Shane Warne is one offence away from a two-match ban after becoming the first player to be handed six penalty points by the England and Wales Cricket Board. The Hampshire captain has been punished under the ECB's discipline code following his reaction
FOR 55 years it has been helping severely disabled children and young adults to get a tailored education, and given their parents some much-needed respite. Now Southampton's Rose Road Association is asking for the help of Hampshire residents and businesses
Shoppers in Fareham are being urged to kick-start a recycling campaign that will see trainers transformed into playgrounds. Fareham Shopping Centre has launched its old footwear recycling campaign to help out poor families in the Balkan states. Shoppers
Cabbies in Fareham could be forced off the road if plans to triple vehicle licensing fees are given the go-ahead. Taxi drivers across the borough are outraged at plans by the council to drive up licensing costs by up to £155 and they fear for the future
THE wheels are rolling at Eastleigh on four new 15-seater wheelchair-friendly community buses. It is all thanks to a £169,680 boost from Hampshire County Council. The windfall has helped One Community, formerly known as Eastleigh Community Services,
HAMPSHIRE children got a surprise when Wallace and Gromit dropped in to deliver a £10,000 cheque to Naomi House children's hospice. The pair rolled into Winchester in their Wallace and Gromit mobile to greet the youngsters and promote this year's Wrong
WALKERS are urged to join a stroll through the New Forest in aid of a Hampshire-based charity. Asthma Allergy and Inflammation Research, which works to help people with asthma and allergies, has organised a ten-mile walk on Saturday, June 23. It has
TWO Totton schools that cater for more than 100 special needs pupils will close under plans put forward by education chiefs. Hampshire County Council's ruling Cabinet has approved proposals to axe the Salterns and Forest Edge schools in two years' time
FAREHAM council chiefs have been forced to make a public apology after one of their vans was caught parking illegally. A resident complained that the council's vans were regularly flouting the authority's own by-laws on parking - and were getting away
A woman has been charged with attempted murder after another woman suffered serious stab wounds in Southampton. Police were called to an address in International Way where they found a 27-year-old woman with multiple stab wounds to her upper body. The
A KILLER who stabbed a popular scaffolder to death on a Southampton street has been told by a judge he can have no hope of release before 2018. Richard Stephen Smith, now 26, murdered 37-year-old Anthony Gunn in December 2002 by stabbing him in the back
He was a man whose passionate belief in justice and freedom saw him jailed with Desmond Tutu during apartheid in South Africa. From his battle against injustice in his hometown, to his dedication to those he served in Hampshire, Reverend Arnold Hirst
CONTROVERSIAL plans to close a Hampshire old people's home have sparked a petition signed by 600 people. Proposals to shut Linden House, Lymington, have been unveiled by the county council, which says rooms at the 33-year-old building are too small to
POLICE in Southampton are hunting two men who left a woman badly beaten after attacking her in the city centre late at night. The victim was left with a wound to her upper body and serious facial bruising after the two hood-wearing attackers launched
HAMPSHIRE manager Paul Terry has challenged his top order to start scoring big runs. Michael Brown's centuries against Surrey and Yorkshire are the only hundreds by a Hampshire batsman in the championship this season. And the top five have not scored
THE majority of Hampshire police officers caught speeding or jumping red lights escaped without prosecution, it has been reported. New figures show that 1,131 speeding offences were caught on camera in 2006 - but just 16 officers faced prosecution for
Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Euphoria, container carrier, 0445, 203; Hermann Scan, general cargo, 0530, 25; Oriana , passenger, 0645, 106; Otello, vehicle, 0800, 34/35; Toronto Express, container carrier, am, 205; Heidelberg Express, container
PROPERTY consultants Atisreal have won a key appointment as an advisor to one of the UK's leading energy suppliers. The firm has been chosen by Centrica plc, which owns British Gas, in a contract worth more than £4m over the next five years. Co-ordinated
THE BUILDING which used to house the headquarters of the Whitbread Round the World Race has been taken over by digital recording specialists Nice CTI Systems. Tollbar House is a landmark office building situated opposite the Hedge End Retail Park occupied
