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  • Mini High 5

    TODAY the BMW Group's Mini celebrates its fifth anniversary since the car first went on sale on Saturday July 7, 2001. The launch created a storm and the car introduced a new level of quality to the small car market. Mini became an instant global success

  • Take-off for land speed challenge

    THE Mercedes SLR McLaren, Porsche 911 Turbo and Corvette Z06 will be just three of the incredible supercars lining up at London City Airport next week, when Autocar will write a brand new performance benchmark into the record books - the London Land Speed

  • Zoom Zoom

    MAZDA'S range of Zoom-Zoom' vehicles continue to impress automotive experts. Three Mazda models have been selected for critical acclaim in the 2006 Auto Express New Car Honours. The judges from the magazine ranked the Mazda MX-5 as Best Roadster, the

  • Faraway Festival coming

    THE FLAVOUR of the East comes to the West with one of the most stunning exhibitions of festival costumes Hampshire has ever seen. The visually spectacular costumes from the Guizhou province of south west China are on show for the first time in the UK

  • Multicultural Opportunities Fair

    A FREE multicultural opportunities fair has been organised by Southampton's City College. During the free event at Mount Pleasant School, Mount Pleasant Road, Southampton, on July 15 there will be opportunities for people in the local community to access

  • Piotr Anderszewski

    ONE OF Poland's most talented pianists comes to the UK as part of the Mostly Mozart 2006 season London's largest festival celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart. World-renowned pianist Piotr Anderszewski will be joined by Academy of St Martin in

  • Messing about on the river

    MEMBERS of the Maskers Theatre Company are gearing up for their open-air production of Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows at Mottisfont Abbey. The colourful family favourite is their 25th annual outdoor show without one being rained off. From July

  • Beauty and the Beast

    DISNEY'S multi-award winning family musical Beauty and the Beast is returning to the Mayflower for three weeks from August 15. With music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Beauty and the Beast is one of the most popular and romantic

  • Wasn’t it all just luvverly!

    IT'S one of those classic fairytales that you never tire of. The sort you delight in watching every single Christmas no matter how many times you've seen it before. The new stage production of My Fair Lady is even better than I remember the smash-hit

  • Yo Ho Ho

    PIRATES galore turned out to see the regional premiere of the long-awaited Pirates of the Caribbean sequel at Southampton's Harbour Lights cinema last night. Special guests, members and friends got into the mood by dressing up in skull and crossbone

  • PREVIEW: A Slice of Saturday Night

    EASTLEIGH Borough Youth Theatre prepares to take you down to The Club A Go-Go! Judy Marshall, EBYT's resident musical director for the last ten years, is preparing for opening night on her final musical with the group at The Point, Eastleigh. A Slice

  • Nicholas Nickleby

    DAVID Edgar's groundbreaking two-part adaptation of Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby is being produced for the first time in more than 25 years at Chichester Festival Theatre until September 2. Dickens' comic masterpiece follows Nickleby on his journey

  • Jools Holland

    JOOLS Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra and UB40 take to the stage at Southampton Common this weekend. Tonight Southampton hosts this country's most successful reggae band with their instantly recognisable and distinctive style, supported by

  • Sigur Ros

    SIGUR Ros is an Icelandic post-rock band with melodic, classical and minimalist elements. They play Southampton Guildhall in a sold out gig on Tuesday. The band is known for their ethereal sound and lead singer Jonsi's falsetto. They were formed in

  • Scritti Politti

    AT The Wedgewood Rooms on Monday are Scritti Politti. Formed in 1978 in Leeds, Scritti Politti is primarily a musical vehicle for singer songwriter Green Gartside (real name Paul Julian Strohmeyer). Initially a left wing inspired post-punk British rock

  • Divine Comedy

    THE Divine Comedy has announced an extensive European tour for Autumn 2006. Neil Hannon will be joined on stage by a 7-piece band. The eleven UK dates include a stop at Portsmouth's Pyramids Centre on Tuesday October 31. When British pop singer songwriter

  • Axa wields the axe on 26 Southampton jobs

    TWENTY six Southampton jobs are to be axed as insurance giant Axa closes its offices in the city. The French owned firm said the move to shut its broker support office in the city was "regrettable" and that redundancies were inevitable. Nationally

  • Fallon licence revoked

    Kieren Fallon, along with fellow horse-racing jockeys Fergal Lynch and Darren Williams, will not be allowed to continue riding in Britain after being charged as part of a police investigation into alleged race-fixing. The six-times champion jockey

  • PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST (12A)

    With a swagger in his step and a flash of his gold in his teeth, salty seadog Jack Sparrow (Depp) sets sail for adventure and mischief in this eagerly awaited sequel to the 2003 blockbuster. Director Gore Verbinkski, screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry

  • LITTLE MANHATTAN (PG)

    This smartly written romantic comedy beautifully captures the exquisite anguish of first love. Josh Hutcherson and Charlie Ray give natural, winning performances as pre-teens Gabe and Rosemary. This is a truly delightful movie set against the ravishing

  • DISTRICT 13 (15)

