PREFERRED International, an awardwinning recruitment consultancy with a base in Southampton, has made a key appointment. Louise Mathers joins the service delivery team in the Southampton office as a resourcer. She has a strong background in sales, marketing
MIDDLEBROUGH are lining up a £4.5m raid for Pompey's top scorer Ayegbeni Yakubu. The Nigerian international had a sensational first season in the Premiership, scoring 19 goals while helping Harry Redknapp's side comfortably beat the drop. Steve McClaren
HAMPSHIRE are not ruling out the possibility that Shane Warne could be back in time for Sunday's National League clash with Gloucestershire. An emergency board meeting is being held today by the ICC to decide whether two scheduled matches between Zimbabwe
ENVIRONMENTAL disaster movie from the man behind Independence Day, Roland Emmerich. Dennis Quaid stars as climatologist Jack Hall, trying to figure out a way to save the world from abrupt global warming. He must get to his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) in
A MOTHER broke down and wept when she visited the scene where her son was killed yesterday. Karen McCallum paid a five minute visit to the spot where her son Tyrone was thrown from the car he was driving. Wearing dark glasses, she had to be helped into
WHEN a robber armed with a machete threatened members of the public in a busy high street, Carl May didn't give a single thought to his own safety. Instead he chased after and tackled the man as he waved the weapon in his face. In an
FORGET Justin Timberlake and Lemar - the original R'n'B/pop superstar has to be eight-times Grammy winner George Benson. The legendary guitarist and singer made his first recording at the age of ten and since then has built up a formidable collection
BASINGSTOKE Town boss Ernie Howe may not be about to quit the club, despite the recent disappointments. Town lost out to Lewes in the play-offs for an automatic place in the Conference South but were then given a berth in the new set-up by default as
HAMPSHIRE'S unbeaten start to the season came to a sudden end on Sunday, as the Hawks were crushed by the Lancashire Lightning in the totesport League. The red rose county maintained their 100 per cent start to the campaign with a seven-wicket win as
BASINGSTOKE and North Hants make the trip to Slough tomorrow, seeking a first-ever win over their Berkshire rivals in the Home Counties League. Four of the last five meetings have ended in defeat for Basingstoke. However, the last meeting of these teams
THREE renowned Hungarian folk musicians team up with three British performers to create Fianna - in The Forge at The Anvil next Wednesday, at 8pm. Authentic Moldavian, Bulgarian and Transylvanian virtuoso fiddle-playing counters driving uillean pipes
THERE'S something about Troy that seems to have struck a nerve with film critics. People seem to be jumping on their high (Trojan) horses and relishing in the opportunity to give the impression that they've closely studied Homer's Iliad and, frankly,
PEDRO Almodvar's stylish, gay-centric spin on Double Indemnity was awarded the prestigious opening night gala at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Bad Education is another incredibly accomplished work from the Spanish maestro, with strong echoes of his
POSITIVE first-quarter results from the Hampshire-based cable company NTL prove the optimism of one of its top people is justified in an exclusive interview with Gazette Business. NTL achieved its first quarterly operating profit in more than 10 years
THE Gazette can exclusively reveal The Anvil has released tickets for this year's pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk. The show will run from Friday, December 16, 2004 until Sunday, January 9, 2005. Written especially by Chris Jarvis from Cbeebies, who
AN ORPHAN from South Africa is mounting his bike and speeding towards a brighter future thanks to workers at a north Hampshire hotel. Staff at Tylney Hall country house hotel in Rotherwick, near Hook, rallied together and raised £100 in an effort to make
THE search is on for the brightest business stars in the county with the launch of the 2004 Hampshire Business Awards. Sponsors Bond Pearce, KPMG and The Royal Bank of Scotland are encouraging Hampshire companies to get an application form in plenty of
A MILLION-pound Victorian house has been refurbished to have all the grace of the era in which it was built. The vendors, who carried out the work, have now put Phoenix House on the market with Hartley Wintney-based estate agents Charlton Grace. Phoenix
SOUTH coast law firm Coffin Mew & Clover Solicitors has appointed three new associates. Linda Spanner (crime), Karen Webb (social housing) and Mike Regan (commercial property) took up their new roles this month. Managing partner Pauline Johnson, based
CLIVE Dow has joined career transition specialists DBM as business development director for the south. He will be based at DBM's office at Solent Business Park, Whiteley, near Fareham. In the past Clive has run his own headhunting business in Hedge End
