Hampshire's English champion Kerry Smith has been nominated for the Nancy Lopez Award, given annually to the world's best female amateur golfer. The winner will be invited to Georgia, USA, in May to play in the LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Championship, hosted
Saints will host Arsenal in the FA Youth Cup next month after beating Norwich City at St Mary's last night. Right back Craig Richards scored the goal that gave Saints' youngsters a 19th win in 20 league and cup games and a place against Arsenal, the only
PANTOMIME fever was high in Basingstoke when medical staff and firefighters took to the stage to perform a charity show (pictured above). Staff from Basingstoke hospital, North Hampshire Primary Care Trust (NHPCT), Parklands, The Hampshire Clinic and
A CONSULTANT from Basingstoke hospital is travelling to Africa to join a group of volunteers who will bring medical treatment to some of the world's poorest people. Dr Keith Thomson, a consultant anaesthetist, will provide his services for charity Mercy
HEART care services at Basingstoke hospital are set for a boost after a trail-blazing deal between trust bosses and the Ministry of Defence. Bosses at the hospital this week said yes to the three-year appointment of a third heart specialist, who is currently
SCHOOLS in Basingstoke are to take part in a new Government scheme launched to teach children and parents about the benefits of a healthy lunch. The Healthy Lunchbox scheme, which aims to make packed lunches more interesting, varied, cost-effective and
PEOPLE in Hampshire who called 999 because of a life-threatening situation were less likely to see an ambulance turn up within eight minutes than in other areas of the country, according to yearly figures. Under Government guidelines, three-quarters of
BASINGSTOKE hospital's Sterile Services Unit has undergone a £3million refurbishment. Work to modernise the facility, which deals with the decontamination of surgical equipment so that it can be reused, lasted two years, and hospital bosses say the unit
Today's Principal Arrivals: Christine Y, cargo, 0500, 107; Lembitu, roro, 0530, 30; Olympian Highway, roro, 0630, 40; CMA CGM Berlioz, container, 0800, 207; Bladerunner Two, barge, am, 24; Courageous Ace, vehicle, am, 43; OOCL San Francisco, container
A FUN afternoon to launch a Hampshire leisure centre's new football pitches will help a £1m fundraising appeal reach its goal. Staff at Fleming Park, Eastleigh, raised more than £1,000 through the event held last September to celebrate the completion
A campaign to save one of the Titanic's tug tenders has gained momentum. More than 500 people have now added their names to an online petition to save SS Nomadic. A Belfast-based organisation, Belfast Industrial Heritage, has launched its own campaign
ONE of Hampshire's top businessmen is today carrying out his first official function as the new director general of Southampton and Fareham Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Captain Jimmy Chestnutt was this afternoon due to launch the organisation's events
IT TOOK Martin Gibbs just four months to get his multi-million pound project off the ground. Now the managing director is reaping the dividends after his printing firm at Romsey, which officially opened this week, bagged some big name clients. Hamtun
A WINCHESTER patisserie will reopen this weekend months after a fire forced its closure. The Bridge Patisserie and cafe on Bridge Street shut after a fire in the kitchen in September. Co-owner Phil Campbell - pictured left with carpenter Andy Gibbs, customer
A GRIEVING couple today paid tribute to their son who was killed when his car careered off one of the New Forest's busiest roads. Daniel Ogburn, whose parents live at The Rowans, Marchwood, was killed in a single-vehicle accident on the A31 at Stoney
SOUTHAMPTON MP Alan Whitehead has taken the fight to save a precious piece of open space to a top government official. The former Civil Service sports ground, between Malmesbury Road and Suffolk Avenue in Shirley, is under threat because Civil Service
A FUN afternoon to launch a Hampshire leisure centre's new football pitches will help a £1m fundraising appeal reach its goal. Staff at Fleming Park, Eastleigh, raised more than £1,000 through the event held last September to celebrate the completion
THREE Hampshire councils are among the top 20 in England for recycling household waste. Isle of Wight, Eastleigh and Hampshire were praised for recycling or composting hundreds of tonnes of paper, compost, glass, plastic, tin, garden cuttings and vegetable
THE generous people of Southampton have raised more than £4,000 to help the tsunami victims after the city's Rotary Club held a street collection. People dug deep, emptying their purses into the collecting buckets of the Rotary Club of Southampton, who
Hundreds of people have already entered this year's B&Q Eastleigh 10K Road Race to prove they can do it! The popular event, now in its 21st year, will be held on March 13th and provides local people with the chance to run alongside international athletes
The Wanderers were twice as good as the previous week in goal tally, but against a Haslemere Bluebeards side who were right out of form. Goal one came from an attack down the right when Charles Whiteway centred and David Haydon finished. The second started
Stockbridge survived a few scares to bank three useful points against an Aldermaston side who, once again, looked better than their league position would suggest. When Stocks visited the AWRE for a cup match earlier in the season they needed a penalty
