LIFE is taking its toll on Carey McCormick. Her pretty face appears sullen and pinched as she tells about the obstacles she and her fiance, Andy, are facing. All they want is a home of their own - a place they can prepare for their new baby who is due
SO where should I begin . . . it's probably as well to warn the squeamish and anyone with a delicate disposition to read no further. If the mere mention of colonic irrigation makes your sphincter muscle contract so you could barely pass a pea - turn the
Wasim Akram has left Hampshire with immediate effect - because of his poor health. Pakistan legend Wasim, 37, was expected to play his sixth championship game for Hampshire against Glamorgan this morning until Paul Terry broke the shock news to his players
Ed Giddins was today left out of the championship team to play Glamorgan at the Rose Bowl amid doubts over his own Hampshire future. Giddins has not been called upon despite Wasim's shock exit, and instead rookie James Tomlinson has been drafted in to
SHAUN UDAL was replaced by Havant all-rounder Richard Hindley as Hampshire's day went from bad to worse at the Rose Bowl this morning. Udal was forced to withdraw from the championship match against Glamorgan with a shoulder injury and, with the second
Today's Principal Arrivals: P&O Nedlloyd Houtman, carrier, 0500, 207; Euro Melody, cargo, 0530, 204W; Tai Shan, vehicle carrier, 0730, 34/35, Autosky, ro/ro, 0830, 25; Hoo Tern, cargo, 1430, Dibles Wharf; BBC Nordland, cargo, 1800, 102. Today's Principal
RESIDENTS in Winchester are preparing to battle to save a Victorian industrial building threatened with demolition. The building in Highcliffe, is part house and part warehouse. The upper part is a house on Cathedral View and the warehouse is at a lower
THIS year's New Forest Show, which runs from July 29-31 at New Park, Brockenhurst, will be even more accessible for the disabled. New Forest Show Society has worked hard this year to ensure that the disabled can not only park safely near to the showground
Charles Dunstone, founder and CEO of the Carphone Warehouse Group, has announced that he will be competing aboard his new Reichel-Pugh Maxi Sled - ENIGMA OF LONDON - at Skandia Cowes Week 2003 (2-9 August). Dunstone, a former Skandia Cowes Week winner
THE search is on for the next generation of volunteers to help remember Britain's war heroes following a slump in the number of Poppy Appeal collectors in Hampshire. Royal British Legion bosses have launched the search for helpers after revealing the
SCORES of youngsters will take part in a dance extravaganza in Southampton in memory of murdered teenager Hannah Foster. About 80 children aged from two to 18 years are taking part in Robin Hood and Friends at Bitterne Park Secondary School in Dimond
VANDALS caused thousands of pounds of damage by setting light to a changing room at a Southampton football club. Bosses at Brendon FC are reeling from the arson attack, which comes just a year after a £10,000 wrecking spree. Firefighters were called to
AN ANGRY resident says travellers camped in a Southampton playing field have made play equipment used by local children impossible to use. Christine Murray of St Martins Close in Southampton claims that since travellers have been using the fields, toilet
FIREFIGHTERS have helped to make life a little brighter for a five-year-old New Forest girl who lost almost everything - including a beloved pet - when flames engulfed her home. Amie Dixon and her parents were taken to hospital and treated for the effects
HE'S already proved to be a prince among boys - now Stefan Ruiz is set to become leader of the pack in his latest starring role. The budding Southampton performer has beaten off challenges from dozens of other hopefuls to win the lead role of Simba in
ACTRESS Emma Chambers visited Southampton to officially open a new doctors' surgery as part of the St Mary's Festival. The Notting Hill and The Vicar of Dibley star's grandfather was one of the original partners in St Mary's practice and worked there
EIGHT Southampton schools may be allowed to go over budget by councillors in a bid to avoid a funding shortage hitting standards. A further five schools are planning to spend their annual capital grant for building improvements on day to day running costs
EASTLEIGH'S citizens of the future were taken on a journey through the borough's corridors of power. Pupils from Bishopstoke's Stoke Park Junior School were invited to step into the mayor's parlour by Eastleigh's first citizen Councillor Glynn Davies-Dear
EASTLEIGH'S Shakespeare Junior School is to get three new classrooms to replace old temporary ones. The work, which includes an extension to the school's PE store, will cost £348,000 and county council education bosses hope workmen will move in during
She may be able to lift the equivalent weight of two large men, but Monica Porter is all woman. KATE THOMPSON finds out more IF YOU passed Monica Porter in the street you would have no idea of the hidden strength she has in her body. In her civvies she
Portsmouth look like switching their sights to Sunderland striker Kevin Phillips having apparantly missed out on singing Tottenham's Darren Anderton. Reports suggest that manager Harry Redknapp will make a firm move for Phillips in the next few weeks.
