SAINTS today unveiled new signing Bradley Wright-Phillips who manager George Burley believes can provide the spark his side needs to be among the promotion front-runners this season. Saints have tied up the £750,000 signing of the 21-year-old from Manchester
ALMOST 1,400 Southampton schoolchildren were suspended from classrooms last year, the Daily Echo can reveal. A total of 1,162 secondary pupils, aged between 11 and 16, and 230 from primaries, aged from four to 11, were banned for a set amount of time
AS DOUG Morrison left school at 16 his mother's advice was to work in an organisation with the word Board' in the title the electricity board was top of the list. This, she said, was the route to a "safe" job. Instead her steer set him on a career path
A FAMILY firm that began life 12 years ago after literally being formed on the hoof after a shock redundancy is the first-ever monthly winner of the Daily Echo/Jurys Inn Southampton Doing the Business Awards. Taylor Made Computer Solutions, which has
FERRIES-to-holidays operator Wightlink is to undergo a £25m modernisation programme. The investment will spell a multi-million-pound boost for businesses and at the same time raise eyebrows at rival Red Funnel as the Solent war hots up. Wightlink,
It's always a treat to fall into an industry by accident, and then 17 years on still wake up every morning and enjoy it, but that's kind of what happened to me with radio. And it's never been more exciting for me than it is now building, from scratch,
INDEPENDENT chartered accountants HWB, based at Chandler's Ford, has made another key appointment to its rapidly growing team. Alan Davies joins as a client relationship manager in the audit department after spending the past five years at KPMG. The
PUTTING up with heavy rain, missing toenails and a colleague's snoring was all part of the adventure for 11 commercial property consultants during their 60-mile charity walking weekend around First World War battlefields. The team from Vail Williams,
SOUTH coast law firm Warnergoodman Commercial has reinforced its commitment to growth with the appointment of five new partners. The promotions coincide with the tenth anniversary of the commercial team, which has offices throughout the region including
HAMPSHIRE commercial law firm Bond Pearce has been ranked in an independent survey as having one of the top 20 planning teams in England, and the fourth largest in the country. The survey, which was conducted among barristers, solicitors and planning
kenneth@kenleal.plus.com comments My grandfather, Harry L Page lived in the cottages, Mousehole Lane, Millbrook. 1901 Census. I have tracked this to the corner of the Tesco Store carpark at Oakly Road traffic lights. Family legend say\'s he was
jhodkinson@hotmail.com Writes... I am now living in Australia but a friend sent me a copy of the Hampshire Heritage Friday 9th June 2006 after seeing a photo of me sat on the back of an elephant in the 1960\'s at Southampton Zoo. It brought back
VT FC have underlined their Sydenhams Premier ambitions by signing Eastleigh's pocket dynamo midfielder Tyronne Bowers. The 26-year-old, pictured, lost his place at Eastleigh following a serious ankle injury and finished last season playing on loan
Havant's delight at getting a home draw in the ECB Cockspur Cup sixth round has been tempered by news that veteran left-arm spinner Phil Loat has broken his wrist in two places. He suffered the injury while diving to stop the ball in the field as Havant
HAMPSHIRE have been forced to make a change for their revenge mission today against Devon in the Walker Cup. Last week Hampshire lost to the West Country side in the Johns Trophy but president Molly Shutler and her team are determined to turn the tables
WATERSIDE surrendered the only unbeaten record in the Championship leagues in startling style. Their first Championship 2 defeat came in a 7-1 (81-69) defeat to new table-toppers Aerostructures and, in their latest match, they were whitewashed 100-58
BANISTER Park scored an excellent 38-35 victory against Bournemouth and District champions Boscombe Cliff in the EBA Two Fours competition. Playing at Stoneham Lane Ken Prior, Steve Whitehead, Steve Rice and Paul May (21-15) guided Banister Park through
IT WAS a perfect day for Hannah Crawford in the tennis finals of the Winchester Tennis and Squash Club. She played in five finals and won all five titles! Hannah came out on top in the girls' 14s, 16s and 18s events, and the ladies singles then partnered
Eastleigh and District AC water lakeside at Eastleigh has produced one of the country's biggest eels a monster of 9lb. Steve Newell caught it on a 14ml halibut meant for carp and shatters the club's previous best. Another club record to tumble at Lakeside
