BASHLEY last night loaned their 33-goal top scorer Richard Gillespie to Salisbury City for the rest of the season - with a view to a summer sale. With the New Forest club out of Ryman Division 1 play-offs contention, but in no apparent danger of relegation
BASHLEY last night loaned their 33-goal top scorer Richard Gillespie to Salisbury City for the rest of the season - with a view to a summer sale. With the New Forest club out of Ryman Division 1 play-offs contention, but in no apparent danger of relegation
THERESA Darnell-Langton's glorious performance in retaining the Golden Charter English Women's Indoor BA singles title silenced once and for all the murmurs that she is a "one green" bowler. When she won the crown 12 months ago at her own Loddon Vale
SIXTEEN-year-old Eastleigh Mosellas rising star Adam Sear proved too much of a handful for the second week running for the seniors on the match circuit at Hordle, storming to victory with 85lb 2oz of carp from Long Lake. Sear fished maggot over pellet
VILLAGERS are campaigning for the speed limit to be lowered on a road in Colden Common. Some 150 people have signed a petition asking for 30mph signs to be installed in Church Lane. County councillor Peter Mason believes that the current 40mph limit is
THE New Forest will be one of the best National Parks in the UK - but only if everyone works together. That was the message from former Official Verderer Maldwin Drummond yesterday as the Forest celebrated the first day of its new status. It now has the
A NEW Forest team is flying to the US today in a bid to set a new world speed record. Members of the Lymington based Windjet project are determined to smash the 116mph record for the fastest wind-powered craft on land. Their revolutionary "land yacht"
THE hit musical Fame celebrates its tenth anniversary with a series of performances at the Pavilion Theatre in Bournemouth. Set in New York's legendary High School for the Performing Arts, Fame the Musical follows a group of eager and talented students
A PLAYGROUP is facing closure because of a predicted five-fold increase in rent. Weston Tumbling Toddlers has been running for the past five years and has about 1,340 children passing through its doors every year. However, Southampton City Council is
IT'S being hailed as the end of suburbia. Leafy residential lanes all over Hampshire - and the privileged lifetsyles that go with them - are under threat as developers offer pots of gold to home owners to buy up their large gardens. Hampshire has become
WATER company bosses have been accused of failing to let customers know what discounts are available to them. Just 385 out of about 4.1 million Southern Water customers are claiming the firm's vulnerable groups discount, the Daily Echo can reveal. It
FIREfighters from Hampshire braved this week's freezing temperatures when they took part in a sponsored motorcycle ride for Comic Relief. A team of eight motorcyclists from Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service stations, including Eastleigh and Hightown,
FUNDRAISERS at the Daily Echo have helped collect more than £5,300 for tsunami victims across southern Asia. From taking part in a dress down day to holding bring and buy sales, staff have been busy doing all they can to support the disaster relief work
ROOTSY singer-songwriter Amy Wadge, pictured, is appearing with her band at the Forest Arts Centre in New Milton on March 11. Likened to Tracey Chapman, Sheryl Crow and the Indigo Girls, Amy was voted Best Female Solo Artist in the Welsh Music Awards
Another record turnout for city's annual event The 23rd Annual Winchester 10k road race took place last Sunday, February 27th, with over 900 competitors, a record entry, entering this well established race. Runners assembled in the High Street before
Ryder Cup captains to the fore The trophy may have been missing, but the presence of two Ryder Cup captains more than made up for it when the Hampshire Professional Golfers' Association held their 55th annual dinner at the Friends Provident St Mary's
ONE in five parents in Whiteley say they would sell their home and move out of the area to ensure their children can be educated close to home. The figures have been disclosed after more than 400 people were questioned about the growing problem of a shortage
HAMPSHIRE'S Rose Bowl could be just days away from becoming a crowd-pulling location for international day and night cricket. The county cricket club is pressing ahead with plans for state-of-the-art permanent floodlights at the ground in West End. Last
POLICE patrols have been stepped up in Old Bursledon following a sharp increase in the number of vandal and nuisance crimes reported in the area. Officers have been called to deal with a host of antisocial incidents that have included cars being torched
A SOUTHAMPTON-based ship has made history by increasing the population of a remote South Pacific island six-fold. Pitcairn Island, the former settlement of Bounty mutineers, became home to a new group of seafarers as an unprecedented 315 Britons landed
DAVID PRUTTON'S 10-match ban for manhandling the referee reflects a lack of respect in football, according to Ron 'Chopper' Harris. Prutton, right, was handed the suspension and fined £6,000 for his reaction to getting sent off in Southampton's bad-tempered
Today's Principal Arrivals: Vibeke, ro/ro, 1430, 34/35; Pacific Breeze, vehicle carrier, 1930, 43 Today's Principal Sailings: Global Harvest, refrigerated vessel, 1200, 104; Asian Beauty, ro/ro, 1700, 40; Hual America, ro/ro, container, 1700, 43; P&
