HAVANT & Waterlooville are still smiling down from the top of the Dr Martens Premier Division, but there were frowns on the faces of Newport IoW, Salisbury and Bashley who all crashed to defeat last night. Bob Higgins's first game at the Bashley helm
IT IS a fundraising effort that could save the lives of dozens of people who find themselves stranded at sea every year. After a mammoth three-year effort campaigners can finally see the fruits of their labour after the Osprey 5 search and rescue hovercraft
The Little Britain Challenge Cup, the annual construction industry regatta is now the largest corporate sailing event in Europe and is aiming this year to raise a record £100,000 for the charities, the Cirdan and Jubilee Sailing Trusts. Taking place off
BUS passengers in the Basingstoke area are facing disruption as Stagecoach drivers prepare to mount a series of one-day strikes. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union have announced a series of 24-hour strikes for the next four Fridays, starting
IT HAS been a busy few months for Fareham-based Walcon Marine, market leaders in the design, construction and installation of marinas and yacht harbours around the world. The company supplies the pontoons for the Southampton International Boat Show which
A CANOEIST who capsized off the coast of the Isle of Wight was rescued after calling his father in Dubai to ask for help. Dr Mark Ashden-Smith was plucked out of the water near the Needles after using his mobile phone to call for assistance. Coastguards
VAUXHALL team-manager Derek Warwick wasn't best pleased when his drivers Jason Plato and Yvan Muller got involved in a costly tangle on the last lap of the British Touring Car Championship race at Silverstone. When Plato made a bid to take the lead from
IT'S Gurston Down Championship finals time this weekend with a full and mixed entry of cars ranging from the classic to the exotic - from modified production minis to 130mph, 600 horsepower grand prix-engined single seater racing cars. The drivers are
IT HAS been a busy few months for Fareham-based Walcon Marine, market leaders in the design, construction and installation of marinas and yacht harbours around the world. The company supplies the pontoons for the Southampton International Boat Show which
IF ASKED to name a well-known female stand-up comedienne other than Jo Brand or Victoria Wood most of us would draw a blank. Despite women's ability to laugh their way through situations that would leave most men a quivering wreck, females don't seem
HAMPSHIRE and Isle of Wight MPs spoke of their shock and outrage at the terrorist attack. Home Office minister and Southampton Itchen MP John Denham said: "It is hard to put feelings into words at this time. "Part of our reaction to this tragedy has to
IT WAS at 8.56am New York time - 1.56pm in Britain - that the world as we knew it changed forever. When the first of two passenger jets smashed into the World Trade Centre, the West's symbolic monument to capitalism, the world witnessed the worst terrorist
SCIENTISTS from Southampton Oceanography Centre have found that the Earth's crust is missing from a large area just west of Portugal. The researchers, Professor Bob Whitmarsh and Dr Tim Minshull, measured seismic velocities of the rocks under the sediments
RESIDENTS and shopkeepers in Woolston, Southampton, are celebrating the area's proud past throughout this week. Music, colourful characters, displays in stores and anniversary events are turning the streets into a festival of aviation and nautical history
OAKHAVEN Hospice in Lymington has a new chief executive. The trust, which runs the hospice in Lower Pennington Lane, has announced that Kara Bishop, 46, who is from Wiltshire will be taking up the reins in October. Ms Bishop, who plans to move soon to
PLANS to make the New Forest a national park could be altered amid mounting concern over the proposed system for administering the area. A growing number of organisations are opposing plans to create a standard national park authority to manage the historic
IT HAS been a busy few months for Fareham-based Walcon Marine, market leaders in the design, construction and installation of marinas and yacht harbours around the world. The company supplies the pontoons for the Southampton International Boat Show which
SAINTS boss Stuart Gray praised his side after they marched sure-footedly into the third round of the Worthington Cup with a 3 - 0 victory at Brighton and broke their goalscoring hoodoo into the bargain. Gray described last night's tie as "a potential
PROTESTERS fighting plans to build a huge container terminal at Dibden Bay were today celebrating one of the biggest boosts to their campaign. The proposed site has been declared a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) by English Nature, which says
A HAMPSHIRE town is preparing to salute a seven-year-old girl who has battled against the odds. Victoria Pratt, who needs a heart-and-lung transplant, has won the Kids Local Hero award launched by the Totton branch of Asda. Life is a constant struggle
DARREN MOORE will be back in the Pompey squad after his proposed move to West Brom finally fell through. The on-off £600,000 switch to the Midlands side is now over according to Hawthorns boss Gary Megson who says he has lost patience with the big defender
