The Mayflower will play host to the 25th anniversary production of the world’s longest running musical Les Miserables this summer, the Daily Echo can exclusively reveal. Pop idol turned musical theatre star Gareth Gates will star as Marius
Sir Thomas’ long-awaited report into MPs expenses, found the whole allowances system to be “deeply flawed”. It ordered ten MPs in south Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to repay £23,000 claimed under the ACA between 2004 and 2009. Other large repayments
AMBITIOUS plans for major street theatre to celebrate King Alfred’s last journey have been abandoned. Costs have forced the organisers of Hyde 900 to drop the event for the late May bank holiday. They wanted a huge pageant involving more than 100
POMPEY are requesting that the court date about their winding-up order be delayed. The Premier League club, which was today taken over for the third time this season, outlined the intention in a statement. The statement read
THE row over “racist” taxi window stickers took a new turn last night when a Southampton cabbie claimed the council approved one just months ago. The taxi driver claimed a licensing officer gave him the all-clear to display one of the St George
COUNCIL chiefs in Hampshire are looking for £30m in savings as part of their new budget. The move comes as Hampshire County Council revealed today that residents face a rise of 1.9 per cent in their council tax - an average £20 per home.
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THE creation of two new parish councils could spark a shake-up of services at a Hampshire authority. Cabinet members at Eastleigh Borough Council will tonight be voting on plans that could see the amount Eastleigh Town residents pay them go
A STRUGGLING community post office has received a welcome boost from the parish council. Sparsholt Post Office and Stores, which is run mainly by volunteers, has been given a one-year rent holiday to help keep it going. The store, which was only saved
PLANS for Southampton’s £15m Sea City Museum go on public display for the first time tomorrow. A model and artists’ impression of the proposed heritage museum will be on show in the City Art Gallery for one week. As revealed by the Daily
THE VAST majority of MPs in the South have been ordered to repay cash claimed under their Parliamentary expenses after a long-awaited review found the whole allowances system was "deeply flawed". Sir Thomas Legg, who was called in to carry
A HOST of ex-Saints stars are coming to the aid of one of their own, Kevin Moore, after he was struck down with a rare form of dementia. The 51-year-old, who scored Saints’ last Wembley goal, was diagnosed with Pick’s Disease about two years
A HAMPSHIRE man accused of raping a teenager has categorically denied the charge, claiming he turned down her sexual advances. Taking the stand in his own defence, Michael Mayhew said it was the 17-year-old who propositioned him, but he refused
THE owner of a new Southampton taxi plate is trying to sell it for a £30,000 profit just weeks after it was virtually given away by the council in a lottery-style draw. Shouyb Mohammad Yaqub beat 342 other applicants to win one of four £180 Hackney Carriage
A HAMPSHIRE lifeboat crew got more than they bargained for when they lifted their anchor chain – and found a 50-year-old seaplane propeller attached to it. The quarter-tonne propeller was discovered by crewmen from Calshot RNLI station and
A DRUNKEN man dropped his trousers and pants in front of horrified children outside a village hall. When a youth tried to intervene, he was punched in the face and then struck three more times on the ground. At Southampton Crown Court
THE RYA Volvo London Dinghy Show is a must in any yachtie’s diary – and the Daily Echo has teamed up with the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) to offer our readers the chance to win tickets. The show, in association with Yachts and Yachting
SOME of the most beautiful yachts ever built are to once again do battle in the Solent in a regatta aimed at reviving classic yacht racing. The Westward Cup will be sailed from Cowes and will feature at least four stunning Big Class schooners, including
HAMPSHIRE sailing star Ben Ainslie is to lead the British America’s Cup team into battle in March. Triple gold medallist Ainslie, pictured, from Lymington, will skipper Team Origin at the latest Louis Vuitton Trophy match race regatta in Auckland,
DESIGNER Rooms, the collapsed fashion venture from former Hampshire entrepreneur Jeremy Whaley, is to be liquidated with debts of £1m. Whaley was the man behind the ill-fated Pilot fashion chain, which grew from a single shop in Winchester
“I THOUGHT I might die.” They are the words of a terrified disabled man after a gang of knife-wielding thugs beat and robbed him in his Southampton home for the second time in a week. Alan Hornsey, 49, suffered a catalogue of injuries
DIZZEE rascal is hotly tipped to headline this year's Bestival. Hampshire Radio One DJ Rob Da Bank is once again putting on the Isle of Wight festival, from September 9-12. More acts are set to be confirmed and the expected line-up so
Chainrai Profile Balram Chainrai is a Hong Kong-based businessman of Nepalese extraction but with a British passport. The businessman, whose interests include property development, has lent Portsmouth at least £17m through Portpin, a company
SAINTS beat off competition from Championship clubs and League One high fliers to sign the exciting Jason Puncheon, the Daily Echo can reveal. Saints splashed out about £200,000 to sign the versatile 23-year-old, right, on a three-and-a-half
BELEAGUERED Portsmouth Football Club today has a new owner - the fourth since the end of last season. Hong Kong businessman Balram Chainrai has been confirmed as the fourth owner at troubled Fratton Park this season - subject to the Premier
THOUSANDS of Hampshire job seekers, students and employers are set to descend on the Southampton Guildhall for the Daily Echo jobsfair today. The new job, new career or new direction in life could be just hours away with almost 30 different
RADICAL plans to slash the number of frontline police officers by 28,000 and have civilian staff pick up some of their work could lead to “policing on the cheap”, Hampshire federation chiefs fear. Instead the numbers on the frontline should
NATIONAL Park chiefs have been ordered to pay £8,000 in costs after abandoning enforcement action against a New Forest couple. The National Park Authority (NPA) had accused Mr and Mrs Terry Boyce, of Bourne Road, Woodlands, of using an area of agricultural
THE stalled £100m revamp of Winchester city centre has forced civic chiefs to scale down their spending. The city council is proposing several cuts to its programme of major schemes during the next few years. The authority hopes to reverse
BEAUTY pageant organisers are looking for a budding model to represent Southampton in this year’s Miss Galaxy contest which prides itself on having no size, weight or height restrictions and is looking for a girl aged 19 to 29 to represent the
