Bournemouth (270 for 8) lost to Paultons (200 for 4) by 6 wkts - rain-reduced target ON a tricky afternoon, with threatening weather conditions, Paultons were helped to win this game by John Robinson again winning the toss and electing to field, thus
Andover (200 for 7) beat OTs & Romsey (136 ao) - reduced target OTR lost their third successive match despite chasing a reduced target in a rain affected match at Andover last Saturday. Losing the toss and fielding first OTR did the hard work again
SHANE WARNE is calling on his shell-shocked Hampshire squad to "stay strong" after suffering a Rose Bowl thrashing by Second Division championship table-toppers Nottinghamshire. Less than a week after Hants' C & G Trophy exit at Gloucestershire, Hampshire
IT had to come sooner or later. But Hampshire's first championship defeat under Shane Warne was as comprehensive as they come. Suddenly Hampshire have lost their two biggest games of the season in the space of six days, this defeat by an innings and 44
ENGLAND and Wales Cricket Board pitch liaison officer Tony Brown inissted he was happy with the state of the Rose Bowl wicket. Brown was sent to West End after 15 wickets fell on day one but he was happy with the track despite the fall of 30 wickets in
IT was a secret Second World War military training base located among woodland at what is now Hampshire County Council's Manor Farm Country Park, bordering the upper reaches of the River Hamble. Sixty years ago HMS Cricket provided accommodation and training
LEARNING is a good way to improve your lot in life - and it is good for your health too. That is the view of Basingstoke College of Technology's principal, Judith Armstrong. Speaking at the second Basingstoke Adult Learner Awards, Ms Armstrong said that
SIXTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Peter Weller said he was "thrilled" to have won the Senior Learner of the Year Award, sponsored by the Parkinson's Disease Society. Peter, from Cedar Way, Basingstoke, has never looked back after enrolling on his first IT training
IAN Pitt must have a desk full of apples as more than a baker's dozen of his BCOT hospitality and catering students nominated him as their Top Tutor. Ian (pictured above), who describes himself as "a bit of a hard nut with a soft centre", felt overwhelmed
BARBARA Maxwell, of Coopers Lane, Bramley,won the Individual/Community Learner of the Year Award. The 42-year-old (pictured above with borough mayor Cllr Gerry Traynor) is coming to the end of her first year of a two-year forensic science course, after
THE 2004 Basingstoke Adult Learner Awards were sponsored by BCOT, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and Gazette Newspapers. Speaking at the event, Cllr Paul Harvey, employment skills and learning portfolio holder, said the borough council was proud
THERE'S always one who gets stung for the expensive round. But you really don't want it to be you when they're ordering Radcliffe Royales. At £50 a time, equivalent to 18 pints of beer, the Royale is reckoned to be Hampshire's most expensive cocktail.
MARK Scott has been axed as coach of Solent Stars Basketball Club after four seasons in the post. His departure comes amid sweeping changes at the club geared towards promoting basketball across the whole of the Solent region and recapturing their hey-day
ANGRY residents of a Winchester street say they feel betrayed by their councillors over plans to seal off a city centre run. The proposed scheme would see traffic direction reversed on Parchment Street, which links North Walls to St George's Street, in
STAFF at Winchester's Theatre Royal are vowing not to let the cat out of the bag about the title of this year's Christmas show. Instead, they are dropping some massive hints and asking the public to guess what it could be. They have placed an array of
STAFF at Wise Employment in Basingstoke are celebrating, after consultant Charna Porter came second in a company-wide competition. Charna (pictured above) was first runner-up in the firm's lists of consultants who placed the highest number of people in
The D-Day anniversary celebrations are the topic for Minstead Players in the New Forest. The group are presenting a series of songs and readings to mark the 60th anniversary. Publicity manager Georgina Babey explains: "Short stories and shared memories
POLICE have made a major breakthrough in the hunt to find the prime suspect for the murder of Hampshire teenager Hannah Foster. The net is closing in on Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, who fled Britain to his native India two days after Hannah's body was discovered
THEY say that it's hard for British music artists to crack America but it seems that sometimes Britain can be just as hard. It took Californian sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson over a decade to enjoy chart success in the UK after exploding onto the stateside
POST Office bosses have dropped bombshell news that eight more branches in Fareham and Gosport are to be axed. It makes a total of 14 post office branches in the two boroughs that have announced plans to close in just over a year. And it has sparked fears
