LAWTONWARE, a division of Southampton based Lawton Group, has been presented with a sought-after 'RAD' at the annual Recruitment Ad Awards for the most effective ad in the IT, electronics and communications category. The ceremony, which took place at
CHILDCARE is on the increase and the Southampton Early Years Development and Childcare Team will be on the lookout for new recruits at The Southern Daily Echo Job Scene Roadshow taking place at The Guildhall on May 20. Changes in the labour market mean
MANAGEMENT at TML Financial Solutions in Southampton predict a bright future for their staff - and to prove it they've lined up a fortune teller for a major recruitment night. Potential employees can go along to the company's offices next Thursday and
FACTORING specialist Rob Sims is now well into his new job as a director to Southampton based Fanshawe Lofts, where he heads its growing independent credit management division. Rob, who has more than 20 years experience in the invoice discounting industry
FRANKIE Muniz is back as the junior secret agent. More cover-ups and international intrigue await him on his second adventure, wherein a CIA agent has stolen a top secret mind-control device and Cody has to go undercover in London to get it back. Expect
ONE of Southampton's biggest employers has been recognised as an Investor in People (IIP). The accreditation for financial services group Skandia is particularly timely, coming in its 25th anniversary year. Investor in People is the UK standard which
MATT LE TISSIER and James Beattie are just two of the star names lined up to help coach kids attending a Football Fun Week at Eastleigh FC. The Saints stars past and present will be lending their support and advice to a project set up to promote a new
STAFF at Basingstoke College of Technology are celebrating after it was awarded a prestigious status - and extra Government funding. BCOT this week learned that it has been granted Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) status for its construction services
IT'S a case of "Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies" in Winchester as the city's award-winning amateur group take to the stage with the romping comedy She Stoops to Conquer. Written by Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer is an evergreen
A MAN who glassed a Christmas party reveller, leaving him needing 50 stitches, has blamed his violent outburst on the famous Atkins diet, a court heard. Lee Haiselden, 29, had not touched alcohol for two months in line with the popular weight loss scheme
THEY'RE the biggest band of the moment, with two Brits, a Grammy and five million album sales under their belt. But pop heroes Coldplay still have time to spare a thought for one of their member's home town. The band has sent Southampton a message of
FUNDRAISERS had the chance the have a flutter on the horses as race night came to St Mary's Stadium in Southampton. It was all for a good cause, with money raised from bets going to the Hampshire Autistic Society. The charity raised an impressive £3,652
A HAMPSHIRE mum will today discover if she has won her legal fight against the NHS for removing part of her dead daughter's brain without her consent. However, Tracey Attwood will have to wait to hear the news by telephone, after the stress of discovering
CHILDREN from schools across Southampton have been learning about the wealth of wildlife on Southampton's Chessel Bay. The bay is the only remaining lengthy stretch of natural shoreline in the lower parts of the Itchen and was Southampton's first nature
A GROUP of Southampton residents have drawn up their battle plans in an attempt to stop a block of flats being built near their homes. The group of about a dozen homeowners from Squirrel Drive in Sholing met this week to discuss how they plan to defeat
TRAVELLERS have returned to an industrial estate in Southampton - just six months after they were asked to move on by city council bosses. In September last year, a group of travellers pulled up at a car park on the Belgrave Industrial Estate in Portswood
IT was a double celebration for nine lucky youngsters from a Southampton school as they headed out to the opening of a brand new Tesco store in their neighbourhood. The pupils from Townhill Park school were all picked to attend the opening because they
HE MIGHT not quite be an angry young man any more but Billy Bragg still has that counter-culture edge that has made him so popular. Unlike so many prominent figures, who started out full of ideals only to shed them as their success grew, you are still
GETTING a positive result from another tough away trip to Essex is the challenge for Town tomorrow, when they travel to Grays Athletic. Top six side Grays are comfortably placed to make the new Conference South set-up - a position Ernie Howe's side would
Oakley Athletic Res 2, Preston Candover 0 A NEAR-300 crowd saw Oakley's second string deservedly take the Basingstoke B Cup for the first time in their history after beating fancied Preston Candover. At the Camrose Ground on Monday night, two youngsters
WELL Baby Clinics - new arrangements: Tuesday clinic, on April 6, will be held in the Church of Christ the King from 1.30pm to 2.30pm. On April 13, there will be no clinic in the church because people are moving. On Tuesday, April 20, the clinic will
3Cs Coffee morning: The next one is at 10am on Saturday, April 3, which is also the day of the Brookvale Spring Jumble Sale, starting at noon and closing at 2pm. Please submit items for the sale which are clean and unbroken. Collection of goods can be
