After another storming second half performance had brought Pompey their seventh Division 1 away win of the season, manager Harry Redknapp conceded that anything less than automatic promotion for the Blues would rank as 'a failure' in his eyes. Redknapp
Eastleigh 1 - Andover 2 EASTLEIGH manager Paul Doswell had no hard feelings against Ten Acres old boy Vince Rusher for shattering the league leaders' proud, unbeaten record on Saturday. The man he really took issue with was Amesbury referee David Woolford
England became the latest side to be flattened by an Australian juggernaut which is threatening to make a mockery of the world Test championship after they cruised to another predictable triumph in the second Test. The tourists followed up their 384-run
England are to hold a crisis meeting to review their long list of injuries after key fast bowler Andrew Caddick emerged as a doubt for next Friday's third Test against Australia in Perth. Caddick was unable to bowl after tea on Saturday during the second
Today's Principal Arrivals: Oriana, cruise ship, 0630, 105; Ville de Virgo, container, 1100, 205; Humboldt Rex, refrigerated, 1130, 104; Angela J, general cargo, pm, SCT. Today's Principal Sailings: HNLMS Abraham Van der Hulst, HNLMS, Jakob Van Heemskerck
Getting around the Network Q Rally GB is no mean feat. Pitted against the world's top rally crews Wheels reporter Alyson Marlow was among the finishers in last weekend's event and had to contend with a string of mechanical problems along the way... BASED
SUBARU driver Petter Solberg celebrated his 28th birthday in style by winning last weekend's Network Q Rally GB - his first WRC win. His efforts in the Cardiff-based event also boosted him into second place overall in the drivers' championship and the
Basingstoke came within a charged-down kick of securing a much-needed National Division 3 South victory against Old Colfeians. Going into injury time, they were leading 19-14 as director of rugby and fly-half Ian Calder's touch-finding clearance kick
Winchester dropped back to the bottom of London Division 1 - and they cannot blame anyone but themselves for a disappointing performance against the side they have replaced in the depths, Harlow. In this must-win game, Winchester didn't. They squandered
In far from perfect conditions that disabled any kind of open, running rugby, a mixed Southampton side produced a good display against Salisbury II, which could only have filled their captain Tony Cador with confidence for the tough league programme ahead
THERE'S just something about Saints v Arsenal 3-2 scorelines ... there's more magic in them than Harry Potter and Paul Daniels put together. And what a team - world class players, top drawer goals, sexy football - and Arsenal weren't bad either! An absolute
Solent Stars 107 (19, 46, 71) - Teesside Mohawks 123 (32, 63, 93) Solent Stars surprised the unbeaten Teesside team when they opened brightly to take an early 6 -2 lead by the third minute, despite having missed three successive free throws in the process
TWO women are fighting for their lives today after a car ploughed into them as they walked along a New Forest road. The pair were rushed to Southampton General Hospital with critical injuries after being struck by a green Ford Granada as they headed along
ROMSEY residents young and old gathered to watch the town's annual winter carnival and switching on of the Christmas lights this weekend. The procession gathered in Malmesbury Road at 5pm before winding its way through the town once the lights were switch
ANGRY letters are on their way to two New Forest parishes after councillors from two of the area's larger villages lashed out at district planners. Stormy scenes erupted at a New Forest District Council planning meeting when Ashurst and Colbury Parish
South Coast department store group Allders could be taken over by its biggest shareholder, the property group Minerva, if a proposed deal goes ahead. Minerva's takeover plan values Allders at £124.5m and includes the showpiece Allders At Home store in
ONE of the world's leading wildlife artists and conservationists delivered a fascinating video-illustrated lecture to a packed audience. Eloquent and vivacious, charismatic and charming, David Shepherd is knowledgeable and passionate about endangered
TalkSexShow at Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts The complexity of human sexuality is an eternal source of comedy. It has also spawned an industry of counsellors, advisers, agony aunts and gurus. Paul Davies, writer of this show for Volcano Theatre
A SERIES of strikes which may have forced Southampton airport, along with six other major ones in the UK, to close were last night suspended when bosses made an improved pay deal. The first four of five planned walk-outs by the Transport and General Workers
A MAN freed from jail after serving only one-third of his sentence for the attempted murder of a Hampshire tourist is facing the death penalty in the USA after butchering a young woman. Michael Seibert used a shoelace to choke an 18-year-old American
A GROUP of teenage actors have recreated the last known movements of missing Hamble boy Dan Nolan in a bid to keep his disappearance in the public spotlight. The four youngsters from Oaklands Youth Theatre act in Dan Nolan . . . Missing which has raised
