EWAN Browlie was last year's winner of the Persimmon Hamble Rotary Club Cup, a competition for young golfers which will be taking place for a sixth time at Swanmore GC on June 1. Persimmon Homes South Coast is inviting young golfers from across Hampshire
Former Moneyfields 'bad boy' James Dunk lapsed into old ways for Newport IoW on Saturday, costing the relegation strugglers dear in a 4-1 home defeat by Metropolitan Police. The Islanders had been coping well with their play-off chasing visitors until
Gosport grabbed a 1-0 victory at Bournemouth Poppies courtesy of Neil Scammell, while Bemerton HH (Stuart Findlay) and Moneyfields (Jason Clements) slugged out a 1-1 draw.
SHANE WARNE and his Australian team-mates were again frustrated by rain on the final day of the 2nd Test in Wellington today. The wet weather ruined much of the last two days of a game which saw New Zealand close on 48-3 in their second innings after
IN this great sequel to the hit comedy, FBI agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) is now the celebrity face of the FBI. Doing more talk shows than crime fighting, she is thrust back into the action when her friends from the pageant are kidnapped.
THOUSANDS of lorry drivers in Hampshire are bracing themselves for a huge shake-up in their hours. The introduction of the sweeping EU Road Transport Directive in less than a fortnight is widely expected to cost the haulage industry £1 billion in compliance
A SOUTHAMPTON store popular with gizmo geeks is still up and running after its parent company went into administration - but jobs remain at risk. The clock is now ticking for the handful of staff at the WestQuay branch unless a buyer is found for the
EASTLEIGH kept on course for the Ryman Premier play-offs with a 2-1 result at Harrow Borough - and then dedicated victory to injured player/assistant manager David Hughes. The popular ex-Saints midfielder is out for the rest of the season - and possibly
Downton lost 2-1 at BAT after Robins striker Dan Newman put an 85th-minute penalty the wrong side of the post. Matt Czaska rammed home a 25-yard effort to put the Baccy boys ahead midway through the first half, Luke Hatchman levelled early in the second
RESIDENTS in a village near Winchester are being tempted in another multi-million-pound development bonanza. A developer is offering seven-figure sums for properties in Kings Worthy as it prepares a plot for 110-120 new homes, one of the biggest schemes
ALRESFORD'S status as the watercress capital of the UK will be confirmed by the forthcoming festival celebrating the salad crop. The third annual event takes place between May 15 and 21. The week will be opened by local TV celebrity Charlie Dimmock and
GET ready, Aston Martin lovers, Bonhams is about to offer you an exclusive opportunity to acquire a single-owner collection of nine commemorative hand-built Aston Martin V8 models. The collection - privately commissioned in 1987 in order to celebrate
A GROUP of students from Las Vegas are enjoying an exchange visit with Bitterne Park School. Twenty-three students from the Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts are visiting Southampton for nine days, and each is staying with the family of a pupil. The
PLACES will be snapped up quickly at Ampfield CE Primary School. That's the message from parents and governors at the 108-year-old school, who learned yesterday that it was to be saved. As reported in later editions of the Daily Echo yesterday, the tiny
THE reigning Wessex champions won the battle of the big guns in Berkshire. A 22nd-minute header by Jamie Musselwhite from a Liam Green corner was enough to give leaders Winchester a 1-0 success in their summit meeting with third-placed AFC Newbury at
Goals from Sam Critchell, Steve Blythe and Keith Middleton eased Hamworthy to a 3-1 success against Alton who replied through Simon Chivers.
