Weybook Park's Andrew Cloke enhanced his growing reputation as one of the county's top young professionals by winning the Hampshire PGA 72-hole Algarve Pro-Am in Portugal. Despite opposition from many of Hampshire's best players, Cloke, 22, led from day
FORMER Saints players Hugh Fisher and Bob McCarthy are helping St Deny's Conservative Club steward Jamie Airth to stage a fund-raising celebrity golf day at East Horton on June 8. It is to raise money to help beat breast cancer and, with each of the 20
John Crawley expects a drastic improvement in the fortunes of Hampshire Cricket this year to put the misery of 2003 firmly behind them. And that includes the ultimate objective - promotion to Division One of the championship. Crawley, who has handed the
Today's Principal Arrivals: CFF Sein, ro/ro, 0530, 25; Hong Kong Express, container, 0730, 207; Autofreighter, ro/ro, 0800, 201 link; NYK Castor, container, 1200, 204; Undine, ro/ro, 1430, 34/35; Grace, refrigerat, 2000, 104; Hyundai Independence, container
KPMG employee Emily Warner has swapped her suits and computer for a snorkel and fins as she competes in the world underwater hockey championships in New Zealand. Emily, from Dibden Purlieu, near Hythe, usually works as a PA within the accountancy firm's
SIR Ranulph Fiennes, arguably the world's greatest living expedition leader, held scores of leading businessmen and women in Hampshire spellbound with his extraordinary stories. The legend, who lost his lifelong companion and wife Ginnie to cancer last
HUNDREDS of people descended on a school in Winchester to find out more about plans for a massive new housing estate on the edge of the city. More than 300 residents took the chance to look at the controversial scheme to build more than 2,000 homes on
Gazette editor Mark Jones looks back over the long and varied history of Basingstoke's favourite local newspaper The Gazette is a part of Basingstoke's past, present and future - but its roots can be traced back to the West Country. It was in Devon that
A GROUP of New Forest artists is raising funds for young victims of the recent Iranian earthquake by using organisational skill as well as painting talent. The group, calling itself Fireweed - after the tall pink-flowered plant which is often first to
HE swam enough lengths to make it to France. But eight-year-old Jamie Atkinson never had to leave the familiar surroundings of his local pool at Fareham Leisure Centre. Over a 12-week period he swam the 22-mile distance of the Channel to raise money for
CONCERNED residents and traders in a Fareham street have been told that the giant Market Quay development will not leave them in the shade. They gathered at a public exhibition to hear about plans for the future of West Street once the new shopping centre
A FOURTH Fareham post office is to close in the space of just over a year. This time the axe has fallen on the Locks Heath branch in the One Stop store at Warsash Road. It has fallen victim to a Tesco takeover last year of the country's 1,202 One Stop
AN EASTLEIGH police chief has reassured residents that a major shake-up will not hit frontline policing levels. From Thursday Eastleigh and Andover Police Basic Command Units will merge to form the new West Hampshire BCU. The amalgamation will see the
SHOPPERS at an Eastleigh charity shop have raised nearly £7,000 for voluntary groups. The Eastleigh Community Services store will distribute the money in the form of grants between £100 and £500 to 28 organisations including pre-schools and support groups
FLOWER power will used to mark the centenary of St Boniface Church at Chandler's Ford. The St Boniface Flower Festival and Exhibition will run from June 4 to 6. There will be a stunning series of floral displays depicting events representing each decade
The port of Southampton has scooped three major awards in the international cruise industry's equivalents of the Oscars. In the annual survey of ports and destinations amongst cruise lines and ships' masters Southampton came out on top in three categories
SOUTHAMPTON Cargo Handling, the UK's largest port service provider, has launched a major strategy to totally reshape the company into a national and worldwide operation. This comes as SCH completes a wide-ranging training initiative and prepares for the
JEWEL of the Seas, the world's newest cruise liner, which is to be named in Southampton, is due to undertake probably the trickiest voyage she will ever make this week. The Royal Caribbean International vessel is set to leave the builder's yard in Papenburg
ONE of the Sydenhams Wessex League's flagship clubs are facing FA charges of racial abuse - just days after the league appointed a race relations officer. But former Wessex champions Lymington & New Milton are confident of clearing their name over
GOALKEEPER Paul Bowers has hit back at claims by Blackfield & Langley boss Tony Feeney, pictured, that he has left the struggling club in the lurch. The former Vospers, Romsey, BAT and Lymington Town stopper was staggered by Feeney's outburst in last
