Alan Mew's good form is showing no signs of letting up - his final day 65 at the Bad Ragaz Open in Switzerland yesterday earned him another top ten finish on the PGA European Seniors Tour. The Stoneham man, pictured left, carded a best-of-the-day 65,
DORCHESTER Town may have won the battle to sign former AFC Bournemouth youngster Matt Tubbs, but it didn't stop them plummeting to a 3-0 defeat at Bashley on Saturday. The 19-year-old, who was also high on Salisbury City's wanted list, was outshone in
SIMON KATICH says table-topping Hampshire Hawks will be disappointed if they don't now end the county's 11-year wait for silverware. The Hawks went to the head of the National League Division Two yesterday with a crushing 116-run win against Somerset
EASTLEIGH wrapped up their pre-season campaign with a trouble-free 2-1 victory at Lymington & New Milton on Saturday. It was another pleasing win for the Dr Martens Eastern Division new boys but, more importantly for assistant manager David Hughes
PAUL TERRY saw his Hampshire Hawks go top of the National League Division Two and admitted: "Promotion is in our hands now." The Hampshire manager said: "If we keep performing we will get promoted. "It is good to get on a roll in this competition. "But
Former Saints and Tottenham midfielder David Howells has joined Havant & Waterlooville. The Guildford-born 35-year-old, who was forced out of the professional game by injury, made his debut in Saturday's 5-0 romp over the Metropolitan Police at Imber
ANGRY assistant manager Tommy Killick branded Salisbury "second best" after seeing Whites outplayed in a 2-0 defeat at Wessex new boys Winchester City. "We were very disappointing and none of our players came away with any credit," he fumed. Ex-Saint
BAT are within 37 points of regaining the ECB Southern Electric Premier League crown from Havant. A thumping eight-wicket win over seemingly-doomed Calmore Sports has left them 29 points clear of second-placed Bournemouth with three games to go. An undefeated
John Robinson cracked a century and Tony Richman returned a league-best 7-25 as Paultons dropped Ports-mouth II deeper in the Division 3 relegation mire. Robinson, the Premier 3 Cricketer of the Month award-winner in June, rattled up his second league
The heat took its toll as Saints finished off their pre-season friendly programme with an energy-sapping 1-0 win over Parma. Just over 15,000 fans gave up laying in their gardens for the greenhouse heat of St Mary's on Saturday afternoon but it was just
THE last woman to be hanged in Britain, who lived part of her life in Warsash, is to have her murder conviction reviewed at the Court of Appeal. Ruth Ellis was 28 when she was convicted of gunning down her lover David Blakely outside the Magdala pub in
THE oldest woman in Bramley celebrated her 105th birthday yesterday. Ellen Miller, who has lived in Bramley Dene Residential Home, in Coopers Lane, since she was 98, spent the day reminiscing about her life with family and friends with a party and birthday
MORE than 80 jobs have been saved - many of them in south Hampshire - after car parts firm Motor World snapped up a string of branches of rival Les Smith from administrators. Motor World announced that it had bought 21 stores across the south-east, including
A SOUTHAMPTON company specialising in yacht sail branding has been named as one of the UK's Top 10 women-owned businesses. Trudy Cook, who set up Ocean Art six years ago, is now just one step away from scooping the top prize of £10,000 after successfully
DORCHESTER Town may have won the battle to sign former AFC Bournemouth youngster Matt Tubbs, but it didn't stop them plummeting to a 3-0 defeat at Bashley on Saturday. The 19-year-old, who was also high on Salisbury City's wanted list, was outshone in
WINCHESTER has struck gold yet again in the Southern England in Bloom competition. However, the city looks unlikely to be in with a chance of keeping the accolade for a second year running after half of the organisers decided to quit. Five of the ten
A DEDICATED eco warrior brought traffic to a standstill in Winchester city centre in a bid to raise awareness of the ongoing protest at Bar End. Self-styled druid king Arthur Pendragon, 49, paid his respects to the King Alfred statue on The Broadway,
A LONG shopping list aimed at revitalising Hampshire's neglected coastal village of Calshot has been drawn up by New Forest District Council. The council's planning policies for the future are due to go before a public inquiry in September and the aims
BOMB disposal experts were called to a Hampshire beach to defuse a flare that landed near thousands of people watching the traditional fireworks finale to Cowes Week. Police set up a 50-metre exclusion zone on Calshot Beach after the device crashed down
SOUTHAMPTON Musical Society celebrates its 75th anniversary next month by returning to the venue where it gave its first performance. The prestigious amateur group will chart the history of the society and the part it has played in the city with a one-off
A LEADING Southampton clergyman was beaten up outside his own home. City rector Ian Johnson, pictured above, today spoke of his shock about the attack in which he was punched four times in the face, knocking his spectacles to the floor. "The lad just
