This week's best-selling hardbacks supplied by Waterstone's for week ending June 26, 2004. 1 (2) Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation by Lynne Truss 2 (-) Shopaholic And Sister by Sophie Kinsella 3 (1) Being Jordan by Katie
This week's best-selling paperbacks supplied by Waterstone's for week ending June 26, 2004. 1 (6) A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 2 (1) The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time (Adult Edition) by Mark Haddon 3 (2) Brick Lane
Today's Principal Arrivals: CFF Seine, ro/ro, 0530, 30; Crystal Ace, ro/ro, 0630, 201; Nedlloyd Africa, container, 0715, 205; Arabian Breeze, ro/ro, 1630, 1630, 202; Andes Highway, 2130, 34/35; Kielder, cargo, PM, Dibles Gut Today's Principal Sailings
SIXTY years ago Jim Stewart was one of the heroes who helped liberate France from the Nazis. But the Hampshire soldier, who risked his life on the Normandy beaches, was taken ill with a suspected heart attack during the 60th anniversary commemorations
DO you recognise this woman? Chances are that you probably do. Former Mayor of Southampton Parvin Damani has one of the best-known faces in the city after her 13-month tenure as Southampton's first citizen. Plaudits have been heaped on the 55-year-old
THE Daily Echo is in the frontline in Whitehall's war on ageism. For the fourth year running companies and individuals from Hampshire scooped top awards in the Daily Echo-backed Age Positive campaign. We were one of a dozen regional newspapers in the
PETER Andre set Portsmouth Guildhall ablaze as part of the jungle survivor's Insania Tour. A near capacity crowd of screaming pre-teen girls created a deafening atmosphere. The singer got off to a slow start but his performance grew in confidence and
Radio Solent presenter Richard Cartridge talks to Sally Churchward about his tour and musical ambitions... IT SEEMS that there's no stopping Radio Solent presenter Richard Cartridge. He recently celebrated his 30th anniversary of starting work at the
AUSTRALIAN batsman Phil Jaques hit a career-best 243 to put Yorkshire in control at the end of the third day of the Frizzell County Championship Division Two match against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl. Jaques' previous highest score came last season when
A STALKER who preyed on young female students has been locked up after being labelled a dangerous predator. Under the cover of darkness Polish-born Leszek Rucki, 35, stalked his victims around the University of Southampton campus. Some he followed to
Ali Kefford spoke to TV's Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall... AS THE supermarket gravy train merrily rattles on netting massive profits, fat directors' salaries and no doubt, trebles all round, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall must be a nasty thorn in monster food
PELECANOS'S novel Hard Revolution features Washington DC African American detective Derek Strange. The first part of the book is set in 1959 against the historical backdrop of Mack Parker's lynching in Mississippi. The second is set in 1968 in the days
IMMIGRATION is often thought of as a recent development, but as Robert Winder shows, a steady flow of people has come to these shores for centuries either to escape persecution or make a better life, often both. The former literary editor of the Independent
A FIFTH confirmed case of the MRSA superbug has been discovered at Southampton General Hospital. The hospital's cardiac intensive care unit remained closed today while staff battled to contain and treat the cluster of cases. As reported in yesterday's
JUST when you thought there was little else to invent in the world, scores of boffins in the south have proved there is plenty of homebred ingenuity out there. Some of these amazing ideas will undoubtedly find favour with busy mums, pensioners, gum-chewers
POLICE have arrested 29 people in a drink-driving crackdown across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. During the operation, officers pulled over and tested almost 500 motorists. The figures were released by Hampshire police yesterday following the crackdown
A SOUTHAMPTON Special Olympian has been chosen as one of just 40 people from the UK who will carry the Olympic Torch through London today. Maxine Griffiths, 30, of Saturn Close in Lordshill, suffered brain damage when she temporarily stopped breathing
WASN'T it a great pity that Wayne Rooney, who was the talk of the tournament and had been compared to everyone from Pele and Maradona, had to come off after 25 minutes of England's ill-fated Euro 2004 quarter-final against Portugal? But hang on a minute
WHAT price would a betting man have got for Germany, Spain and Italy all going home after the first stages of Euro 2004? The Italians, who get heavily criticised whenever they return after any sort of embarrassment, will surely get some sympathy after
IT was a big job for a little girl but with a wizard on hand, to make it a really magical day in Southampton, six-year-old Emily Walters won herself a place in the record books yesterday. Corks popped and champagne fizzed as Emily officially named the