SCORES of customers across the south are facing heavy financial losses after a furniture company collapsed with debts of more than £7.5 million. Receivers admit those people out of pocket are unlikely to see their money back following the House Works
The Southern Daily Echo has launched a brand new recruitment website for job-seekers across Southampton and Hampshire. The Daily Echo is already considered the first port of call for job-hunters in the region, with its huge twice-weekly Jobs Today supplement
IT BEGAN 70 years ago and is still going strong today. The Southampton to Jersey air service, believed to be the longest established link of its kind in existence, continues to be one of the south's commercial success stories. Back in 1934 Commander Charles
BUSINESSES which fail to respond to the admission of ten new countries to the European Union this spring could face major disruption and be hit with large bills. Southampton tax expert Peter Skelhorn, is forecasting huge consequences if firms trading
TGI Friday's Southampton is celebrating after helping TGI Friday's UK clinch a major award. TGI Friday's UK was named international franchise group of the year by American brand owner Carlson Restaurants. It is the second year in succession that TGI Friday's
DON'T tell Southampton Football Club, but its £1m-a-year sponsor has teamed up with West Ham United. Financial services group Friends Provident, which employs 1,035 people at its south coast regional headquarters in Salisbury, is to provide financial
CHILDREN from a village near Winchester had the thrill of their first ride on a bus. The children, aged between two and five and from South Wonston Nursery, were collected by bus and taken to the Stagecoach depot in Winchester. There the children, parents
CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans for a controversial recycling station in a New Forest hamlet have issued a defiant message to project leaders. Hundreds of letters of objection were sent to the planning chiefs by people living in the area when the application
A HAMPSHIRE couple's desperation to have a child of their own led them to be caught up in an Internet baby-buying scandal. For years Andrew and Janet Rashley had tried desperately for a baby so when the chance of surrogacy came up they believed it was
ANIMAL lovers are being urged to shell out for a glamorous party to help Titchfield Tortoise Society. By booking a table at the Manhattan Bar and Restaurant in Port Solent on April 2, diners will not only be joining in its second birthday celebrations
A LUXURY weekend away marked 60 years of wedded bliss for a Bitterne Park couple. Sidney Ryde, 88, and his wife Eileen, 84, spent the weekend at a four-star hotel in Crawley, a surprise organised by their two sons, Michael and Colin. The couple also met
PUPILS at Harefield Infant School in Southampton went native for their arts week. The youngsters had lessons about all things Native American as part of the week-long event. Fun workshops saw them singing, dancing, weaving, designing blankets and making
REGULARS at a Southampton pub have chipped in to make life better for the most deprived families in the city, and give the Daily Echo's Back to Basics appeal a boost. The pile of pennies dropped in a giant whisky bottle on the bar of the Waterloo Arms
STRICT drink-drive limits are today being extended to sailors in a bid to stop crashes like the one at that destroyed Hythe Pier last year. It is hoped the new laws introduced by the Department of Transport will prevent a repeat of the incident that saw
FEARS are being raised that children's lives will be put at risk by housing development plans in the shadow of a Hampshire school. Worried head teachers at both Lymington Infant and Junior schools in Avenue Road have already sent letters to parents urging
CHILDREN on a Southampton estate have been forced out of their park after more than ten travellers' caravans swept in and set up camp. A handful of travellers turned up at the Northam play area on Saturday - but since then helpless residents have watched
PARENTS of pupils at closure-threatened Moorlands Infant School are optimistic it will avoid the axe after the council delayed its decision. The controversial proposal to shut the school in Kesteven Way, Southampton, generated such an avalanche of responses
HELP is at hand for students taking exams this summer - if they know where to look for it. Dozens of organisations, websites and helplines are listed in Meridian Tonight's 36-page Testing Times booklet, backed by the Daily Echo. Throughout this week on
It will be a moment in history that Southampton will never forget. For the first time, the legendary liner Queen Elizabeth 2 and the 151,400-ton Queen Mary 2 will arrive in port together. Thousands of sightseers are expected to line Southampton Water