CONFUSION surrounds the alleged resignation of Portsmouth managing director Martin Murphy after club officials denied he had left Fratton Park. Murphy was believed to have walked out after a bust-up with director Terry Brady over the possible club record
HAMPSHIRE are just three steps from heaven but are determined to go one step further to clinch a title twosome. Just three points from their last championship match of the season will see Hampshire return to Division 1 after a year's absence, although
SOUTH coast club cricket could be in for a financial windfall if the Hampshire Board side beats Ireland in the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy 2002 at the Rose Bowl tomorrow (10.45am). The second round winners are guaranteed a lucrative home tie against
ROYAL Navy divers spent yesterday at the scene of where the fishing boat Sundance capsized claiming the life of a fisherman. A team of divers from Sussex police force were also involved in the search just off the coast of Gosport to find evidence of what
This Friday's Gazette will feature coverage of how the Basingstoke area has been affected by the terrorist outrage in America. If you have any information to contribute to our coverage, or know of anyone from the Basingstoke or Newbury area who is in
BASINGSTOKE'S new Lido complex is set to make the council a profit of around £100,000 a year - after it expected to have to subsidise it to the tune of £50,000 a year. The good news for the local authority was revealed by council leader Rob Donnelly on
YOU could be £81 better off a week by simply clearing out the spare room in your home to provide accommodation for key workers moving to the Basingstoke area. That's the message of the Unlock The Rooms campaign which is launched today by your new-look
GUNWHARF Quays, Portsmouth's new £200m entertainment, shopping and leisure waterfront, is cutting berthing charges for the winter in a bid to encourage south coast boat owners still to visit. From October 1, winter visitors will pay£3 for a short stay
ALEX YOONG will make history in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on Sunday when he becomes the first Malaysian to drive in a Formula One race. It will be a proud day for Southampton's Nick Foy who set the young Asian along the road to potential fame and
HAMPSHIRE-based moto-cross stars Billy Mackenzie and Brian Jorgensen frolicked in the sand at the Dutch Grand Prix. The deep sand track at Leirop calls for specialist skills and Mackenzie and Jorgensen, who ride for the Yamaha UK team in Swanmore showed
IAN WINTERBURN landed a trophy double during the New Forest BA championship finals at New Milton. Winner of the four-wood singles two years ago, he collected the Champion of Champions title and teamed up with Esso team-mate Brian Mainwaring to take the
ELLA DIBBLE tasted victory and defeat during the finals of the Southampton and District Women's BA championships at Atherley. The Friary bowler scored a fine 21-8 triumph over England regular Wendy Line (Southampton Women) in the two-wood singles but
HAMPSHIRE companies dealing with America were today assessing the impact of yesterday's terrorist attacks in the US on their own businesses. Alexandre Hamelin from Southampton and Fareham Chamber of Commerce, said the current crisis situation would have
SHOPPERS continued their spending spree last month after figures showed sales grew at their fastest rate for nearly five years. But the CBI's quarterly distributive trades survey also discovered evidence that the pace of growth on the high street was
MURDER squad detectives were today following up possible new leads in the hunt for the killer of a man stabbed through the heart in Southampton. Officers working on the murder hunt spoke to around 1,000 people across the Newtown and Nicholstown area yesterday
PROTESTERS fighting plans to build a huge container terminal at Dibden Bay were today celebrating one of the biggest boosts to their campaign. The proposed site has been declared a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) by English Nature, which says
A MAN who stamped on the head of a neighbour who complained about noise has been jailed for four years. A court was told that Leslie Cole, 20, even gripped a window frame to ensure that he didn't lose his balance as he launched his vicious assault on
Latin Paradise, University of Southampton FROM two left feet to Latino dancing queen in one night - at Latin Paradise, anything is possible. Latin Paradise brought a little bit of South America to Southampton, with an evening of dancing, DJs and a live
RAIL chiefs in the New Forest have denied that one of their star employees is facing the axe. Villagers at Sway, near Lymington, have launched a campaign after hearing rumours that their station is to lose its only member of staff - award-winning Ian
TWO years after her child drowned in a tragic boating accident Lesley Bee is little further on in finding who was to blame for the death of her nine-year-old girl. This weekend marks the two-year anniversary of Elizabeth Bee's death who drowned after
FEARS about a back-to-school asbestos scare at Eastleigh's Norwood County Primary School have been allayed by the education authority. In an anonymous letter to the Daily Echo, one worried parent said asbestos had been removed from the school grounds
It turned out Brighton beautiful as Saints at last found their scoring touch to kick-start their season. This Worthington League Cup tie had been billed as a potential banana skin for Southampton who had failed to hit the net in their first three games
