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  • Corporate food on menu

    CORPORATE Cuisine is the aptly-named new catering company formed specifically to manage the contract for a caf bar at The Point, Eastleigh Borough Council's flagship arts venue in the town centre. Lucy Earls-Davis and Tracy Lyons realised the potential

  • Travel pound

    Today's foreign exchange rates Austria 20.59 schillings Belgium 60.36 francs Canada 2.27 dollars Cyprus 0.85 pounds Denmark 11.15 kroner Euro 1.56 euro France 9.82 francs Germany 2.92 deutschmark Greece 489 drachma Holland 3.29 guilders Ireland 1.17 punts

  • Safe start to coming era

    Associated British Ports, owners and operators of Southampton docks, is making a safe start to the next millennium with a new training iniative. Accredited safety courses from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IoSH) will be run for the

  • Shipping Movements

    Today's principal arrivals and departures Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Hyundai Baron, container, 0730, 205; Pelander, vehicle carrier, 1130, 201; Elke, refrigerat, AM, 101W; Arroyofrio Dos, ro-ro, 1230, 30; Clare, ro-ro, 1230, 25 link; Hual

  • THE FIRST CANCER VACCINE

    SCIENTISTS from Southampton will make history today when they give the first cancer vaccine to a human patient. The vaccine, never before used in Britain, uses genetic technology to kick-start the body's immune system into destroying cancer cells. The

  • Twister leaves hut owners undaunted

    THE great fight back is well under way in Hampshire as beach hut owners pick up the pieces after Friday's tornado. More than 20 huts were damaged and some were completely written-off by the twister which also smashed the windows of cars and a coach and

  • Can you help two Kosovo schools

    WINCHESTER-based soldiers are hoping to come to the aid of two Kosovo schools which remain desperately short of education supplies. The Band of the Adjutant General's Corps, based at Worthy Down, are currently serving in the region as medics with 24 Armoured

  • Painting by Lowry goes for £220,000

    A PAINTING of Southampton's old floating bridge by "matchstick men" artist LS Lowry fetched more than double its expected price when it was sold for £221,500 at Christie's. The London auctioneers would not identify the mystery buyer but said they were

  • Peer's daughter hurt in fall from balcony

    THE elder daughter of Baroness Maddock, the Southampton peer, is recovering after being critically injured in a fall while studying abroad. Becki Maddock, 23, suffered extensive injuries after falling four floors from the balcony of her flat in Alexandria

  • TV Heather cools romance rumour

    HAMPSHIRE model and TV presenter Heather Mills has distanced herself from speculation that she is romantically linked to Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney. In a statement to the Daily Echo, the 31-year-old said she and her sister Fiona had been invited

  • MP blasts report as a revival of Solent City

    EASTLEIGH MP David Chidgey has blasted a government report which, he claims, would lead to a giant Solent City linking Southampton to Portsmouth. Speaking during a parliamentary debate on new housing planned for the South East, Mr Chidgey poured scorn

  • Rugby: Heathens hit late to punish Delco misses

    Fareham Heathens gained an 11-5 Hampshire League 2 victory at AC Delco, which their second-half superiority just about deserved. AC Delco had only themselves to blame for the defeat because they squandered innumerable scoring opportunities before the

  • Football: Portsmouth 2 - Birmingham 2

    THE MONA Lisa is supposed to be the one with the enigmatic smile but she's got nothing on Trevor Francis. Birmingham City's manager found the rueful grin as good a substitute after the match as any he usued during it after Alan McLoughlin's cool head

  • Horse Racing: Aintree 'winner' back with Balding

    Toby Balding declared of Kendal Cavalier: "This is the Millennium Grand National winner.'' That bold statement was made some five years ago but Balding's uncanny eye for detail has already been clearly vindicated. Kendal Cavalier, then a novice hurdler

  • Top honour for survivor of war

    ONE of Britain's dwindling survivors of the Great War has been presented with one of France's top awards. Arthur Jones, who fought in France and Belgium, has been awarded the Legion D'Honneur. The presentation was made to him at his retirement home in

  • Marine event to move upstream

    Southampton's annual workboat and commercial marine exhibition and conference is growing so fast organisers have decided to move the event to another part of the city's port. The Canary Islands Fruit Terminal at 104 berth in the city's Western Docks will

  • Fireworks show 'the best ever'

    THOUSANDS flocked to Southampton's waterfront park for the city's official Bonfire Night celebrations this weekend. Cold and clear skies attracted around 11,000 people to Mayflower Park on Saturday night for the Daily Echo-sponsored event. The celebrations

  • Meningitis vaccine campaign under way

    A MASSIVE vaccination campaign to protect all those aged under 18 against meningitis starts today in Southampton and South West Hampshire. It is part of the largest immunisation programme ever undertaken in the UK, providing a total of 15 million jabs

  • Top-names store quells traffic fear

    OWNERS of a £60 million designer outlet due to open shortly in Whiteley, near Fareham, are hoping to quell residents' fears of parking mayhem. University Superannuation Scheme plans to open later than town centre shops to avoid congestion at the notorious

  • Football: AFC Bournemouth 1 - Cardiff City 0

    ALTHOUGH thousands of viewers to Saturday's edition of Grandstand were initially deprived of the final outcome of this game, for most Cherries fans it really was a case of better late than never. The scoreline was listed among the classifieds as a late

  • Football: Aston Villa 0 - Southampton 1

    A year ago to the week, a smug John Gregory provocatively grouped his Aston Villa players for a team photo in front of their fans at The Dell. They were celebrating a 4-1 win which chalked up their best ever start to the season, sparking premature talk

  • Strongman Dan lifts for victory

    A PARTIALLY-disabled power lifter has taken the weights world by storm. Dan Rush spent months preparing for his debut at the British Powerlifting Congress competition and was rewarded with top honours. Hundreds of onlookers rooted for the 31-year-old