When Alan Cunningham returned as Solent Stars' head coach he had two main objectives in mind. The first was to get Solent winning matches again on a regular basis and the second was to regain some of the fans who've drifted away in the last couple of
England's absorbing Test series in South Africa is being closely followed by Gerry Hill, Hampshire's oldest surviving county cricketer living in this country. Now 91, Gerry is in retirement at Lyndhurst with his wife, Kathleen. The pair have been married
THERE'S fresh hope for a Fareham football club whose plans to build a £1m dream training centre were being threatened by a gaggle of rare geese. AFC Portchester were disappointed when planning chiefs warned they might not be able to build on the town's
YOUNGSTERS will have the chance to take part in a fun Harry Potter-themed shadow puppet workshop in Fareham. With Su Eaton, children between seven and 11 can discover the ancient art of shadow puppetry and then watch the Prisoner of Azkaban film on Friday
ENTRIES have been flooding in with several weeks to go before the 21st running of the B&Q Eastleigh 10k Road Race on Sunday, March 13. Already interest has steamed past the 700 mark and, with a race limit of 1,200, it seems unlikely that runners will
VISITORS to Eastleigh's Barton Peveril sixth form college will be able to get a glimpse of the shape of things to come during an open evening next month. Work on a £7m building project, which will see a new sports hall, fitness suite, theatre, drama studio
Harry Redknapp has rubbished reports that he is set to sign Pompey defender David Unsworth for the third time. Unsworth is unsettled at Fratton Park, having failed to win back his place since recovering from the injury he suffered in Pompey's first game
THIS diesel-performance lark is starting to get interesting. Not so long ago critics were dismissing derv-drinking motors as noisy, smelly and slow modes of transport. How things have changed. The hot hatch market has received a welcome boost thanks to
A TOUCH of Brummie class will come to Basingstoke with an outstanding performance by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Young Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo will lead the night's proceedings with Haydn's Symphony No 2, which the composer wrote
NEW Forest residents are being urged to put their best foot forward and stride towards a healthier future. Three organisations have joined forces to provide Ringwood with four specially designated walks aiming to create fitter families. Local councillors
SCHOOLS in north Hampshire have achieved some of the highest scores in the country for pupil performance and GCSE grades. The latest figures released by the Government show that education establishments in Basingstoke and the surrounding area are hitting
A GANG of burglars is targeting elderly people across Hampshire. The thieves are believed to have struck at least eight times in a matter of days. Many of the raids happened while their vulnerable victims were still in their own homes. During one burglary
AS the ancient capital of Wessex, Winchester is no stranger to having a leading royal in residence. That was in the ninth century when King Alfred the Great was on the throne and driving the Vikings out of England. Today the city is once again looking
THE parents of a nine-year-old boy who died after suffering a sudden asthma attack on a school playing field have called for more research into the killer disease. The call came at an inquest into the death of Anuj Panchmatia who had been warming up for
SMART youngsters at a Southampton school have been challenged to design a car of the future. About 70 Year 6 pupils at St Mark's Junior School, Shirley, will be putting on their creative caps as part of a design project being run in conjunction with Mercedes
BUDDING thespians from a Winchester college are celebrating after the Daily Echo honoured their talents at the Curtain Call Awards. Peter Symonds student Clare Brenton took the award for best actress in a Shakespeare play for her performance as Rosalind
A GRANDFATHER-of-11 who got on his bike to raise cash for tsunami victims in south-east Asia has collected more than £880 for the relief effort. Colm O'Driscoll, 70, cycled 40 miles from his Shirley home to New Milton and back in a bid to help those recovering
With the top six teams separated by just one point, the race for the first ever Hampshire League 2004 title couldn't be much closer. Durley underlined their championship claims on Saturday with a 4-nil demolition of leaders Sporting BTC after Gavin Barfoot
A GROUP of Chandler's Ford Christians has helped create a haven in one of the most impoverished corners of the world. The 12-strong party has just returned from Kenya where it saw how its generous work has brought joy to the young residents of the St
KENWYNE JONES is eyeing a call-up to the Saints squad to face Liverpool following his red-hot streak of form. The Trinidad & Tobago international might be unproven in the Premiership, but is clearly bubbling with a quality that has been in short supply
A TOUCH of Brummie class will come to Basingstoke with an outstanding performance by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Young Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo will lead the night's proceedings with Haydn's Symphony No 2, which the composer wrote
A SHOW that will keep youngsters aged five and upwards enthralled for an hour is The Legend of Perseus. Based on the Greek myth, it follows the story of a young hero called Perseus, son of Zeus, who has been sent on a quest to kill a hideous monster called
