It's the oldest clich in football but this was a truly a game of two halves. A champagne performance from Pompey in a sparkling first half delighted an expectant, near capacity Fratton Park crowd, but the bubbly went decidedly flat in the second half
Today's Principal Arrivals: P&O Nedlloyd Shackleton, container, 0500, 207; Veerseborg, general, 1030, 107; HMS Portugal, container, AM, Con Term; Tenerife Car, ro/ro, AM, 25 link; Grande Ellade, vehicle carrier, 1200, 202; Hanseatic Star, general,
Scott Wilkinson from Hampshire and his passenger Gary Burt are currently among the leading sidecar motocross combinations in the UK. They are genuine British Championship contenders for 2003 and rated as a top 20 combination in the World Grand Prix series
Matt Le Tissier has admitted that he will consider playing more than six games for Eastleigh this season if his competitive debut goes well. Saints legend Le Tissier, 34, will line up behind the front two at the Ten Acres ground in Stoneham Lane tonight
WARNINGS of the impact on everything from the insects of the New Forest to historic structures in and near Southampton Water have marked the brief return of the Dibden Bay public inquiry to the area which will be most affected. The inquiry into Associated
Totton hammered out a message to the rest of the Jewson Wessex League by winning 4-0 at early season pacesetters AFC Newbury. Ian Robinson's side were 3-0 up after 35 minutes thanks to goals from Scott Bundy, Patrick James and Martin Whiddett. And in
ACCORDING to the promotional slogan, last night's reserve team sheet was 'extraordinary'. But despite fielding a team largely consisting of first-team squad players, there was something distinctly ordinary about Saints' performance, writes Jeremy Wilson
COLIN KENNA is sure he can beat Audley Harrison after spending the past week sparring with the Olympic champion. Harrison provided ideal preparation for Kenna's next pro bout against Paul Buttery at Preston Guildhall this Friday night. Buttery, a 17 stone
FOUR successive wins and 20 goals in the back of the opposition net adds up to a pretty impressive opening month of the season for table-topping Trojans. But the undefeated Hants/Surrey Regional League leaders were way below their best in beating Andover
WHAT do you do with a group of women who do not want to play top-flight netball and attend training sessions? You set up a team especially for them and this is exactly what Home James netball did and they formed Home James SS three years ago. The team
VIOLENCE flared at a family pub in the New Forest when a crane driver hurled racial abuse at a neighbour with a German background. William Robinson, 39, has been jailed for four months following his shocking outburst at Stuart Abrams. Tension, which had
POLICE are intensifying their search for a vulnerable elderly man who has been missing from a residential home in Lyndhurst since Sunday. Their concern for 79-year-old William Harper has been heightened by the atrocious weather conditions on Sunday. Mr
THE little-known story of how 400 volunteers from Canada assisted Hampshire firemen during the Second World War is being featured in a television documentary. Using original fire appliances from the period, with dispatch riders and a support vehicle,
POLICE are asking the public to help them identify a knife-wielding man with a scarred face who stole £300 from an Alldays store in Southampton. Between 7.10pm and 7.25pm on Saturday, two members of staff were serving customers in the shop in Burgess
A COMPUTER specialist from Southampton will be trying to fake his way to success on television tonight, as he attempts to pass himself off as an experienced stuntman. Mathew Davies is starring in Channel 4's hit show Faking It, in which the experts will
Yesterday proved to be a black day for Southampton as the Ordnance Survey, one of the city's largest employers, announced 300 job cuts while the cash-strapped city council revealed plans to increase council tax, axe jobs and cut services in an effort
Southampton is paying a heavy price in delays and road chaos as the docks become a victim of their own success as a major hub for global containership traffic. Tempers rose yesterday when angry lorry drivers complained of long hold-ups at the container
PLANS to create an intermediate labour market in west Southampton will be presented to regeneration bosses during a meeting tonight. The £248,500 two-year pilot scheme to be run by the Wheatsheaf Trust in conjunction with Southampton City Council housing
