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  • Which players will Adkins want to keep?

    ON WEDNESDAY, the Daily Echo evaluates the task Adkins faces over the Summer. As the promotion party hangover fades, Saints' boss has to turn his attention to the players who are out of contract in the next few weeks. Adam Leitch weighs up the pros

  • Brushing your teeth is a viable alternative

    Although I have written more letters than most people, expressing my opposition to fluoridation, there are several people I respect who say that in many cases fluoridation is beneficial without any side effects. However, a lot of people could

  • Was ours the oldest cat?

    OUR cat has passed away at the age of 24 years. We wondered if anyone else had a cat who lived that long or who is still living. D HAYES, Sholing, Southampton.

  • Please read the signs

    I REFER to the two entrances to the M27 that are in Rownhams Lane. They are clearly marked “NO ENTRY” and yet no one seems to take any notice. The traffic also emerges FROM these openings at high speed and it is only a matter of time before a serious

  • Biomass TV query

    Re Biomass – besides the fact that the building should not be put there anyway – someone will have to pay out a lot of money to change all the television aerials in the wide area opposite the building. BAT at Regents Park, Southampton, had to when

  • Badly let down over shops

    RE “We need our shop” by S Googe (Letters April 27) about the Esgro store in Thornhill, Southampton. Wholehearted thanks – you put forward the feelings of many. The council held meetings prior to demolition of shops to listen to our needs. They

  • Forest parking charges

    MAY I remind readers that it was local MP Desmond Swayne who suggested car parking charges at Forestry Commission controlled sites, when he wanted to package up the Forest land, to be sold off. The Forestry Commission have no intention of introducing

  • Managers should treat posties better

    I AM writing to offer my support to former postal worker Ian Jennens and to give my own comments on the Royal Mail. I worked for Royal Mail for 28 years and for about 20 of these I was more than happy with my job and the treatment from the management

  • Heart unit campaigners demand a third meeting

    PRESSURE is building on health chiefs to host a third public meeting for the scores of campaigners fighting to save children’s heart surgery in Southampton. All 400 places for the city’s two consultation events later this month at the Guildhall

  • Hampshire golfers star for England

    HAMPSHIRE stars Neil Raymond and Darren Wright helped power England to a remarkable comeback victory over Spain. Corhampton’s Raymond, who was receiving his first cap for his country, holed the winning putt at The Berkshire – a moment he described

  • Hampshire duo hope for Miss England glory

    TWO Hampshire girls are in line to reach the finals of Miss England. Laura Entwistle and Gina Inglis are among 20 remaining hopefuls competing in the South East Beauty Awards. The category replaces the Miss Southampton competition, with girls

  • Bikes stolen from home

    TWO Raleigh bicycles with a combined value of £500 were stolen from a property at Hunter Close, in King’s Somborne. One of the bikes was blue and the other red. Police say both were on the driveway of the property when they were stolen sometime

  • Garden equipment stolen

    GARDEN machinery worth more than £2,000 has been stolen from a shed in West Tytherley. Police say a red Castle brand ride-on mower worth £1,500 and a Honda petrol mower worth £800 were taken from one of two garden sheds broken into at a property

  • Hairdresser’s broken into

    BEAUTY products were stolen when thieves broke into a hairdresser’s in a Hampshire village. Hair brushes, shampoo and conditioner were among items taken from Snip It in West End High Street. A glass pane in the front door of the salon was smashed

  • Front Lawn Junior School- Dance For Life.

    Local primary schools, secondary schools and special schools, colleges, dance groups and youth groups are taking part part in Dance for Life 2011, the exciting youth dance project that raises funds for the British Red Cross. Tickets are

  • P&O takes delivery of adults-only ship

    Southampton’S P&O Cruises has officially taken delivery of the latest addition to its fleet, Adonia, which is due to arrive in the city later this month. Adonia is currently in the Bahamas undertaking a refit before coming to Southampton

  • Coach driver denies falling asleep at the wheel

    TERRIFIED passengers screamed as their coach veered off a Hampshire motorway and up an embankment, a court heard. The National Express service from London to Poole smashed through bushes before careering back across all three lanes of the M27