ENTERTAINMENT: The audience showed its appreciation of an excellent performance by Swing Factory at the hall last Saturday. The six-piece band played a selection of popular songs from Porter, Gershwin, Berlin and others, and even had audience participation
SALE: There will be bargains galore at Hook Mother and Toddler Group's Nearly New Sale tomorrow, from 10am until noon at the community centre. EASTER Celebrations: Firstly, Hook Mother and Toddler Group will be holding an Easter party on Wednesday, at
KEMPSHOTT Junior School: The school took part in the Basingstoke Music and Arts Festival on February 29. Well done to all the children involved, and special thanks to Miss Proctor, Mrs Jones and Mrs Harding for their continual support. LODDON Vale Bowling
WEBSITE: My apologies to the team for maligning them last week. You can get to the annual diary via "village information". Why not put a link to the monthly diary on the home page? My real comment was aimed at encouraging more people to add their events
SEEDS: There is a trading hut run by the Allotment and Leisure Gardeners Association offering a range of seeds and other horticultural items. It is currently open every Sunday, 9.30am to 11.30am, but from May to September it will open on the first and
BASINGSTOKE Common: Cyril Knight, chairman of the trustees, is delighted with the response for funds to alleviate the cash flow problem of the charity which administers the common. Over 50 villagers responded, but the situation could recur if unforeseen
CARERS Together: Don't forget next week's coffee morning on Thursday, at Hylton Court, Bowmonts Road, Tadley, from 10.30am to 12.30pm. Come along and have a couple of hours relaxation with other carers. If you are interested in these support groups for
OUT to lunch: Fancy a lunchtime date every weekday and get paid for it? Whitewater School is currently looking for lunchtime supervisory assistants (to give the teachers a well-earned break!). If you enjoy children and are free between 11.55am and 1.10pm
TONIGHT: Bramley and Romans Floral Society's film show by Rodney Jennings is in the village hall at 7.30pm. This is a cheese and wine evening entitled "Past Times". Tickets cost £5 from 881420, 881182 or on the door. BIRTHDAY: Sherfield WI will celebrate
BROWNIES: The Brownies would like to thank all who came and bought at the jumble sale last week, which raised over £140. Thanks also to mums, dads and other volunteers for making the day such a success. NEIGHBOURHOOD Watch: I have just received notice
Sir.-I am a 15-year-old from the Hatch Warren area and am concerned about the Anti Social Behaviour Act that will stop youths hanging around in groups of more than two. Youths congregate outside Sainsbury's and Asda as there is nowhere else to go. I feel
Despite last week's gutting derby-day defeat at Fratton Park, Danny Higginbotham still believes Saints can qualify for Europe. The Portsmouth setback has left Saints nine points clear of their third from bottom arch rivals and seven away from sixth-placed
MPVS, large and small, almost always need the back row of seats dropping, or even removing, before they'll take a decent load. So the estate is needed by those whose demand for cargo space and convenience comes in equal measures. The onset of spring 2004
AN EXCLUSIVE preview of the new Alfa GT was held at Alan Gibson Alfa Romeo. Everybody connected with Alfa Romeo was invited to see the car that has taken Europe by storm, at last Thursday's event at the London Road showroom in Old Basing. A lucky and
A RECORD-breaking swim by Basingstoke's Josh Clinch inspired the English Schools team to victory over counterparts from Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the home international at Southampton at the weekend. The 14-year-old won the junior boys' 200 metres
WITH all the theological debate surrounding The Passion Of The Christ, consideration of how it measures up as a film, outside of the controversy, has fallen by the wayside. But if we try to remove ourselves from the debate and view it as any other movie
SUMMER: a time of glorious sunshine, lazy evenings and meaningless holiday romances that invariably end in tears. Under The Tuscan Sun is a syrupy melodrama of second chances and starting over, based on Frances Mayes' memoir of the same name. Following
THE ORIGINAL Dawn Of The Dead, made in 1979, was the second film in George O Romero's notoriously gory and gruesome zombie trilogy. With its outrageous make-up effects and high splatter quotient, the film became a cult classic, not least for its underlying
HARBOUR Lights Picture House are telling it like it is this week at their documentary festival. There's a chance to see some of the best documentary films around, with highlights from the Sheffield International Documentary Festival and two Academy Award-nominated
MONA LISA SMILE (12A): Julia Roberts leads a stellar cast in this Dead Poets' Society for girls. A progressive art teacher shakes up a stuffy private school in 50s America. OPEN RANGE (12A): Kevin Costner stars in this western as a former gunslinger who
FOR ONE Basingstoke mother, her 15 minutes of fame are approaching fast with the arrival of All Change!, the community musical at The Anvil from Thursday, April 1. This is because, as well as having worked in the theatre for the last eight years and seven
