News Briefing
In this section the Daily Echo brings you the detail behind the stories. We will provide detailed coverage of certain articles, giving our readers the chance to look at all the background information available that we could not fit into the paper. | FORDS - History of Southampton's Transit plant. | | 10:07am Thursday 10th July 2008 | | SOUTHAMPTON'S Ford factory first opened in Swaythling in 1953 and after the first van rolled off the production line in 1972 it quickly became known as the 'Home of the Transit'. |
 | A taste of things to come | | 12:28pm Sat 28 Jun 08 | | A Hampshire regiment preparing for frontline action
have been put through their paces in a major battle
exercise on the Canada plains. JENNY MAKIN was there |
 | A piece of the action! | | 9:25am Fri 27 Jun 08 | | SITTING in the shadows of an armoured Warrior, they were given their orders of how battle would begin. |
 | Prairie tales | | 9:06am Thu 26 Jun 08 | | Hampshire troops have spent more than three weeks in the vast Canadian prairies for the culmination of their training since they were last on the frontline in 2006. | | Reader comments (2) |
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