A HAMPSHIRE MP has warned that lives could be lost if a mental health unit is axed under plans to save more than £4m. Dr Julian Lewis, who represents New Forest East, has hit out at proposals to close a 24-bed ward at the Woodhaven facility
I HAVE recently paid a visit to South Wales, what I saw of Cardiff and Swansea made me realise how far back we are in the planning of Southampton compared to these two fabulous Welsh cities. It would be a worthwhile trip if our city councillors
HOW can Councillor Royston Smith (Letters September 27) justify the spending of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash by making lame excuses that the Civic Centre will eventually fall down if not refurbished, (not in his lifetime it won’t), there
CAN anyone tell me what’s happening to hospital waiting lists. I was first put on the waiting list in February this year for an operation at the General Hospital and then taken off and was told I would have to go to the Royal South Hants. However
HERE we go again. The British taxpayer having to cough up billions and now, it seems, trillions to save the euro. Our currency is pound sterling, we are outside the euro, in which case we should NOT be bailing it out. We fight other countries
TRYING to help the environment is proving difficult. I have approached two companies regarding cavity wall insulation. They first said I had too many windows and doors in my twobedroomed terraced property to expect to gain any advantage from wall
The process to select a jury to try the neighbour accused of murdering Hampshire landscape architect Joanna Yeates began today. Vincent Tabak, 33, denies the premeditated killing of Miss Yeates, whose body was found on a snowy verge on Christmas morning
IT may be more jam and Jerusalem than rock and roll. But Hampshire rockers Osteopath have taken a leaf out of the WI’s book by disrobing for a cheeky Calendar Girlsstyle photo shoot. The band is hoping their stunt will attract big crowds
IAN Baird has advised Eastleigh’s teenage striker Sam Wilson not to feel daunted when he returns to Premier League outfit Fulham on Thursday. After impressing on an assessment week with the Craven Cottage club, the former Wildern schoolboy has been
IT is one of the biggest business events in the calendar. Today the South Coast Business Works, hosted by the Daily Echo, makes its return to Southampton. The event features advice and tips from some of the region’s brightest minds and
VANDALS have scrawled a swastika and dumped human excrement on Southampton’s cenotaph in a sickening insult to war heroes who lost their lives fighting for this country. Read more Read the full story and all the reaction
THE scourge of piracy on the high seas has led to a boom for one Hampshire firm that has developed a powerful water cannon deterrent. Chandler’s Ford based Dasic Marine has notched up 140 sales of its Nemesis 5000 canons this year as more international
THE trial of a man accused of murdering Hampshire landscape architect Jo Yeates is set to begin today. Vincent Tabak, a Dutch engineer, admits killing the 25-yearold graduate, who had grown up in Ampfield, near Romsey. But he has always
THE man in charge of Southampton’s education system wants parents to set up free schools to help solve the crisis over a lack of places for children. Councillor Jeremy Moulton believes independent state-funded schools could be established
THIS is the man police are hunting for after a man was raped in Southampton. Detectives last night released this likeness of the suspect who raped a 22-yearold man as he walked along a footpath near the Clover Nook flats, off Old Redbridge Road
NOBODY will face criminal charges following a tower block blaze which killed two Southampton firemen, the Daily Echo can reveal. Almost 18 months on from the fire which ripped through Shirley Towers in April last year and claimed the lives
A YOB who put lives in danger when he hurled a bike on to live rail tracks, causing an explosion, has been jailed for a year. Judge Peter Ralls told unemployed Kenny Thornton, 24, his actions were both “irresponsible” and “idiotic”.
HAMPSHIRE pub landlady Karen Murphy has won her European court battle against the Premier League over the use of a foreign TV decoder to screen games. The European Court of Justice said an exclusive system of licences for the broadcasting of
POLICE have launched a hunt for a motorcyclist who mounted the pavement and struck a pedestrian before fleeing the scene. A 40 year old man was left with serious head injuries after the hit and run incudent at West End Road in Bitterne yesterday
A MOTORIST was caught using a laptop while drinking coffee while behind the wheel of his car. Another lorry driver was spotted eating a pear with a knife while another was caught writing down the answers to a radio quiz. They were all
TWO sisters have condemned motorists who left their animals to die after separate hit-and-run accidents on the same stretch of road. A pig owned by Sarah and Kay Harrison suffered a broken jaw in a collision at Row Hill, Bramshaw, and had to be destroyed
LEE Holmes and David Connolly headline the remaining list of Saints players due out of contract at the end of the season. The club has embarked on a major drive in recent months to sign their key stars to long-term deals, resolving many of
A MAN ended up in hospital with a fractured eye socket after he came to blows with a work colleague he was drinking with in Southampton. The 37-year-old was punched during the fracas in Padwell Road on Sunday at around 7pm. He was taken to Southampton
A WINCHESTER man has denied attacking two women in a village near the city. Kevin Tony Lee McNeill, 39, of Alresford Road, Winnall, is accused of assaulting Cheryl Weavers and Natasha Turner in Shawford on July 14, Basingstoke Magistrates' Court heard