AN INQUIRY was under way today after a 30-year-old Southampton man drowned off a packed beach. The victim, who has not been formally named by police, apparently got into difficulties while swimming in the sea off Bournemouth around 7pm on Friday. It is
JOB fears grew at an Hampshire rail depot today after the French owners confirmed plans to halve its 10,000-strong UK workforce. More than 500 staff at Eastleigh's railway works have been on tenterhooks as their employer, heavy engineering group Alstom
THEY are multiplying like - rabbits. Now an animal charity is appealing for help to find homes for some of the huge numbers of stray and unwanted bunnies in Hampshire Staff at the RSPCA's Stub-bington Ark near Fareham are struggling to cope with the constant
A HAMPSHIRE furniture store is hoping to raise hundreds of pounds for charity with an exclusive chair signed by the housemates from television's Big Brother 4. DeeCee Upholstery's La-Z-Boy Cool chair featured on Big Brother's Little Brother and was also
ANGRY assistant manager Tommy Killick branded Salisbury "second best" after seeing Whites outplayed in a 2-0 defeat at Wessex new boys Winchester City. "We were very disappointing and none of our players came away with any credit," he fumed. Ex-Saint
JOB fears grew at Eastleigh's rail depot today after the French owners confirmed plans to halve their 10,000-strong UK workforce. More than 500 staff at the railway works have been on tenterhooks as their employer, heavy engineering group Alstom, battles
IT MIGHT look like an ordinary fence. However, it has brought much-needed peace to a group of Eastleigh's senior citizens. Up to now residents at Reginald Mitchell Court on the Boyatt Wood estate have found sitting in their back garden a nightmare. Yobs
A NEW 25-metre telecoms mast is to appear on the skyline at Hardings Lane, Fair Oak - less than 30 metres from an existing installation in nearby Stoke Park Woods. Eastleigh civic chiefs reluctantly granted temporary planning permission to Airwave MM02
After a comfortable 2-0 win over Dutch giants Feyenoord at a sweltering Fratton Park on Saturday, Pompey boss Harry Redknapp revealed he was still trying to bring in two or three new faces this week to complete his squad. Redknapp said: "It was an encouraging
SIMON KATICH might not be a regular in the all-conquering Australian team, but yesterday amid sweltering conditions at Taunton he showed exactly why he would walk into any other international side. Opening the batting for the Hawks, he produced a wonderful
Raj Naik struck a superb 98 not out to steer Old Tauntonians & Romsey to a tense six-wicket win at Burridge and keep St Cross Symondians at bay in the chase for the Southern Electric Premier Division 2 championship. But only four points separate OTs
Newport IoW's need for an extra striker was underlined again as they fell 2-0 to a Molesey side managed by ex-Port midfielder Steve Moss. Having lost out in their quest to sign Leigh Phillips from Salisbury, the Islanders have switched their attention
Ed Bruce is spending his Eton College summer holidays re-writing the Hampshire Young Cricketers' Under-16 record books. Fresh from becoming the first batsman to score back-to-back centuries, Bruce has now helped set a new massive record opening partnership
Richard Scott produced an inspired individual performance as Bournemouth crushed the Hampshire Academy by nine wickets at the Rose Bowl to power into second place in the ECB Southern Electric Premier League. Scott broke up the Academy's middle-order resistance
THE chairman of an organisation which wants to create a self-financing community for homeless people in Hampshire has vowed to continue searching for a suitable site in the Basingstoke area. Alison Thompson, of Emmaus Hampshire, said the organisation
Today's Principal Arrivals: Lyke Innovator, container, 0600, 205; Queen Elizabeth 2, passenger liner, 0630, 38/9; Sand Serin, dredger, 0830, No. 7 Dry Dock; Sloman Trader, ro/ro, 1000, 102; Nedlloyd Newark, container, 1100, 206; Angela J, container, 1700
ONYX Environmental Group's landfill site at Southleigh, near Havant, is to almost double the amount of electricity it delivers to Hampshire's National Grid in an ambitious plan that represents an investment of £2.1m. Onyx's cutting-edge approach to recovering
EASTLEIGH wrapped up their pre-season campaign with a trouble-free 2-1 victory at Lymington & New Milton on Saturday. It was another pleasing win for the Dr Martens Eastern Division new boys but, more importantly for assistant manager David Hughes
TWO heroin addicts who moved a dead friend from a Winchester flat have been acquitted of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Scott Spiers, 30, and Amy Tilley, 19, carried the body of Stuart Swann from the flat in Forder Court, St Cross Road,
A MAN died after his car struck the central reservation of a busy stretch of the A34 in Hampshire. The 49-year-old had been driving a red Peugeot 306 when it hit the crash barrier on the southbound carriageway near the Whitchurch slip-road just after
SOME of Britain's top dogs were given the best treatment to keep them cool as temperatures soared to the 90s at Brockenhurst. The organisers of the Championship Dog Show pulled out all the stops by making sure that there was plenty of water available.