A TRIO of New Forest businessmen are launching a £2,300 a week rehab clinic to rival the Priory in Southampton. Based in a Georgian Manor House in West End, The Manor Clinic aims to emulate a boutique hotel for patients suffering from alcoholism, drug
BUILDERS planning to bare their backs this summer on George Wimpey developments in the region are being given sun-tan cream to protect their skin. The handing out of high factor lotions each morning has been made mandatory at the company's Hampshire
STONEHAM assistant pro Ben Johnson achieved what many of golf's biggest names would pay a lot of money for earlier this month by landing a birdie two on the treacherous 17th hole of the Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass. The Florida course is the
Signs are going up around many of the city council car parks changing them from ticket entry, to pay and display. Reverting back to this antiquated "pay and display" system will increase the amount of parking fines in self regulated car parks. Currently
I HAVE only recently started visiting the Daily Echo website as I normally only buy the paper, but I was quite shocked at how cold people can be when it comes to others suffering. There have been articles on car crashes, taxi drivers being assaulted,
SO, the UK's Food Standards Agency has recommended mandatory fortification of bread or flour with folic acid in an attempt to reduce birth defects. Around 13m Brits don't eat enough folic acid - essential for red blood cell formation and the development
A BLIND man from Romsey is hoping to raise £50,000 for the charity Open Sight by canoeing 140 miles to London. Steve Geary, an outreach officer with Open Sight - formerly Hampshire Association for the Care of the Blind - is preparing to paddle from Devizes
IT could be just a coincidence - a football-mad billionaire sails his yacht into Southampton just as Saints are looking for a new owner. But this isn't American tycoon Paul Allen, who has been linked with the club, but Russian Oleg Deripaska, who is
POLICE are hunting a conwoman who has been passing off fake cheques at post offices across Hampshire. Described as acting very calmly, the young woman has tried to cash several fraudulent Inland Revenue cheques. She struck at post offices in Denmead
POOR Prince Charles, he cannot win; while he was giving a lecture on recycling and global warming, wife Camilla flew off to the Mediterranean for a holiday using a private jet. He might be a prince and first in line to the throne but as most men learn
I HAVE just watched the latest advertisement from the DVLA warning what will happen to vehicles that are untaxed and not SORN. The advertisement warns that the vehicle could be crushed and the owner issued with a monetary penalty. The reality is that
THERE was joy and despair in equal measure for two ex-Saints yesterday as Derby defeated West Brom 1-0 at Wembley to win the most lucrative prize in world football. The Rams hit the £60m jackpot with their play-off final victory and bucked the trend
EASTLEIGH'S director of football Paul Doswell does not anticipate a major influx of new signings at the Silverlake Stadium. With several of last summer's signings backfiring, Eastleigh were forced to rebuild during the course of the season to ward
THE man who sculpted statues of Ipswich legends Sir Alf Ramsey and Sir Bobby Robson has been commissioned to produce the second Ted Bates statue at St Mary's. Sean Hedges-Quinn has spent the last few weeks collecting vast amounts of pictures of Saints
I'M writing this blog the day after the race and the weather outside is wonderful - bright sunshine and blue skies are decorating the view outside. All in sharp contrast to 24 hours ago when race number 35 took me to Battersea Park in London for Beat
TWO Totton schools that cater for more than 100 special needs pupils will close under plans put forward by education chiefs. Hampshire County Council's ruling Cabinet has approved proposals to axe the Salterns and Forest Edge schools in two years' time
IT started as the sunny highlight of the countryside calendar but ended in a wet and muddy disaster. This year's Hampshire Country Show was expected to bring more than 20,000 people to the Broadlands estate in Romsey, but with torrential downpours and
DRIVERS on a busy Southampton road were forced to brake harshly and swerve to avoid an oncoming car that was travelling in the wrong direction. A Volvo car with three occupants inside failed to stop and drove the wrong way along the three-lane carriageway
Cabbies in Fareham could be forced off the road if plans to triple vehicle licensing fees are given the go-ahead. Taxi drivers across the borough are outraged at plans by the council to drive up licensing costs by up to £155 and they fear for the future