HAMPSHIRE'S education chief has backed the introduction of the controversial six-term year for the county's schools. "Education authorities in the south are looking for a lead and I believe Hampshire should give that lead," said county schools boss Councillor
Division 2 Winchester KS 118 for 4 (3) (Worth 33*, N Priddle 25, S Straker 31*). Flamingo 119 for 2 (13) (S Shapland 27*, K Brewster 30*, extras 27). Swanmore 125 for 4 (13) (P McDonald 24, D Knight 27*, T Hopkins 35*, extras 27). Bishops Waltham 99 for
TOP tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton will be jetting into Eastleigh's Concorde Club on Wednesday, December 4. The master of mellow jazz has appeared at the Stoneham Lane club's international jazz nights on an annual basis for over a decade. It is his
A PLAN to improve facilities for teenagers in Whiteley has been shunned by residents despite widespread complaints there are not enough play areas and youth facilities. Fareham council's executive leader Councillor Sean Wood-ward said the situation was
WORSHIPPERS in Whiteley are working hard raising money to get their new church built as quickly as possible. They have embarked on a mammoth fundraising drive for the £1.3m needed to pay for the church on land off Whiteley Way, next to the Tesco store
RAIN-soaked Eastleigh gave way to sunshine smiles provided by one of the most famous carnival cavalcades in the world. Santa's grand arrival to officially launch the town's Christmas celebrations was given that unique Notting Hill Carnival flavour. Forty
The pattern of erratic / bad weather continued again this week. Dawn broke with a violent thunderstorm in the Central Solent. The Met Office forecaster thought that the wind would be West of South swinging to the left during the day to about 170 degs.
Lymington & New Milton boss Graham Kemp was not gloating over news of Eastleigh's unexpected home slip-up against Andover. Saturday's 3-1 victory at Thatcham has moved the unbeaten Linnets to within a point of the league leaders, but Kemp believes
Newport player-manager Steve Tate insists that the current financial crisis gripping the Island club had no bearing on Saturday's 2-0 Eastern Division defeat at Banbury United. Port's future remains in grave doubt after they were put into voluntary receivership
BASINGSTOKE Town's south coast connections had the first and last word in Saturday's 4-2 win at Heybridge Swifts. The North Hampshire club seized the lead four minutes into first-half injury time through on-fire former Eastleigh striker Craig McAllister
Andover New Street were at it again last Saturday, ruffling the fur of one of the Hampshire League top-dogs. After denting the 100 per cent records of East Cowes Vics and then Winchester City, New Street went to high-riding Poole Town looking for another
Two out of ten Southampton FA Senior Cup ties were played - one a close affair the other a 5-0 mauling. Not surprisingly, Hampshire Combination table-propers Fawley Reserves proved no match for Premier Division Pirelli General who steamrollered the underdogs
A GROUP of teenage actors have recreated the last known movements of missing Hamble boy Dan Nolan in a bid to keep his disappearance in the public spotlight. The four youngsters from Oaklands Youth Theatre act in Dan Nolan . . . Missing which has raised
SHE'S done it again. Solo yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur has claimed a record-breaking victory by winning a prestigious transatlantic solo yacht race. The 26-year-old, from Cowes on the Isle of Wight, claimed first place in the Route du Rhum race after crossing
Gosport & Fareham captain Simon Burns warned his team about the unpredictability of London Division 2 South as they prepared to take on league strugglers Andover. And there was no better illustration than this encounter in which the home side won
After all the 'on and the off' of the much-awaited Hampshire Worthington's Cup first round clash between the county's top two clubs, Havant sensationally withdrew on Saturday evening to give Basingstoke a walkover. It was another amazing twist to this
Trojans teenage hockey starlet Alex Danson scored with her very first touch of the ball in the Women's World Cup in Australia to help England beat Ireland 3-1 in their first group match. Danson, 17, came on as a 15th minute substitute and immediately
ROMSEY featherweight Henry Castle lost his unbeaten record in the most unlucky of circumstances on Saturday night. Fighting on the undercard of Johnny Nelson's world cruiserweight title bout in Derby, Castle was forced to pull out in the eighth round
SECURITY guards have been recruited to protect beach huts along the New Forest coastline, a month after a suspicious blaze wrecked seven huts at Calshot. With immediate effect, specialist firm Securitas will be starting random patrols along the seafront
A RECORD-breaking cheque for £33,027 was presented to the New Forest's Oakhaven Hospice. This grand sum was raised by the organisers and participants of the New Forest Experience bike ride and sponsored walk which was held in September. The event, now
FIREFIGHTERS raced to the scene after lightning struck a house in Shorefield Way, Milford-on-Sea. The retained crew from Lymington attended the address to ensure the property was safe after the incident, which was reported just after 9am yesterday.