NEW Bashley signing Simon Arthur is ready to fight David Elm for the right to be the Foresters' first-choice goalkeeper next season. The ex-England Colleges under-19 international from Sholing has opted to chance his arm with Bash despite interest from
Commodore of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, Peter Rutter, has announced the Admiral's Cup 2003 event will now be run from Cowes and not Dun Laoghaire, in Ireland. Earlier in the year, it was felt that the event needed a fresh look to continue its appeal
Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK: Cowes Combined Clubs, the organisers of Skandia Cowes Week, have today confirmed that Peter Harrison has accepted a challenge laid down by Kit Hobday to match-race Harrison's Farr 52 CHERNIKEEFF against Tim Louis and Kit Hobday's
DURING September of last year, my dad, Tom, was brave enough to suggest I, his sullen, obstinate and moody teenage daughter, should take up a new sport known as 'fin swimming'. Despite responding with expletives and door slamming, I was secretly very
Anglers heading out to mid- channel wrecks continue to find some cracking fish with Chris Biddlecombe, a 56-year-old plumber's mate from Totton, the latest to sample the action. Fishing from 'Sundance 11' skippered by Roger Bayzand out from Lymington,
WINCHESTER drug users are to benefit from a treatment centre which has officially opened at its new city centre base. Rupert's in Bridge Street is named after Rupert Barker, a well-known and much-missed Winchester character who died of a drug overdose
WINCHESTER students enjoyed a sleepless night - but it was all in the name of research. About 75 psychology students at Peter Symonds College spent the night awake as part of an experiment. They went without sleep for 36 hours two normal days with 12
CAMPAIGNERS are celebrating a crucial victory in their battle to ease the desperate shortage of care home places in the New Forest. Members of New Forest District Council went against the advice of planning officers and approved an application to extend
BLAZING heat seemed appropriate for Hythe fire station's open day. Firefighters and their families, together with businesses in the town, had joined forces to ensure there was something for everyone to enjoy. Blaze Bear, the fire service's benevolent
HAIRDRESSERS Debbie Keys and Sarah Denton were so inspired by their boss's bravery in the face of cancer, they decided to take part in the Race for Life. Anne Mitchell, who runs Brook Hairdressing in Hursley Road, Chandler's Ford, had a mastectomy and
IT was a double celebration at the Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton when new mums gathered to mark the launch of a new service. Breastfeeding Babes is a group put together by staff at the hospital to offer mums support, help and advice with breastfeeding
A conman posed as an RSPCA officer in a bid to dupe two Hampshire pensioners. Both attempted burglaries at a complex for elderly residents in Botley were thwarted when the pensioners, aged 80 and 89, challenged the conman as he wandered round their homes
Matt LeTissier is calling it a day and will play his last competitive match in the Hampshire Chronicle Cup. The Cup - to be fought between Winchester FC and Eastleigh FC - will take place over two legs. The first leg is at the City Ground, Winchester,
WATERSPORTS enthusiasts and villagers today spoke of their shock after a gang staged a car- jacking at gunpoint in Stubbing-ton, stealing a £10,000 jet ski. As reported in later editions of yesterday's Daily Echo, a 37-year-old man was forced out of his
FUNDRAISERS donned frilly shirts and breeches to take part in a charity cricket match Georgian style. Dressed in the period equivalent of cricket whites and armed with a questionable set of rules, volunteers took to the crease to raise money for a host
A ROW over whether permission was granted for traffic cameras to be put up around the Lee-on-the-Solent site earmarked for an asylum seeker centre has erupted between the Home Office and Hampshire County Council. The Home Office has shrugged off accusations
Cunard's next generation of cruise ship, Queen Victoria, which will enter service in Southampton in 2005, has taken another important step forward to becoming a reality. At a special ceremony in Italy the keel of the new ship has been officially laid,
The race is on to win the lucrative refit contract for Southampton's luxury liner, Queen Elizabeth 2. Yards across Europe are bidding for the work due to take place in the May of next year, four months after Cunard's 150,000-ton megaliner Queen Mary 2
