HAMPSHIRE FA chief executive Lawrence Jones is banking on two of the county's non-league clubs bucking the trend. Apart from Saints in the FA Cup finals of 1976 and 2003 and the 1979 League Cup final, no Hampshire side has reached a major Saturday showpeice
THOUSANDS of firms in the south heaved a sigh of relief as chancellor Gordon Brown - with a beady eye on the General Election - decided against hitting them with costly new taxes. But he wasted a golden opportunity to help the south coast economy, it
Gosport 17 Andover 12 CFL-sponsored Andover RFC took the short trip to Gosport knowing that only a victory and results going their way in other games could ensure that they retained London 2 league status next season. Andover elected to play against the
Andover 3 Fordingbridge 2 Andover put in another strong performance to defeat Fordingbridge in what turned out to be a very open game. They had to make a couple of changes with suspensions and players unavailable, but started in what is becoming typical
THIRTY-TWO qualifiers battled it out to four board winners at the Entertainer to bring to bring Andover's biggest darts competition a stage closer. Each competitor received a medallion memento from Mick Dunn of Timpsons upon registration to mark the event
A Church of England minister is leading a chorus of protests over controversial plans to close a Roman road in Sutton Scotney, north of Winchester. Planning permission for new homes off Stockbridge Road was granted on condition the lane was closed half-way
Winchester traders are celebrating the success of a crimebusting scheme they claim has slashed shoplifting in the city centre. Police figures show a 37% reduction in theft between January and February compared to the same period last year. More than 50
Public pressure has forced Winchester civic chiefs to look again at controversial plans for the reversal of traffic flow in a city centre street. The city council cabinet agreed on Wednesday to further investigate before launching the 18-month experimental
UP to 1,000 jobs could be axed at the Office of National Statistics in Hampshire. The potential job cuts were buried in a report commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown on shifting civil servants out of London and the south-east. The report, written by
SOUTHAMPTON'S beleaguered environment and transport boss Councillor Jill Baston has vowed to stay on in her post - despite losing a confidence motion calling for her resignation at a meeting of the city's full council last night. Cllr Baston's introduction
THERE have been 100 burglaries so far. So when residents were asked by police to report any suspicious characters hanging around their Hampshire estate they responded with numerous calls. Police were delighted - even though all of the "leads" turned out
WIN SOME, lose some could be Danny Bent's motto. The Ford factory worker, from Maybush, Southampton, is planning to take his family on the holiday of a lifetime after winning £5,000 by picking the winner of the prestigious Coral Cup horse race at Cheltenham
IT was Hampshire's biggest battle and was a turning point in one of the key periods of English history. But most people know little about the Battle of Cheriton in 1644 which erupted in the rolling fields near Alresford. Some 2,000 men were killed in
THE 2004 Hampshire Games, one of the most eagerly-awaited events on the county youth sporting calendar, will be officially launched next Monday. The launch takes place at Southampton Central Railway Station and marks the beginning of a new sponsor for
Jo Tessem is relishing his fresh start at St Mary's - and insists he's happy to continue playing as a striker even though his forward chances are restricted. The Norwegian international is one of Saints' longest-serving players having been snapped up
SAINTS right-back Chris Baird has signed for Watford on a month's loan. The move, Baird's second loan of the season, was revealed in Tuesday's Daily Echo. The 22-year-old Northern Ireland international should make his Hornets debut Saturday's Division
SOUTHAMPTON director Ken Russell is being given a lifetime achievement award - in Istanbul. The man behind such films as Women in Love, Altered States, Tommy and The Devils is heading to Turkey next month to pick up the award. Ken, who now lives in the
THE largest of just four homes on a development in the pretty village of Hannington is being resold little over a year after being completed by developer Westbuild. The Oakley Road home (pictured above) is in a cluster that consists of a pair of semi-detached
Harry Redknapp admits that Portsmouth's home form will now be critical if they are to beat the drop straight back into the Nationwide League. Last season's Division One champions are still without an away win this term after losing 3-0 at Liverpool when
Today's Principal Arrivals: St Barbara, ro/ro, 0500, 105; CFF Seine, ro/ro, 0530, 25; Trianon, vehicle, 0630, 34/35; OOCL Malaysia, container, 0700, 206; Maersk Teal, ro/ro, 0730, 40/41; Atlasgracht, general, 0830, 46; Cetam Victoriae, ro/ro, 0830, 201
Cowes Sports 0 Andover 1 THE THREE points earned at Westwood Park took the Lions into the top six for the first time this season. With the match being the seventh game in 18 days understandably it was not a vintage performance. A long injury list meant
Whitchurch United 0 Bournemouth Poppies 0 by sports editor Kerry Miller WHITCHURCH took their points tally to seven from the last three games on Saturday but ultimately failed to impress and rarely looked looked like making it three wins on the trot.
