Stories for 10 May 2002

Basingstoke News

Kids kept home by school ban mum

A MOTHER who kept her children at home after she was banned from a Basingstoke school risks being reported to education welfare watchdogs.   more...

Last push for bone marrow donors

A mother-of-two whose husband is dying of leukaemia has made a final appeal to Gazette readers to help save his life.  more...

Council threat to give away grave tributes

BEREAVED families in Tadley have been told that they must remove excessive tributes to loved ones in the town's cemetery or they will be taken away and given to charity.  more...

Father's eviction threat

A FATHER has threatened to chain himself to a towbar after he and his daughter were threatened with eviction from their mobile home.  more...

Blasting graffiti off the wall

BASINGSTOKE MP Andrew Hunter has been getting to grips with a graffiti blasting machine which is putting the bite on the neighbourhood blight.  more...

15 months for teen thief who made death threat

A TEENAGE thief who threatened to kill a young woman after she spotted him shoplifting has been jailed for seven months.  more...

Walkers put their breast foot forward

THESE intrepid pals from Hartley Wintney are pictured as they prepared for a night-time half marathon - dressed in their bras.  more...

Ladies pick up the pace

THIS year's Race for Life in Basingstoke is aiming to be the biggest yet, with 6,000 women expected to take part.  more...

Basingstoke Sport

Charl's shoulder rules out return

BASINGSTOKE and North Hants' leading wicket-taker last season, Charl Willoughby, will not be returning this season.  more...

Sponsors needed for gymnast's Athens bid

THE OLYMPIC dreams of top rhythmic gymnast Caroline Jackson are under threat if she is unable to find herself a sponsor.  more...

Bad start ends in plate victory

BASINGSTOKE won the plate again as seven districts contested the Hampshire District Knock-Out competition at Basingstoke Sports Centre.  more...

New skipper is set to give the youngsters a chance

WITH the loss of several key players, Hook and Newnham Basics' new captain Keith Lovelock is under no illusion that his side will do well to better last season's fourth place finish in the Southern Premier division three.  more...

Pavesi's class turns game around

RAY PAVESI turned in an excellent all round performance, to help Basingstoke and North Hants to victory over Uxbridge by 83 runs on Saturday.  more...

Aldermaston and Saxons clash in cup final match

AFC Aldermaston A and Nine Saxons clash in the final of the Supplementary B Cup final at Water End tomorrow (4.15pm).  more...

Artistic girls really make the grade

BASINGSTOKE competition artistic girls' squad had their most successful month ever, with all the gymnasts passing their Hampshire Grades at Basingstoke and the Southern Region Grades at Dibden Purlieu.  more...

Young Charlotte's driving force is her grandfather

CHARLOTTE Farmer is more than five years away from driving on public roads - but she is hoping to make a name for herself in the summer sport of grass-track racing.  more...

Eastleigh News

Students take part in animal antics

PEER through the window of a classroom at Eastleigh College and you might think it has been taken over by teachers' pets.  more...

Eastleigh Sport

Doswell signs Steve Thorpe from Sheffield Weds

Eastleigh will be gunning for JWL honours next season under ambitious, new manager Paul Doswell.  more...

Forestandwaterside News

Controversial sale of hall suspended

CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans for a new church hall in the graveyard at Hordle have won assurances that the sale of the existing Hordle Memorial Hall has been suspended.  more...

Extra beds will protect care home

PLANNERS in the New Forest have approved a scheme that aims to ease the growing shortage of care home places for the elderly.  more...

Farmer's golf plan is back on course

FROM the rough to the smooth!  more...

Forestandwaterside Sport

Graham swoops to pick up five new Linnets

LYMINGTON & New Milton boss Graham Kemp has vowed to return the glory days to Fawcett's Field after swooping to sign five of the Jewson Wessex League's hottest properties.  more...

Hampshire Sailsolent

END OF THE SEVENTH LEG: BALTIMORE TO LA ROCHELLE

Finishing dates and times:  more...

McDonald still in the shake up for places

Neal McDonald produced another strong performance in the seventh leg of the Volvo Ocean Race to increase his chances of an eventual podium place for Assa Abloy.  more...

RYA ENCOURAGES KEEN HOBIE SAILORS

A grant from the RYA has enabled Ross Clark (18) from Winchester with his crew Richard Deyes (18) to compete against world class sailors at the recent Eurocat Regatta.  more...