PLANS for 30 new bedrooms for the elderly at a home in Ringwood have been drawn up as part of a £60m Hampshire scheme to find 500 new nursing-home beds. Hampshire County Council has applied to New Forest Council for planning permission for the 30-bed
A CLASSIC tale of infant savagery is brought to life in Southampton this weekend by Hampshire Youth Theatre. Lord of the Flies, adapted from William Golding's original novel by Nigel Williams, is staged at the Nuffield Theatre on Friday and Saturday following
As You Like It, Titchfield Festival Theatre, Titchfield Abbey TITCHFIELD Festival Theatre round off their summer season of open-air Shakespeare with their strongest offering yet, As You Like It. This comedy of boy (Orlando, played by Richard Deffee) meets
THE FUNERAL of a Southampton dad who drowned off a packed beach was taking place this afternoon. Hundreds of people were expected to turn out at a city Hindu temple to say farewell to Muzaer Majid, 30, pictured above, who died after getting into difficulties
SEA breezes stopped the mercury hitting record-breaking highs in Hampshire this weekend. As a scorching 37.9C (100F) was recorded at Heathrow Airport yesterday - officially the hottest day in British history - temperatures on the south coast remained
CAMPAIGNING residents have lost their battle to prevent Victorian houses in Southampton being bulldozed to make way for two blocks of flats. Scores of householders in Weston Grove Road in Woolston were backed by ward councillors in their fight to save
THEY have plagued motorists for 31 months, but the roadworks on Southampton's Mount-batten Way flyover have also proved a headache for the engineers given the task of fixing the problem. When a car smashed into the bridge parapet in the run-up to Christmas
RESIDENTS are calling on Fareham Council to reinstate their car parking rights after planning bosses slapped a time limit on the spaces they currently use. Homeowners at Mitre Court have gradually seen their car park whittled away to make way for a housing
FAREHAM police have issued an urgent warning to pensioners after a conman posing as a gas company worker stole £115 from a 74-year-old woman. The frail pensioner let the thief into her home in Spring Vale, Swanmore, after he asked to check her gas, electricity
THE last woman to be hanged in Britain, who lived part of her life in Warsash, is to have her murder conviction reviewed at the Court of Appeal. Ruth Ellis was 28 when she was convicted of gunning down her lover David Blakely outside the Magdala pub in
RADICAL plans have been revealed for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's new HQ in Curdridge, which will showcase cutting-edge green technology. As previously reported in the Daily Echo, the charity has been given the green light by planning
A "Learn to Fish Day" aimed to reel in a new breed of angler in Eastleigh at the weekend. Laying the bait at the town's Lakeside Country Park was the Environment Agency which joined forces with the National Federation of Anglers (NFA) and the Eastleigh
IT is a Southampton story of amazing fortitude and courage, a tale of ships, wrecks and survivors who battled against all the odds. The saga has been thoroughly researched by keen maritime historian, Charles Cook who lives in Toronto, Canada. He is the
Saints midfielder Rory Delap reflected on his second winning goal in a week and admitted: "I know I must get more. The Republic of Ireland international fired home from 20 yards in the 18th minute of Saints' final pre-season friendly against Parma on
