Aldershot Town are one tantalising point away from Conference football next season. Saturday's 5-1 rout of third-placed St Albans City means a draw at Sutton United today will be enough to clinch them the Ryman Premier Division title. Things didn't quite
YACHTSMEN and women in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight may soon have to pay a tax to enjoy their hobby. The government is planning to charge small boat owners to use off-shore navigational aids such as lighthouses and buoys which have been free of charge
Today's Principal Arrivals: Sand Weaver, dredger, AM, 49; APL Agate, container, 1430, 206; HMS Portugal, container, 2000, 204W; Cetam Nicea, ro/ro, PM, 201/2. Today's Principal Sailings: Grande Ellade, vehicle carrier, 0600, 202; CMA CGM Puget, container
PRIOR to important games, the legendary Hungarian side of Puskas apparently used to warm up against works teams in an effort to establish the patterns of play they would require for the major occasion. With an FA Cup final looming large on the horizon
Hampshire make just two changes from the team which lost to Yorkshire for their final match of the season at home to Staffordshire. Both of those come in the Men's B team where Pete Castle and Robert Heard return after missing the last match through family
POLICE had to close a section of the main A326 road near Hythe at the weekend for about an hour because of yet another forest fire. The alarm was raised in an area of Fawley Enclosure which has become renowned for suspicious fires - there were five on
CONSTRUCTION work is progressing on the new waste treatment facility at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) Winfrith site in a £4.5m flagship project for local engineering businesses. UKAEA and its contractor RWE NUKEM will manage the
A rail damping device, which will reduce noise from railway tracks and make rail expansion a more desirable option, has been developed by scientists at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at Southampton University and Corus Rail. A European
POLICE were today guarding a suspect in hospital following the murder of a 50-year-old man outside a Hampshire house. The victim's body was discovered by police on the ground outside a home in Cranbury Avenue, pictured, in the Newtown area of Southampton
THE quay at Ocean Village in Southampton was packed with families saying goodbye to their loved ones on Saturday as the eight boats in the Round Britain Challenge set off on their adventure. The former BT Global Challenge 72 feet racing yachts are mainly
NEIGHBOURS have been rallying round to help two families made homeless after fire gutted their terraced homes. A couple in their 70s and a family of eight lost most of their possessions in the inferno which ripped through their homes in Sedbergh Road,
WHAT is 63,524 tons, red, pink, orange and white? For the next few days the answer is going to cause quite a stir in Southampton. Over the years the city has seen ships of all shapes and sizes come and go, but none have looked like Ocean Village, the
VOLUNTEERS on board a lorry full of aid funded and filled by Daily Echo readers have begun delivering supplies to refugees following a gruelling journey across Europe. Charity workers from Hampshire's Hope and Aid Direct set off last Saturday, April 12
A NEW spin-off company from the University of Southampton aims to revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C and save the NHS millions of pounds. HepCgen has been founded by liver disease specialist Dr William Rosenberg, who has worked and
A MAJOR sun awareness campaign is being launched in Southampton in a bid to reduce the rate of skin cancer in the city. The incidence rate of melanoma is above the national average in the city and skin cancer specialists from Southampton University Hospitals
CURRENTLY on board the bus in Reborn in the USA, '80s singing star Tony Hadley will be back in the UK for two appearances in Hampshire. The former lead singer with Spandau Ballet will be entertaining his fans on Thursday, May 8 at The Anvil in Basingstoke
WHAT is 63,524 tons, red, pink, orange and white? For the next few days the answer is going to cause quite a stir in Southampton. Over the years the city has seen ships of all shapes and sizes come and go, but none have looked like Ocean Village, the
James Beattie admits his teammates are giving him updates on whether his Golden Boot-chasing rivals have scored before he's even made it off the pitch and to the dressing room! Beattie is currently joint top of he Premiership scoring charts with Arsenal's
Matt Blackey suffered a nightmare finish in the Algarve Portguese Open at Vale do Lobo yesterday afternoon. The European Tour campaigner, who now lives in Southampton, was poised for his best-ever finish when a trio of early birdies pushed him up into