THOUSANDS of people are expected to descend on Southampton's Mayflower Park on Saturday for fun and fireworks. Run by Southampton Round Table and this year supported by the Daily Echo, organisers have splashed out more than £6,500 on fireworks. It promises
THE Ultimate Elvis? Well, that would be Elvis himself, wouldn't it? Semantic quibbles aside, Heath Ashton is at the more convincing end of the Presley impersonator range. Where most pretenders to the King's throne end up reminding you of Elvis's brilliance
THE spirit of Senegal comes to The Anvil, Basingstoke on Saturday with a performance by one of the most acclaimed groups in world music. Orchestra Baobab formed in 1970 as the weekend house band for the Baobab Club in Dakar. With their unique fusion of
Hamble ASSC consolidated their recent ascent into the top half with a 2-2 draw at home to high flying Wimborne. Wimborne were 1-0 up at the break but Hamble hit back with a Nicky Clark free-kick five minutes into the second half, before the visitors recaptured
UP to 100 jobs could be created at the call centre of one of Whiteley's major financial serviceS employers. The jobs boost comes as fellow workers at Zurich Financial Services in Bournemouth were told the company was shutting down its Eagle Star call
Two liners named Arawa were operated by the Shaw Savill Line in its service to Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s and, by coincidence, both began life with other names - Esperance Bay in the case of the first vessel, and Arlanza in the second. The
THE political fate of disgraced councillor Hugh Pritchard looks set to be sealed by a local government watchdog that has the power to strike him off. A letter is being circulated among Fareham's councillors reporting Cllr Pritchard's fraud conviction
FRANK Leach is very clever with his hands. And to prove it, his work Pax is on display at Fareham's Westbury Manor Museum alongside woodcarvings made by students on adult education courses in the borough. The Fareham Woodcarvers exhibition runs until
AIR traffic bosses plan to move 240 administrative staff from London to temporary offices in Swanwick sparking fears of traffic gridlock among people living nearby. National Air Traffic Services has applied to Fareham council for planning permission for
CHRISTMAS has come early at Abbey Nursery in Titchfield. Staff created a grotto as part of a fundraising day for the Rocky Appeal with Fareham mayor Pam Bryant also lending a hand. Bosses at the garden centre in Mill Lane pledged to donate ten per cent
SOUTHAMPTON sent a team to Birmingham for the national six stage road relay in Sutton Park, finishing 23rd. Mike Toomey ran a well-judged first leg to bring Southampton home in 42nd place, which Rod Finch, back from honeymoon in Rome, improved to 17th
DEVELOPERS have unveiled proposals for building scores of new homes on a major site in Eastleigh - once the home of the Caustons printing works. The multi-million-pound development at Brookwood Road - one of the biggest in the south - will create a 21st
A £2M plan to resurrect Chandler's Ford railway station and encourage hundreds of commuters to switch from road to rail is firmly on track. The Daily Echo can now reveal what the station - likely to be on line for the start of the summer timetable in
CASH aid is waiting in the wings for young people or groups in Eastleigh borough taking part in music, drama, fine arts, dance or general youth activities. The helping financial hand is being offered by The Arts and Youth Trust for Eastleigh and applications
LONDON'S Notting Hill Carnival will be adding a spectacular Caribbean-style sparkle to the opening of Eastleigh's Christmas celebrations. Forty members of the Flamboyan Community Association, now a regular star attraction at the capital's famous street
BRAVE Annie Caton could not have picked a worse time to start working on ocean liners. For the 50-year-old took her first cruise ship job on the Titanic - which famously embarked on its maiden voyage from Southampton - as a Turkish bath attendant. But
Totton hammered out a message to the rest of the Jewson Wessex League by winning 4-0 at early season pacesetters AFC Newbury. Ian Robinson's side were 3-0 up after 35 minutes thanks to goals from Scott Bundy, Patrick James and Martin Whiddett. And in
IT would be easy to say the changes made this week to bring the excitement back to Formula One don't go far enough. Ferrari's unerring dominance, through Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello, of this year's world championship has proved a big turn
Jon Barnes made a sensational debut in the last round of the Caterham Superlight Eurocup Championship at the fabled Nurburgring in Germany. After an excellent first season in the Caterham SuperGraduate Championship in which he finished runner-up, the
