NEVER-SAY-DIE Bashley boss Barry Blankley believes his team have the character to play a key role in the Eastern Division promotion shakedown. After dropping 14 of the last 15 points, the Foresters' chances of bringing Premier Division football to the
Newly-enthroned Jewson Wessex League kings Eastleigh came back down to earth last night with a 1-1 draw at Lymington & New Milton. It was a low-key match by their usual standards, but one which 19-year-old Millbrook lad Adam Cook is sure to remember
Gosport Borough's giant goalkeeper Mark Brown sentenced Winchester City to only their fourth defeat of the season in last night's Russell Cotes Cup semi-final at Privett Park. But it needed a penalty shoot-out to finally dispose of Neil Hards' Hampshire
YACHTSMAN Alex Alley is looking forward to fulfilling a lifelong ambition when he takes part in the Global Challenge round the world yacht race next year. The 32-year-old has won a coveted place in the gruelling ten-month race and is now on a mission
Today's Principal Arrivals: National Honor, general, 0530, 43; Oriana, cruise ship, 0600, 106; Hual Trophy, vehicle carrier, 0930, 40; Autofreighter, ro/ro, 1330, 201 link; Humboldt Rex, refrigerat, 1500, 104; OOCL Korea, container, 1515, 206; Cap Roca
Hampshire motocross startlet Billy Mackenzie was taken to hospital with a dislocated shoulder and a broken nose after a heavy fall in Sunday's British Grand Prix at Wakes Colne in Essex. The Yamaha Dixon rider crashed during qualification for the 125cc
Hampshire's Justin Keen joins forces with former winner Christian Vann for the first round of the FIA Sportscar Championship in Estoril this weekend. A podium place is seen as a realistic starting point for this new, yet highly-experienced, outfit Taurus
Top young Hampshire motor cycle racing prospect Guy Farbrother lost his life in a road accident close to his home last week. The 18-year-old from South Wonston near Winchester had just begun his second season in the Red Bull Rookie Honda team in the British
BOTTOM club Swan Centre gave fourth-placed Eastleigh Removals a battle when the two met in the Premier League. The game started at a fast pace with Eastleigh shooter Sharon McHale converting her shots well. The players were extremely vocal throughout
Campaigners from Lee-on-the-Solent, fighting plans for an asylum seekers' centre, yesterday took a 32,000-name petition to Downing Street. Daily Echo reporter Sin Davies accompanied the residents as they took the Lee campaign to the seat of government
NEVER-SAY-DIE Bashley boss Barry Blankley believes his team have the character to play a key role in the Eastern Division promotion shakedown. After dropping 14 of the last 15 points, the Foresters' chances of bringing Premier Division football to the
Newly-enthroned Jewson Wessex League kings Eastleigh came back down to earth last night with a 1-1 draw at Lymington & New Milton. It was a low-key match by their usual standards, but one which 19-year-old Millbrook lad Adam Cook is sure to remember
BOTTOM club Swan Centre gave fourth-placed Eastleigh Removals a battle when the two met in the Premier League. The game started at a fast pace with Eastleigh shooter Sharon McHale converting her shots well. The players were extremely vocal throughout
Three key players bade their farewells as Winchester clinched fifth place in the Hampshire/Surrey Regional League with a creditable 3-3 draw at Woking, who finished runners-up to Bournemouth. Dutchman Merijen van Willigen has been appointed coach of Trojans
High-speed data communications firm Fibernet has reduced pre-tax losses in the first half of its financial year thanks to new business and a high rate of customer renewals. The Basingstoke-based group, which supplies voice and data services to corporate
Calamity Jane, The Mayflower, Southampton WHO would have thought, back in the early 1980s when the shock-haired chanteuse made a nation quake in its boots with her threats to "turn this world upside-down", that Toyah Willcox would one day be playing the
=SOUTHAMPTON residents have been left counting the cost of a nasty vandalism attack on their community centre. The building, in Olive Road Coxford, has had half the roof ripped off, tiles and a window smashed and an outside store room burnt out, causing
Toyah Willcox blazed her way into The Mayflower last night as the star of a new touring production of Wild West musical Calamity Jane. The Eighties punk princess-turned TV presenter stepped into the role of the all-American cowgirl, made famous in the
A MULTI-million-pound scheme to build a huge new Sainsbury's superstore at Shirley Precinct, Southampton, has been given the green light by city planning bosses. But the plans came under fire from members of the city council's planning committee who branded
EDDI Reader is best remembered for Perfect - the number one hit she had as the singer with Eighties band Fairground Attraction. But there's a lot more to the Scottish chanteuse, pictured, than meets the eye. Who would have guessed, for instance, that
GOOD design and sensitive restoration have been recognised in this year's Fareham Society Design Award Scheme. An Edwardian property with a new second-storey extension at White Hart Lane in Portchester won in the new build category. Judges praised the
Southampton City's juniors produced top-drawer performances in the National Young Athletes' Road Relays at Sutton Coldfield. The under-13 girls' A team achieved the club's highest placing of seventh - and this after lead-off runner Louise Webb fell at
TENS OF thousands of pounds' worth of damage has been caused after taps were left running and water cascaded through a building at a school in Chandler's Ford. Police investigations were continuing today into the flooding drama at Lakeside School, which
HIGH teaching standards have seen Eastleigh College break into the top ten per cent of further education institutions in the country after receiving a glowing report from government inspectors. Ofsted rated Eastleigh College's key strengths as its pass
