Hampshire have captain Dimitri Mascarenhas available for tomorrow night's Twenty20 Cup match against Surrey at the Oval. After helping England secure the one-day series against the West Indies with a 58-run win at Edgbaston today, Mascarenhas
BUDDING Hampshire solo yachtsman Oscar Mead had a baptism of fire in the Original Singlehanded Transatlantic Race after being battered by 35-knot winds on the first night of the race. The 18-year-old, the youngest competitor ever to enter the
SOUTHAMPTON is set to have its very own comedy festival this summer. The event, in June, will include a week of preview shows from some of the most exciting comedy acts on the circuit. Opening the week, on Monday, June 15, The Comedy Bar and Jest
CARE chiefs are launching another bid to close two Southampton City Council care homes despite protests from angry residents and their families. Tory council chiefs gave the go ahead to shut the 55-bed Whitehaven Lodge and 33- bed Birch Lawn
AN extract from the Hampshire Chronicle, documenting the arrival of Titanic in Southampton, April 13, 1912. SOUTHAMPTON The new White Star triple-screw steamer Titanic, 46,328 tons, the largest vessel in the world, left Belfast on Tuesday
“IT WILL be your turn soon!” I’d only been with my boyfriend for a few months when I was his plus one at a wedding but it didn’t stop me from being on the receiving end of this phrase. I mumbled, shuffled awkwardly, probably blushed and made noise
WHILE most of us have been enjoying a glorious bank holiday weekend basking in the sunshine, spare a thought for the ice-cream sellers who have been working flat out to cool us down. As temperatures reached a sizzling 22 degrees yesterday and
POLICE are calling on late night revellers to help catch a man who carried out a harrowing sex attack on a woman. The 23-year-old victim was walking home after a night out with friends in Southampton when she was attacked as she walked along
You may remember the government announcing pension simplification in it’s A-Day a couple of years back. The intention was to make pensions and items such as SIPPs (self invested personal pension) as easy as possible and pull everything under one regime
THE Ropley pram race is now in its 44th year and still going strong. A near-record turnout of 63 entries blazed a trail around the village near Alresford yesterday. Starting in 1965, the race is believed to be the longest-running pram
IT will be the biggest test of public opinion in Hampshire outside of a general election. Voters now just days to decide who they want to put in the corridors of power at Hampshire County Council and the European Parliament It has been four years
YOU could rename it the Hollywood Festival of Speed with film legend Peter Fonda bringing the Easy Rider touch to Goodwood’s motoring classic this year. Fonda will be riding his Harley Davidson chopper from the 1969 big screen classic up the 1.16-mile
The second race in the SWSA dinghy evening series got underway off Weston Shore in a steady South West breeze and warm sunshine. Following a clean start, the fleet quickly separated into two main groups with Bram Sengers in a 420 and Constantino
With Venetian, French and Italian crew on the water, the second race in the Southampton Water Sailing Association evening series for sailing yachts took on a Mediterranean flavour, with copious sunshine and sunglasses donned. A South West
Almost inevitably, the weather interfered with the three-day Cowes Keelboat Regatta organised, as usual, by the Island Sailing Club over the Bank Holiday weekend. On the Saturday, race officer Mike Peskett set the three fleets away on a beat in a reasonable
POLICE have vowed to crackdown on prearranged student parties after up to 400 people gathered at a Hampshire beauty spot. The revellers, mainly from Peter Symonds College in Winchester, had congregated on St Catherine’s Hill in the city late
ESTHER Rantzen has confirmed she will "definitely" stand as an MP for Luton South - but only if the current MP stands. The I'm a Celebrity and That's Life star, 68, said she would stand against Margaret Moran after it was revealed she claimed
PETE’S* relationship finally broke down when his then partner took out a restraining order against him. He admits to having been verbally and physically abusive – he threw things at her, punched her, threw her to the floor and even bit her.
