AT THE start she was viewed as being the posh bird who hung out with royalty and wore perma-make-up. But by the end of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, we were all admiring her British stiff upper lip as she gobbled down a witchetty grub as if it
Ali Kefford meest horse dentist Greg Wood... WE'RE at the stables, where Maggie is having the equine equivalent of a floss 'n' polish. She's been led from happily tugging on a pile of straw and now has her jaw in a mighty metal brace so Greg can have
Not since 1992 have Hampshire started a championship season with a win. But Shane Warne and Michael Clarke inspired a dream opening day to the 2004 season at the Rose Bowl yesterday. Warne took his first wicket as Hampshire captain with his 17th ball
There's still time to enter the Staying Alive Poetry Competition. The theme is Growing Up and Growing Old and poems can be in any style and on any subject. The closing date is April 26. The authors of the three best poems will win a copy of the poetry
Trezza Azzopardi's grim but acclaimed debut, The Hiding Place, charted the disintegration of an immigrant family in 1960s Cardiff. Here the scene shifts to Norwich but the content remains austere. Secrets and lies, physical and mental abuse, dominant
This week's best-selling hardbacks supplied by Waterstone's for week ending 17th April. 1 (2) Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation - Lynne Truss 2 (3) The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time (Adult edition) - Mark
This week's best-selling paperbacks supplied by Waterstone's for week ending 17th April. 1 (2) Notes On A Scandal - Zoe Heller 2 (1) Artemis Fowl: The Seventh Dwarf - Eoin Colfer 3 (3) The Star Of The Sea - Joseph O'Connor 4 (4) If I Was Boss - Kes Gray
Today's Principal Arrivals: CAP Finisterre, container, 0300, 204; Autosun, roro , 0530, 201; CFF Seine, roro, 0530, 25; Caronia, passenger, 0630, 38/9; City of Lutece, roro, 0830, 203; NYK Lyra, container, 1030, 207; Grande Scandinavia, roro, 1230, 202
THE Hampshire under-21 badminton team has made it to the national finals, taking place today. Having beaten Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire home and away in the preliminary stages, the county representatives are now down to the final four. The eight-strong
LITTLE Genevieve Cooper was today heartbroken after thieves stole her beloved pet tortoise. Tolly was grabbed from the garden of a Southampton home while his owners were shopping. Believed to be about 50 years old, he had lived at the property in Nightingale
Feats in the Premiership dominate TV footage and newspaper columns so much that younger followers of the game are under the impression that not much happened before. When I read that our own manager Paul Sturrock was using Charlton Athletic as a yardstick
SHANE WARNE needed just 17 balls to take his first wicket as Hampshire captain as the county's season got off to a flier at the Rose Bowl, writes Simon Walter. Warne took 2-27 and THREE catches at second slip as Hampshire bowled Durham out for 128. And
After leading Hampshire off the field for his first lunch as the county's captain, Shane Warne stepped aside and applauded his teammates before sending each one into the pavilion with a pat on the back. A wicket and two slip catches was a more than satisfactory
WHEN was the last time you went to a really good literature event? Later this year I will be taking part in a unique project with Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Richard Ford in events which will include venues in Fareham and Winchester. Often
Few books command days of banner headlines on publication. But then few authors have been quite so intimately involved with current events as Richard Clarke, until last year one of President Bush's most important advisers on counterterrorism. While Clarke's
HAMPSHIRE darts marksman Andy Jenkins has moved up into the top ten in the world rankings - and promised his support for the forthcoming Hampshire Open. The Cosham bricklayer was pipped at the post in a star-studded battle on the oche last week by Wayne
CHRIS Ball (53-12 Multisports) gained nearly ten seconds per mile on Ian Ayliffe (Salisbury RC) to win the Bournemouth Arrow Fircroft Hotel 10 at Poole. But the pair will have to be better matched when they team up for Primera Bournemouth's 25-mile time
Five City of Southampton swimmers attended the Portsmouth Northsea Easter Swim Festival and achieved no less than 29 Southern Counties qualifying times, and nine national qualifying times in 30 events over the three days of the competition. A total of
THE people of Portsmouth are richer than their Southampton counterparts - and that's official. Pompey has pulled ahead of us in the wealth stakes for the first time. In just three years Portsmouth residents have turned around a deficit of more than £1,000
IT WAS the most traditional of send-offs, a band played on the dockside, coloured streamers cascaded down the side of the ship and tugs sprayed fountains of water high into the air, as the world's largest passenger liner, Southampton's Queen Mary 2, left
A MAN had his jaw broken in three places when he was struck during a vicious attack in a Southampton park. Graham Licence, an office administrator at the Norwich Union Building Society in Chandler's Ford, was with his girlfriend when he was smashed in
IF only everyone was as easy to spot telling a fib as Pinocchio - the Disney children's favourite whose nose grew when he lied. Scientists already know that when people are untruthful their heart rate increases and they sweat more. Now one Southampton
THE number of people charged with race hate crimes in Hampshire has DOUBLED, new figures reveal. An official investigation showed 115 defendants in the county faced charges for racist crimes in 2002-03. This compared to just 57 a year earlier - a 100
"DAILY ECHO readers never fail to deliver the goods." That is the message from delighted SCRATCH teams who are thrilled with the overwhelming response they have received from Southampton people willing to line the cupboards of the most needy in the city
YOUNGSTERS have been enjoying a whole host of exciting activities at Winchester's River Park Leisure Centre. During the Easter break the centre has been a haven of fun for children aged between five and 12, who have spent their days making Easter cards
SOMEONE once famously said that a week is a long time in politics. Well, the next four weeks will be vital in the world of football. Who would have guessed that of all our top teams in Britain it would only be Chelsea left waving the flag in the European
It's sad to see four former Dell boys fighting for their Premiership lives. I spoke to one of them, Kevin Keegan, just before he returned to the City of Manchester ground after problems with his back. He has suffered for a few years now, but it got so
Newcastle United UEFA Cup semi-final draw with Marseilles brings back memories of when we played the French club in the European Cup-Winners' Cup and beat them 4-0 at The Dell. It was not so clever out there, though, where we had to lie on the floor of
