Stories for 30 December 2002

Basingstoke News

Sales fever hits bargain hunters

BRUCE Rogers knows a bargain when he sees one - and he was prepared to do anything to snap it up when the sales started at Basingstoke's Festival Place.  more...

Fox hunt without protest

THE annual Boxing Day hunt passed peacefully on Thursday, with more than 400 people taking part in a fox hunting meeting without a protester in sight.  more...

Rainfall prompts flood warnings

FLOOD warning have been issued for parts of north Hampshire following excessive rainfall.  more...

Family gets a special present

A TADLEY couple had a very special present on Christmas Day - a baby boy.  more...

Big cat seen in street

A LARGE cat has been spotted "bounding up and down" a residential road in Hook.  more...

The headlines and highlights

In the second part of The Gazette's news review of the year, assistant editor Simon Pluckrose looks at some of the stories that hit the headlines from July to December.  more...

Schoolboy praised for charity efforts

A SEVEN-year-old schoolboy, whose mother is fighting against cancer, showed he is also made of stern stuff by completing a charity run in aid of treatment to fight the condition.  more...

Basingstoke Sport

Confident Town ready for clash

ERNIE Howe's Basingstoke Town side go into their New Year's Day clash with fierce local rivals and league-leaders Aldershot bristling with confidence after outplaying Grays 3-1 at the Camrose.  more...

Rush to find stand-in goalkeeper

A GOALKEEPING crisis was narrowly avoided on Saturday after Town's regular number one, Scott Tarr, fell ill.  more...

'Stoke climb after victory

Barking 11pts Basingstoke 39  more...

Rooke nets to break duck

Maidenhead United 2 Basingstoke Town 2  more...

Four collect county awards

FOUR Basingstoke athletes were honoured at a recent awards ceremony at Winchester Guildhall.  more...

Gym quartet claim national honours

FOUR Basingstoke gymnasts came away from the Lilleshall National Sports Centre as national champions, following the Boys National Development Plan club finals.  more...

Laura helps her county go gold

LAURA Wright helped Hampshire to the team gold at under-13 level in the South of England inter-counties cross-country championships at Banbury.  more...

Record-breaker in Wales

ANDY Bonner, at his lightest for 17 years, dropped down a weight category at the Welsh Counties powerlifting championships and carried off a new British record.  more...

Eastleigh News

A guided walk on the wild side!

NEW year strollers will be able to find out about the woman dubbed the Godmother of Eastleigh during a free guided walk on Sunday.   more...

Community in shock after death of bubbly Carolyn

A HAMPSHIRE mum has died after being hit by a car on Boxing Day before being dragged for a mile and then left for dead.  more...

Eastleigh Sport

Jewson Wessex League: Eastleigh sitting pretty

Eastleigh's 1-0 away success at BAT means that the Ten Acres club go into the new year with a seven-point lead.  more...

Farehamandgosport News

Railings dispute garden is finally opened

A GARDEN that sparked controversy over the height of railings surrounding it has been officially opened.  more...

Generous readers help save the Ark

THE Daily Echo's army of kind-hearted readers are helping to save the country's largest RSPCA-run animal shelter.  more...

Farehamandgosport Sport

Hampshire League: Heath trounce derby rivals

Locks Heath ended a run of three defeats by winning the derby match against Bishop's Waltham 4-0.   more...

Jewson Wessex League: Lymington & N M 1 - Fareham Town 2

Second-placed Lymington & NM surrendered their 100 per cent home record when they were beaten 2-1 by Fareham, which now means that all three of the Linnets' defeats this season have been at the hands of teams from the Portsmouth area.  more...

Forestandwaterside News

Charities boosted by steam show

HAMPSHIRE'S biggest steam engine rally has stoked up its local charities with a thumping £18,000 after yet another successful show.  more...

New weapon unveiled in war on yobs

UNDER-age crime and drinking in a well-known Lyndhurst trouble spot is to be targeted with the installation of a 24-hour CCTV camera.  more...

Red letter day as Green Route wins top award

AN EXTENSIVE network of footpaths, cycleways and open spaces in a Hamp-shire town has scooped a top award.  more...

The great escape

A Hampshire police worker has had a miracle escape from his water-filled car.  more...

Forestandwaterside Sport

Hampshire League

Top met bottom in Division 2 when Laverstock & Ford entertained Romsey Town. But you wouldn't have known it as Romsey, with just one point, took an early lead.  more...

Jewson Wessex League: Lymington & N M 1 - Fareham Town 2

Don't mention the Portsmouth area when you speak to Lymington & New Milton player/manager Graham Kemp.  more...

Jewson Wessex League: Totton 1 - Hamble ASSC 1

Totton striker Patrick James' missed penalty cost the home side two points, but the team's biggest loss may be a lengthy spell on the sidelines for captain Martin Whiddett.   more...

Rugby: Tottonians 12 - Portsmouth 20

For a few weeks now Tottonians' captain Ali Ramus has been urging his side to continue the commitment and drive and not drop their guard against sides they are expected to beat on their way to probable promotion from London Four South-West.  more...

Hampshire Business

Mercator Cargo is master of NES

SOUTH Coast freight forwarding company, Mercator Cargo Systems, is one of a few companies in the region to have the access and skills to use the new electronic export system, NES.  more...

Nursery grows for top award

Golden Acres Nursery, near Romsey, has won a top commendation in the prestigious garden centre industry awards for the second year running.  more...