SAINTS stand on the verge of a mammoth £3.5m windfall if they can end their 27-year wait for FA Cup glory. The club have already banked over £1.5m from winning through four rounds of the tournament. Saints have scooped £675,000 from the FA in prize money
HORNETS star Luther Blissett today warned Saints: "Watford can reach Cardiff." Blissett is a Vicarage Road legend, having made a record 415 appearances and scored a record 148 goals during three spells at the club between 1976 and 1992. The former England
Gosport Borough's giant goalkeeper Mark Brown sentenced Winchester City to only their fourth defeat of the season in last night's Russell Cotes Cup semi-final at Privett Park. But it needed a penalty shoot-out to finally dispose of Neil Hards' Hampshire
Neil Fairbrother has backed John Crawley to be a success as Hampshire captain. Former England batsman Fairbrother was a teammate of Crawley, pictured, for several years before playing under him at Lancashire from 1999-2001. And he reckons that Hampshire
Hampshire's cricket development manager Neil Rider, pictured, wants to reintroduce the game back into the heart of Southampton. Rider wants to form a junior community club based in Hoglands Park, once the focal point of cricket in the city. Rider, 25,
Gurston Down opens up for its 35th season of speed hillclimbing this weekend with the CCC/BARC/HAS Speed Championship on Saturday and the Gates of Brockenhurst Hillclimb Championship on Sunday. Speeds can exceed 130mph on the narrow, twisty, tarmac-surfaced
South coast racers Pete James and Jon Barnes enjoyed mixed fortunes on Sunday at the start of their Powertrain Caterham R400 Challenge championship campaigns at Donington Park. James, 51 and from Clanfield, near Water-looville, finished the day in a solid
TRIBUTES have been paid to one of Hampshire's most promising teenage sportsmen who died in a motorcycle accident. Eighteen-year-old Guy Farbrother was a prodigious motorbike racing talent who had been tipped to become a potential future world superbike
John Reynolds will be back in action for the Christchurch-based Rizla Suzuki team at Snetterton this weekend - just two weeks after breaking his collarbone at Silverstone. The ex-British Superbike champion said: "Watching the first round at Silverstone
BOYS from the Dynamo School of Gymnastics are determined not to let the girls run away with all the headlines. While the fairer sex is thriving, the boys showed they are a force to be reckoned with when they competed for places in the Southern Region
CITY of Southampton swimmer Emma Macey scooped a double award at the Taunton Deane Open Meet at Millfield. The 14-year-old won the main prize in her age group AND the overall award for top girl at the event. They came after Emma had won the 100m butterfly
EDUCATION bosses are being urged not to destroy the future of New Forest villages in a controversial shake-up that could see a number of schools closed. Councillors and residents have slammed proposals being considered by the county council in a money
CAMPAIGNERS fighting church hall plans in a New Forest graveyard have been accused of "asking for trouble" when they staged their latest protest. As reported in yesterday's Daily Echo, more than 100 demonstrators turned up outside Hordle Parish Church
A BRACING sea breeze is blowing through Lymington's St Barbe Museum this month as it plays host to the Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA). Seascapes, galleons in full sail and modern yachts set the theme for the newest exhibition at the museum in
MAJOR expansion by low-cost airline flybe. has transformed Southampton Airport into a leading UK hub for no-frills flights set to attract hundreds of thousands of passengers. Within just days of starting new services out of the city, flybe. has added
THE inquest into the death of a Southampton schoolboy who died in a cycling accident last autumn has recorded a verdict of accidental death. Nine-year-old Joe Grice died after colliding with a Ford Transit truck on the busy Portsmouth Road on September
A BUDDHIST monk has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering a work colleague by hacking him to death with a meat cleaver. Nalaka Thero Rathmalane, 36, murdered fellow Sri Lankan Siriwimala Thero Patapiliyagoda, 30, at the Hampshire
TO MILLIONS of soccer fans he was one of greatest English footballers that ever lived. But to Jimmy Ball and Mandy Byrne, England captain Bobby Moore was also like an uncle. Their father Alan Ball was with Bobby in the England team who became the nation's
A GROUP of girl footballers are the latest fans to pledge their support to the Saints FA Cup campaign. The youngsters from Sholing Technology College in Southampton were knocked out in the semi-finals in a national football tournament but they are hoping
PUPILS at a Chandler's Ford school dressed up as their favourite storybook characters for a day. Scores of Harry Potters, Snow Whites, Cinderellas, Peter Pans and Captain Hooks trooped into lessons as part of St Francis School's book week. During the
SIGNED, sealed and delivered direct to Downing Street. The sentiments of 32,000 people were handed over to government officials yesterday as the campaign to stop 400 asylum seekers being housed at Lee-on-the-Solent went to Whitehall. Two hundred protesters
AN EASTLEIGH school's bid to become specialist school in business and enterprise has been given a giant boost. Crestwood Community School is forging a partnership with construction giants Rokbuild. The move comes at a time when the nation is in danger
SAINTS stand on the verge of a mammoth £3.5m windfall if they can end their 27-year wait for FA Cup glory. The club have already banked over £1.5m from winning through four rounds of the tournament. Saints have scooped £675,000 from the FA in prize money