    David Belle, one of the creators of the spectacular, gravity-defying extreme sport of Le Parkour (aka Free Running), showcases his physical prowess in this futuristic action romp. But nothing else in the film comes close to the tour-de-force exhibition

  • £79m go-ahead for M27 congestion plans

    A PLAN costing £79m to tackle traffic jams and speed up journeys on the M27 was given the green light by the government. The motorway linking Southampton and Portsmouth will be widened between junctions three, the M271 interchange and four, the junction

  • Please use our wheelie bins

    A GROUNDBREAKING scheme to help combat litter in Southampton is being pioneered by residents of a city housing estate. Green-minded locals living in Cheriton Avenue have placed stickers on their wheelie bins inviting people to use them as impromptu litter

  • Bob’s illness is a worry for Town

    FAREHAM Town's joy at signing marksman Jamie Laidlaw has by diluted by news that chairman Bob Ralls is seriously ill. Ralls, who has been chairman at Cams Alders since the Ralls Building Group took over the club in April 2001, was taken poorly last week

  • Jim’s a welcome visitor

    DAVID Hughes visited the treatment room more than most during his injury-plagued Saints career, writes WENDY GEE. So it's hardly suprising that Eastleigh's player/assistant manager is looking forward to meeting up with former St Mary's physio Jim Joyce

  • Hunt takes over Justin’s scoring role

    SOUTHERN League newcomers Andover have turned to one of their former crowd favourites to compensate for the loss of goal machine Justin Bennett to Eastleigh, writes WENDY GEE. Paul Hunt, a prolific scorer with the north Hampshire

  • All my own work!

    Steve Wright celebrated a career-best return of 7-35 for Flamingo's 2nd XI in last week's Hampshire League Regional South victory over Ampfield no mean feat for a 14-year old! It was all his own work too as the left-arm seam bowler clean bowled six

  • Watts trying to generate wins

    New Milton skipper Steve Watts has charged his promotion chasing side with a double mission starting with a victory in tonight's New Forest CCA President's Cup final against arch rivals Bashley (Rydal) at Cadnam, 6.15pm. That accomplished, Watts, right

  • Hants kid-ology won’t fool Bash

    Bashley (Rydal) plan to extend their 15-point lead in the ECB Southern Electric Premier League against a youthful Hampshire Academy on the Rose Bowl Nursery Ground tomorrow, 11.30. Apart from coach Tony Middleton, the Academy field an entire team of

  • TENNIS - Festival is a huge hit

    A TOTAL of 1,100 local children competed in the summer festival of tennis at Totton & Eling Tennis Centre. Every child from Abbotswood Junior, Oakfield Primary and Calmore Junior Schools played in a massive schools tournament based at the centre over

  • Netball - Coaching camp plan

    A coaching camp designed to improve the standard of local netball players is being organised for later this month. Sport Hampshire & IOW, in partnership with Elite Sports Camps, are running the camp at Millbrook School, Southampton for three days from

  • Hyde breaks into top five

    After his top ten success at Castle Combe, Southampton racer Jonny Hyde travelled to Brands Hatch in Kent, with mechanic Mike Boylin, for the AVO Ginetta sportscar championship. Hyde, in his first full season of racing, contested one of the support races

  • Pirate chief reckons 24-point lead will do

    POOLE PIRATES captain Bjarne Pedersen believes they put one wheel into the Knockout Cup semi-final with an impressive 58-34 home win over Reading. The Dane also paid tribute to teammates Grzegorz Walasek, who scorched to a 16 paid 18 point maximum, and

  • Playlink adds its backing to Keep Them Safe campaign

    SOUTHAMPTON Community Playlink, the organisation that arranges play schemes throughout the city, has given its support to the Daily Echo Keep Them Safe campaign. Pam McCune is pictured putting up a poster at the Playlink offices in Northam and adding

  • Mission of mercy to feed hungry youngsters

    A KIND-hearted Hampshire couple have helped ensure scores of poverty-stricken African children get at least one hot meal a day. Paul and Jean Brown have returned from a trip to the Gambia where they bought 200 sacks of rice to feed the 1,466 pupils of

  • Offer to kickstart campaign

    FAREHAM is backing the government's Commit to Get Fit campaign. The town's leisure centre will be offering special introductory incentives throughout July to encourage people to take their first steps towards a healthier lifestyle. The campaign, supported

  • State-of-the-art centre for learning

    BARTON Peveril College's £7m Rose Building was given a government seal of approval when it was officially opened by the minister of state for lifelong learning, further and higher Education, Bill Rammell. He praised the impressive facilities which cater

  • Bard at abbey

    BEAULIEU Abbey provides the backdrop for the Castle Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's As You Like It next week. Castle Co has given the Bard's classic comedy a new twist by setting it in the 1960s. Gates open at 6pm, an hour before the performance

  • Sewer repairs

    DRIVERS face delays in Sopley in the New Forest during July and August while Wessex Water repairs sewers in the village. Work is expected to take about five weeks and the firm will send a robot along the sewer so it does not have to dig the road up.