ANOTHER banking group with a big foothold in and around Southampton has posted a rise in annual multi-billion-pound profits. HBOS weighed in with a whooping pre-tax £4.6 billion - a 22 per cent rise. The figure for last year is double the £2.29 billion
SCORES of Hampshire business leaders took tips from millionaire entrepreneur Richard Duvall at the Saints' stadium. The founder of online bank Egg, which paved the way for no-hassle Internet banking, gave an inspirational talk on how to create change
IT'S being hailed as the end of suburbia. Leafy residential lanes all over Hampshire - and the privileged lifetsyles that go with them - are under threat as developers offer pots of gold to home owners to buy up their large gardens. Hampshire has become
VULNERABLE people in Winchester are set to benefit from a handout of tens of thousands of pounds to local voluntary groups by Hamp-shire County Council. More than £72,000 is being awarded to several Winchester organisations who help those in need, and
CONTROVERSIAL plans to transform part of the New Forest coastline could be approved at the third attempt, the Daily Echo can reveal. Councillors are being asked to support a multi-million-pound project to build a 100-bed hotel and more than 300 homes
Neighbours in a leafy upmarket suburb are split as developers dangle up to £500,000 cash to buy up gardens for homes... ON the surface it is a quiet tree-lined street, full of upmarket homes. Senior business managers and hospital consultants are typical
SOUTHERN Water's managing director has quit just 24 hours after the Daily Echo revealed huge price hikes in the county's water bills. Stuart Derwent, pictured above, has stepped down from the post at the firm where he has worked for the past 32 years.
POLICE are hunting a man who sexually assaulted a student as she walked home from a night out in Southampton. The 19-year-old was walking alone, having been separated from her group, along Canute Road near the junction of Royal Crescent when the attack
MURDER detectives have stepped up their search for a vital witness who could have been the last person to see a timeshare salesman alive, as the sixth anniversary of his death approaches. The team has so far drawn a blank in tracking down the taxi driver
MERIDIAN Television's Southampton studios go under the hammer in a mammoth million-pound auction. ITV bosses have earmarked 10,000 items for sale in one of the biggest clear-outs in broadcasting history as the company finally closes down its Northam studios
MORE than 1,200 workers at Southampton's cigarette factory have been reassured that there are no plans to shut down the factory. British American Tobacco raised the prospect of closures across its 65 sites worldwide to reduce costs by one third of a billion
IS your loveable pet a star? If so now is your chance to let him or her shine in the Daily Echo's Pet Idol 2005 competition. We have teamed up with Totton's Creature Comforts and Aquatic Centre to find the region's top pet. To enter all you have to do
EMBRACE frontman Danny McNamara says his band owes everything to their best pal Chris Martin after the Coldplay star penned their comeback hit single Gravity. But the singer promised the band would be turning back to their rock roots with their new album
EMBRACE frontman Danny McNamara says his band owes everything to their best pal Chris Martin after the Coldplay star penned their comeback hit single Gravity. But the singer promised the band would be turning back to their rock roots with their new album
OTTERBOURNE moved to within a point of second-placed Colden Common in Sydenhams Wessex League - Division 3 on Saturday with an emphatic 3-0 victory as the two sides went head-to-head at Oakwood Park. With several first team regulars absent Common faced
Stars' future unclear as club faces cash problem SOLENT STARS are celebrating 25 years of top flight basketball; but this anniversary could be the last one as financial pressures put a huge question mark over their future. Despite being one of the most
ONE in five parents in Whiteley say they would sell their home and move out of the area to ensure their children can be educated close to home. The figures have been disclosed after more than 400 people were questioned about the growing problem of a shortage
WHEN a group of youths forced their way into a Fareham school and embarked on a devastating wrecking spree it was one of the worst cases of vandalism a Hampshire school had ever seen. Thousands of pounds' worth of damage was done to the temporary classrooms
A NEW era has dawned for libraries in Hampshire with the opening of a £2m state-of-the-art discovery centre in Gosport. The transformed former library, museum building and gallery in the High Street is the first of its kind in a multi-million-pound county
VULNERABLE people are set to benefit after a range of grants were handed out to voluntary groups across the Eastleigh area. The funding was part of nearly £565,000 of annual grants made to voluntary organisations across the county. Among those receiving
DAVID PRUTTON'S season is effectively over after the Saints midfielder was handed a whopping ten-game ban by The FA. Prutton pleaded guilty to two charges of misconduct following his sending off during Saturday's 1-1 St Mary's draw against Arsenal with
SAINTS' mouthwatering FA Cup quarter-final with Manchester United will earn the club a near £500,000 windfall after being selected for live screening on BBC 1. The sixth round tie, which will see Saints aiming to become the first team to score against
MARK DENNIS has blasted the Football Association for banning David Prutton for virtually the rest of the season. The former Saints hardman reckons Prutton, who has been handed a massive ten-match ban and £6,000 fine, deserved no more than a four-game