Alan Knight has confirmed that he will be leaving Pompey at the end of the season - 27 years after making his debut for his only club. Knight, 42, pictured left, made 683 appearances for Pompey and has been the club's goalkeeping coach for the last five
A NORTH Hampshire MP got on his bike to help raise awareness of the importance of exercise in reducing the risk of cancer. Sir George Young attended a launch of Reduce the Risk - Cancer Research UK's new campaign - which aims to teach people how five
A NORTH Hampshire MP got on his bike to help raise awareness of the importance of exercise in reducing the risk of cancer. Sir George Young attended a launch of Reduce the Risk - Cancer Research UK's new campaign - which aims to teach people how five
PANTOMIME fever was high in Basingstoke when medical staff and firefighters took to the stage to perform a charity show (pictured above). Staff from Basingstoke hospital, North Hampshire Primary Care Trust (NHPCT), Parklands, The Hampshire Clinic and
A HAMPSHIRE Ambulance paramedic achieved a landmark first for the service when he gave a life-saving injection to a heart attack victim. Mike Burrows administered the blood-clot busting drug to 58-year-old grandfather Tony Nightingale at his home last
HEALTH bosses are not planning to apply for Basingstoke to become one of the next foundation hospitals - despite being invited to as it is a three-star organisation. The hospital had planned to apply for foundation status again for April 2006, after bosses
HEART care in the Hart region has received a boost with the purchase of a piece of portable equipment that can spot disease early on. The £56,000 cardiac echo system, which has been bought by the Blackwater Valley and Hart Primary Care Trust, will be
STAFF at Basingstoke hospital are being quizzed on what they think of their working lives. In the second national NHS staff survey, 800 employees at the hospital are being asked about work-life balance, job satisfaction, violence, and health and safety
EMERGENCY treatment of patients at Basingstoke hospital has speeded up so much that, by December, 98 per cent will be seen, discharged or given a bed within four hours. A meeting of hospital staff at The ARK medical facility heard how progress towards
HEALTH chiefs have warned that new out-of-hours healthcare arrangements for north Hampshire are not designed for people to ask for repeat prescriptions or test results. At the start of the month, responsibility for out-of-hours healthcare in north Hampshire
BASINGSTOKE hospital has unlocked a £100,000 cash pot after hitting accident and emergency waiting time targets. The cash has been awarded after 95 per cent of accident and emergency patients were seen, treated and discharged or admitted within the national
A NEW computer suite in Basingstoke is set to help brain-injured patients with their recovery and recuperation. The specially-designed room at Headway Place was officially opened last Saturday, and will be used by patients at the rehabilitation centre
BOSSES at Basingstoke hospital are facing their biggest-ever financial challenge as they bid to save a total of £11million before next April. The daunting figure, made up of a £7.2million saving the hospital must make itself to break even and £3.8million
AS WE all try to maintain healthy active lifestyles, sports medicine is becoming an increasingly important care technique. Sports medicine is the medical care of illness, utilising exercise programmes and also the medical care of problems, injuries and
THE first two phases of a £2.5million project to modernise Basingstoke hospital's maternity and gynaecology units are set to be completed during the coming weeks. The work, which hospital bosses say will improve the building's environment significantly
BRIGHT yellow ambulances equipped with state-of-the-art medical equipment are to take to the county's roads. The vehicles, hailed by Hampshire Ambulance Service as the "new generation" of vehicles, are the start of a multi-million-pound replacement scheme
Lymington's Ryan James is being touted as a rider with a real future in the sport. James, of the Primera Racing Team, has been making a name for himself in the winter league at the Calshot velodrome. James has come to track cycling from triathlon and
Fareham Nomads had an easy win in the Gemini Trophy, hosted by Eastleigh Swimming Club. In a three-club event, another local club, Hamble Aquatics, completed the trio, each club fielding two strings. The trick, in such an event, is careful team selection
Mike Smith's Hordle Complex was in good form for a Cormorants' club match on Spring Lake and Bob's Lake. Andy O'Conner won for the first time in ages. He rarely gets time to fish these days. but showed he has not lost his touch by taking 70lb of carp
THREE Hampshire bowlers and one from the Isle of Wight propelled England towards a glorious men's and ladies' under-25 double in the British Isles International Series in Scotland. Matthew Marchant and Steve Robertson showed inspired form as the men captured
IT is a four-cornered contest for the post of Hampshire Middleton Cup manager. The candidates, Clive Lewis, Alan Lewis (no relation), Derek Collins and Rod Rosier, are due to be interviewed on Sunday with the successful man being announced during the
HAMPSHIRE, who reached the final of the Home Counties League last winter, begin their programme in this season's competition against Sussex on Sunday (10am). Teams are allowed up to 12 current Liberty Trophy bowlers in their eight-rink side and Hampshire
WINCHESTER traffic chiefs are to "blitz" streets near the city's sixth-form college to crack down on students flouting the rules. The city council is taking action following complaints that parking regulations are being ignored by students at Peter Symonds
