Mike Slade and a hot shot crew of America's Cup sailors rewrote the record books on Saturday when his 90-foot monohull Skandia Leopard set a new time for sprinting round the Isle of Wight in the 65th Hoya Round the Island Race. Slade's previous boat Longobarda
Burridge, the club whose notoriously wet ground suffered more than most from the heavy winter rains, were the only Southern Electric ECB Premier League side to complete a Division 1 match. They side-stepped the elements to inflict a 52-run defeat on Liphook
POLICE have condemned a pair of thieves who targeted an elderly woman in Hampshire. The 80-year-old woman, who has not been named, had her handbag stolen after allowing one of the men into her back garden after he claimed he was looking for a ball. After
EASTLEIGH councillors are refusing to budge over an "eyesore" waste compound on a Chandler's Ford housing estate. Last February Eastleigh Housing Association was ordered to move the compound from land behind Devon Drive at Velmore Estate after local councillors
THE flooded underpass beneath a central Basingstoke roundabout is to be filled in and the traffic system redeveloped at a cost that could run to £800,000. Pumps have been working day and night at the Victory roundabout for the last five months - each
BASINGSTOKE MP Andrew Hunter has joined the campaign to try to stop a contro-versial mobile phone mast from being sited on a town roundabout. Despite a protest petition with more than 400 signatures, the application by One2One to build a mast in the middle
DETECTIVES are appealing for witnesses to two separate assaults in the Basingstoke area on Friday. A man was severely beaten in a lay-by in Popham, and a teenage girl was indecently assaulted in a Basingstoke park. The indecent assault happened around
A HAMPSHIRE mum living just yards from a popular infant school is battling to stop her two young daughters from being split up - leaving her eldest to travel miles from home each day. Emma White has been told there is no room for five-year-old Megan at
THE family of a 16-year-old schoolgirl who turned up at the weekend after going missing for ten days have expressed their joy at her return. "We're ecstatic that she's back," said Tracey New after she and her husband Stephen had been reunited with their
THE family of a 16-year-old schoolgirl who turned up at the weekend after going missing for ten days have expressed their joy at her return. "We're ecstatic that she's back," said Tracey New after she and her husband Stephen had been reunited with their
THE watchdog at Winchester Prison has criticised the jail in a hard-hitting annual report for 2000. The Board of Visitors raises serious concerns about low staffing levels, its impact on prisoners and a growing discipline problem in the Westhill women's
Southampton megaliner, Queen Mary 2 will be creating waves when she arrives in the city in 2003. Daily Echo shipping editor, Keith Hamilton exclusively reveals the features that will make her the ship of the millennium... SHE will be the most amazing
Southampton is to set sail on a major festival of yachting and water sports attracting visitors in their thousands from all over the world later this year. Millions of pounds worth of business will be poured into the local economy as a direct result of
Second-half goals from Sarah Blanks and Anna Bennett sealed a 2-0 victory and a series win for England's women in the final Test against Ireland. Bennett's strike came in her 50th international appearance - a considerable milestone in a career has been
SOUTHAMPTON-based 400m athlete Iwan Thomas ran 46.53secs for third place in Helsinki's Olympic Stadium last night. Thomas, who aims to once again compete with the world's best one-lap sprinters after being plagued by injury, was on the shoulder of South
LORDSHILL Road Runners are hoping their change of plan for their annual 10k race will pay off on Sunday. A total of 120 runners have already entered for the race, which has been staged on Wednesday evenings in the past - between the summer's RR10 series
THE waiting game goes on and could well stretch into next week or even beyond. Saints fans are desperate to know who the new manager will be, but chairman Rupert Lowe is still refusing to be rushed. He returned from his Scottish holiday at the weekend
SAINTS chairman Rupert Lowe's options for a new manager are narrowing after Micky Adams became the latest man to sever any links he may have had with the job - leaving caretaker boss Stuart Gray, Harry Redknapp and David Platt as the three obvious candidates
SHAMED former Hampshire County Council leader Freddie Emery-Wallis has been jailed for nine months for child abuse. However, children's charity Childline has branded the sentence as being too short. The 74-year-old veteran Tory politician had the sentence
BASINGSTOKE Bison coach Charlie Colon could not hide his smile on Friday lunchtime as he unveiled his latest British signing Gary Clarke. The 22-year-old forward was the top British goal scorer last season in the Findus British National League and is
ROMSEY MP Sandra Gidley has called for an investigation after a legionnaires' disease type bacteria was discovered in the showers at the town's showpiece £5 million swimming pool. The popular Rapids was closed for three days and re-opened last Tuesday
ANGRY Hampshire ambulance staff are threatening industrial action if working conditions are not improved, it emerged today. According to a ballot and survey by Unison and the Transport and General Workers' Union, employees are increasingly concerned about
