WITH less than six weeks to go until the Brooklands Centenary Festival launches its weekend of celebrations, organisers have confirmed the festival will now feature some of the most influential speed machines in the history of Formula 1. From the moment
DRIVERS with six points or more on their licence looking for insurance could soon be viewed as "standard" rather than "non-standard", says Swinton, the UK's largest high street insurance broker. Pointed drivers are no longer automatically penalised at
SMALL is beautiful - especially for drivers who live, work or play in the city. But while the ideal urban runaround needs to be compact in order to slot into the urban landscape, a tiny interior might put the squeeze on your social life. Which is why
ISUZU'S new facelifted '07 Rodeo is now available in range-topping Denver Max LE trim, complete with its standard Prodrive Performance Pack, which boosts power from 136 to 167PS. With first deliveries due in early June, the Denver Max LE offers the ultimate
MATCH TIED: HAMPSHIRE FINISHED ON 220-9 (50 OVERS) AFTER BEING SET 221 TO WIN Toss: Hampshire Hampshire clinched a thrilling tie against Somerset after a tense night under the Rose Bowl floodlights. The Hawks looked set for a comfortable win
HUNDREDS of Southampton residents flocked to the Job Scene Roadshow at the Guild-hall looking for a new career. More than 60 local businesses and colleges filled the hall at the Daily Echo-backed event with stalls to advertise vacancies and offer advice
A SOUTHAMPTON school has backed the Daily Echo's campaign to rid the city's streets of knives. Pupils and staff have put up posters with the campaign slogan Carrying a blade - it's not sharp' throughout Millbrook Community School. The school's support
A convicted paedophile who was allowed to work with children on a Thomas The Tank Engine theme day on a Hampshire railway and then attacked a six-year-old girl was today found guilty of sexual assault. Volunteer George Sully, 73, known as Ray, put his
A HAMPSHIRE police officer has today been jailed for four months today after attacking his ex-wife with the strap of her own handbag. Duncan Warry, an officer with more than 29 years of experience, burst into the house in Portchester, where his former
A HAMPSHIRE police officer has today been jailed for four months after attacking his ex-wife with the strap of her own handbag. Duncan Warry, an officer with more than 29 years experience, burst into the house in Portchester, where his former wife
Hampshire II seamer David Griffiths recorded match figures of 7-36 but the second XI championship match against Sussex still finished in a draw at the Rose Bowl yesterday. Griffiths (4-29), Billy Taylor (3-33) and James Tomlinson (2-3) bowled out Sussex
HE fought for his country and the freedom of others. Disabled war veteran Raymond Yates never thought he would be a target for bogus workmen. But the driver with the Eighth Army during the Second World War is making an appeal to help police catch the
A DENTIST is considering her future in Fareham after plans to double the size of her surgery were blocked. Dr Manori Ambrose was hoping to extend her surgery in Titchfield Common in a bid to treat the thousands of patients on her waiting list. However
IT was five times lucky for Diane Forder, who scooped another runner-up prize in this week's Find the Ball competition. Diane, 44, who lives in Little Holbury, on the Waterside, has been playing the Daily Echo's Find The Ball competition for 25 years
A POPULAR Hampshire primary school has been declared "outstanding" gaining top marks across the board. Hook-with-Warsash C of E Primary School in Warsash received the top grade from the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted). Inspectors praised
The biggest cruise ship in the world, Liberty of the Seas, towered over Southampton docks on its recent visit - but even mightier vessels, undreamed of ten years ago, will soon be stealing the limelight. KEITH HAMILTON reports on the supersize' generation
SOUTHAMPTON'S veterans football team are jetting off for a third year running to the Philips Lighting International Soccer Sevens tournament in Hong Kong on May 25-27. And thanks to the backing of one of the region's leading housebuilders, Orchard Homes
FORMER Saints midfielder Paul Tisdale will this weekend attempt to return to the professional ranks. Tisdale, who played 17 top flight games for Saints in the mid-1990s, sends his Exeter City side into action against Morecambe in this Sunday's Nationwide
TRURO CITY'S FA Vase-winning captain Tom Smith has hailed AFC Totton's front two - describing Mark Osman as "one of the best strikers" he has ever faced. Smith knew he was in for a tough game early on at Wembley last Sunday when the alert Osman pounced
Hampshire have a tough test tomorrow as they battle to get into the final of the County Championship Plate. They are just one match away from the final, which until recently was scheduled to be staged at Twickenham, but must beat mighty Eastern Counties
Hampshire Academy put their early season confidence firmly to the test in tomorrow's Rose Bowl Nursery Ground meeting with Bashley (Rydal). The Young Hawks have made a most encouraging start, beating Portsmouth and Alton in their opening games. None
Operation Mop Up is in full swing at Chapel Gate as Bournemouth bid to get their pitch playable for tomorrow's ECB Southern Electric Premier League game against Portsmouth. Head groundsman Derek Tapper and his staff have been battling against the elements
THE weather conspired to wreck Richard Humby's attempt to smash Ashley Swain's 1995 under-15 boys' pole vault record of 3.01 metres at the weekend's Hampshire Track & Field Championships. Having cleared 3.60m for Team Southampton in the previous weekend's
A Hampshire businessman who has paid for thousands of posters of missing Madeleine McCann is handing them out to motorists today. John Sandford-Hart will be sticking his 20,000 self-adhesive posters on cars, lorries and vans that pass along the busy
SAINTS midfielder David Prutton hopes to overcome the disappointment of missing out on an FA Cup final - by helping Nottingham Forest to play-off success at Wembley. Prutton is currently on loan to the club where he started his professional career.
