SOUTHAMPTON-based insurance group Skandia Life is to sponsor Leopard 2000, the 90ft ocean-racing maxi yacht built by Green Marine at Spitfire Quay. Racing under the name Skandia, the innovative carbon fibre, water ballasted yacht will be making a bid
In Port Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Clare, ro-ro, 0530, Marchwood; Seabourn Sun, cruise liner, 0615, 38/9; Turandot, vehicle carrier, 0730, 40/41; Cap Changuinola, refrigerat, 0800, 104; Jarikaba, refrigerat, 1100, 101W; Francop, container
HAMPSHIRE youngster Jade Bell is all smiles after sweeping to victory in a model search competition. The 12-year-old is keen to break into the modelling world - and she will be carefully chaperoned by her mother if she makes it. "I want Jade not to be
RUNNING a marathon can be a painful experience, but one Fareham woman is prepared to break the pain barrier for a good cause - if she can attract enough corporate sponsorship to aid her athletic efforts. Mum-of-two Susan Tucker, 39, who chairs the Fareham
THEY had never met - but they were wined and dined for a romantic evening before settling down for a night at the pictures. Danella Oflanagan and Steve Arnold were the lucky blind date couple who were picked out of the hat in a Daily Echo competition
CHANGES in government policy could mean a boost for the £148 million super tram system in the Fareham-Gosport area, it is claimed. Gosport councillor Peter Langdon has welcomed reports that support is growing in Whitehall for urban light rail rapid transit
There's plenty at stake tonight as Saints Reserves travel to Nottingham Forest with at least four players pushing their claims for Sunday's Premiership clash at Leeds. Skipper Jason Dodd plays his first game since having a knee operation little more than
John Beresford will tonight unveil a revolutionary new training aid which he hopes will soon become a necessity at all levels from schools football right through to the professional game. The Saints defender has sunk £30,000 of his own money into the
LODDON VALE strode through to the fifth round of the Denny Cup with a splendid 84-67 victory over Camberley. The Hampshire club always had the edge but led by the Clive Lewis rink at home, they accelerated away in the closing stages to win comfortably
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SALISBURY-based Ottakar's bookshop has gone on-line, opening an internet bookshop. But to capitalise on its high levels of customer loyalty, the company has arranged for each of its 70 branches to provide its own website. Founder and managing director
SCORES of children from Bishopstoke's Stoke Park Infant School have been helping Forest Enterprise replant a swathe of local woodland. Recent axing of trees in the attractive Stoke Park Woods - spanning a huge area between Bishopstoke and Fair Oak - brought
GREENFIELD campaigners are urging more people to have their say in the consultation over Hampshire's planning blueprint for the next decade. December 3 is the deadline for reaction to the proposed Hampshire Structure Plan being prepared by the county
THE true extent of the NHS crisis in Hampshire has been laid bare today in astonishing admissions by despairing health bosses. They have admitted in public that patient and staff safety is being threatened by a massive cash crisis as they struggle with
IT'S a galactic traveller on a journey that has spanned 11 billion years - and now a relic from the dawn of the universe is beaming in to Southampton. Scientists at Southampton University have homed in on the farthest, brightest object ever seen with
ANGRY governors at a New Forest school have hit out at the large number of petrol tankers taking a short cut past the playground. Tankers heading to and from the M27 are travelling along the A336 through Cadnam and Netley Marsh instead of using the Totton
BIRDS could lose a favourite breeding site if 87-year-old Portchester Parish Hall is reduced to rubble. Migrating swifts have been nesting in the Castle Street building near Fareham for many years. But a majority of the hall's trustees has voted to knock
You have to catch them young if there is going to be a new generation of Tim Henmans and Greg Rusedskis. And the Lawn tennis Association have decided that, if the talent is out there, they are going to find it. So they have sent teams of coaches scouring
IT DOESN'T take much to become a hero around Nottingham. The ability to hit a target with a bow and arrow, the desire to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor. And if you can score goals and your surname is John, well. . .you've got it made. Stern
BUBBLING Bev Edwards clipped two minutes off her personal best to finish pick of ladies in the Gosport Half Marathon (writes Wendy Gee). Competing in her first major road race of the season, the Winchester & District AC athlete led the way in one
HAMPSHIRE'S senior women maintained their unbeaten record at the 17th Cross-Country International in Coutances, France. In 16 years of crossing the Channel they have never failed to come back with the team trophy in an event that annually attracts athletes
