CRUISE bosses have today launched an inquiry after the Southampton-based cruise ship Oceana was turned away from a Caribbean island. P&O Cruises, which owns the Oceana says it is looking into yesterday's events when the United States Coastguard refused
This is the first sight of Southampton's newest cruise ship, Cunard's Queen Victoria which will enter service in the city in December next year. Now under construction in Italy the vessel, the second largest ever to be built for the Southampton based
THE fleet's in! Southampton will have a grandstand view when five liners and cruise ships, including Queen Elizabeth 2 and Queen Mary 2, are in port together on Sunday. Sightseers gathered at Mayflower Park, Town Quay or Hythe will have a front row
FOR more than 30 years it has been a familiar symbol on the seas. The famous P&O flag is a regular sight in Southampton docks where several of the company's cruise liners are based. However, today the firm is unveiling a brand new look which means
SOUTHAMPTON'S success as the hub for the UK's multi-million-pound cruising industry is being further boosted by a brand new glossy handbook aimed at all the major international ship operators. For the first time Associated British Ports (ABP), owners
YOUNGSTERS from four Hampshire schools will be hoping to grace the hallowed turf of Twickenham on Saturday after winning through to the national finals of the Daily Telegraph Emerging Schools' Festival. In what has become the world's biggest youth
Hiltingbury youngsters showed former Saints and England star Matt Le Tissier that they know how to celebrate victory. Three of the club's sides travelled to the presentation evening at Winchester in two open top buses after winnning their respective
The first steps of a ten-year plan to provide and promote tennis in Eastleigh got underway at the weekend. Youngsters from five local schools competed in a tournament set up at the newly-formed Fleming Park Tennis Centre. Seven and eight-year-olds
Budding teenage tennis stars from the Southampton area have a good summer to look forward to. Players aged 15 to 18 years defied wet conditions to take part in the first of a series of competitions which are being staged over the coming months.
THE Daily Echo is backing a campaign to show health bosses exactly what you think about their controversial plans to close your hospital beds. Beds at five community hospitals at Hythe, Lyndhurst, Milford-on-Sea, Fordingbridge and Romsey, are threatened
George Burley has a message for any Saints fan who thinks he's about to walk away from the club: "I'm very happy here." As a high-profile manager with an excellent track record, Burley will be linked with top jobs elsewhere all summer - something which
A DIRECTOR of a highly respected business in Hampshire has realised his wealth dreams after selling up. Andrew Pirie banked an undisclosed amount of money after his family-owned specialist coatings firm was bought by a father-and-son team from Dorset
MICHAEL Wilde is on the brink of calling an EGM to settle the off-field crisis at Saints. The Jersey-based businessman is locked in talks with Saints chairman Rupert Lowe to negotiate a peaceful way forward. However, Wilde is coming under mounting
THEO Walcott and Peter Crouch could be sensationally reunited with England in the World Cup - 11 months after beginning 2005/06 in the same Saints team playing pre-season friendlies in Scotland! Coach Sven-Goran Eriksson remarkably named the 17-year-old
INSURANCE broker Alexander Forbes is hosting a free seminar in Southampton on emergency planning by local businesses in case of an outbreak of the avian flu virus. The government estimates that for large organisations staff absence rates could reach
US SENATOR Hillary Clinton has stepped in to block the sale of part of Southampton docks to a Dubai company. National security concerns in America prompted Mrs Clinton - wife of former president Bill Clinton - to oppose the £3.92 billion deal for P
AFTER the hit TV sit-com Absolutely Fabulous, they were often referred to in business as "luvvies". But the local public relations industry these days belies the fluffy image portrayed by Joanna Lumley's chain-smoking, champagne-quaffing Patsy.
WITH predictions of the coldest winter for 20 years and 10,000 pensioners across Hampshire without central heating, the Daily Echo launches a life-saving campaign Across Hampshire people will be battling to keep warm against chilly temperatures expected
IT'S NOT often you get to dine with one of the richest men in Britain and the man who also happens to be your boss. Amanda Churcher, a Virgin Cosmetics manager from Southampton, did just that with Virgin empire boss Sir Richard Branson, who, with a
FLY into Hampshire for a brief visit and your business could, quite literally, take off! That's the pledge from New Forest firm Canotec, which is organising a free three-day event at the Intech science centre near Winchester next Tuesday, Wednesday
PASSENGERS on a flight from Southampton Airport have spoken about how their plane was struck by lightning during take-off. The British Airways Connect flight to Glasgow was forced to make an emergency landing at Bourne-mouth Airport after crew and
PASSENGERS on a flight from Southampton Airport have spoken about how their plane was struck by lightning during take-off. The British Airways Connect flight to Glasgow was forced to make an emergency landing at Bourne-mouth Airport after crew and passengers
THEO Walcott and Peter Crouch could be sensationally reunited with England in the World Cup - 11 months after beginning 2005/06 in the same Saints team playing pre-season friendlies in Scotland! Coach Sven-Goran Eriksson remarkably named the 17-year-old
THEY have had enough of wasting hours in flight departure lounges, undergoing countless personal searches and being cooped up for hours while the world passes them by. Fed up with flying, John and Mary Griffin have now decided to ditch air miles in favour
A family had a lucky escape when a tanker smashed through a series of parked cars and destroyed their garden wall in Eastleigh. Seamus Larkin, of Southampton Road, said: "We heard a terrible noise and saw this car had come through the wall and into the