HAMPSHIRE charity the Jubilee Sailing Trust is looking for people in the region to think lucky next week as they are set to benefit from the online lottery Monday. The trust, which promotes the integration of disabled and able-bodied people working together
JUST months after hitting a South Pacific reef, the legendary yacht, Gipsy Moth IV will soon be continuing her round-the-world voyage. Last April, Gipsy Moth IV was holed partway through recreating a historic global circumnavigation, organised by Isle
THE MEDICAL expert leading cancer research in Southampton has added his backing to the thousands of woman taking part in this year's Race for Life. As well as raising funds for further research, the event on July 16 on Southampton Common is important
THE FORMER chairman of Hampshire Ambulance Service and the former director of social services at Hampshire County Council are just two of the non-executive members of a new health authority. Tony Barron and Terry Butler will join Joe McLoone and Alyson
NINETY-ONE-YEAR-OLD Joan Aubrey can still remember the precise moment as a girl that she realised she wanted to be an artist. Fast-forward almost 80 years later and she has been selected from thousands of entrants to display her work at a major London
MUM Debbie Pearce and her six-month-old son Jake have added their backing to the Daily Echo Keep Them Safe campaign aimed at warning parents of the dangers of sleeping with their babies. Mother and son are pictured at the Woolston Community Centre, Southampton
ELECTRONICS giant Philips Semiconductors has sponsored one of its Southampton-based employees on a mission to help people who don't even have electricity Department manager Simon Bramwell took part in a two-week housebuilding project organised by international
A FLAVOUR of 50s America could be coming to Southamp-ton. Open top Cadillacs and boys in jeans and pony tailed girls listening early rock 'n' roll have been a staple of the "drive-in movie" in countless Hollywood films. Now it looks as if Southampton
VANDALS have caused thousands of pounds damage to a Southampton's main church once again - the third time it has been targeted in five weeks. Scores of glass window panes were shattered after the thugs struck in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Malcolm Elias has assured Saints he will not be tempting Gareth Bale, left, to Liverpool. Ex-Saints head of recruitment Elias left St Mary's for Anfield last week, heightening fears that left back Bale, 16, would be joining him. Bale can't sign
MUSIC and books retailer HMV reported plummeting sales this morning as it continued to struggle to compete with supermarkets and the internet. Annual profits at the chain which has branches of both its flagship HMV stores and Waterstones bookshops
Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Montlhery, roro, 0545, 201; OCL New York, container, 0700, 205; NYK Antares, container, am, 206; Grand Benelux, roro, 1530, 105; Autoprestige, rro, 1730, 203; Autoline, roro, 2030, 201 Today's principal Southampton
Easton & Martyr Worthy cricketers are set to appear on Sky Sports' Cricket AM magazine programme on Saturday morning, from 9am onwards. They were invited to appear on the show after beating Eynsford, last season's beaten Lord's finalists, by 53 runs
SPEEDY Mountbatten schoolgirl Amy Matthews has been ruled out of the weekend's English Schools' Track & Field Championships. The 15-year-old Team Southampton sprinter from North Baddesley had been due to compete in the intermediate girls' 100 metres
Michael Carberry is hoping to knock his former Surrey teammates out of the Twenty20 Cup at The Rose Bowl tonight. Left-hander Carberry, Hampshire's leading run scorer in this year's Twenty20 Cup, knows that the side which loses tonight is almost certainly
SHAUN Dyke and Matt Bicknell, two of the heroes of Winchester City's 2004 FA Vase triumph, have been released by the newly-promoted Southern League club. Bicknell, along with utility man Ian Buckman, has joined former City boss Neil Hards at Cirencester
It is clean, fresh, easily available, costs next to nothing and has been voted the best in Southampton. Tap water has come up trumps over bottled water in a Daily Echo blind tasting test. People were asked to sample ordi nary tap water, a well-known
HAMPSHIRE-BASED pest control firm Exosect has landed a deal to get its unique phero-mone technology into the vast Turkish market, where it will protect sultanas from moth infestations. The Colden Common company, whose Exosex products exploit insect
IT'S official, South ampton residents have got big mouths! The results of a nationwide survey have revealed that people living in the city have got the third largest mouths in the country. Teams armed with tape measures were sent across the UK to find