IT'S AN event across the English Channel packed with glitz, glamour and famous movie stars - but this year the Cannes Film Festival will feature a talented group from much closer to home. A documentary about musicians and managers from a Hampshire band
A HAMPSHIRE school has launched a new Internet learning facility to better assist pupils and their parents. More than 50 delegates visited Wildern School in Hedge End for a conference day to show schools across the country the benefits of its unique Virtual
Sir.-I have just received my water bill for the first half of the year, and am shocked. As a single person, and a pensioner, I live in a small two-bedroomed maisonette and my annual charge is now £214.38. I have consulted South East Water's news archive
Sir.-What on earth has happened to the Crabtree Plantation? For years, I have walked through the beautiful, thick forest enjoying the different seasons and watching all the wildlife, only to find, when I returned recently, that pretty much of the forest
FORMER Saints defender Dean Richards has been forced to retire on medical grounds after suffering with a long-term ear infection and dizzy spells for most of the season. The 30-year-old Spurs centre half, who underwent tests for a suspected brain tumour
THE Sprint ST has never made compromises - it's defied them. It's a sports bike that covers distance, a touring bike that carves corners. It possesses a truly usable mix of poise, power and all-round practicality. And this sheer competence is no mere
MUSEUM openings tend to be rather stiff and stuffy events where invited guests gather before an exhibit and expound learned facts. Not so when Ulsterman Sammy Miller picked St Patrick's Day to open the new Racing Gallery at his museum. It was more like
The crippling cost of childcare is making some mums think twice about returning to work. KATE THOMPSON talks to two women about the choices they made... LOOKING after young children is a costly business. A recent report showed the average cost of bringing
ISLE OF WIGHT breaststroker Darren Mew defied two injuries as well as the odds to book his place on the British team for the world championships in Montreal in July. Mew, 25, saw off three fellow Olympians to win the 100m breaststroke at the British championships
A Peter Wood hat-trick helped Fareham to a 4-0 spree against Brockenhurst. Wood's glancing header from a James Lacey cross set Fareham on their way after 32 minutes and a curling 20-yard free-kick by Dean Blake doubled their advantage before the break
IF EVER computer animation was suited to bringing to life anything in particular, it's got to be robots, and a world in which everything created from something rigidly industrial is somehow magically alive. The possibilities of this world, where there's
Today's Principal Arrivals: MOL Priority, container, 1200, 204; Morning Sapphire, vehicle carrier, 1230, 40; CFF Seine, ro/ro, 1830, 30; Sirius Leader, ro/ro, 1900, 43; Achtergracht, cargo, 2130, 25 Today's Principal Sailings: Crystal Ray, vehicle carrier
ONE of Southampton's leading commercial property agents is warning operators of pubs and clubs that they could be hit in the pocket under 24/7 opening hours from November. Applications are being put to licensing authorities from now until August 6 to
ISLE OF WIGHT anglers cleaned up in the 200-peg Allan's Marine open at Southsea. They took four of the top five prizes, although the £1,000 winner's cheque went to Alan Smith from Worthing. Smith couldn't hide his delight as peg 106 came out of the draw
BOSSES at a Winchester college are celebrating earning the title of university. University College Winchester has been told it meets the criteria and hopes to be known as University of Winchester. The Privy Council must now approve the move but it is
A WATERSIDE schoolgirl has criticised council bosses for spending £700,000 on a tourist attraction when safety improvements are needed on a nearby road which claimed the life of a pensioner. Katie Dorritt, 13, lives just metres from the A326, where Frank
ONE of Britain's most promising young cave divers has died in an accident. Hampshire man Colin Pryer, 29, failed to return to the surface after attempting to dive a series of caves in the Yorkshire Dales. Colin, who grew up in Chandler's Ford, had quickly
A GARDEN pond in which a Hampshire toddler drowned has been drained within hours of his death. The family of two-year-old Ashley Chaney has already had the pond filled and plans to transform it into a memorial flower garden. Ashley's devastated dad announced
