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  • Shane planes domination

    Shane Warne wants to make county cricket history - by winning an unprecedented clean sweep of trophies with Hampshire. The 36-year-old has already seen the county lift the C& G Trophy in his second year as skipper. Victory against champions Nottinghamshire

  • Crawley takes full advantage

    John Crawley took advantage of opposing captain Stephen Fleming's generosity as Hampshire accelerated their pursuit of the County Championship runners-up spot. Nottinghamshire captain Fleming dispensed with the Rose Bowl tradition of batting first by

  • A bold vision for the future of our town

    A RADICAL multi-million-pound masterplan to create a new-look flagship quarter in a key part of central Basingstoke is in the pipeline. Borough council chiefs want to rebuild much of Basing View with shops, offices, restaurants and leisure facilities,

  • Weapons seized in police raid

    A CACHE of weapons and books giving information on how to build home-made explosives were discovered when police carried out a dawn raid in Basingstoke. At 6.40am yesterday, a team from Basingstoke police smashed down the door of a property in Vanburgh

  • Public safe from crime menace

    A SERIAL troublemaker - dubbed Basingstoke's most prolific offender - has been locked up for four years. Daniel Malcolm has a list of 37 convictions for 130 offences to his name. He has only had one year free of convictions in the last 13 - and that was

  • Arsonist scarred for life after bungled barn raid

    AN ARSONIST suffered horrific burns when he set both himself and a barn alight during a burglary that went wrong. Timothy O'Conner turned up at Basingstoke hospital with 33 per cent burns. He had been badly burned after lighting rags with white spirit

  • BOWLS - Jones joy should push cup claim

    BRIAN Jones has provided yet more evidence to suggest that he is worth a place in Hampshire's Middleton Cup squad. The New Milton bowler is no newcomer to the inter-county championship having skipped for Middlesex and Surrey over a long period before

  • BOWLS - Stalwart Hurst roars to double

    ROY Hurst had double delight in the Totton and Eling club's finals day. He bagged the singles' championship comfortably 21-8 but had to work harder for a 21-19 success in the veterans against Charles Cochrane. Despite that defeat, Cochrane was a twin

  • FISHING - Naylor ready for a final victory

    The only major final on Longbridge this year is the potentially thrilling final of The AWD Wealth Management/Nigel Turner Sunday Series which takes place this Sunday. With 18 anglers spread over Longbridge's 42 pegs, all the anglers are likely to catch

  • CREW to beat crime

    CRIME-BUSTERS are out and about in a Hampshire community in a bid to tackle grafitti, litter and antisocial behaviour. Stanmore is the first area in Winchester to benefit from the Crime Reduction and Environment Week (CREW) campaign. The city council,

  • Caring unit put our lives back together

    IT was a day that changed their lives forever. Newly-married Charlie and Sally Penny will never forget November 22 last year when their lives were turned upside down by a road accident. Teacher Charlie, 42, was on his way home from Calmore Junior School

  • Residents to call time on boozy uni students

    RESIDENTS have declared war on university student drinkers in Southampton. With a new semester imminent, undergraduates are being blamed for vandalism and late-night noise. Locals have got together to fight plans to renew two late licences at the University

  • Book week visit

    CHILDREN at a Totton school met one of their favourite authors when Paul Geraghty popped in to talk about his work. The South African-born writer visited Hazel Wood Infant School in Hazel Farm Road as part of its Book Week event. Mr Geraghty told children

  • It's war on truancy

    EDUCATION bosses have pledged to improve pupil attendance at city schools after government figures revealed the number of youngsters playing truant had risen. More youngsters at infant, junior, primary and secondary schools skipped lessons without a reasonable

  • Local youths on a motorbike journey to safety first

    A PIONEERING scheme to teach youngsters about road safety has ended. The ten-week youth course, run by Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS), was held at Redbridge Hill Fire Station and targeted young people from Millbrook, Lordshill and Shirley in

  • 200 to clean the beaches

    MORE than 200 people will take to Portchester's historic shoreline for a mammoth beach clean this weekend. Countryside rangers from Fareham Borough Council will join members of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints for the event on Saturday

  • Treasures also go up in flames

    THE ISLE of Wight Fire and Rescue service is warning Island residents that even when house fires do not claim lives, they can rob people of treasured possessions such as irreplaceable photographs and other mementoes. The message is being put out on the

  • Harpul efforts can't take Soton to title

    TEAM Southampton's young athletes rounded off a cracking first competitive track and field season on Sunday when they came runners-up in the Wessex Young Athletes' League final. Having already obtained promotion in July, the youngsters were only just

  • Rushmoor relays

    The running world across the south turns all eyes to North Hampshire this weekend when clubs descend on Rushmoor for the South of England Road Relays. Over the two days both men's and women's teams right across the age bands will be competing for Southern

