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  • Goddard flays 'tacky' Totton

    TROUBLED AFC Totton are destined to begin pre-season training next week without a manager on board. Barry Blankley, pictured, has rejected the club's pleas to withdraw his resignation and Howard Goddard - the man recommended to replace him by outgoing

  • Hampshire's batting lets them down again

    Hampshire's Twenty20 nightmare continued against the Essex Eagles at Chelsmford last night. Torrential rain reduced the match to an 'Eighteen18' contest but Essex only needed 15 overs to bowl out woeful Hampshire for 95 in front of a 7,000 crowd Hampshire's

  • Power surge sparks Mayhem

    RESIDENTS in a Hampshire village have literally been given the shock of their lives. Households were thrown into pandemonium as alarm clocks went awry and phones went on the blink. For a power surge in Marchwood wiped out electrical equipment from stereos

  • Airport tree row hearing

    CONTROVERSIAL plans to prune trees which are alleged to be a hazard to aircraft flying into Southampton Airport are due to be heard by city planning chiefs on Tuesday. Airport bosses want permission to trim 11 trees near the White Swan pub in Mansbridge

  • Happy ending for Linnets

    The case against four Lymington & New Milton players facing FA racial abuse charges has been found "not proven" by the FA. Jimmy Sheppard, Alan Walker-Harris, Chris Smith and former Cherries midfielder John Bailey were accused of making racist comments

  • Attempts to lure children not reported

    A STARTLING communication breakdown meant alerts over child abduction attempts were not passed on to police. Now a furious community is asking: "Why weren't we told?" The Daily Echo can reveal that just two days before a man attempted to snatch a 12-year-old

  • Euro final gives restaurateurs food for thought

    THEY have always been the best of pals but tomorrow night they will become arch rivals. For when it comes to football there is no love lost. Helder Baptista, who runs the Portuguese restaurant Linda Madeira in Southampton's Bedford Place, and Greek fan

  • Website for the vicar's husband!

    THE husband of a Romsey cleric this week launched a website for a growing phenomenon: the vicar's husband! As a result of the ordination of women to the priesthood some ten years ago, there are currently 2,223 female clergy with as many women as men training

  • A decade on and Hamble are up for the cup again

    HAMBLE ASSC are back in the FA Vase after more than a decade in the wilderness. The Planemakers were bombed out of the competition back in the early 1990s due to administrative problems and, until now, their efforts to get reinstated have failed because

  • In Port

    Today's Principal Arrivals: Luminous Ace, vehicle carrier, 0130, 40; Don Pasquale, vehicle carrier, 0230, 36; CFF Seine, ro/ro, 0530, 30; Montlhery, ro/ro, 0530, 201 link; QE2, passenger, 0630, 38/9; OOCL Netherlands, container 0730, 207; NYK Argus, container

  • Put scary Daleks back in Dr Who!

    IT'S enough to make you go into a spin and self-destruct. The new series of Doctor Who won't include Daleks - the deadly machine creatures who became the Time Lord's biggest enemy with their constant threat to "Exterminate!" But a Hampshire Dalek-builder

  • Pupils raise more than £1,000

    YOUNGSTERS at a Hampshire school have raised more than £1,000 to help researchers find a cure for leukaemia. Pupils at Embley Park School, near Romsey, collected the huge amount through a world book day, a fundraising art exhibition and a concert. The

  • Hat Fair gets a rocket over noise

    THE first day of Winchester's Hat Fair went with too much of a bang for many neighbours. The World Famous Company staged a show including a fireworks spectacular on St Giles Hill starting at 10.45pm on Thursday. But many people had no idea the event was