Traditional sweetshops are slowly becoming a thing of the past. Vicki Green-Steel finds a surviving shop in Totton... A MYRIAD colours, the smell of fruit and chocolate, the rustle of cellophane and the clunk as jars are replaced on the shelves. Anticipation
Watch your garden transform into a riot of colour with some well-chosen seasonal plants... As summer turns into autumn, colour in your garden can be transformed into a sea of amber, orange, red and burgundy, if you choose the right plants. In Indian summers
THE Isle of Wight district side makes its debut when the NatWest Hampshire Under-16 indoor cricket league begins its fourth season at the Rose Bowl tomorrow (6pm). The Island youngsters, who line up alongside Ventnor in the 12-strong league, face South
Best selling hardback books for the week ending September 25th 1 (-) The Gruffalo's Child by Julia Donaldson 2 (2) In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith 3 (1) Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero
ROY Brown's long absence from the Hampshire county scene comes to a welcome end for the county's trip to Lancashire next weekend. The former Basingstoke player, who has won over 100 caps, had moved with his job to County Durham but is now available again
Full-time results from the top clubs in the south. FULHAM 1 - SAINTS 0 WATFORD 0 - READING 1 GILLINGHAM 0 - BRIGHTON 1 BOURNEMOUTH 5 - DONCASTER 0
SINGING sensation Marti Pellow comes to Southampton with the hit musical Chicago. Kate Thompson talks to him about his musical career... PRIOR to taking on his role as Billy Flynn in the smash hit Chicago, Marti Pellow confesses he had never seen a musical
Anne Edwards heads to the land of the midnight sun... As I packed my case for my trip to Norway I considered what I knew about the country. The Norwegian entry famously scored nil points before we did in the Eurovision Song Contest. And they send us a
SOUTHAMPTON Senior One side Romsey Town Sports FC have been suspended by the Hampshire FA following a reported brawl during their match against Burridge Sports FC last Saturday. A Romsey Town Sports FC supporter is alleged to have hit a Burridge Sports
MICHAEL CLARKE, the Australian batsman who only briefly lit up Hampshire Cricket in 2004, can become one of the best players in the world - if he tightens up a weakness that sees him play "too many shots". And the 23-year-old Aussie golden boy, who has
SHANE WARNE'S mentor and wrist spin guru Terry Jenner has criticised Australia's selectors for omitting Stuart MacGill from the squad to tour India next month. Jenner believes the selectors have made a big mistake by selecting Nathan Hauritz and Cameron
SAINTS slipped to their fifth defeat in seven matches with a 1-0 loss at Fulham. Steve Wigley was coming into the match looking for his first Premier League win since taking over as head coach on the back of a Carling Cup victory at Northampton. But that
One more bitter thing about failure: all the books on it are written by successes. Or all, at least, of the published ones. Hanif Kureishi says his father Shannoo led a "semi-broken" life; and Shannoo Kureishi wrote a series of rejected novels. These
THIS massive book takes a long, hard look at one of Britain's most enduring national institutions, and the often painful way it has evolved over the past 25 years. It seems appropriate that the author is an anthropologist, because to many people the BBC
Best selling paperback books for the week ending September 25th 1 (2) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 2 (1) You Are What You Eat by Gillian McKeith 3 (3) A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 4 (4) The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time
Today's Principal Arrivals: Philipp, container, 0100, 204; Australian Highway, vehicle, 0230, 201; City of Lutece, 0500, 202; CFF Solent, roro, 0530, 30; Caronia, passenger, 0630, 38/9; Talisman, vehicle, 0730, 34/35; Autofreighter, roro, 0800, 203; P
FRESH from their National Trophy win over Coventry Crusaders, Solent Stars men's first team take on Taunton Tigers in the second round of the National Cup tonight (Fleming Park, 8pm). The Tigers play in Division 3 West of the National League and will
A HAMPSHIRE man has today told how his life was ruined by a con man who faked the results of his paternity test. Simon Tull, pictured above right, spent a year bonding with a girl he believed was his daughter before police uncovered the DNA fraud and
SOUTHAMPTON City Council is stepping up the campaign calling for Saints to erect a permanent memorial to Ted Bates by telling the football club: You can't have it both ways. Plans to pile pressure on Saints to put up a statue in honour of their former
IT looks like something out of a Jane Austen novel. The imposing Moundsmere Manor towers above the Hampshire village of Preston Candover as if waiting for Mr Darcy to gallop up its mile-long driveway. And for a cool £6m it could be yours! "It's quite
POLICE have issued an appeal to anyone who might be shielding a hit-and-run driver who killed a Hampshire schoolboy. Officers investigating the death of 15-year-old Ryan Liddon say anyone who knows the identity of the motorist should come forward for
SOME of the dumped ammunition found at a Southampton building site is feared to contain harmful chemicals, The Daily Echo can reveal. An estimated 45 suspect bombs were covertly removed from the site this week by Army bomb disposal experts and have been
THE waiting is nearly over. In less than a month, Southampton's very own Monopoly game will hit the shelves - finally revealing which city landmarks have been included on the famous board. Today Monopoly officials offered some clues about which locations
THOUSANDS of calves could be facing slaughter because of problems with the postal service, a Hampshire farmer has claimed. Alan Girling is among animal-keepers country-wide who may be forced to kill livestock because their registration documents arrived
ANGRY residents in a leafy street are demanding action from highways chiefs over what they claim is a botched resurfacing of their road. People living in Dale Valley Road in Shirley Warren, Southampton, say tar from the road surface is getting into their
I was as shocked as anyone to hear of the death of Brian Clough. We had been friends and foes since we both started in management. His health problems had been well documented and in recent years Brian had become something of a recluse compared to the
THE machinery of QM2 will be the subject of a meeting in Southampton on Wednesday, October 13. The evening will be held by naval architects and marine engineering organisation IMAREST at the Solent Conference Centre in Above Bar. The talk, called Heart
MANY regard Antti Niemi as the best in the Premiership, but the modest Finn admits he still gets a buzz from facing the likes of Edwin van der Sar. The Saints 'keeper, pictured above, has clearly established himself among the world's top stoppers during