NICK HOLMES may possess more class in his Salisbury side than his ex-Saints buddy Mark Dennis has at Fleet right now, but he reckons he is lacking in the key ingredient of passion. If, as seems likely, the Whites ag-onisingly miss out in a tight Eastern
THE frantic race to avoid the dreaded trapdoor back into Hampshire League football looks like going to a nail-biting final day of the season on Saturday. Both basement battlers Blackfield & Langley and Whitchurch United recorded priceless victories
Barry Blankley is determined Bashley will finish their season on a high after seeing their fading Eastern Division promotion dream smashed to smithereens by Eastbourne Borough on Saturday. Needing to win their remaining four games to stand even an outside
Forty-one-year-old non-league goal legend Dave Leworthy rolled back the years to fire Havant & Waterlooville to a 2-1 victory over second-placed Tiverton Town at Westleigh Park on Saturday. Not only did it go a long way to ensuring the Hawks stay
FORMER Saints striker Nicky Banger bagged a hat-trick of headers as newly-crowned champions Eastleigh returned to winning ways again with a 5-1 napping of Portland at Ten Acres. Since clinching the title with a 2-0 victory over Gosport Borough a fortnight
SIX-SHOOTING Alton Town recorded their biggest ever Jewson Wessex League victory with a 6-1 demolition of Bournemouth Poppies at Anstey Road on Saturday. The shattering defeat prompted angry Poppies boss Keith Williams to lock his players in the changing
The Trophyman Senior League Final will be an all- Premier Division affair between two teams promoted to the top flight this season. Mottisfont have been waiting to find out who their opponents on May Bank Holiday will be after Nursling were removed for
SOUTHAMPTON Saints' vice-like grip on the Hampshire Women's Challenge Cup shows no sign of relenting. The club may be going through a tough time in the FA Women's Premier League National Division but, locally, they still reign supreme. This time it was
Nic Pothas began his second season with Hampshire as he should have ended his first - with his maiden ton for the county. Wicketkeeper-batsman Pothas was out for 99 against Surrey in his last championship innings of 2002 but finished unbeaten on 146 yesterday
Hampshire's championship campaign looked set to begin with a draw when the final day's play began against Worcestershire at New Road today. But a win against Glamorgan in the second game of the season, which starts at Cardiff on Wednesay, would constitute
THE quay at Ocean Village in Southampton was packed with families saying goodbye to their loved ones on Saturday as the eight boats in the Round Britain Challenge set off on their adventure. The former BT Global Challenge 72 feet racing yachts are mainly
THE Easter weekend was a celebration of rugby - away from the cut-throat world of the league programme. No more was it demonstrated than at Ellingham & Ringwood on Good Friday when Surrey Division 1 side Old Freemens joined a Hampshire Women's Development
PEACE protesters were busy in Lymington on Saturday - in a march which ended at the town's police station with a demand for Tony Blair to be arrested for war crimes. About 20 members of the New Forest Peace Group set off from the railway station and paraded
THE Class of 2003 at Applemore College seeks sponsorship to help mark the end of its five-year school stint . An event is planned at Beaulieu Abbey on June 27, but organisers are concerned that not every student can afford to go. Prom Committee spokeswoman
STAFF are cock-a-hoop at leading Southampton-based legal firm Eric Robinson Solicitors. Alex Stevenson, 27, a legal PA at the firm's Queen's Keep offices in the city centre, has recently formed a company netball team which has been 100 per cent successful
AMATEUR theatre lovers can look forward to a season of diverse outdoor performances this summer. Shakespeare fans can enjoy some of the Bard's best-known works in the delightful setting of Titchfield Abbey as Titchfield Festival Theatre presents three
SINGING hymns and with balloons and petals filling the air, Southampton's Sikh community came out yesterday for the city's largest annual procession. As Christians celebrated Easter Sunday, about a thousand Sikhs paraded through the city centre as part
THE CITY already numbers international star Craig David among its famous sons - but could Wayne Mayers be Southampton's next big singing sensation? Wayne took a major stride along the road to fame when he triumphed in Southampton's Urban Flava competition
BOOKING a two-week break to Cyprus more than a year ago was all well and good for Saints fans Trish and Les Good - until they discovered they would be away for Cup Final day. Having been on tenterhooks for the last few months while they watched their