A specialist software house serving the needs of the European life insurance industry is one of the latest residents at Chilworth Science Park's business incubator. TCP LifeSystems, whose head office is at Orpington, has opened its research and development
A CHILL is set to descend on the Nuffield Theatre's Gallery restaurant next month with a spooky one-man show by Nuffield regular Mike Rogers. Mike will be bringing three modern ghost stories to life, including one about four students in a Southampton
Dan Nolan . . . Missing, Oaklands Community School, Southampton I CAN'T remember the last time I saw a grown man, a stranger, cry in front of me. Or, for that matter, sat in a room of people gripped by mutual sorrow and unspeakable heartache. This play
HAMPSHIRE theatregoers are extremely fortunate to have such a startlingly talented drama company as RAODS. Six skilled actors and a very creative production team presented Diane Samuels' moving play, based on the true story of Jewish children being forcibly
THIS is the moment makeshift firefighter Amy Stubbs cradled a helpless baby caught up in a fire drama in Southampton today. Eleven-week-old Leo Challoner was one of six people rescued from a block of flats by Royal Navy emergency staff and striking firefighters
SOUTHAMPTON'S leading Labour councillors threatened to defect en-masse amid accusations of "intimidation, insults and bullying" within their own party, a secret document leaked to the Daily Echo has revealed. Fourteen councillors - including leader June
A DRIVER has been quizzed by police after his high-performance sports car was involved in a crash which killed a pedestrian on a busy Southampton road. Freelance computer programmer Laurence Griffiths was knocked down by a blue Maserati Coupe which mounted
A HERO dad today praised firefighters who abandoned the picket line to help save his baby daughter's mother when fire broke out in a block of flats. Paul Stephens, 21, rescued ten-month-old Kimberly from the family home in Southampton but he couldn't
UP TO 300 football-crazy children in a Southampton neighbourhood could benefit from plans to renovate an under-used park. Southampton City Council's sports service is bidding for a £10,000 grant to transform Green Park in Wimpson Lane, Millbrook, into
THE ACTRESS playing arch villain Cruella de Vil in a Christmas show in Southampton has become a victim of crime herself. Elizabeth Counsell, who stars in the Nuffield Theatre's Christmas show, 101 Dalmatians, has had her handbag stolen. The bag contained
TOPLOADER roared into Portsmouth last night on the final stage on their Magic Hotel tour. Despite playing to crowds up and down the country since the start of October the boys from Eastbourne knocked out the tunes with all the enthusiasm of an opening
ENCROACHING middle age has done little to mellow Billy Bragg. The singer-songwriter with a social conscience is currently supporting his first album in seven years, England, Half English - one of the singles from which, Take Down The Union Jack, he even
Following the Chronicle series of features on the proposed building of 2,000 homes at Barton Farm, Winchester, the Chronicle has now invited some of the key players and figures to have their say. The first statement is from Cala Homes, prospective developers
HASLAR'S accident and treatment centre is under-used because people don't know what it does. That's the conclusion of campaigners battling to keep the centre open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Now the Save Haslar Taskforce wants people living within
HOME-owners in Chandler's Ford are set to protest about their rubbish collection service - by dumping waste at the borough council's civic offices. Currently Eastleigh council empties grey bins - containing perishable household waste - on a fortnightly
A DRIVER is in intensive care and a horse has been put down after they both were involved in a road smash between Colden Common and Fair Oak. The accident happened after one of two horses, which were both being walked along the side of Winchester Road
WORK to resurrect an Eastleigh town centre landmark building which had become a blot on the landscape is forging ahead. Controversy over the future of the Grade II listed former Church of the Resurrection had raged for years following a disastrous fire
DREAMS can come true, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding is the glittering proof. Joel Zwick's charming culture-clash comedy, written by and starring Nia Vardalos, has become the sleeper hit of the year across the Atlantic. The potent combination of a smart