  • Burglary 'A-Team' jailed for total of 32 years

    SPLASHING out on expensive family cruises, designer clothes and luxury items for his home, and feeding a huge gambling habit, William Castle enjoyed a lavish lifestyle – despite apparently living only off benefits. But the 50-year-old was

  • Discovery brings sight loss hope

    SOUTHAMPTON eye experts have made a ground-breaking discovery that could stop sight loss caused by a previously untreatable disease. Professor Andrew Lotery and his team at Southampton General Hospital’s eye unit are using glaucoma drops to

  • City stab victim out of hospital

    A MAN who was stabbed while walking through a city centre park in Southampton has been released from hospital. The 53-year-old victim of the unprovoked assault needed stitches in his back after being attacked as he walked through East Park.

  • Dad pays tribute to girl, 17, found dead

    THE father of a Hampshire college student found dead in mysterious circumstances has paid an emotional tribute to his daughter. Mark Longley described 17- year-old Emily as “beautiful” and “life-loving” before he left his native New

  • The Iron Witch by Karen Mahoney.

    The Iron Witch. Karen Mahoney. Freak. That's what they call seventeen-year-old Donna Underwood at Ironbridge High School. A horrific fey attack that killed her father when she was just a child left Donna branded with iron tattoos

  • City bus services to be slashed in council cuts

    EVENING and weekend bus services in Southampton are being slashed after council chiefs cut subsidies. Several routes run by First Hampshire and Dorset, which serve the city centre and Southampton General and Royal South Hants hospitals, will

  • Pivotal Youth - Dance For Life !

    Pivotal Youth Dance from South Downs College, Waterlooville, are taking part in Dance For Life at The Point, Eastleigh, this Thursday 12th May.Tickets are now on sale online at www.redcross.org.uk/danceforlife. Our dance deals with old age. When you

  • Racing into adulthood

    BEN has a very definite life plan. He has been sure for some time now where his career will take him. While his parents scrimp and save in the unlikely event of him going to university, it seems he has other designs on the cash. If he had his way

  • Counting the cost of being tight

    SOME people have a strange attitude to money. I am very bad in this area – I can spend £20 walking down the road and yet have nothing to show for it. However, I would rather have my slightly casual attitude to cash than be a tightwad. A few years

  • Light pollution claim over ferries

    HARBOUR bosses have hit out at light pollution caused by Wightlink’s new cross- Solent ferries. Lymington Harbour Commissioners (LHC) wrote to the company following complaints that lights aboard the W-class vessels were being left on overnight

  • Residents to take on speeding drivers

    SPEEDING drivers will be snared by residents volunteering to be the eyes and ears of police, the Daily Echo can reveal. They will be given specialist camera equipment to catch people in the act and hand over the evidence to officers. Police

  • The Greenest Gift Around!

    This is a must-have for summer. The new Little Green Bag from Lush, is a portable bag full of green-friendly products, a great value organic cotton travel bag for people who like to care for the environment. Little Green Bag is packed with products

  • City's £300k bill for protecting the nation

    TAXPAYERS in Southampton are paying £300,000 for a national service that prevents infected food and animals being brought in to the country through the city’s port. Labour’s Alan Whitehead secured a Commons debate to call for Government

  • Junction has £26k worth of improvements

    ONE of the most dangerous junctions in central Hampshire is now safer thanks to £26,000 of improvements. Several serious accidents have occurred at the Longwood Crossroads on the northern edge of Owslebury in recent years. Residents have previously raised

  • Saints the best-supported League One club

    Nigel Adkins’ Saints army is on the increase. The club have officially finished the 2010/11 season as the best-supported side in League One – and by some distance. Their average crowd of 22,160 is more than 4,000 ahead of any other team

  • Lotto winner comes forward

    A LUCKY lottery player from Hampshire is celebrating today after claiming a £156,000 lottery win. The mystery winner, from the Eastleigh area, has only just collected the National Lottery prize - three months after the draw in early February. Players

  • Plan return aviation to Hampshire airfield

    ISLE of Wight-based Britten-Norman has signed a new two-year lease for the Daedalus Airfield in Lee-on-the-Solent in a bid to put the Gosport peninsula back on the aviation map. The new lease from the South East England Development Agency (