SOUTHAMPTON councillors are being taught to speak up as part of a training exercise costing £2,000 worth of public money. The special training is being offered to all councillors and senior officers to help them feel more confident of speaking in public
TWO Southampton entertainers are making a big name for themselves in the city - but they've got their sights set much higher. Neil Simpson, 24, and Laura Kane, 21, are getting plenty of gigs as Simpson and Kane, both pictured, singing their brand of acoustic
COACH Rod Lock does not doubt Angus Maclean's ability to get in among the medals at the weekend's South of England Championships at Haringey. "Once we set a target for Gus, he usually manages to achieve it," said Lock, still glowing after Maclean's inspired
EASTLEIGH council has pumped £312,000 into a shared ownership scheme to help people unable to afford a home of their own outright to get on the first rung of the ladder. Now, it is hoped that the scheme will also contribute towards recruiting police officers
Team Solent's boys finished top of the pile in the Southern Electric Wessex Young Athletes' League at Basingstoke. Almost all their victories came courtesy of the sprinters with Paul Handley pulling off an under-13 100/200m double (13.5/28.7), Sam Player
HASSAN KACHLOUL has plumped to join Ipswich less than a year after turning down a move to the Suffolk club. Kachloul's decision will be doubly frustrating for Saints, who were not only snubbed in their attempts to keep him, but lost out on the £1.8 million
It's make-your-mind-up time for Hassan Kachloul who now looks certain to quit Saints. Although the club increased the final offer set by former manager Glenn Hoddle, the Moroccan is likely to exercise his freedom on contract. He has already had informal
Anders Svensson is confident he has backed a winner after agreeing to a £750,000 move to The Dell. The Elfsborg midfielder, who runs a betting shop in Sweden, believes there is no gamble about staking his future on the Saints. At 24 and now an established
HAMPSHIRE chief executive, Tony Baker, has warned that cricket has got to seriously re-examine itself in the wake of yesterday's disgraceful scenes at Headingley. Hundreds of Pakistan supporters swarmed onto the pitch as they closed in on another one-day
HAMPSHIRE'S players were feeling shirty before the match but were happy enough after collaring their second Norwich Union National League win of the season. The Hawks paraded their new Sunday best for the first time, but as it came out of the boxes it
TWO Basingstoke civil servants have been recognised in The Queen's Birthday Honours List. Laurence Saint John Groce and Seamus McGarvey will both be making the trip to Buckingham Palace later this year to receive medals from The Queen. Mr Groce, 58, of
RAIN robbed Basingstoke and North Hants of victory at league champions Banbury on Saturday, as they needed just 18 runs off the final three overs. Basingstoke's top scorer on the day, Nigel Williamson, was 30 not out and, with big hitting Chris Chandler
ROMSEY MP Sandra Gidley has called for an investigation after a legionnaires' disease type bacteria was discovered in the showers at the town's showpiece £5 million swimming pool. The popular Rapids was closed for three days and re-opened last Tuesday
WHEN American tourist Helen Clarke went for an early morning stroll on Southampton Common, this was the last thing she expected to see. She had intended to take some innocent snaps of the ducks and swans living in the park. But, when faced with the sight
A HAMPSHIRE mum living just yards from a popular infant school is battling to stop her two young daughters from being split up - leaving her eldest to travel miles from home each day. Emma White has been told there is no room for five-year-old Megan at
THE work of one of the 20th century's undisputed musical geniuses is celebrated in a special tribute by the New Gateway Jazz Band in Portsmouth next week. Salute to Satchmo is being staged at the New Theatre Royal on Sunday, June 24 and sees the acclaimed
The Lordshill 10K moved to a Sunday for the first time and proved hugely successful. Some 160 runners were entered and, although no course records were broken due a strong wind across the course, it was the veterans who led by example. Poole Runners'
IWAN Thomas is not going to fret about where he finishes in tomorrow night's IAAF Grand Prix meeting in Helsinki. The only thing that matters to Southampton's European and Commonwealth 400 metres champion is that he builds on the confidence of last weekend's
SEVERAL star performers were conspicuous by their absence at the New River Stadium as Team Solent's men and women missed the boat to the British Athletic League Cup finals. The stay-aways did not go unnoticed by club chairman Mike Smith, who was irked
Saints groundsman Dave Roberts is preparing for a pitch battle with the club's new manager - whoever he may be. The move to the Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium, pictured above, is sure to create a conflict of interests in the run-up to the new season
Saints look set to stretch their managerial hunt into next week despite the speculation linking them with Harry Redknapp. The former Cherries and West Ham boss has had informal talks with chairman Rupert Lowe as confirmed in Monday's Echo. That has seen
Saints have backed Stuart Gray's judgement to sign a hugely exciting player - even before they have announced a new manager. With Sunderland and several other top European sides rumoured to be waiting in the wings, chairman Rupert Lowe knew he had to
