EASTLEIGH Football Club have unveiled the six men who will be piloting the next stage of the Spitfires' incredible flight up the non-League pyramid. The six (pictured left to right) - David Malone, Chris Evans, Paul Murray, Darren Ridge, Paul Doswell
Dominic Thornely reckons he is bowling better than he ever has done - thanks to help from Bruce Reid. The Hampshire new boy took a career best 3-38 on his home debut a day after a net session with the club's bowling coach. Thornley said: "I'm a batting
The Teams of Four match at Witherington Farm saw very good weights, winner Paul Barnard (146lb 14oz of carp from peg five on the pole and paste) and runner-up Alex Murray (133lb) both fishing Cottage Lake. Steve Hunt was third (123lb 10oz) and Ian White
LEADING Winchester businessman and former newsreader Khalid Aziz is to become an honorary professor at the city's university. The role mainly involves facilitating and contributing to research and scholarly activity at the university. Mr Aziz said: "It's
EVERYONE has heard of the Open University but two Hampshire students have just graduated from what they call the Open Air University. Dan Taplin, pictured left, and Phil Stride, right, have spent the past two years learning all the skills required by
REAL ale lovers will raise their glasses and drown their sorrows following an annoucement that the Cheriton Brewhouse is to close. Established in 1993 next to the village pub the Flower Pots Inn, the timber-clad microbrewery has produced several award-winning
WINCHESTER MP Mark Oaten confessed to his wife Belinda that he was "finished" when reporters turned up outside their Bramdean home to confront him about sordid sex allegations. Mrs Oaten revealed the intimate conversation in an interview in the current
WINCHESTER planners have rejected proposals for a permanent moto-cross track, but two major events are still scheduled this summer. Promoter, Steve Dixon, wanted permission for earthworks and paddock area, and to create jumps at the proposed venue at
CHAINSAW-juggling brought Winchester High Street to a standstill on Saturday afternoon. Scores of fascinated shoppers, residents and tourists looked on as local street performer, The Mighty Gareth, juggled with a real chainsaw. The 38-year-old street
ONE of Britain's top chains will be running Eastleigh's new multiplex cinema, the Daily Echo can reveal. Vue Cinemas, which operates screens across the country, will be coming to the town in two years' time when the doors open on a £25m entertainment
MOUNTAIN man Rhys Jones will today attempt to reach the highest point yet in his climb of Mount Everest. The intrepid New Forest teenager hopes to ascend the world's tallest mountain to a breathless point just short of Camp Three at 23,500ft. Following
SEA temperature measuring buckets may not sound like the sexiest objects on Earth. But the pivotal role they play in monitoring global climate change was celebrated at the National Oceanographic Centre yesterday when the inventor of one of the most universally-respected
LEPERS in India will soon be on their way to getting a new health centre thanks to Fareham churchgoers. A plant sale was held at St Paul's Church in Sarisbury Green with the proceeds going to the New Life Centre in Sundarbans, India. The cash will help
WINCHESTER CITY will be presented with the Wessex League Championship trophy after Saturday's final game against Bemerton Heath Harlequins. It's a fine end to the season for the club and they'll be keen to mark the occasion with a win. Tickets will be
Hampshire Junior B Cup - final Twyford 3, Kyngs Town 1 A SIZEABLE crowd, including a noisy contingent from the Island, gathered to watch Twyford win their first ever county cup at Cams Alders, Fareham, recently. Both teams started brightly, clearly keen
Despite the bad weather at the EDMSL cup finals last Sunday the football was of the highest order. There was joy and there were tears at Wide Lane, as dreams came true and hearts were broken. A sea of umbrellas welcomed the teams in the Team Elite Cup
Dominic Thornely produced a career best bowling performance on his home debut as Hampshire routed Sussex - after losing the toss. Thornely took 1-11 on his championship debut for Hampshire at Lancashire and he continued to impress in his first appearance
Eastleigh-based Formula 3 racing driver Shane Kelly and his SK Racing team got his season off to a flying start at Silverstone at the weekend in the inaugural race of the new club F3 Championship. The former award-winning graduate from the Silverstone
HAMPSHIRE begin their build-up to the Middleton Cup campaign with a friendly against Wiltshire at Atherley on Sunday, May 14 (2pm). Team manager Rod Rosier, who staged a trial at the end of last season, has selected six rinks and has asked another nine
ATHERLEY bowls club are 100 years old - now they are about to move into the 21st century - according to their president. Marion Collins will become the first woman president in Atherley's history next year. She takes over from Roger Stonham, who said:
