THERE'S a mouth-watering aroma in the air and plenty of happy faces in the kitchen at Pickles Coppice on the Millbrook estate, Southampton. Mums and dads with little experience in the kitchen have just produced their first ever cauliflower cheese with
THE all-new Ford Mondeo makes its world debut at the 2006 Paris Motor Show at the end of this week. Ford of Europe's stylish new flagship model is being previewed in its wagon (estate) bodystyle in near production specification, with launch scheduled
FREEDOM and adventure have been right at the heart of motorcycling's unique appeal ever since the very first riders disappeared down the nearest deserted back road in search of a fresh challenge. Today, the desire to grab a jacket and escape everything
FIREFIGHTERS are warning Hampshire employers that they face jail if they haven't adapted to major coming changes in fire safety laws. The new laws, which come into force this weekend, put fire safety responsibility squarely with employers. The changes
MORE than 230 homes in Southampton and Winchester are now the subject of legal action from mortgage lenders after families couldn't keep up with their repayments, the Daily Echo can reveal. The number of repossession orders granted by the courts - allowing
THE SOUTHAMPTON built Ford Transit has scooped the prestigious title of International Van of the Year 2007'. In what was described as "one of the closest fought Van of the Year' battles ever", the vehicle that provides employment for more than 1,300
THE awards honouring businesses that have taken action to improve the environment and the workplace have just been launched. Backed by Daily Echo owner Newsquest, the 2007 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sustainable Business Awards are given to inspirational
Trojans crushed Farnborough 33-3 - but they'll have to up the performance level if they want to go places in Division 1. After a tight opening quarter, Trojans opened the scoring after stealing a lineout on the Farnborough 22 metre line. Under pressure
Havant's depleted side went down to league leaders Southend with the last kick of the game. But rugby manger Simon Morgan was full of praise for his team . "Even the home crowd said we were robbed," he said. "However, this should give us real confidence
Southampton Canoe Club Juniors won a major trophy in the national championships at Bedford. The under-12s scooped the Geoff Sanders Trophy for the junior team with the most points in Hasler races over the year. The team, aged seven to 12, have braved
DAVID PORTER's brilliant form in 2006 continued at Corhampton on Friday as he broke the course record to annex the Hampshire PGA Strokeplay title. The 36-hole event had to be reduced to 18 due to heavy rain but Porter, whose sights are set on landing
Warsash club member Jamie King has won the under-18 British Deaf Open for the second time. The 16-year-old, pictured below, only started playing four years ago and was runner-up in the national deaf championships in Nottingham in his second
Local anglers have been finding some nice bass from shore locations with Mark Williams (Waterside) landing an 8lb beauty while fishing at Calshot Activity Centre. Williams used a whole squid presented on a 6ft sliding pennel to tempt the specimen.
READY Steady Cook star Lesley Waters tested herself on a climbing wall as she helped a New Forest activity centre to celebrate a National Lottery Day. The TV chef attended the family day out at the Tile Barn Outdoor Centre near Brockenhurst to focus
THE CIRCUS had really come to town when it visited a Hampshire shopping centre to help raise money for a local school. Happy's Circus visited Meadowside Leisure Centre in Whiteley to put on a spectacular two-hour show to a sell-out crowd to raise money
TV star Sarah-Jane Honeywell was one of the special guests when a Hampshire children's hospice threw open its doors. She was at Naomi House Children's Hospice in Sutton Scotney to demonstrate arts and crafts skills which are familiar to millions of viewers
HAMPSHIRE troops have shot dead one of the world's most wanted terrorists. More than 220 soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales Royal Regiment stormed a house in Basra and killed the leading al-Qaida figure after he resisted arrest. Omar
A KILLER who stabbed a teenager to death on an estate in Southampton could be freed from prison in just 556 days. Damien Kershaw, pictured above, was given an indeterminate sentence with a recommendation he spend a minimum of three years in jail, minus
IT has been at the heart of the village for 1,000 years. A picture postcard feature that attracts hordes of camera-snapping tourists and paddling children every summer. However, Watersplash Ford, pictured, in Brockenhurst has a become victim of its