George Burley will tell Gareth Bale he can become a first team regular in any side in England - providing he plays for Saints throughout 2007/08. No sooner had this season ended than the inevitable speculation over 17-year-old Bale's has begun again
FAMED Southampton live music institution The Brook has gone bust and will close unless a buyer can be found quickly. The site in Portswood not far from the University campus has seen music legends such as Bill Wyman and John Martyn perform but today
Today's principal arrivals Artemis, passenger, 0615, 106; OOCL Shenzen, container, 0615, 206; Queen Mary 2, passenger, 0615, 38/9; Yohjin, roro, 0930, 202; London Express, container, 1800, SCT; Ladoga 106, cargo, 1930, 36s; CMA CGM Otello, container
I HAVE never voted in the local elections before, but I did so this time to show my anger at the Lib Dems' appalling treatment of the carers in Southampton by cutting their pay and changing their conditions. I urged my family, friends and colleagues to
A CORRESPONDENT recently complained about people with no children parking in mother and baby spaces. I, too, like to park where my car will not be damaged by other people's carelessness. However, it is possible to do this without taking up valuable
THE Eastleigh link of the Chernobyl Children's Life Line charity is having youngsters over from Belarus and it needs families to host children for four weeks in July. Due to the long-lasting after effects of the nuclear disaster, many children contract
SHOLING Village Green wasn't a refurbishment it was five years' hard work undertaken by Sholing Environ-ment Group (Letters, May 9). It was a treeless scrubby green, no use other than a place to cross to the shop or a dog loo, and a site that could have
WHAT a wonderful idea it was of Mark Thompson to suggest that we should make sure that when QEII goes out of commission that it is permanently moored in Southampton (Letters, May 8). After all the draining talk about Southampton not having an attraction
UP to 900 jobs will be cut across Nationwide and Portman after the two building societies merge later this summer, it has emerged. Nationwide chief executive Graham Beale said the 500 staff cuts already announced in March were set to almost double within
I WAS in Southampton recently and accidentally left my wallet in a photo booth near the Bargate. The wallet contained only £2 but also had a signed concert ticket and two guitar picks from concerts I'd been to. I was devastated after I realised I'd
I ENJOYED reading your feature Living Without a Car. I don't have a car and I can manage all right. I ride a tricycle with a basket which I put my shopping in and when I don't use it for shopping I put my little Jack Russell in there and take her for
THE re-introduction of National Service would increase the defence budget by at least £40 billion, which works out at over £15 per taxpayer each week (Letters, May 12). Taking that amount of people out of the workforce, while we have full employment,
PENSIONERS living in a Hampshire care home could be evicted and transferred to another complex. The county council is reviewing the future of the 26-bed Linden House, Lymington, which it says no longer meets modern standards. The Newman Bassett complex
A mother and two children were rescued from their home after a fire in Southampton today. Firefighters were called to Dempsey Road in Sholing at 8am after a neighbour raised the alert after hearing smoke alarms in the house. The two children, thought
RESIDENTS in a Hampshire village face a 14-mile drive each day just to pick up their post after the Royal Mail deemed their road too dangerous to deliver on. The controversial decision by the Royal Mail to suspend their deliveries means those living
FAMED Southampton live music institution The Brook has gone bust and will close unless a buyer can be found quickly. The site in Portswood, not far from the university campus, has seen music legends such as Bill Wyman and John Martyn perform but today
THE finale to the Cape Wrath Challenge is the marathon itself on the Saturday. It is regarded as one of the most challenging 26-milers in the UK with more than 2,415 feet of climb over rugged hills. What is different about the marathon is that you get
A GUNMAN is on the run today after carrying out an armed attempted robbery at The Money Shop, in Southampton city centre. The man walked into the shop and revealed a small handgun attached to his waistband to one of the cashiers. The cashier immediately
A Southampton primary school was closed today after part of the ceiling collapsed. Most pupils at Kanes Hill Primary School were told not to turn up for lessons this morning. It comes after staff arrived for work to discover part of the ceiling in a
A gay Hampshire couple have today been named as among the contestants for the next series of Big Brother. And the pair could provide the reality TV house with its first wedding. Family members say Stephen Ireland and James Joell, a comedy duo from Eastleigh
AN investigation is underway after a tanker crashed into the jetty at Fawley's marine terminal. The Whitonia, a new 100m, 6,215 tonne, double-hull tanker, collided with the jetty at berth nine just before 5pm yesterday. Harry Williams, the operations
MOTORISTS using one of the main commuter routes into Southampton face months of delays after the announcement of major gas works. The works will last up to seven months and will see almost one mile of the A27 ripped up so that new gas pipes can be installed
A BUSY Hampshire road was closed today as firefighters continued to battle to stop gas cylinders exploding following a builder's yard fire. Two residents of one nearby house were last night evacuated as part of a 200m exclusion zone that was thrown up