FORTY new jobs are to be created in South Yorkshire - thanks to innovative technology developed by a Basingstoke company. Voller Energy, which has a team of three working at Basepoint in Stroudley Road, is having a £3.7million factory built in Sheffield
ONE of the most adventurous buildings ever to be designed marks another success story for Scott Wilson, the Basingstoke-based Hampshire Company of the Year. Scott Wilson, the international consultancy firm based in Basing View, is the lead designer for
ACTIVE, the Basingstoke-based specialist supplier of geographic and demographic data systems and consultancy, has won Investors in People accreditation. Paul Smith, the director who founded ACTIVE about 10 years ago, said: "This is a great achievement
COMING on stream for spring buyers is the latest development by one of Basingstoke's popular house builders. The demolished Westlands House on the corner of Bounty Road and Winchester Road has made way for T A Fisher's new apartment buildings of Winchester
SNOW-COVERED igloos were up for sale in Basingstoke in the build-up to Christmas - and the original festive advertising has resulted in an award for Gazette Property. The advertising property team at The Gazette, headed by Kim Smith, scooped the Newsquest
A DEVELOPER went back to 1930s designs when building Grebe Close in Basingstoke. The close is made up of just four houses and one is on the market with estate agents Simmons and Sons, at a price guide of £334,950. The lounge and master bedroom feature
Second-choice goalkeeper Ollie Rastall got in on the scoring act during Winchester City's 4-1 win at Cowes last night. The FA Vase finalists were so strapped for players that 22-year-old Rastall had to go on as an outfield substitute when master marksman
Eastleigh's players achieved the near impossible with their calamitous Hampshire Senior Cup exit at the hands of Wessex League outfit Fareham Town on Wednesday night. For the first time in his two-year reign as manager, the happy-go-lucky Paul Doswell
THEY say that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. But in the case of goalkeeper Paul Bowers, he has got going - straight out the door of Sydenhams Wessex League strugglers Blackfield & Langley. Whitchurch United's recent revival has dropped
THE gang are back, this time to investigate the dastardly plans of a masked villain who is planning to take control of Coolsville by tampering with the "Monster Machine" that reproduces Mystery Inc's classic foes such as the 10,000 Volt Ghost, Captain
THE Rock stars as a mob boss' "retrieval expert" who, in order to square a bet, is sent to the Amazon to bring back the boss' son (Sean William Scott). When he discovers that his quarry isn't the bad guy he'd been warned about, the two team up in pursuit
A LIVE action version of the famous Dr Seuss story starring Mike Myers as the titular cat. Padded out with special effects and a few risqu moments that were not in the original book, this has bombed big time in the US.
WE'RE back in western world (not Waterworld, badoom chish!) again this week, with the film that relaunched Kevin Costner as a box office prospect. And thank goodness for it, because of that reason only, as, let's face it, the man has been unfairly persecuted
Today's Principal Arrivals: CFF Solent, ro/ro, 0530, 25; St Elmo, ro/ro, 0530, 105; Autofreighter, ro/ro, 0630, 201 link; Carmen, vehicle, 0630, 40/41; Bunga Raya Satu, container, 1000, 205; Ladoga 106, general, 2330, 102/3; CMA CGM Balzac, container,
SUNDAY at 3pm is an important time for Basingstoke rugby club. Ian Calder's side start out to beat Andover in the final of the Hampshire Cup and retain a trophy they won in record-breaking style last year. County cup success will go a long way towards
by Giacomo Puccini. See it on Tuesday and Thursday. Sung in Italian with English surtitles So what's it about? American colonial imperialism. Written in 1904, young Cio Cio San - Madam Butterfly - is the poor daughter of a Nagasaki nobleman who took his
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. See it on Wednesday and Sunday April 3. Sung in Russian with English surtitles So what's it about? Tatyana and Olga are the daughters of Madam Larina, living on a country estate outside St Petersburg. Olga is engaged to Lensky
by Engelbert Humperdinck. See it on Saturday April 2 Sung in English So what's it about? Based on the Grimm fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel, the children of the poor broom-maker Peter and his wife Gertrude, are sent off to find strawberries in the forest
THE prince of pause - Harold Pinter - is brought to the amateur stage tonight and tomorrow as Maskers Theatre perform his play Moonlight. Andy is facing death alone but for his wife, Bel, with whom he has a brittle relationship. He longs for a reunion
SAINTS star Fabrice Fernandes has been fined £1,000 after being found guilty of driving without due care and attention. The French midfielder was on his way to the football stadium when his left-hand drive black Audi S3 collided with a cyclist, Southampton
This is the tough choice laid out for a canine-loving Southampton couple, who say they would rather live in a tent that give up their precious pooches. George and Marion Lacey have been told by Southampton City Council officers to find a new home for
A SCHEME to help save the old-fashioned British pond is being launched by environmental campaigners across the Winchester district. Pond wardens are being sought to help protect the area's ponds, many of which are under threat from neglect and lack of