PEOPLE in the New Forest will be able to stride to a healthier lifestyle following the addition of three new walks in Pennington. The circular health walks, between one and two miles long, will be officially launched tomorrow. They pass by some of the
THIRTEEN Hampshire schools have already signed up to take to the stage and take part in next year's Rock Challenge. All teams must create an eight-minute dance routine or drama performance based on their chosen theme set to contemporary music. Organisers
NEW railings with a modern welded 'seagull' design will be part of ambitious plans to restore one of Southampton's most historic buildings. The scheme to replace railings around Holyrood Church's chancel and the Titanic memorial inside was given the
A SPOON taken from the sinking Titanic by a porter has been sold for £650. Twenty-one-year-old Reginald Hardwick took the spoon as he fled the ship and clambered into a lifeboat that was later rescued by the liner Carpathia. The spoon was handed
AMBITIOUS plans to restore one of Southampton's most historic buildings move a step closer today. Planners are set to discuss a scheme this Tuesday. The plan is to replace railings around Holyrood Church's Chancel and the memorial to the Titanic tragedy
IRREPLACEABLE plates from the White Star Line believed to have been used on Titanic's sister ship Olympic were stolen from a village hall. The two plates, each worth about £300 and identical to those seen in the blockbusting film Titanic, were stolen
Britain and the US have signed a treaty to protect the wreck of the Titanic, which sailed from Southampton, from looting. The treaty would set up regulations to control visits to the site, located in international waters about 225 miles off the coast
OLYMPIC'S sister ship Titanic, pictured above, is to be commemorated at a new heritage centre in the city where she was built. The project in the former shipyard area of Belfast, known as Titanic Quarter, will be the biggest development in Northern
LOTTERY players could win a £1m prize by supporting a Hampshire charity. The Jubilee Sailing Trust is one of the designated good causes that will benefit from the online charity lottery monday. Since its launch earlier this year the prize draw has raised
Born over a fish and chip shop in Rochdale she went on to become the highest-paid entertainer of her time and whenever she was in Southampton everyone wanted to see "Our Gracie''. To the people of Britain Dame Gracie Fields was more than a singer, she
GIRLS at one Southampton school have made a colourful mosaic tracing historical periods from prehistoric times to the present day. The year nine students at Regents Park Community College designed and completed the Local History and Heritage' themed
GREEDY New Forest ponies have been getting into tents at campsites to eat food. New Forest Commoners' Defence Association spokesman Michael Cooper told the Court of Verderers most incidents could be avoided if advice was posted at site entrances. He
ONE of only three living survivors of the Titanic disaster is to take part in the public unveiling of a pocket watch worn by a fellow passenger who was not so lucky. Millvina Dean, 93, of Woodlands, near Ashurst, will be among the guests at the London
A MENU from the first meal served on board Titanic fetched £45,000 at auction, a world record for memorabilia from the ill-fated Southampton liner. The menu from Titanic's first class restaurant is signed by the ship's Fifth Officer Harold Lowe. It
ONE of only two known blueprints of Titanic is expected to fetch thousands of pounds at an auction in Southampton. The 9ft-long document shows the ship in some of the finest detail ever seen right down to the plumbing. Alan Aldridge from auctioneers
Southampton liner Titanic will be resurrected at a science festival today. An audience at the Edinburgh International Science Festival will be among the first members of the public to smell the perfume, which was found near the wreck of the liner in
A campaign to save one of the Titanic's tug tenders has gained momentum. More than 500 people have now added their names to an online petition to save SS Nomadic. A Belfast-based organisation, Belfast Industrial Heritage, has launched its own campaign
First Course Canaps a l' Amiral Oysters a la Russe with vodka, lemon and hot sauce White Bordeaux, White Burgundy or Chablis (especially with oysters) Second Course Consomm Olga Cream of Barley Soup Madeira or Sherry Third Course Poached Salmon
