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  • Shoaib 'will attract more Asian fans'

    Rod Bransgrove hopes that Shoaib Akhtar will help attract Southampton's Asian cricket fans to the Rose Bowl. Hampshire's marketing team went to great lengths to welcome the city's Indian cricket lovers to West End when Sachin Tendulkar and the rest of

  • In Port

    Today's Principal Arrivals: NYK Artemis, container, 0115, 206; Tinka, general, 0130, 204W; Grand Pace, ro-ro, 0430, 105; Black Prince, ro-ro, 0430, 40; Goodwood, vehicle, 0800, 201 link; Prince Wiliam, yacht, 1600, 204; Tista, general, pm, 107. Today's

  • Volleyball: Solent wind up in pole position

    SOLENT must play a waiting game to see if they will be crowned champions of the National Men's Volleyball League Division 3 West. Having finished the season with double victory at Fleming Park, their destiny depends on the teams below them playing out

  • Darts: Mission improbable a Hants success

    Hampshire's Ladies B team head their section by A point from April's opponents Yorkshire after another super show at Cowplain against Essex. And Hampshire Men's A are just one point behind the same county at the top of their section so the long haul to

  • Review: Verbal chaos that's bubble-wrapped

    Relatively Speaking - Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke IT'S amazing the confusion caused by not explaining yourself properly - everything you say becomes relative. Alan Ayckbourn's delightful comedy examines the bewilderment created by poor communication

  • Review: Joker got unlucky

    Chris Addison - The Ape That Got Lucky, Forest Arts Centre, New Milton IN a 90-minute act - which should have been cut into two more manageable 45s - comic Chris Addison delivered a stand-up routine, tenuously linked to a simplistic lecture on evolution

  • BODY FOUND IN CITY HOTEL ROOM

    A POLICE investigation is under way after the body of an 18-year-old woman was found dead at a Southampton hotel today. Detectives, who are treating her death as suspicious, were called to the Hotel Ibis at West Quay Road following an incident at one

  • Teenagers play truant to march for peace

    TWO HUNDRED Southampton teenagers took the day off school and college for a city centre protest against the impending war on Iraq yesterday. They were undeterred by the wet weather and determined to make their voices heard as they congregated outside

  • Volvo Race will bring carnival atmosphere to City

    THE return to Southampton of one of the world's most famous yachting challenges in three years' time will herald a new era for the race. And it should also mark a multi-million cash bonanza for businesses across the south. Organisers of the Volvo Ocean

  • Wear your wigs with pride to back Saints

    HERE Wig-O, Here-Wig-O, Here-Wig-O! The atmosphere in Southampton is reaching fever pitch ahead of tomorrow's massive FA Cup match at St Mary's when Saints take on Wolves. A semi-final place is up for grabs and fans across the city are backing Gordon

  • Intrepid three face Mission possible!

    THREE men from the south are shaping up to take part in a gruelling and dangerous team race to the magnetic North Pole next month. The Polar Race is the first ever race to be held in such extreme conditions. Director of management consultancy Mission

  • Chalking up 100 years of education

    As one of Southampton's oldest schools celebrates its centenary year, the Daily Echo takes a look back at a century that has seen pupils graduate from slates to the Web and interactive whiteboards... IT WAS built to educate the children of workers in

  • 'I'm grateful to Dave' - Strachan

    Saints boss Gordon Strachan has admitted he is grateful to Dave Jones for laying the foundations of his team. During his time at The Dell, Jones brought in the likes of Paul Jones, Chris Marsden, Marian Pahars and James Beattie and brought Wayne Bridge

  • CUP COUNTDOWN: 1 DAY TO GO

    WOLVES legend Steve Bull is a big fan of Saints fans' hero Matt Le Tissier and says: "There will be two gods in St Mary's tomorrow!" Bull, whose profile in the Black Country matches that of Le Tiss on the South Coast, remains a fervent Wolves supporter

  • Everything's sheep shape

    What does a cruise liner captain do when he isn't at sea? Attend to his sheep of course. KEITH HAMILTON talks to Captain Rory Smith about his new role aboard P&O Cruises' Adonia and his passion for shepherding... Captain Rory Smith is keeping a close

  • Bland in the mix for share of desert spoils

    Richard Bland produced his best day's golf of the season to roar into contention for the Dubai Desert Classic at the Emirates GC yesterday. The 30-year-old Stoneham clubman tends to pull out the stops when there's some serious money at stake and with

  • Contest unlocks hidden talents

    Romsey School was the final school I gave poetry classes to as part of the Daily Echo Kids Verse campaign. It's been a busy few weeks in the run-up to the competition's close, where I have visited as many schools as possible to give the pupils a start

  • Young Wilko was 'a class apart' even back in '97

    When Jonny Wilkinson walks out to lead the England national side for the first time tomorrow, you can be absolutely certain there will be a few billowing proud chests of appreciation around Hampshire. For just six years ago, a young and highly talented

  • 'Gangs of New York' roaming our streets

    PARTS of Southampton resemble crime-ridden ghettos in New York during the 1980s, according to residents. Marauding teenage gangs up to 20 strong are out to cause trouble in Millbrook, Maybush, Redbridge and other parts of west Southampton, claim some

  • Women's Day Sunb

    TODAY is International Women's Day and guess what's happening in Southampton? Absolutely nothing. Back in the 1990s there was a week-long festival with a diary of events including drama, talks and even a special Reclaim the Night march organised and promoted

  • Make your mum picture perfect

    IS your mum one in a million? Then why not show her just how special she is by entering our top Mother's Day competition? In the run up to the big day on Sunday, March 31, the Daily Echo is inviting its younger readers to Draw Your Mum and send the colourful

  • Volvo Race will bring carnival atmosphere to City

    THE return to Southampton of one of the world's most famous yachting challenges in three years' time will herald a new era for the race. And it should also mark a multi-million cash bonanza for businesses across the south. Organisers of the Volvo Ocean