WARDO Kamerling has been appointed junior assistant manager at Tylney Hall, the award-winning Hampshire hotel where he trained during his hotel business management course. The 27-year-old Dutchman originally planned a career in the financial sector but
NEIL Hards believes that keeping the management team together will be the key to ensuring Winchester City's FA Vase glory boys do not split up. City's failure to get their ground up to scratch has cost them promotion to from the Wessex League and there
IF star guest Dave Merrington wasn't sure who Rob Marshall was prior to the Eastleigh presentation night, he certainly knows now. The former Saints boss saw quite a bit of the Sparshatts Stadium skipper, who scooped the players' player and supporters'
BAT Sports put their unbeaten ECB Southern Electric Premier League start at risk against Lee Savident's recharged Portsmouth at St Helen's, Southsea, tomorrow (1pm). And BAT's in-form skipper, David Banks, pictured right, continuing to deputize for the
Today's Principal Arrivals: Pinnau, cargo, 0115, pw; CFF Seine, roro, 0530, 25; Oriana, passenger, 0645, 106; Montlhery, roro, 0700, 201; The World, passenger, 0800, 104; QE2, passenger, 0830, 38/9; CMA CGM Balzac, am, 206; Philipp, container, 2200, 206e
HAMPSHIRE'S biggest commercial radio station, Wave 105 FM, is to have a new man at the very top. David Goode, the current radio division managing director of Wave's owners Scottish Radio Holdings, is to replace chief executive Richard Findley in September
JUST five seasons into existence and Trojans Ladies rugby team are going for an unprecedented domestic treble when they tackle Loughborough Students in the National Challenge Shield final on Sunday. Having already picked up the Division Two South crown
MORE young people will get the opportunity to learn vocational skills following reforms to apprenticeships announced by the Government. Education and Skills Secretary Charles Clarke and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown introduced the reforms as
BOSSES heading some of the best-known companies in Hampshire are earning massive salaries, the Daily Echo can reveal. Alan Wilson, the millionaire boss of Southampton-based financial services group Skandia, took home £669,000, a hike of more than £269,000
A SERIAL sex offender today begins a life sentence after attempting to rape a teenage girl walking from school. It's the sixth time Neil Morrow, who admitted he had an intense anger against women and fantasies of rape, has been convicted of a predatory
MP Alan Whitehead has uncovered Iraq's weapons of mass destruction . . . the feet of the country's football team. The Labour backbencher was goalkeeper for the MPs' football team who played the Iraqi national side in the first match of their Goodwill
SIX top pop acts have been added to the line-up for this year's Power in the Park pop concert in Southampton. The latest announcements are Natasha Bedingfield, Girls Aloud, Javine, Mark Owen, 411 and Bellefire. They will be joining a host of other chart
BACK in 1953 a young mum-to-be was travelling back home to Canada on Cunard's Southampton ship, Ascania, when her baby son decided he could not wait for the vessel to dock and was born as the liner sailed down the St Lawrence River. Now, more than half
A NEW service which helps parents of children with disabilities has been launched in Southampton. Right From The Start aims to support parents as soon as they receive the news that their child has, or may have, a disability. It will provide them with
BACK in 1953 a young mum-to-be was travelling back home to Canada on Cunard's Southampton ship, Ascania, when her baby son decided he could not wait for the vessel to dock and was born as the liner sailed down the St Lawrence River. Now, more than half
IF YOU thought smart was a manufacturer which only made silly-sized, odd-looking city runabouts, then think again. The German firm, which is a subsidiary of manufacturing giant Mercedes-Benz, has thrown the small car rulebook out of the window and come
HAVING been open for just a month, Inchcape Basingstoke Toyota has already named which charity it will sponsor for its first year of business. The Neurofibromatosis Association will be the lucky recipient of all of the dealership's fundraising efforts
ERROL Morris's latest film won the Oscar as Best Documentary Feature at this year's ceremony. Robert McNamara was a key figure in the Ford Motor Company when President Kennedy sensationally hired him as Secretary of Defense to oversee the protection of
Films showing in the Hampshire region until Thursday, 27th May. 50 FIRST DATES (12A): Romantic comedy about a man who falls for a woman with memory loss and finds himself having to make her fall in love with him again every day. AGENT CODY BANKS 2 - DESTINATION
LOCATION, location, location is the estate agents' maxim - and there's no disputing that Nutley Barn has more than its share. The disused barn (pictured above) lies in undulating farm land on the North Wessex Downs between the villages of Kingsclere and