COLLECTIONS of Titanic memorabilia from around the world could be displayed at Southampton's planned multi-million-pound heritage centre. There are firm plans which would see the Titanic tragedy take centre stage in the city's much heralded heritage
As Titanic slipped under to a watery grave beneath the Atlantic two Southampton seamen watched in horror. Keith Hamilton recalls their stories Nothing is more powerful than the words of those who were actually there as Titanic sank below the cold waters
Today's principal Southampton arrivals Equuleus Leader, vehicle, 0030, 34/35; Manon, vehicle, 0630, 34/35; New Orleans Express, container, 0700, 204; Autotransporter, roro, 0730, 203; APL Germany, container, 1230, 205; CEC Oceanic, roro, 1730, 102;
A GROUP of amateur sailors took to the water as part of their annual raft race in Southampton. Members of the St Denys Association braved the cold waters of the River Itchen to take part in the race to raise money for its children's Christmas party and
When we were little and we were mouthy to an adult they gave you a quick slap and that was it. If you told your parents they smacked you for being rude, but we had respect and we never behaved like children today. If you look back 20, 30 or 40 years
SEEING our attention being brought once more to those murals (Letters, September 13) reminded me of the repeated one depicting what always gives me on the impression of a forest fire with its coloured leaves' and flames' packed on top of each other!
It's nearly upon us: the return of the students! Yes, the new influx of 'freshers' (first years) for the University of Southampton will be arriving Saturday September 30th and Sunday October 1st. However may I take this opportunity to say a big welcome
IT is a slippery slope - age is creeping up and any excuse is good enough not to launch that battle against the bulge. However, for two of Hampshire's porkiest pets there is no more delay as they go on a mission to shed the pounds after winning a place
INVESTIGATORS probing a major fire at a block of flats being built in Southampton say they now believe it was an arson attack. The fire started at the development in Bursledon Road between Botley Road and Butt's Road. The blaze caused £500,000 damage
The England and Wales Cricket Board has confirmed it will not take any action against Shane Warne following the farcical end to Hampshire's championship season. Hampshire captain Warne was furious when Lancashire captain Mark Chilton did not declare
Eastleigh do not intend to take Saturday's red card fiasco at Newport County lying down. The Conference South club yesterday took the unusual step of issuing a press statement in the wake of a stormy afternoon in south Wales which saw three ex-Saints
GEORGE BURLEY has told Arsenal they will have to wait years if they want to get their hands on Saints starlet Gareth Bale. The 17-year-old was last night named in the senior Wales squad for the forthcoming European Championship qualifiers with Slovakia
Saints face QPR this weekend bidding to win a fifth consecutive match for the first time in over 25 years. League victories against Crystal Palace, Plymouth and Burnley along with a Carling Cup win against Millwall mean Saints currently stand on four
Michael Svensson will today attempt to play 90 minutes for Saints reserves. The Swedish centre half has found his latest comeback from horrendous knee problems slow going. The last time he played for the reserves he only lasted until half time when
A JUDGE described a defendant as one of the most dishonest women he had come across for some time. Judge Christopher Leigh QC said Sarah French had put up a defence in which she had sought to blame someone else and that had been rightly rejected by the
MAN who was found dead at a house in Horton Heath may have killed himself, an inquest heard. The body of granddad John Derek Sloper, 55, was found in the front bedroom of a property in Botley Road after a small fire broke out. Fire crews from Botley
ORGANISERS of an international motocross meeting could face legal action over the event which was marred by traffic chaos. Thousands of people were stuck for hours around Matterley Basin, east of Winchester after hundreds abandoned their vehicles on
A plan to paint double yellow lines across a village ford to stop holidaymakers parking their cars has split the community. A narrow majority welcomed the move at Watersplast Ford, in Borckenhurst, as a lesser of two evils, but others said it would complete
THE mother of a Hampshire woman killed by a sex attacker on early release from jail has won the right to a full inquest into her daughter's death. Anthony Rice murdered mother-of-one Naomi Bryant just nine months after he was freed from a 16-year jail