BANISTER Park have lost one of their most popular and highly respected members with the death of Gordon Prebble. After joining the club 18 years ago, he helped develop the premises at their Stoneham Lane headquarters and became Banister Park president
THE gloves are off in the battle of the developers over a prime chunk of Winchester city centre. London & Henley has unveiled its plans to redevelop its site in Middle Brook Street with shops and homes. The company is at loggerheads with Thornfield
THESE are the ghostly pictures that will bring hope to community hospital campaigners in the New Forest. More than a year after it "temporarily" closed amid a cash crisis, these pictures of the inside of the Fenwick Hospital show that it is being kept
TWO elderly women have cost the NHS about £500 a day to keep them in hospital beds for the past two years -- despite there being no medical reason for doing so. It has emerged that the patients have been in Winchester's Royal Hampshire County Hospital
A STANMORE family woke up to find workmen removing a set of seven steps which link their home to the roadway five feet above. Winchester City Council workers had been asked to demolish the steps -- which are shared with a council house next door -- because
SCOUTS and Guides took part in the annual St George's Day parade through Winchester on Sunday. About 800 assembled in Colebrook Street and then marched past the Guildhall, where the District Commissioner, Carol Bowen, took the salute. She was accompanied
SUTTON Scotney's post office and village shop has reopened. When it closed last year, villagers feared the new owners would convert the Oxford Road premises into housing. But, thanks to Serge Dosanj, his wife, Jas, their postmaster son, Harry, and daughter-in-law
A VETERINARY nurse, based in Winchester, has been saluted as Britain's best. Kimberley Forshaw received the accolade at the Petplan Veterinary Awards, held in Birmingham. Speaking earlier this week, the 27-year-old, who lives in Sutton Scotney, indicated
ON the entrance sign to Phoenix House, near Droxford, reads the message "rebuilding lives". And that's exactly what goes on in this large country house, set in a lush seven acres outside the village. The 30 clients, or "residents", who live there are
IT IS feared that a precious parrot may have been bird-napped by thieves who ransacked a Southampton home while the owner was on holiday. Chatty five-year-old Lucy has not been seen since burglars targeted the home of her pet loving owner Trudy Chivers
HEALTH bosses brought in a new payroll system for hospital workers without knowing whether it worked, an investigation has revealed. A damning report found a catalogue of errors with the system. Mistakes were made in pay packets of about 800 staff. Many
IT IS probably the most emblematic building in Southampton - a recognisable symbol for the city the world over. The Bargate, that magnificent medieval structure which was once the main entrance to the old walled city, is to get a deserved new lease of
POLICE are hunting a pair of thugs who attacked a 76-year-old man and his dog. The pensioner was walking along a path when he was confronted by two teenage boys, one of whom punched him in the back and demanded cash. He then kicked the victim's dog after
SOUTHAMPTON Medina Mosque, in St Mary's Road, is offering a series of courses in Islam and Muslim cultural awareness. The courses will include seven hours' tuition in all aspects of Islam, including family issues and the status of women, Jihad and terrorism
Hampshire Cricket Board chairman Jeff Levick is the co-ordinator for disabled cricket in Hampshire. Here, he illustrates what can be done.... There can be no better example of the Board's provision of opportunity for the under privileged than the story
Winchester Tennis and Squash Club celebrates 100 years of existence in 2006 and a special day was organised last Sunday to mark the occasion. The club organised morning events for members, and these were a great success. Adult and junior members took
Dominic Thornely reckons he is bowling better than he ever has done - thanks to help from Bruce Reid. The Hampshire new boy took a career best 3-38 on his home debut a day after a net session with the club's bowling coach. Thornley said: "I'm a batting
With only a small squad available, New Forest Juniors had to be content with just a handful of first places in the opening Wessex Young Athletes' League match at Bournemouth. All the victories came in the under-15 age-group with Alice Cole winning the
SHE is back at her old school. However, this time Suzanne Dew has swapped a desk for a blackboard. For she is the new deputy head at Eastleigh's Crestwood College, where she was a student in the 1980s under the first head teacher, Shelia Norman. Suzanne
THE extent of George Burley's summer rebuilding will be evident next week when he announces his retained list. Around half of his squad is either out of contract this summer or at the end of their loan agreements. Of the six who were on loan, it appears