IT might be worth catching a glimpse of charismatic rock frontman Fish when he plays The Brook next Thursday - south coast fans could be waiting a long time for his next visit. For the man forever described as 'the former lead singer of Marillion', even
SUCCESS can change your perspective on things. When new bands are making their early recordings, most hope to have a slick, well-produced sound. But now that they are onto their second album, Aaron Fletcher, from Isle of Wight group The Bees, has got
AN INSPIRED mix of Bhangra and classical Indian rhythms will be drumming out tomorrow when The Angel Brothers and Satnam Singh play the coolest Western dance grooves, folk tunes & acoustic guitar melodies at the Forest Arts Centre. The band, made
ANYONE who visits The Mayflower on Sunday night will be singing in chorus and thanking Abba for the music when Voulez Vous bring their tour to Southampton. With a night full of the music and glitter of the 1970s the 'masters of the ABBA scene' will be
Ford United 1, Basingstoke Town 1 THE point gained from this difficult midweek trip to Ford may yet prove vital in the grand scheme of things. As the chase for a Conference South berth hots up, Oliver Burgess' second-half equaliser could be one of the
PAST Times: A reminder that today, Bramley and Romans Floral Society is holding a film and cheese and wine event in Sherfield Village Hall, at 7.30pm. Films from Geoff Wheeler Archives will be shown by Rodney Jennings. All are welcome. PARISH council:
CHINEHAM Village Club: A "Family Night with The Smiths" is for members tomorrow, from 8pm, in the lounge bar. If you are not a member, then you can easily become one by contacting the club in Thornhill Way. LOCAL work on show: Chineham resident and keen
BROADBAND: At the beginning of this week, 146 residents and businesses in Ellisfield, Lasham, Herriard and Winslade had registered their interest in having the 381 exchange activated for broadband. That's just four away from BT's target of 150. If you
QUIZ: Another big success for the NeighbourCare quiz which took place at Hatch Warren Junior School on March 13. As well as having great fun, the contestants raised £750. Thanks from NeighbourCare go especially to Lady Portsmouth, who sponsored the fish
JUMBLE sale: Tomorrow, at 2pm, in East Oakley Village Hall. There will be a raffle, tombola and refreshments. Donations of jumble or draw prizes are welcomed and can be left at the hall after 9.30am on sale day. GIRL power: According to a piece in Link
EASTER Eggstravaganza: Basingstoke NeighbourCare is having an Easter Eggstravaganza on Sunday, at Popley Fields Community Centre, Carpenters Down, from 11am to 3pm. Stalls will include cakes, eggs, tombola, charity, craft, and nearly new. All the proceeds
CAPSULE: About 50 people attended the time capsule function at the community centre last Saturday. The space for the capsule was left there when the centre was built, and last year the trustees of the centre asked TADS (Tadley and District History Society
Sir.-Further to last week's article on the Brighton Hill Roundabout (pictured). The initial problems with this roundabout lay with six busy roads converging onto this and being a prime route to and from the M3 and A303. More recently we have had a major
Sir.-If Hampshire County Council extended its creative proposal, it could revolutionise traffic flow for the nation. Last week's report told us one suggestion is to allow Western Way traffic a first-left-only turn, along Winchester Road, round Winchester
Paul Sturrock's honeymoon period as Saints boss seems to be one of the shortest in history. The goodwill generated by the win over Liverpool swiftly evaporated after last week's horror show at Fratton Park where it was not so much the defeat but the nature
CITY Honda has come up with a great new solution to the complicated and daunting prospect of financing your new car. "Peace of Mind Motoring" is a contract hire agreement offered by the dealership to both business and personal customers. There is a range
CODY Banks (Frankie Muniz) looks and behaves like your average American teenager - accomplished at school, passionate about skateboards, and painfully shy around girls. However, Cody harbours a dark secret - he is actually part of a top secret CIA young
HOLLYWOOD is holding out for an action hero. Schwarzenegger is too busy furthering his political ambitions as the governor of California, Stallone and Seagal are a bit long in the tooth now and Van Damme is strictly straight-to-video. So it comes to wrestling
BE TAKEN on a journey through the seasons by musical gardener Gilly Gazeebo and Spiky, an accordion-playing hedgehog, in Basingstoke on Sunday. The Satellites come to the final Gazette-sponsored Basingstoke Concert Club Family Funday concert of the season
UNUMPROVIDENT, a leading income protection provider with a base in Basingstoke, has broken all records to have the best profit year in its history. Financial results for 2003 surpassed all the company's expectations, with new business premium growth hitting
KEY House is unlocking the door for the expansion plans of a Basingstoke-headquartered company that specialises in project management. INTEC Management has moved to a suite of new offices in Sarum Hill, bringing it into the centre of town from its previous
A LINK-DETACHED house in Hook village has been given a contemporary make-over. The home (pictured above, left), in Carleton Close, features wood flooring throughout the ground floor and a raised deck overlooking the garden. It is selling through the village