THIS group of young musicians is one of 34 groups that will be appearing at the Music For Youth Festival in Southampton today and tomorrow. The Ballard School Bells from Ballard School in New Milton hope that their handbell ringing will impress two assessors
WHEN Douglas Morrison takes his seat behind the imposing desk in his office in ABP's Ocean Gate Southampton headquarters, he will be entitled to feel he has arrived after a 37-year journey. A bustling, fun-loving Scot, he has devoted his entire career
HARRY REDKNAPP has given his blessing to Sir Clive Woodward taking on a future role at Saints. It has been widely reported Woodward has agreed a two-year deal to work with the academy after leading the British Lions tour of New Zealand this summer, although
Virgin Mobile Samsung Yamaha riders chat with Jacqui Rose... AUDI hosted the launch of this year's British Superbike Championships in London last week, and what a cracker is promised with improved TV coverage. Extra coverage is not only being provided
Two years ago, the police knocked on Marilyn Hawes' front door and turned her world upside down. CATHY WALLACE tells her story 'MUMS are supposed to protect their children. I had freely allowed mine access to a sex abuser." When Thames Valley police knocked
A former RAF pilot has battled with HCC and now they will change their charging system. KATE THOMPSON reports... A PILE of paperwork on the table represents the correspondence Donald Wright has had with Hampshire County for the past four and a half years
TWO golfers who have dominated the Hampshire PGA order of merit in recent years teamed up to win the first event of the new season - the HPGA Winter Fourball at South Winchester. Jonathan Barnes and Kevin Saunders steamed to an eight-under-par score of
The season blasts off at Smallbrook tonight as the Isle of Wight stage the JT Commercials Solent Pairs at 7 7.30pm. It should have been a friendly against an Italian Touring team but complications back in Italy meant a late change in the programme. All
No, the above scoreline from the Wessex Division One at the weekend is not a mistake or a mis-print. And the SWL's record-breaking score draw certainly didn't have either manager purring about six-y football! "We were dreadful!" fumed Islanders boss Derek
NEWPORT IoW are hoping to persuade Navy striker Fraser Quirke back to the Island to bolster their Ryman League Division 1 survival fight. The former Bashley player/assistant manager has been regaining fitness with Wessex Division 2 outfit US Portsmouth
Back in 1977 there was hit record in Southampton sung by an unlikely-sounding group of local folk musicians called Gutta Percha and the Balladeers, and it celebrated the passing of a great institution - the old floating bridge. Last week a Hampshire Heritage
LICENSING By Design (LBD), one of the UK's top independent licensing agencies, has appointed Winchester based public relations agency MCC International to implement an extensive new consumer and trade campaign for this year. That will include an innovative
A SHORTAGE of development land is hindering new industrial and warehouse schemes around Southampton and Eastleigh, it emerged today. Adrian Whitfield, associate director of Southampton-based commercial property agent Holland Mitchell, raised his concerns
THERE was more controversy at the Portway Stadium where Andover queezed home 3-2 against a Hamble ASSC who were unlucky to lose. The Lions' winning goal midway through the second half by Vince Rusher came after the Andover man had moved the ball for his
LYMINGTON & New Milton hitman Michael Jackson ruthlessly gunned down his old club Totton - and now the towering Romsey lad has another familiar target in his sights. It looks as if the Wessex title race is boiling down to a straight fight between
A Peter Wood hat-trick helped Fareham to a 4-0 spree against Brockenhurst. Wood's glancing header from a James Lacey cross set Fareham on their way after 32 minutes and a curling 20-yard free-kick by Dean Blake doubled their advantage before the break
DAVE Wakefield's third Bashley goal in the space of five days so nearly carried the Foresters to victory at Dulwich Hamlet. But Geoff Butler's men were pegged back to 1-1 by Paul Scott two minutes from time and then needed a late goalline clearance from
THE Driver Standards Agency (DSA) is leading the UK's involvement within the EU in the development of a training directive aimed at compulsory initial training and periodic retraining of professional drivers of lorries, buses, minibuses and coaches. Once
TWO High Court decisions confirmed that a motorised scooter which is similar to a child's scooter, but propelled by either an internal combustion engine or an electric motor, is a motor vehicle within the meaning of Section 185 of the Road Traffic Act