  • TV naturalist at opening of new gardens

    SCHOOLchildren in Hampshire will be taking tips from top wildlife expert Sir David Attenborough when he opens an educational garden. The animal and nature expert and broadcaster, pictured, will open the new Children's Education Centre at the Sir Harold

  • Football sale

    There will be huge World Cup and football memorabilia sale taking place in Bitterne tomorrow afternoon. Football memorabilia expert Jim Chamberlain has secured a host of fantastic products that will be available from 12-5pm at the Station Hotel, Bullar

  • Words of wisdom that shame pushy parents

    P ushy parents are ruining school sports days. As we reach the end of the summer term and a rash of school sports days, it will probably come as no surprise that the atmosphere to these once sedate and fun afternoons

  • Bravery award for bomb hero officer

    A HAMPSHIRE policeman is in line for a bravery award for his actions during a devastating terror attack. Sgt Colin Towler, pictured, who works at the force support headquarters in Netley, is to meet Prime Minister Tony Blair in Downing Street next week

  • Parish council chairman facing conduct inquiry

    A PARISH council chairman could be suspended for up to three months over an alleged breach of code of conduct. Fawley Parish Council chairman Alexis McEvoy will be questioned by a standards panel on Monday. An investigation was launched into claims

  • House prices rise by £21 a day

    HOMEOWNERS in and around Southampton have seen the value of their property rise by £21 a day over the past five years. According to figures from building society Nationwide, the average price of a home in the port city is now £205,300. That is up by

  • So much more than just a run

    RIGHT from the start, Race for Life captured the imaginations of women living in Southampton. Every year for the past decade they have faithfully signed up for the emotion-charged event. Many will run in memory of loved ones they have lost to cancer

  • Emma eyes up Euro place

    TEAM Southampton's Emma Duck is knocking on the door of selection for next month's European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg (August 7-13). The 25-year-old from Townhill Park, Southampton, left, is chipping away at the elite standard qualifying

  • George was the lure, admits Bradley

    Bradley Wright-Phillips admitted George Burley's fantastic track record at developing young talent lured him to Saints. The 21-year-old striker yesterday completed his £750,000 transfer from Manchester City, part funded by the £250,000 Saints won from

  • Wilde: We will listen to fans

    Michael Wilde has vowed to listen to the fans after his first day as Saints chairman. The man whose share purchase helped remove Rupert Lowe was finding his feet at St Mary's yesterday as well as chairing his first football board meeting. He was

  • Dock Movements

    Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Baltic Breeze, vehicle, 0630, 201; Hoegh Asia, roro, 0730, 40; Patriot, vehicle, 0730, 34/35; CMA CGM Nabucco, container, 1000, 207; Charlotte Maersk, container, 1330, 206; CEC Mistral, cargo, 1530, 101; Mike

  • Man in fight for life after collision with lorry

    A PEDESTRIAN was fighting for his life in hospital today after being hit by a tanker in Hampshire. The 38-year-old is in a critical condition in the neurological unit at Southampton General Hospital following the accident in Bishop's Waltham. The

  • Flare threat to coastguard during yacht drama

    TWO drunken teenagers caused chaos after taking a yacht at Ocean Village, Southampton, early today, defying police and coastguards. At the height of the drama, the pair aimed flares at a crew on a launch from Associated British Ports, who were trying

  • Sir Clive blasts England's World Cup flops

    SIR Clive Woodward has taken a blast at Sven Goran Eriksson and his England World Cup flops after their penalty shoot-out flop. Saints' director of football has said it is time to stop making excuses and to take action, and blamed poor preparation for

  • Hampshire's Twenty20 hopes silenced by Mahmood

    AZHAR MAHMOOD smashed Surrey to a 10-run victory to virtually end Hampshire's hopes of reaching quarter-finals of the Twenty20 Cup. Mahmood's 65 off 30 balls included four sixes and was part of a lightning last four overs as the Brown Caps notched 61

  • Firefighters set up exclusion zone over dangerous cylinder

    FIREFIGHTERS carried out repeated checks throughout the night on an acetylene cylinder which had been at the centre of explosion scare at Fareham. Crews from Fareham, Gosport and Copnor were called to a plant hire company in Speedfields Park in Newgate

  • Tributes paid to environmental campaigner

    ONE of Hampshire's most committed environmental activists has died after a battle against cancer. David Croker campaigned against extending the M3 through the Itchen water meadows at Winchester in the 1970s and then through nearby Twyford Down in the

  • Smiths £11.5m deal

    HUNDREDS of Hampshire workers for Smiths Aerospace are celebrating today after winning an £11.5m deal to supply equipment to the army's cutting edge Future Lynx helicopter programme. The contract will Smiths install cockpit equipment, including a voice

  • Pet lover risks life in inferno

    A PET lover was injured as he risked his life to save his dog from a fire that ripped through his home only to discover the animal was safe anyway. The drama happened when the man returned to his Hampshire bungalow after walking his other dog to find

  • Tory leader in visit to Southampton University

    THE LEADER of the opposition David Cameron paid a flying visit to Southampton University. The Tory leader visited the Highfield Campus of the university for a brief tour of one of the marine tanks being used to carry out tests on sustainable energy.