THREE Southampton Institute students who designed the trophies for the 1999 Daily Echo Hampshire Business Awards are each £100 better off thanks to award sponsors KPMG and Bond Pearce. Melissa Caterer, Louise Oliver and Anna Sunderland, who are studying
IT'S harvest time for one of the South's most delicious vegetables - the tasty -asparagus, long viewed as a delicacy, but which is grown successfully in relatively few areas of Britain. Yet the South Downs is just right, with chalk-rich soil imparting
HOUNSDOWN athletes notched up a school record with eight trophies as they reaped the benefit of hard training in the New Forest Schools Athletics Area Championships. The under-13 girls won their relay race and both boys and girls were team winners in
HOUSEY housey has turned an Eastleigh grandmother's bungalow dreams into reality after sensationally scooping a six-figure sum at bingo. Irene Mills, 53, is still on cloud nine after coming up with all her numbers and scooping more than £207,000 at a
SAINTS goalie Paul Jones couldn't be persuaded to have the closest shave of his life- but the soccer star did sign masses of autographs at a weekend village carnival. Organisers of the 17th century themed event at Bishop's Waltham were hoping to stage
IT WAS every parent's nightmare. Like dozens of other youngsters, their little girl had been trusted to spend a sunny Saturday afternoon having a splash-around at the local baths. She went with a friend, and had no doubt received countless lectures about
A ROW over tree felling at Bishopstoke's Stoke Park Wood could be set to roll on as protestors come face to face with forestry officials. Under a management plan 15 acres of woodland is being clear felled to restructure the age of the forest and provide
HIS famous sense of humour is thought to be just too hot for civic chiefs to handle. Devoted fans demanding a statue to remember the city's best loved and most celebrated comic say his politically incorrect genius has done him out of a fitting memorial
HAVANT batsman Andy Perry and teenage Lymington left-hander Damian Shirazi shared an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 150 as the Hampshire Board Development side celebrated their first ECB 38-County Championship group win against Sussex at Cove. The Hampshire
MATTHEW Le Tissier believes he can be the man to breathe new life into England's faltering Euro 2000 campaign next season. National coach Kevin Keegan has pinpointed Paul Gascoigne as England's possible saviour as he looks to inject a creative spark into
MARK DAVIS set two personal bests to help Southampton City claim third place in their Southern League Division 3 match at the Sports Centre. Competing in the shot and hammer he threw 11.15 metres and 24.80 respectively to claim first place as well as
BROKENHURST Manor Clubman Norman Barnes was a top-ten finisher in a trunkated English Seniors Championship at Shifnal in Staffordshire. He fired a three-over 77 for eighth place after the event, for over 55's, had been reduced to 36 holes by thundery
HAMPSHIRE-based internet group TownPages is planning to roll out 3,500 free on-line information kiosks across the UK, creating 600 jobs in two years. The group, which has 20 kiosks at present, wants to build the new information services in locations such
BOYATT Wood Industrial Estate is also home to Abbey Heat Transfer, a company which manufactures and repairs heat exchangers. Since celebrating its 15th anniversary in April, the company has been working hard at building its profile in marine activity,
THE Southampton to Isle of Wight ferry operator Red Funnel has set up a new division to cope with increased amounts of trailer traffic on the Solent. Red Funnel Distribution is the result of a £200,000 investment in new vehicles and will handle drop trailer
THEY were celebrating a theme of 1,000 years of history when Netley Abbey's new-look carnival capers took to the streets of the village. Carnival committee chairman Terry Hammond was glad history hadn't repeated itself, adding: "Last year we were utterly
A TEENAGE girl could lose her sight after being glassed in a Southampton pub brawl. Doctors faced a race against time to stitch the 16-year-old's horrific eye injury, inflicted in a mass punch-up at The Standing Order in High Street. Police today appealed
AFTER final exams, the second most important event of a university career is the annual summer ball. With the long holiday only weeks away it could be the last chance to make a move on that object of desire, usually only monitored across the lecture theatre
They fear their homes will plummet in value after the county council yesterday granted planning permission for the controversial scheme on the edge of Southampton. The go-ahead for the plant on the Nursling industrial estate - it will create up to 90
IWAN Thomas's phone is in danger of suffering melt-down from his biggest past and present rivals. But Roger Black and Mark Richardson have been far from phone pests to the injured 400m European and Commonwealth champion. Richardson made an olive-branch
DARREN HENLEY is edging ever closer to an England call-up after adding another notable piece of silverware to his growing collection this summer. The 19-year-old Stoneham clubman began the season as a one-handicapper and a fringe member of the Hampshire
A GOLDEN jubilee was marked by the unveiling of a magnificent bronze sculpture at a leading Hampshire prep school on Saturday. Hordle Walhampton School is celebrating 50 years of education on the Walhampton site near Lymington. After a service addressed
