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Mapping out the new OS building in Southampton

The entrance to the new Ordnance Survey headquarters in Southampton

1:55pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

ITS history dates back more than 200 years, to a time when England was faced with the threat of a French invasion.

Don’t become a victim of the boiler room scam

Daily Echo Business News

5:59pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

DOZENS of Hampshire investors feature on a ‘master list’ being used by fraudsters to target and sell them worthless shares.

City businesses warned against complacency

Business Southampton’s Annual Conference 2010

10:56am Wednesday 17th March 2010

THE vital importance of a highly skilled Hampshire workforce to cope with the rise of China and the World Wide Web was a key theme of business Southampton’s Annual Conference.

Theme park on verge of winning battle to save ride

The Edge at Paultons Park

10:40am Tuesday 16th March 2010

A HAMPSHIRE amusement park looks set to win a six-month battle to save one of its biggest rides after receiving a massive show of support.

Hoteliers try again to block Rose Bowl hotel

How the Rose Bowl hotel will look

10:38am Tuesday 16th March 2010

A TRIO of hoteliers is renewing its attempts to block a controversial hotel project at the Rose Bowl.

Tory scrappage plans ‘direct threat to jobs’

Watch out for flooding

10:55am Monday 15th March 2010

TORY plans to scrap a development organisation tasked with helping the south-east recover from recession would lead to job losses in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, business Secretary Lord Mandelson has claimed.

Peter plunges again for Porcupine

Peter Waterfield

10:52am Monday 15th March 2010

OLYMPIC and Commonwealth diver, Southampton’s Peter Waterfield has re-appointed Somerset-based Porcupine PR to handle his publicity in the run up to this year’s Commonwealth Games and the 2012 Olympics.

A bit of a squeeze for Celebrity Eclipse

A bit of a squeeze for Celebrity Eclipse

12:01pm Saturday 13th March 2010

COREY STEPHENSON watches Celebrity Cruises’ newest ship navigate some extremely tight spots on the first leg of her maiden journey to Southampton

Partners celebrate this year’s better-than-expected 15% bumper bonus

CASH BOOST: From left, Laura Sturgess, Wendy Martin and Carol Young with fellow partners after the announcement.  	Echo picture by Chris Moorhouse. Order no: 10042454

3:12pm Friday 12th March 2010

CHEERS, whoops and unbridled excitement met the news that all of Hampshire’s thousands of John Lewis and Waitrose staff are to get a bonus equivalent to 15 per cent of their salary this year.

'Super chamber' near as merger gets green light

L-R: John Harrocks, Maureen Frost and Jimmy Chestnutt

10:51am Friday 12th March 2010

IT’S all systems go for Hampshire Chamber of Commerce – and it is set to become one of the UK’s biggest regional business networks.

Revamping Hilton Basingstoke is doing the business

Hilton Basingstoke manager Paul Michael

10:45am Friday 12th March 2010

IT’S all change at Hilton Basingstoke as it undergoes a £.3million refurbishment.

Store scores winning goal with new look

Wilkinson store manager Andrew Dawson with Basingstoke Town FC manager Frank Gray

10:25am Friday 12th March 2010

WILKINSON scored a winning goal with a successful store makeover in The Malls shopping centre last week.

John Lewis staff to get huge bonus

John Lewis, Southampton

9:43am Thursday 11th March 2010

THOUSANDS of Hampshire staff at Waitrose and John Lewis are celebrating this morning after getting a better than forecast bonus of 15% of their annual pay.

M&S staff anger at bank holiday ‘plans’

Marks and Spencer Hedge End

10:30am Thursday 11th March 2010

STAFF at a Hampshire retail giant claim it is “robbing workers of time with their families” in a shake up of bank holiday hours.

County chamber gets go-ahead

2:41pm Thursday 11th March 2010

ONE chamber of commerce is set to be created for the whole of Hampshire.

Keep-it-local coup for produce group

Angus Whitehead ,of Mr Whitehead’s Drinks; principal food buyer for the county council, John Foskett; Hampshire Fare manager, Tim Brock, HC3S food development officer, Evelyn Cook, and Blackmoor Estate orchard manager Cor van Oorschot

2:45pm Thursday 11th March 2010

Winchester: Hampshire Fare plays a key role in setting up award-winning cidermaker’s school meals apple juice deal

Counting on listeners

2:40pm Thursday 11th March 2010

LOCAL radio station, Wave 105, is celebrating evidence of its continuing success in the shape of an independent audience survey.

Northern Rock writes off £1bn of debts in one year

PROTEST: Anger at Southampton's  Northern Rock branch in 2008

10:25am Thursday 11th March 2010

NATIONALISED bank Northern Rock wrote off more than £1 billion during 2009 as the number of people defaulting on their debts soared, figures showed today.

Pompey announce redundancies

IN CHARGE: Portsmouth administrator Andrew Andronikou during a press conference at Fratton Park yesterday

5:18pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

PORTSMOUTH Football Club has made 85 employees redundant.

Docks hit by dive in UK’s export trade

Docks hit by dive in UK’s export trade

10:51am Wednesday 10th March 2010

UK exports took their biggest plunge in more than three years during January, underlining the tough road to recovery faced by Southamp-ton docks.






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