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  • Tyro League ref on brink of quitting

    THE referee at the centre of the row about foul-mouthed footballing parents has threatened to quit over the episode. As reported in The Daily Echo last week, Ron Fox abandoned a Tyro League under-13 cup match between Albion Boys and St Francis Knights

  • Girl power gets a boost from Saints star Beattie

    JAMES Beattie may be one of the hottest strike properties in the Premiership right now, but he hasn't turned his back on the grass roots of the game. Between banging in the goals for Gordon Strachan's men, he finds time to support the unsung youth section

  • Follow in monks' footsteps

    A GUIDED walk to burn off the seasonal excesses of the last few days or escape the winter sales has been organised by Hamble Valley Tourism. Tomorrow you can set off in the footsteps of monks and hear extracts about Netley's abbey ruins written by 18th

  • Council's question time is a success

    LOCAL meetings inspired by TV's Question Time have been hailed a success by the leader of New Forest District Council. Members of the public were given the chance to grill leaders on council business and policies at various meetings across the district

  • SPLASHING OUT

    THOUSANDS of shoppers flocked to high streets throughout Hampshire as sales fever gripped the south - proving the economic gloom-mongers wrong. Retailers slashed prices by up to two-thirds yesterday in a bid to encourage people to part with their cash

  • Love is evergreen

    IT WAS a long time coming - but the wait was worth it when Charles Cowley finally asked girlfriend Nora Read to marry him. After living together for the past seven years, some thought it would never happen. But Charles and Nora, 89 and 88 respectively

  • Support floods in for injured runner

    GET well messages have been pouring in for a woman who has been described as one of the outstanding distance runners in south-west Hampshire. Schoolteacher Anthea Waters, pictured, is in a stable condition in Southampton General Hospital after being badly

  • Air cadets swoop in to get Eric mobile

    IT WAS back in September that disabled Hampshire pensioner Eric Pettman became the proud owner of a motorised buggy. But it has remained permanently parked in the front lounge of his home in St Deny's, Southampton ever since. Mr Pettman, 74, has been

  • Merry dance with the Dalian

    A GROUP of performers will be leading a merry dance and charming pantomime goers in Southampton next month. The Dalian Players and the Roynon Dancers are all set for their production of The Pied Piper at Woolston Methodist Hall, Manor Road North. It runs

  • Sunderland boss is a Strachan fan

    Sunderland boss Howard Wilkinson is not surprised to see that a player he still hails as "One of the best signings I ever made" has turned Saints into a team pushing for a place in Europe. Relegation-haunted Sunderland's visit to St Mary's today provides

  • TABLE TENNIS - Hero Prince no threat to King Charlie

    CHRIS PRINCE produced an outstanding display to topple championship-chasing captain Charlie Childs in the Southampton table tennis league last week. But it was still not enough to stop the seemingly inevitable march to the title as Childs' Generation

  • Students sleep out

    TOTTON College students have staged a sponsored sleep-out to raise cash and awareness for homeless people. Eight teenagers braved the winter chill and spent a night outside on the college campus in Water Lane earlier this month. They hope to collect more

  • Glam all over for 'miracle of Totton'

    THEY are pushing the clock back to the Glam Rock era at the home of miracle youngster Beth Heaton, whose life was saved three years ago by a chance-in-a-million bone marrow transplant. The 1970s time shift at the Heaton household in Totton is linked to

  • Children get fired up over cannon's home

    IT weighs two tonnes, it's 11 foot long, and it dates from a 17th-century battle. But now, more than 300 years later, the Orford Cannon is at the centre of another battle - about where it should go. Presently the bronze sensation is on display in all

  • You've been clamped

    WHEN a Hampshire woman popped out for a quick Christmas drink little did she realise it would end up costing her nearly £100. Sarah Gibbons parked her car and went off to meet a friend in a Southampton city centre bar for one hour but when she returned

  • Fears for welfare of missing hotel worker

    CONCERNS are growing for a father-of-two who has been missing from his Hampshire home for nearly two months. Michael Jamieson, pictured, 42, was last seen on November 2 in the Romsey hotel where he worked as a kitchen porter and cook. Staff at the White

  • Vicar's mission is to raise £15,604

    ONE of Hampshire's oldest churches is in need of urgent repair if further flooding is to be averted over the winter. St Mary's Church, in the grounds of Portchester Castle, requires new drains and guttering at a cost of £15,604. Now the vicar of Portchester

  • Feet and teeth have MP on the attack

    GOSPORT MP Peter Viggers launched an attack on the National Health Service during a debate in the House of Commons. During the session Mr Viggers drew attention to the problems caused by changes in chiropody services and explained how difficult it was

  • First home! Pirelli site is just perfect

    IT'S their first home sweet home but they are also the first settlers in Eastleigh's new 21st-century community. Andy Collins, 28, and Nicola Fraser, 24, celebrated Christmas by becoming the first residents to move on to the giant state of the art estate

  • JO NICKS IT AT THE DEATH

    SAINTS maintained their unbeaten home record with a 2-1 win against Sunderland at St Mary's this afternoon - thanks to an injury-time Jo Tessem goal. It was a result that stretches their impressive unbeaten run to seven. It was no more than Gordon Strachan's

  • SAINTS BOSS ADMIRES HOWARD'S WAY

    GORDON STRACHAN goes head-to-head with his managerial mentor at St Mary's this afternoon. The Saints boss played under the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson and Ron Atkinson in a glittering playing career, but admits Sunderland manager Howard Wilkinson is the