THE chief executive of the Hampshire based National Air Traffic Services has apologised to passengers for the chaos at airports after a computer glitch caused dozens of flights to be grounded. Services heading into Britain were suspended for two hours
HAMPSHIRE based tobacco giant British American Tobacco (BAT) has tested chocolate and alcohol flavoured cigarettes in a cynical bid to lure under-age smokers, claim campaigners. Secret trials with the new flavours have been carried out on rats in Canada
AN elaborate plywood map, used by the military masterminds of the D-Day invasion, will be a permanent reminder of how the operation was planned. Hundreds of visitors are expected to view the massive map, which is still on display at Southwick House at
UNDERNEATH the calm, mild-mannered exterior that is Tim Wheeler burns a fire that rages. It must. How else do you explain such an inferno of an album that is Meltdown, the fifth long-play offering from Ash? His soft Northern Irish lilt belies a God-given
SURVIVORS of the D-Day landings will join family and friends, and those whose loved ones did not return from France, at a 60th anniversary ceremony at Stokes Bay, Gosport, tomorrow. The beach had an important role as an embarkation point for the crossing
EASTLEIGH Borough Council bosses have threatened to prosecute organisers of its own summer music festival if they stick up any more posters advertising the event. The authority is waving the big stick over fly-posters which appeared in parts of the borough
The Southampton-based cruise ship Caronia will change its name to Saga Ruby when she comes to the end of her Cunard career later this year. Once the ship is part of Saga Group's cruising operation, the 24,492 ton vessel, formerly known as Vistafjord,
The British Motor Show is back and claimed to be a "live" event, but is it really true? JAMES BAGGOTT headed to Birmingham's NEC to find out what all the fuss is about. THE British Motor Show is back after a two-year break, but in 2004 car lovers will
REMEMBER, the hide-and-seek game you played as a youngster? You know, the one where you get warmer and warmer until, when close to the object or person being hunted, you get very, very hot? Well, diesel superminis are a bit like that. They've gone from
AS MEMORABLE performances in The Sixth Sense and About A Boy prove, Toni Collette is one of the finest actresses of her generation. In Sue Brooks' haunting road movie, the Australian leading lady surpasses herself, plumbing such raw and intense emotions
YOU may have noticed graffiti designed posters around Basingstoke and the surrounding area, promoting Viva Verdi. This design is the result of research by Brigid Campbell, a member of the Basingstoke Choral Society, to promote this month's concert. During
MY SISTER was visiting from Brighton and, in the interest of sibling rivalry, it was very important that I proved that Southampton is every bit as swish as her hometown. Therefore, when my partner and I decided to take her out for dinner, Oxfords was
THE Basingstoke Bison have unveiled Canadian Mark Bernard as the Herd's new general manager and head coach. Bernard, who is due to fly into the country in July, was head coach and director of hockey operations for the Rockford IceHogs in the United Hockey
BAT Sports put their ECB Southern Electric Premier League and Cockspur Cup prospects firmly on the line this weekend. They send an unchanged team to play the Hampshire Academy in the opening all-day 'time' game on the Rose Bowl Nursery ground tomorrow
SOMEONE please explain to director Roland Emmerich that, even though he's a German, it doesn't mean he has to keep sending what appear to be fat, big-budget love letters to the US as some form of misguided apology for the war. Independence Day was quite
JUDGING from the cheers at the Apollo Hotel, Barbara Maxwell was a prime suspect to win the title of Adult Learner of the Year. This new award, sponsored by the Learning and Skills Council, was given to the champion of champions for being an exceptional
ACCESS to winning the Higher Education Learner of the Year Award, sponsored by King Alfred's College, was partly down to meeting a good friend for 44-year-old Mary Chatburn. Mary (pictured above), of Manse Lane, Tadley, said: "I was approaching my 40th
THERE is no stopping category winner Trudy Evans, 78, of Neville Close, Basingstoke. With a host of qualifications under her belt, from O-levels, A-levels and a City and Guilds 730 to a diploma from the Institute of Linguistics and an Open University
IT WAS all change for Sylvia Wright when her job altered and she was required to move from a secretarial role to being able to offer technical support. Sylvia, of Grove Road, Basingstoke, won the Employee Learner of the Year category, sponsored by Wilding
Today's Principal Arrivals: MOL Integrity, container, 0200, 205; CFF Solent, roro, 0530, 25; Oceana, passenger, 0645, 106; Van Gogh, passenger, 0730, 101; Velazquez, roro, 0730, 201; Eddystone, roro, 0800, rlc4; Le Castellet, roro, am, 201. Today's Principal
TAX bosses have ditched their challenge to a deal to save Exeter City FC from £4.5m of debt thanks to the efforts of a Southampton solicitor. The head of law firm Clarke Wilmott's Southampton-based sports team, Trevor Watkins, was key to fending off a