A BRITISH diver devoted to providing “new angles” to the Titanic story died after an underwater filming mission exploring her sister ship. The 37-year-old, named last night by the Greek merchant marine ministry as Carl Spencer, was part of a National
PIC ’n’ mix sweets could stage a return to Hampshire’s high streets after it emerged the former boss of failed retailer Woolworths planned to buy back its vacant stores and create a similar chain. Tony Page, previously managing director of the
WHEN restaurant worker Guang Hui Cao was jailed for a minimum of 33 years on Tuesday it was the end of a complex police probe that spanned the globe and uncovered an international betting scam. While the brutal murders took place in a Newcastle
THINK Sherlock Holmes and most people conjure an image of the tall, gaunt figure in a deerstalker hat walking the fog-filled streets of London. While the world’s most famous detective may have been at home amongst the capital’s Victorian alleyways
DETECTIVES are hunting two would-be-robbers after they demanded a man hand over his MP3 player. The victim, a 30-year-old man, was jogging along the disused railway track in Wickham. He took a diversion through a wooded area between the line and the
SEND me to prison. That was the shock request from a reformed drug addict who claimed he was desperate to turn his back on his life of crime. Benjamin McEwan, 23, pictured, was arrested in a police raid in Thornhill and found with £320 of heroin
AND they're off! Two Hampshire students yesterday made history as the youngest ever male and female competitors to start the Original Singlehanded Transatlantic Race - the world's oldest solo sailing challenge. Oscar Mead, 18, and Katie
A MAN who was left with a knife embedded in his face after a street brawl is recovering well, according to detectives. Officers leading the inquiry into how the man suffered the horrific injury say that he came through surgery well and was
THE RACE to buy Saints will hot up once more today as the Marc Jackson and Stuart Green consortium try to steal a march on their rivals. As revealed in Saturday’s Daily Echo, the group will be given access to Saints’ books before deciding
THE Government’s ‘scrappage scheme’ to encourage people to buy new cars is an unjustified use of public money, and sends the wrong signal on travel choices. In the late 1990s, nearly all of Britain’s bicycle production closed down and went overseas.
READING recent newspaper reports on new national guidelines for police enforcement of the Hunting Act made me wonder how many journalists actually read the guidelines before simply re-hashing the pro hunting spin released by the Countryside Alliance and
RICHARD Grant of the LibDems wrote (Echo April 11) that the United Kingdom should be in the European Union, as one of its 27 member states, because “this country has always been European.....as a land mass, we were joined to France’’. That was long
NEVER mind a vote of no-confidence in the House of Commons Speaker (that is, the chairman of the House of Commons), I know I am not alone in thinking many of our politicians in parliament have their snouts in the trough, and should be sacked at the very
A HAMPSHIRE MP has backed calls for a change in the law that means a wrongly imprisoned man must pay rent for his time locked up. Sean Hodgson, pictured right, was freed earlier this year after it was proved he was not the man responsible for
A RISING tide of dissatisfaction with the EU could also harm the main parties, according to a recent poll. Hampshire voters will help choose ten £63,000-a-year members of the European Parliament to represent the south-east for the next five
HAMPSHIRE was the target for a bank holiday military invasion. But this was a friendly affair as the Trucks and Troops Show returned for its third year at Beaulieu’s National Motor Museum. Staged by the South Hampshire Area of the Military Vehicle Trust
PLANS to provide a £11m state-of-the-art primary school for children with special educational needs have taken a major step forward. Hampshire County Council has approved the design of the new complex, which will include therapy rooms, a multi-sensory
IT COULD unlock a hive of Hampshire radio talent. Youngsters across Hampshire are being asked to voice their own radio commercial for Marwell Wildlife. The competition, being run by Wave 105, is part of Marwell’s name-changing celebrations and all
A HAMPSHIRE gardening firm has been rewarded for its close links with a disability charity. The Range in Winchester Road, Southampton, was presented with a Partner of the Month award from Enham. The charity works to provide disabled people with
