IT WAS open house on the Lord Nelson this week as the Jubilee Sailing Trust held a reception to thank the local business community for its support. As the Tall Ships have been gathering in Southampton, the Sailing Trust invited local businessmen and women
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A HIGH seas adventure on a trip of lifetime has already begun for hundreds of young people from around the world gathered in Southampton for Tall Ships 2000. The crews, many just teenagers, will face the awesome power of the wind and waves as the mighty
TEENAGE thugs are making a disabled Hampshire woman's life such a misery that she is afraid to go out of her own home. Jill Vine says that because she has cerebral palsy and has difficulty communicating, youngsters are targeting her Millbrook home just
A METAL detecting enthusiast is set to appeal after an inquest declared that the Bronze Age gold ring he found was Crown property. David Palmer, 56, found a gold ring in a field near Braishfield, Hampshire, while searching with fellow members of the Hampshire
A POPULAR caf on the edge of the New Forest is set to reopen after a successful campaign by villagers. The district council has lifted a planning condition which stated that the business should be run by a local clergyman. Now the Coffee Shop in Hampton
THE first piece of turf has been cut in a grand project dedicated to the Queen. Southampton mayor Derek Burke ceremonially started work on the £67,000 Queen's Peace Fountain which is being built in Andrews Park. The fountain will mark 55 years of peace
TORIES have complained to Winchester City Council over their publication of a newsletter that they claim is Liberal Democrat propaganda. The Conservatives have written to the council's solicitor Stephen Whetnall complaining the publication of the Insight
Matthew Le Tissier is facing a hernia operation in a bid to get himself fully fit and firing for the start of next season. Doctors have still to decide exactly when the Saints star will go under the knife but it could even be before the end of the campaign
TIME trialists will be back on the A338 between Ringwood and Bournemouth this Sunday, trying out a newly approved 25-mile course in a well established event first organised by Bournemouth Arrow CC over 50 years ago. Ringwood has been a favoured spot for
A COMEDY night out has raised plenty of smiles at a special Hampshire riding school which helps local children with diabetes and other illnesses. The Hampshire Riding Therapy Centre was helped by members of the Southern Chartered Accountants Students'
SUITE success looks on the cards for a Hampshire School which has just received a £6,200 donation towards its new computer suite. Headteacher at Locks Heath Infants School Chris Hatton said: "It's a wonderful bonus - especially as we had only put in for
RESIDENTS of a Whiteley street have sent out a plea to their local council to replant an area stripped of woodland. Homeowners in Burmese Close are angry that the trees and shrubs have been uprooted and cleared away by Fareham Borough Council. The council
In Port Today's principal arrivals: NOL Coral, container, 0200, 205; Fides, ro-ro, 0200, 202; Bunga Pelangi, container, 0430, 206; Queen Elizabeth 2, liner, 0630, 38/9; Montlhery, ro-ro, 1100, 201; Arklow Meadow, general cargo, 1115, Marchwood; Beate,
A NEW firm of solicitors has been born in Southampton. It is called Christopher Green McCarrahers. The new firm is in succession to the former well-established practices of McCarrahers and Christopher Green and Partners, and to introduce the new venture
SOUTHAMPTON'S brand new superliner, P&O Cruises' £200 million Aurora, makes her spectacular arrival in the port on Sunday. The shipping line is hoping that thousands will turn out to greet the ship which will become a familiar sight on the city's
MORE than 400 jobs are set to be created through two new developments in Southampton. The jobs boost will come from an enterprise centre and a new marine centre - which together are worth much more than £3 million. City regeneration chiefs gave their
KEITH HAMILTON looks through past editions of the Echo and reviews the issues which made the headlines. 50 Years Ago Southampton's Forum cinema in Above Bar and the Broadway in Portswood were both showing Esther Williams and Red Skelton in Neptune's Daughter
SELF-EMPLOYED taxi driver Lesley Kilford is £2,300 richer. The Southampton woman is the latest winner in The Daily Echo's Find The Ball competition. Mrs Kilford, from Manor Road, Woolston, scooped the prize for coming closest in the contest. She said:
Neil Moss is turning the clock back as he aims to help Saints ensure their Premiership future. It was this time last year that the young goalkeeper came in for Paul Jones and performed heroics in goal to launch the side on their Great Escape from seemingly
The cream of Hampshire's dinghy and keelboat sailors gather in Weymouth this weekend for the Chernikeeff Sailing Regatta - trials to decide who will represent Britain at September's 2000 Olympics. Sailors in three classes in the British team, Shirley
THE SPIRIT of John Merricks will be ever-present at Cowes Week this year after the Southampton-based sponsors Skandia Life selected the John Merricks Sailing Trust (JMST) as official regatta charity. A regular competitor at Cowes Week before his tragic
GENEROUS locals have shelled out to replace Easter eggs stolen in a raid on a Hampshire school. Pupils at Fairisle Junior School, Lordshill, Southamp-ton, were broken-hearted when burglars took some 40 chocolate eggs donated for a raffle. But now the
A DISCO at a top Eastleigh nightspot is set to drive home a two-pronged message to local youngsters. The SNAP - Say No and Phone - event at Martines 2 on Monday evening is being organised locally by a partnership of Hampshire police, Eastleigh Council
PUPILS from Kings' School in Winchester have gone on a trip-of-a-lifetime rugby tour of South Africa. The 38 boys and five teachers jetted off on Thursday in to Cape Town for 17 days where they will then travel around the country playing five matches