Hampshire Sailsolent

Island Sailing Club - 'ROUND THE ISLAND' SET FOR THE LONGEST DAY

Peter Hedley, Commodore of the Island Sailing Club, will welcome Sir Robin Knox-Johnston to announce the launch of the 2003 Round the Island Race at the London Boat Show at Earls Court on 2nd January 2003.  more...

Iow News

Customers' Christmas bonus

A GENEROUS sub-post office master treated 100 customers to a slap-up three course Christmas dinner in return for their loyalty.  more...

Southampton Leisure

Christine is teaming up with Rocky gang

IF family-friendly slap-stick festive entertainment isn't your thing, the new season at The Mayflower promises to be well worth the wait.  more...

Southampton News

Hopes high of ending 20-year parking misery

SCORES of Southampton residents are hoping their 20-year battle to ease parking problems will soon end in victory.  more...

Rights ideas win competition

TWO conscientious Southampton students enjoyed a visit to the House of Commons after their school won a children's rights competition.  more...

Generous readers help save the Ark

THE Daily Echo's army of kind-hearted readers are helping to save the country's largest RSPCA-run animal shelter.  more...

Bug hits hospital staff and patients

PATIENTS and staff at Southampton General Hospital have been struck down with a new bug causing severe diarrhoea and vomiting.  more...

South on flood alert after heavy rainfall

FLOOD warnings have been issued to Hampshire and Isle of Wight residents.  more...

Man jumps to his death from bridge

A SPOTTER plane and lifeboats were thrown into action after a man jumped to his death from Southampton's Itchen Bridge.  more...

ROAD CRASH TRAGEDY

A HIGH-FLYING Hampshire schoolboy has died after being flung from a car in a horrific country road smash.   more...

Hospital's distress call

Administration, serving soup, wiping tables, chatting to customers, cleaning the floor and washing up - Emma Barnett tries her hand at being a hospital volunteer...  more...

Southampton Shipping

In Port

Today's Principal Arrivals: Celtic King, general cargo, 0200, 204; Le Castellet, ro-ro, 0745, 201 link; Petra F, general cargo, 0900, Dibles Wharf; Cetam Victoriae, ro-ro, am, 203; Tamerlane  more...

Southampton Sport

I'VE GOT TO KEEP SCORING - JO

Jo Tessem came off the bench to grab his first goal of the season to earn Saints a dramatic 2-1 win against Sunderland and insisted: "I've got to keep on scoring."  more...

Magnificent seventh ... but Strachan's not too surprised

GORDON STRACHAN has played down talk of Saints qualifying for Europe.  more...

RUGBY RESULTS

Latest results from local rugby team matches played over the weekend.  more...

Calder pleased

A four-try blast in the last 17 minutes saw Basingstoke's outstanding December come to a close with their fourth win in five games and a move into eighth place in National Division Three South after beating Barking 39-11.  more...

SAINTS 2 - SUNDERLAND 1

ANY manager will tell you that records mean nothing in football, but Saints can afford themselves a little smile as they welcome in 2003.  more...

Tottonians 12 - Portsmouth 20

For a few weeks now Tottonians' captain Ali Ramus has been urging his side to continue the commitment and drive and not drop their guard against sides they are expected to beat on their way to probable promotion from London Four South-West.  more...

Soton Senior Cup

Hamble ASSC Reserves progressed into the last eight of the Senior Cup with a hard fought 2-1 derby victory at Netley Central.   more...

Hampshire League: Phipps sustains an unlucky break as Survey lose out in derby clash

IT TURNED into a black Christmas for Ordnance Survey midfielder Paul Phipps in Saturday's Hampshire League Division 2 derby match against Hamble Club.  more...

Dr Martens League: Holmes praises Salisbury battlers

SALISBURY conquered the pitch, a combative Rothwell side and a hostile environment to prise a hard-earned 1-0 win, thus maintaining their seven-point lead at the top of the Eastern Division table.  more...

Jewson Wessex League: Caretaker boss Goslin relight's Newbury's fire

Newbury's revival under caretaker manager Jim Goslin continued with a 4-0 victory over Christchurch at Faraday Road.  more...

Jewson Wessex League: Don't mention the P-word to Kemp

Don't mention the Portsmouth area when you speak to Lymington & New Milton player/manager Graham Kemp.  more...

Jewson Wessex League: Totton 1 - Hamble ASSC 1

Totton striker Patrick James' missed penalty cost the home side two points, but the team's biggest loss may be a lengthy spell on the sidelines for captain Martin Whiddett.   more...

NOTTINGHAM FOREST 1 - PORTSMOUTH 2

After his Merson-less Pompey side had got back to winning ways with this impressive victory over Paul Hart's play-off hopefuls, manager Harry Redknapp rounded on the pundits in the national press who had claimed that his side's promotion drive was coming off the tracks.  more...

Townandcounty News

Public inquiry to settle future of police station

THE FUTURE of Netley's former village police station in New Road is set to be thrashed out at a public inquiry in June.  more...

Townandcounty Sport

Rugby: Tottonians 12 - Portsmouth 20

For a few weeks now Tottonians' captain Ali Ramus has been urging his side to continue the commitment and drive and not drop their guard against sides they are expected to beat on their way to probable promotion from London Four South-West.  more...

Soton Senior Cup

Hamble ASSC Reserves progressed into the last eight of the Senior Cup with a hard fought 2-1 derby victory at Netley Central.   more...

Phipps sustains an unlucky break as Survey lose out in derby clash

IT TURNED into a black Christmas for Ordnance Survey midfielder Paul Phipps in Saturday's Hampshire League Division 2 derby match against Hamble Club.  more...

  
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