BASINGSTOKE will face Old Colfeians at Down Grange to open their 22 league fixtures for the 2004-05 rugby season. After end-of-season doubts over which league they would be playing in, following relegation from national division three south in April,
NUMERICALLY, no trainer has a better opportunity of landing tomorrow's Derby than David Elsworth, who saddles two runners in Massif Centrale and Salford City. Quantity aside, there is however a growing conviction that in the heavily backed Salford City
A NEW £1.4m primary school is to be built at Hythe following a major shake-up of education in the Waterside parishes. Hampshire County Council is planning to transform the site occupied by Langdown Junior School in Ashford Crescent by extending and refurbishing
MULTI-million-pound plans to transform a waterfront site in the New Forest are to be thrown out, the Daily Echo can reveal. District councillors are being recommended to reject an application to build more than 300 homes and a 100-bed hotel on the former
ERIC WOOD from Southampton recalls taking X-rays in a tent hospital as the wounded Allied soldiers were brought in from the D-Day beaches for treatment.. IT WAS a rather unremarkable tent. Just 20 feet square and covered with the usual camouflage patterning
HAMPSHIRE based defence giant BAE looks to have snatched British tank maker Alvis from the clutches of the Americans with a shock £355m bid. The surprise move saw BAE Systems outgun a £309m offer from US firm General Dynamics, which had already been approved
MORE than half a million poppies will be dropped on a Southampton park from a Second World War bomber plane as the city commemorates D-Day. A B-17 Flying Fortress will fly over Mayflower Park - the focal point of the 60th anniversary in Southampton -
HIS great-grandfather led Britain through its darkest hour. Sixty years after D-Day, Jack Churchill - the great-grandson of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill - was in Southampton to formally open an exhibition of wartime photographs by photo-journalist
WHO on earth would want to be a councillor? They get loads of stick from the public, spend most of their free time in long and sometimes boring public meetings and get paid peanuts for their pains. On top of that, the press are always on their backs if
HER Royal Highness Sophie, Countess of Wessex, has pledged her full support for a Hampshire charity's plans to build a £3m hi-tech heart centre in Southampton. Together with her husband Edward, Earl of Wessex, she hosted a Buckingham Palace reception
What's on the local music scene this week. Celebrated singer, actress and producer Elaine Paige is taking to the stage at the Bournemouth International Centre on Thursday. Elaine first enjoyed chart success in 1978 and reached her highest position in
NOT since he was a Sixties heart-throb has Engelbert Humperdinck experienced such instant recognition - and it's all thanks to Yorkshire bitter. He says the new John Smiths bitter ad, in which he appears with comedian Peter Kay, has brought him an army
CRICKETER Matthew Bennett is celebrating after blasting himself into the local sports history books by hitting six sixes off one over. The 24-year-old matched the achievement of West Indies legend Sir Gary Sobers when his Herriard side faced Sun Life
ALAN Turvey is in line to become the figurehead of indoor bowls in England. In the year in which Oakley's Kay Kerley heads the English women's outdoor game, Turvey has become junior deputy president of the English Indoor Bowling Association, whose headquarters
DAVID Graveney, chairman of the England selectors, is watching the form of Hampshire duo Dimitri Mascarenhas and Chris Tremlett closely - thanks to their skipper Shane Warne. The pair did not do their chances any harm on Saturday, when Bristol-based Graveney
BASINGSTOKE and North Hants managed to pluck defeat out of the jaws of victory on Monday, as they lost by one run to Eastcote in the first round of the Bertie Joel Cup. The May's Bounty side - former winners of the trophy - looked set for victory at 120
ONE of the most bizarre races ever staged took place at Kempton Park when a racehorse took on a greyhound over two furlongs. The Sunbury-on-Thames track was the venue for Wednesday night's unique race, set up to discover which beast was fastest - the
Films showing in the Hampshire region until 10th June. THE CAT IN THE HAT (PG): Live action version of the Dr Seuss book starring Mike Myers as The Cat. Children will probably enjoy this but it is so far from the original story that Dr Seuss fans may
A NEW window of opportunity has opened for a Basingstoke-based company after moving to bigger offices. David Medcraft and his wife Lynnette founded Brackenwood Windows and Conservatories in 1987, with a £10,000 loan from NatWest bank. Now the commercial
A BASINGSTOKE hotel is all wired up to give the latest in wireless high-speed internet services. The Apollo Hotel believes it is the first in Basingstoke to provide fast internet access to not only the bar and lobby areas but also the majority of its