CONTACT RYA SOUTHERN

The Royal Yachting Association (RYA) is the national governing body for all forms of sailing, windsurfing, and powerboat racing. Sailing is the most successful Olympic sport in this country and Great Britain is the world's top Olympic sailing nation.  more...

Warsash series is a pointer

THE season's curtain raiser in the Solent, the Barclays Marine Finance Warsash Spring Series, may have given a strong indicator to the medal winners for the summer following a closely-fought contest which involved 250 boats and 2,000 competitors.  more...

Iow News

Coroner rules out overdose death

A VERDICT of death due to natural causes has been recorded on a millionairess whose body was exhumed after her family raised concerns that she may have died from a drug overdose.   more...

Southampton Business

In Port

Today's Principal Arrivings: Saga Rose, cruise ship, 0600, 38/9; MOL Advantage, container, 1100, 206; Braemar, cruise ship, 1130, 105; Emily C, general, 1200, 47; Autocarrier, ro/ro, 1230, 201 link; Kvitnes, bulk, 1230, 109; Biunga Raya Satu, container, 1900, 204; Grand Quest, ro/ro, 1900, 43; Tinka, container, 2100, Con Term; BBC Sealand, general, PM, 102; Skandi Neptune, cable, PM, 101E.  more...

Southampton Leisure

I AM SAM (12) ***

Sam Dawson (Penn) is a mentally challenged single father who works part-time at a coffee shop to take care of his highly intelligent young daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning).   more...

SLACKERS (15) **

AMERICAN Pie goes to university in first-time director Dewey Nicks' kooky extension of the gross-out teen comedy.  more...

SLACKERS (15) **

AMERICAN Pie goes to university in first-time director Dewey Nicks' kooky extension of the gross-out teen comedy.  more...

Emergenza Battle of the Bands

The Brook, Southampton, May 16 - 18  more...

Sing, sing, sing

Barbara Dickson, The Anvil, Basingstoke  more...

Flaming flamenco

Juan Martin, Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, May 16  more...

WIN A POP WEEKEND IN BRISTOL!

The Southern Daily Echo has teamed up with the Bristol Marriott City Centre Hotel and the Ashton Gate Stadium to offer readers the chance to win a two night stay at the four-star hotel and tickets to see some of your favourite top bands for free.  more...

All About Eve

Southampton Guildhall, May 14  more...

Two more join Soft Cell at The Bowl

THE full programme for next month's Homelands dance music festival near Winchester has been revealed.  more...

Review: Operatic society delivers the goods

Me and My Girl, Eastleigh Operatic and Musical Society - The Point, Eastleigh  more...

Thirst

Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham, May 16  more...

Outside Edge

Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke, Until June 1.  more...

Southampton News

Can you help tell Cunard's story?

Cunard, one of the greatest names in British shipping history, is looking for help from Daily Echo readers to help launch the biggest passenger liner the world has ever seen.  more...

Southampton Shipping

New rolling service sets sail for northern Spain

SOUTHAMPTON'S new roll-on/roll-off shipping service connecting the port with northern Spain has begun operation.  more...

Can you help tell Cunard's story?

Cunard, one of the greatest names in British shipping history, is looking for help from Daily Echo readers to help launch the biggest passenger liner the world has ever seen.  more...

Southampton Sport

Frost strikes a record-busting hammer blow

Isle of Wight hammer thrower Andy Frost heads for the Hampshire AA Championships at Portsmouth's Mountbatten Centre this weekend with the Commonwealth Games qualifying distance already in the bag.  more...

BAT hope unlucky 13 won't strike

Havant are aiming to make it an unlucky 13 for BAT Sports in tomorrow's clash of the ECB Southern Electric Premier League heavyweights at Southern Gardens, 1pm.  more...

Now finish it off says Cook

Jimmy Cook praised his side for a good all-round performance after Hampshire ended the second day against Kent with their first championship victory of the season in sight.  more...

James pinches the limelight

James Hamblin kick-started a potentially match-winning day's cricket by pinch-hitting - at number 10!  more...

Graham swoops to pick up five new Linnets

LYMINGTON & New Milton boss Graham Kemp has vowed to return the glory days to Fawcett's Field after swooping to sign five of the Jewson Wessex League's hottest properties.  more...

Rose's run of bogeys gives him a lot to do

JUSTIN ROSE has a lot of ground to make up is he is to win his first professional tournament on home soil this week.  more...

Townandcounty News

Power failure

AROUND 5,000 homes and businesses in West End were plunged into darkness when a cable fault developed at an electricity substation at Townhill Park in the city.  more...