The Southern Electric Premier League is to climax the coming cricket season with top four Australian-style Grand Finals. The leading four clubs in the overall ECB Premier Division 1 table at the end of August will go head-to-head in 50-overs-a-side knockout
A retired dairy farmer has won the first car to be given away by the Hampshire Chronicle. The Skoda Fabia, supplied by the Winchester Motor Company, of St Cross Road, Winchester, was won by Ann Thornhill, of Firsdown, near Salisbury. She was one of 10
After a gap of 90 years, Winchester City Mill is producing flour again. The Domesday Book listed a mill on the Bridge Street site in 1086 and the existing building dates to the 18th century. However, the millstones hadn't turned since the early 1900s,
The chairman of the Winchester branch of the Prison Officers' Association has criticised the Home Office for what he calls a "management crisis" in the service. Peter Chapple made the comments after Winchester Prison confirmed that West Hill, its women's
Ray Bradbear, from Easton, near Winchester, is hoping to prove age is no obstacle to helping others when he follows in the footsteps of the Incas this May. Together with his wife, Sharon, the 68-year-old is packing his rucksack and donning his hiking
A six-year-old girl found her father hanged with a towrope from a loft hatch in the family home in Winchester after he told his wife he was going to take his own life. Father-of-two, Richard Silberrad (45), who was known as Shaun, died at the house in
The cost of parking in Winchester is set to rise and long-stay is being discouraged in favour of park and ride. The changes are in a review approved by the city council's Environment and Access Performance Improvement Committee and now going before the
POLICE today arrested four men in connection with a vicious race assault on a Somali man. Suspects were detained in Shirley, central Southampton and Portswood by detectives, uniformed officers and the force support unit after raids at addresses across
POLICE have fined scores of motorists in Hampshire for using mobile phones while driving, the Daily Echo can reveal. A total of 130 drivers making or taking calls at the wheel have been hit with a £30 fixed penalty notice in the past two months. The ban
IT WAS the news they had been waiting for. Last night the Hartley family, from Romsey, learned that mum Allison would be able to donate her bone marrow to save the life of her eldest son. Amid scenes of delight at the family home in Winchester Road, Allison
POLLUTION busters are targeting fumes from the steam trains on one of Hampshire's most popular tourist attractions. Environmental health officers will test for sulphur dioxide at the Watercress Line over the busy Easter holiday period. They will check
THOUSANDS of students and a newly-formed charity committee are getting their teeth into the Daily Echo's Easter appeal to collect food parcels for Southampton's poorest families. More than 10,000 students and 600 staff at Southampton City College, in
STAFF at the Daily Echo have said farewell to one of the newspaper's longest serving reporters. Peter East has retired after working on the newspaper for 37 years. He joined in 1967 when it was still based at Above Bar, Southampton, and held several senior
A CHANCE find in a Monxton field has prompted Robert Crick to delve into the story behind a fourth century Roman coin. Mr Crick was passing by the field near his Monxton home when he spotted something gleaming on the ground and mistook it for a pebble
THE oldest Baptist chapel in Hampshire, at Brough-ton, is being forced to close. There has been a Baptist community at Broughton and Wallop for the last 353 years. But there are no longer sufficient numbers to make the chapel viable. All but two chapel
A HAMPSHIRE RSPCA centre is appealing for more people like volunteer Les Rymes to lend a helping hand. The Stubbington Ark would simply not be able to continue without people like Mr Rymes who does gardening and helps out in the cattery during his spare
TWO decades of Southampton running tradition will be celebrated on Sunday week with the 20th staging of the Two Saints 10k Road Race. Formerly known as the St Dismas 10k, the event changed names following the successful merger of the St Dismas charity
This Sunday marks a major watershed in road racing around the Solent area as it hosts a major championship event, the Eastleigh 10k, for the first time. The South of England AA Championships should place Eastleigh on the road map for some time to come
THOUSANDS of firms in the south heaved a sigh of relief as chancellor Gordon Brown - with a beady eye on the General Election - decided against hitting them with costly new taxes. But he wasted a golden opportunity to help the south coast economy, it