THE Freight Transport Association has welcomed the news that the compulsory fitment of digital tachographs has been delayed by two years. FTA chief executive Richard Turner says that the adopted decision of the European Parliament's Transport Committee
A PRICELESS collection of historical documents has been unearthed during the restoration of a listed building in the New Forest. The documents, many of which chart the development of the Lymington area in the 1920s, were found in a row of bin bags. Professional
BRITAIN'S hottest new comedian Jimmy Carr brings his dry, candid humour to The Anvil in Basingstoke as part of his latest UK tour on June 10. Since leaving work as a psychotherapist and becoming a stand-up comedian in 1998, Jimmy Carr, pictured, has won
WHOEVER knew that former footballer Chris Kamara could sing? Well, the now television sports presenter showed he can stretch his vocal chords with some of the best of them as he starred in a one-off variety night of entertainment in Southampton. The Mayflower
SOUTHAMPTON'S premier theatre The Mayflower has announced two exciting new shows that will be appearing there this year. Between June 21 and 25, brand new musical Dancing in the Streets makes its debut with the best soul and funky Motown music in town
MORE than 80 parents demanded that a Southampton school is left untouched in a planned shake-up to tackle surplus places due to declining birth rates. Parents at Redbridge Primary school attended the third of four public meetings held as part of a review
COUPLES unable to have children are being turned away from Hampshire's only fertility clinic - because they are considered too old. The Wessex Fertility Clinic, pictured, in Southampton has revised its policy of treating infertile couples who are waiting
HEALTH and safety bosses have launched an investigation after a Hampshire freight depot worker had part of his leg amputated in a work accident. As reported in yesterday's Daily Echo, the man was believed to have been caught under a rear wagon of a goods
TWENTY-six posts are to be axed in the BBC South region as part of the broadcasting corporation's nationwide cull of 2,050 jobs. Bosses will now start identifying which jobs will have to go as part of the plans to save £221m by 2008. Although no final
ROMSEY has officially been granted Fairtrade status - making it one of the first 100 towns in the country to be committed to securing a fair deal for Third World traders. Businesses and individuals have all helped earn the right to display the distinctive
RESIDENTS have hit out at plans for a supermarket in Fareham town centre saying it will cause traffic chaos. An application has been lodged to build a 40,000 sq ft Tesco store on the former foundry site off of Quay Street roundabout. Many fear it will
POLICE have stepped up their high visibility patrols in the Chandler's Ford area following a spate of burglaries. Four homes were targeted within one week - two in Hursley Road, one in Hiltingbury Road and another in a close in Thornbury Wood. Detectives
Sir.-I am deeply concerned to read of how the PC brigade wish not only to deny people the right to smoke in specially-assigned smoking rooms at the borough council but also prevent anyone from doing so in the area surrounding the buildings. Whatever next
Sir.-Are the "powers that be" trying to halt all traffic in Basingstoke? I live in Worting and travel to work in Kingsclere Road (close to the railway station), normally via Roman Road. However, there are two sets of traffic lights and roadworks on this
Sir.-I would like to add my voice to the subject of the appalling mechanical hedge cutting going on within the borough. In particular, I wish to bring attention to the hedge along Bartons Lane, above the Mill Field conservation area. My concern is not
Sir.-I write with regard to the article in Monday's Gazette, about police spending time in Hook talking to residents. I have lived in Sherborne St John for the past 40 years, and in this time I have seen a lot of changes in this village. Myself, and several
THE attraction of Sir Clive Woodward is there for all to see. Passion, leadership, a meticulous attention to detail and revolutionary thinking were all evident in him masterminding one of this country's finest sporting achievements when England lifted
SAINTS fans are welcoming the likely arrival of Sir Clive Woodward - as long as Harry Redknapp is happy. Redknapp quit Pompey following the arrival of Velimir Zajec last November and there was concern that the Saints manager might be unhappy at Woodward's
