SHE stepped out of the darkness into a soft pool of orange light that highlighted her distinctive East European features. The room was silent save for the low hum of the air-conditioning which was working overtime to keep at bay the hot summer sun.
SHE stepped out of the darkness into a soft pool of orange light that highlighted her distinctive East European features. The room was silent save for the low hum of the air-conditioning which was working overtime to keep at bay the hot summer sun.
A DUCK AND her nine ducklings went walkabout and brought Winchester's busiest road to a standstill. The feathered family took the life-threatening decision to waddle in single file along St Georges Street against the traffic flow at about 10.50am on
Former Saints boss Gordon Strachan's house has been broken into, police said today. Thieves raided his luxury home and reportedly made off with a haul of his belongings. Celtic manager Strachan, 51, and his wife Lesley are reported to slept through
EVERY year hundreds of people have turned out to cheer the colourful procession of floats. The hugely popular Lymington and Pennington carnival has been part of the fabric of New Forest life for generations. It raises thousands of pounds for charity
NIGHTCLUB DJs could be told to play "chill out music" under new measures to help curb alcohol-fuelled violence in Southampton. Council chiefs say clubs have a responsibility to stop their punters spilling out onto the city's streets pumped up by
AT least 10,000 drinkers in Southampton are to take part in a groundbreaking screening programme to help spot people developing liver disease before it is too late. The disease is known as a silent killer because at least one in five people who show
SOUTHAMPTON'S new top cop says the city needs a change of culture if it is to ever shake off its title as one of England's worst trouble spots for alcohol-fuelled violence. Chief Supt Matthew Greening's call came after a study ranked Southampton
A TINY New Forest foal was rescued by firefighters after it became jammed under a car. Resident Veronica Harrison raised the alarm and took a mobile telephone photograph of the stricken animal under the parked Ford Ka at Thorney Hill. "I think
ALREADY widely regarded as one of the most expensive mile-formile ferry crossings in the world, tourists travelling to the Isle of Wight with ferry firm Wightlink this weekend will find the soaring cost of oil has pushed prices even higher.
SENIOR UNIVERSITY staff are urging vulnerable students to seek help after a 21-year-old hanged himself in woodland while carrying out a photography project on wellknown suicide sites. The reason Southampton Solent University student Christian
A GROWING number of families in the south face losing their homes as the credit crunch pushes up mortgage payments, new figures have revealed. Records published by the Ministry of Justice show mortgage providers started legal action against
IN A week when Paul Sales, Steve Watts and Chris Piper have left the Eastleigh players fold, manager Ian Baird says he is not bothered if any others want to follow them through the Silverlake Stadium exit door. The Spitfires boss is not a great
I SAW a report on ITV Meridian's news that ambulance crews are being attacked by drunks. I can't help wondering why they send an ambulance to deal with these people. They should send several policemen in today's equivalant of the Black Maria, with a
ALEX Winning was spot-on in his letter of April 25 condemning the Arts Council for giving inmates of Winchester Prison £10,000 to stage a play. I thought a jail sentence was supposed to be a punishment. Why should prisoners get money to stage a play?
DO the people of Totton realise what they are doing by being solely dependent on Asda? As local residents we have lost our small, independent greengrocers and fishmongers. No doubt next to go will be the butcher and baker. Somerfields, Asda's only competition
SOUTHAMPTON General Hospital has an excellent rate of success, but one area of neglect is the patient who is dying. A relative of mine sat by the bedside of his ageing parent in a single room for two nights. Of course, the room was very hot, but apart
I TOTALLY agree with the letter about traffic lights slowing vehicles (April 29). I travel fairly often along Tebourba Way towards Millbrook roundabout in the rush hour and I find that any inconvenience in negotiating the roundabout, on my way towards
DURING the recent election campaign I was bombarded with party political blurb. This year I was particularly disappointed with the information produced by the Liberal Democrats, 90 per cent of which seemed to be aimed at attacking the other parties;
AGREE with Christopher Murfin (Letters, May 3), Southampton has over 2,000 years of historical heritage, yet little is publicised. Perhaps with a change of council, the disastrous proposals to sell off the area between Bugle Street and lower High Street
I HAD three bad experiences on the No 1 Blue Star service from Southampton to Winchester recently. I sent an e-mail to the address they give on their posters aand I have not had a reply. On April 4 I went to catch the 10.50am bus in Above Bar. It did
A SERIES of hard hitting reports point towards Southampton as a city ravaged by alcohol. Today the Daily Echo can reveal that seventy per cent of people rushed to Southampton General Hospital's A&E department on Friday and Saturday nights are there with
POLICE investigating the murder of a woman whose burnt out remains were found in a Hampshire village have released a vital clue in the hunt for her killer. The remains of the woman, aged between late teens and early 30s, was found off Wayfarers Way,
Adam Lallana admits his world has completely changed after the final two games of the season. The youngster, who celebrates his 20th birthday today, played a key role in Saints' dramatic survival. His 77th minute strike against West Brom helped the
RSPCA inspectors found breaches of animal welfare laws at a crisis-hit charity sanctuary just days before it closed its doors to the public, the Daily Echo can reveal. Officers issued eight notices to the management at St Francis Animal Welfare in Fair
A WINCHESTER artist is taking part in a groundbreaking project linking plants, archives and art. Catharine Clarke is the artist in residence at the Hampshire Record Office in Winchester. Every Thursday until the end of June she is working in the foyer
THESE swanky new offices are what business giant Capita wants to replace the run-down former C&A building in Southampton. The plans for a "regional business hub" have been unveiled following a ten-year, £290m deal with the city to run key services
BUDDING sports reporters are being given the chance of a lifetime to cover the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer. Southern Daily Echo owners Newsquest have joined forces with McDonald's in the hunt for a Champion Kid. The winning youngster will file
POLICE arrested a man who was seen running through a Hampshire town centre. The streaker was spotted outside Strides Cycles in Commercial Road, Totton, shortly after 6.30am yesterday. One eyewitness said: "I was just driving along when I saw this man