  • Basement Youth clean-up

    EASTLEIGH borough's first-ever Crime Reduction Environment Week is continuing - with the help of some handy youngsters. Members of The Basement Youth Club and Chandler's Ford Youth Council were keen to do their bit by blotting out graffiti and freshening

  • Herd hand out some Capital punishment

    Basingstoke Bison 5 Edinburgh Capitals 4 THE Basingstoke Bison got their Elite League campaign off to the perfect start with a 5-4 victory over the visiting Edinburgh Capitals. New Canadian defenceman Mark Jackson slotted into the line-up with ease in

  • Two jailed for attack on homeless drunk

    TWO men have been jailed for kicking a homeless man in what a judge described as "an unnecessary and cruel assault". Lee Brackenridge and Phillip English attacked 29-year-old Jonathan Pisani as he lay under a bench in Market Place, Basingstoke, in the

  • Computer facility could crash after cash hitch

    THE future of a state-of-the-art computer facility is in doubt after parish councillors failed to agree on funding for the venture. Chineham Parish Council decided to postpone a decision on proposals to set up a cyber caf-style facility for the community

  • CREW clamps down on troublemakers

    A SURPRISE crackdown to help reduce anti-social behaviour, improve safety and make Brighton Hill a nicer place to live in is well under way. Police and other agencies have launched a one-week campaign of patrols and events to tackle problems in the area

  • Get the lowdown on local events

    A GUIDE to numerous events taking place across north Hampshire over the next few months is now available. The What's On guide is a free booklet produced by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, and it contains more than 120 listings of events taking

  • D-day looms in Skandia offer

    HUNDREDS of Southampton staff of financial services giant Skandia will tomorrow discover whether they are to have new South African bosses. It is D-day for the shareholders of the Swedish firm, which bases its UK arm in Southampton, on a £3.3 billion

  • FISHING - Pike pulling out the best carp

    Broadland's Main Lake continues to pull out the car David Pike (West Dean) fished peg 12 for a five fish hauls consisting of commons of 21lb, 19lb, 17lb 4oz and mirrors of 15lb 2oz and 16lb 2oz on trigger Boilies. Suhael Alldeh (Winchester) fished peg

  • Paint fun

    A WINCHESTER youth centre has an enthusiastic new boss who says she is keen to widen its horizons. Mandy Leese, 43, is the new head of the Carroll Youth Centre in Stanmore. Ms Leese, formerly the community manager at Henry Beaufort School in Winchester

  • Closure threat to charities

    CHARITIES could be jeopardised by a Hampshire council's tough new stance on debts, a senior councillor has warned. Civic chiefs in Winchester have tightened the rules on handling voluntary organisations' payrolls following the collapse last December of

  • Meridian area last for digital TV switch-on

    VIEWERS in Hampshire will be among the last in Britain forced to change from analogue to digital television by 2012. Under the most radical shake-up in television in 50 years, the analogue signal, which feeds into old-style TV sets, will be switched off

  • Super Ventura

    THIS is the first glimpse of the new super cruise ship, Ventura which could become a regular sight in Southampton water. The P&O Cruises vessel will be the largest ever cruise ship built for the British market at 116,000 tons - roughly equivalent

  • New Flybe route

    THE SUN-soaked island of Majorca is soon to be only 130 minutes away with the announcement of a new route to Palma from Southampton Airport. Costing £49.99 one way, including taxes and charges, the new route brings the total operated from Southampton

  • Antiques and paintings stolen

    VALUABLe antiques and paintings have been stolen from a property on the outskirts of a village near Winchester. Burglars forced a ground floor window at an isolated house in King's Somborne before stealing valuable antique clocks, silverware, paintings

  • Alpha Course

    A CHRISTIAN Alpha course will be held at the Locks Heath Free Church in Titchfield Common from next Tuesday. The course comprises ten evening sessions and one Saturday session. Each evening begins with a two-course meal. For more information, call 01489

  • Bates is a big success story

    Charlotte Bates was one of the big success stories for New Forest Juniors in the Wessex Young Athletes' League Plate final at Kings Park, Bournemouth. Sparkling in the September sunshine, Bates dominated the under-17 women's middle distance events, winning

  • Woman foils path attack

    A WOMAN fought off an attacker who grabbed her on a secluded footpath in broad daylight and tried to drag her into bushes. The attacker struck as the victim - police are not naming her - was walking on a path which runs over the M3 from the Oakmount Road

  • Saints can't use age as excuse for Stags upset

    THE Daily Echo can today reveal that depth of Saints' Carling Cup misery at Mansfield on Tuesday. Harry Redknapp made 11 changes to the side who had started at Derby two days earlier, and fielded four teenagers in his starting XI. But Mansfield, three

  • Harry's facing FA ban

    Harry Redknapp is facing a possible touchline ban if he is found guilty of an FA misconduct charge. The Saints boss has been charged with using abusive and/or insulting words to a match official after he was sent to the stands during Saints' 2-2 draw