, admitted a string of sexual offences on the youngster who cannot be named for legal reasons. Portsmouth Crown
Ordered by Canadian Pacific in the late 1920s, the 26,000-ton Empress of Japan had a particularly long life of 37 years and sailed under four different names. The new Empress, designed for the Vancouver-China service, was launched from Fairfield's Govan
FABRICE FERNANDES scored the goal at Dean Court last night as Saints ran out 1-0 winners in a south coast friendly with Bournemouth. Then he promised: "The best has yet to come". The 22-year-old Frenchman broke the deadlock with a delightful 30-yard lob
Quite what last night's friendly at the succinctly-named Fitness First Stadium at Dean Court achieved, is difficult to fathom. As a fund-raising exercise for the cash-strapped Cherries, it is doubtful the Division 2 and soon-to-be Division 3 club will
An encouraging 32 Toppers arrived at Portchester on a very blustery Sunday morning and with such unpromising weather forecasts, some helms had travelled a good distance to be here at the first event of this sort for the club. The gusting 5/6 westerly