It's a big weekend for grass tracking in the area with the Salisbury Motor Cycle & Light Car Club staging the Southern Centre Auto Cycle Union Grass Track Championship at Finkley Manor Far near Andover on Sunday. Riders from right across the south
VILLAGERS in the New Forest have won the right to use an ancient track that had been blocked by gates. Hampshire County Council's regulatory committee has ruled that the 150-yard track at Hyde, near Fordingbridge, is a "byway open to all traffic". Evidence
THEY ploughed the fields and scattered good deeds through the land when a charity ploughing match was staged near Ringwood. A whiff of farming nostalgia filled the air as five teams of horses and some 50 tractors dating back to the 1930s took part in
Bugsy Malone, Groundlings Theatre Company, Ferneham Hall, Fareham. Set in prohibition New York City, the musical comedy Bugsy Malone features a huge cast of talented young actors, singers and dancers, who delighted an enthusiastic audience at Ferneham
EDUCATION chiefs are scratching their heads about what to do with empty classrooms at some of Southampton's biggest schools. New figures reveal there are enough empty school places scattered around the city to fill an average-sized secondary. There will
CANCER research at the University of Southampton is to receive a boost with the opening of a new £5.5 million research building at Southampton General Hospital. The Somers Cancer Research Building, due to be opened by the Duke of Gloucester tomorrow will
FAMILIES who have raised serious concerns over the treatment of their elderly relatives at Gosport War Memorial hospital are to meet this weekend to decide what action to take against the health authorities. The same legal team that represented relatives
EASTLEIGH'S Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art and Craft Gallery will be rolling out the red carpet for a royal visit as it steps up its bid to become a gallery of national importance. Opened in 1994, the Nightingale Avenue gallery is owned by Tramman Trust
A STURDY crew of rowers made fundraising waves in land- locked Hedge End. They had been planning to use the car park of retail giants Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer for a non-stop dry land rowing challenge in aid of Southampton's Rose Road Children's
Matt Le Tissier has admitted that he will consider playing more than six games for Eastleigh this season if his competitive debut goes well. Saints legend Le Tissier, 34, will line up behind the front two at the Ten Acres ground in Stoneham Lane tonight
GBR Challenge suffered a defeat at the hands of Swiss yacht Alinghi in the Louis Vuitton Cup this morning. Squalls streaking across the Hauraki Gulf in Auckland meant a two-hour postponement on both race courses before action resumed on the shorter, 12.5
Hampshire racing driver Ed Redfern signed off the season in great style at Brands Hatch - with the aid of an RAC patrolman. Mark Norgate was drafted into Redfern's pit crew as he signed off his season in the Formula Zip Championship, for 1600 Z-Tec engined
Should they stay or should they go? That's the choice 1,450 Southampton-based Ordnance Survey employees are facing in the wake of Daily Echo revelations that the mapping agency is looking to shed 300 jobs... WHEN it comes to maps, anywhere in the world
Vosper Thornycroft Shipbuilding has strengthened its reputation as one of the world's leading suppliers of naval vessels by unveiling its next generation of corvette designs at an international defence exhibition in Athens. The 100m design takes into
CIGARETTE giant British American Tobacco has stuck to its full-year targets despite seeing currency fluctuations hold back profits. Chairman Martin Broughton said he still expected "high single-figure growth" in earnings this year as BAT's leading brands
GOVERNMENT health chiefs have defended Hampshire ambulance bosses for hiring out their vehicles for private functions. A Department of Health spokeswoman told the Daily Echo that by law any ambulance trust had the right to rent out their ambulances for
PEOPLE who have made Southampton a brighter, flower-filled city have picked up awards for their green-fingered efforts. Households and businesses all over the city have been making their surroundings more fragrant and colourful by taking part in this
AGUSTIN DELGADO played another 90 minutes last night and declared: "I'm very happy at Southampton." He spoke out after making his third appearance in the red and white stripes of Saints in little over a week. The Ecuadorian striker was unable to stop
