EASTLEIGH boss Ian Baird suspects the Spitfires have another teenage gem on their hands. Although 18-year-old centre-back Jack Vallis has played just 90 minutes of first-team football for the Spitfires in the Hampshire Senior Cup, Baird has seen enough
HUNDREDS of homes in Southampton have been left without running water after a blockage in the system. Areas affected are thought to be in the northern part of the city. Southern Water engineers believe an airlock blocked part of the
POLICE are investigating a stabbing in a Southampton street. A 25-year-old man was taken to Southampton General Hospital with life threatening injuries after emergency services were called to a house in Cunningham Crescent, Sholing.
IT was a real life Hallowe’en horror story. Schoolgirl Chloe Robins feared she was going to die after a hair dye she used for a fancy dress party disfigured her face so badly she says she was left looking like the Elephant Man. Aspiring
ORDNANCE Survey bosses have defended its civil servants who dined on the taxpayer at Hooters while on US business trips. The staff spent £150 on Government credit cards to eat out at San Diego and St Louis branches of the restaurant, which is famed for
Stagnating wages, high house prices, rising taxes, shrinking benefits and the soaring cost of elderly care all adds up to a squeeze on finances for much of the UK, according to business leaders at the latest Wilkins Kennedy Round Table. Among
The Government’s plans for tackling the retirement needs of the UK’s rapidly ageing workforce could lead to redundancies according to business leaders at the latest Wilkins Kennedy Round Table event. While there was consensus on the need to address
IT is the company that in all probability supplied the gunpowder to Guy Fawkes himself. Now 400 years on, the same firm is supplying the fireworks for a Bonfire Night spectacle tonight. Up to 10,200 people are expected to pack the Rose Bowl for
The future of David Cameron’s Big Society split a group of Hampshire business leaders and charity professionals down the middle at the latest Wilkins Kennedy Round table event. Although few of the delegates believed the Big Society was doomed
PRODUCTIVITY at Southampton’s container terminal hit a record level when a total of 535 “boxes’’ were handled by one crane during a 12-hour shift earlier this week. This high rate of container throughput places the port of Southampton in a
ROMSEY’S MP has defended her decision to join a parliamentary trip to Equatorial Guinea. Caroline Nokes joined fellow Tory MPs, journalists and lobbyists on the summer visit to the African country where Amnesty International claims police and
A WINCHESTER woman has admitted outraging public decency after she performed a sex act in the street. Claire Castle, 28, of Colebrook Street, Winchester, also pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour. She was bailed for sentencing on November
DRESSED like cavemen and women, this Stone Age pack last night stormed Southampton’s nightspots on their mammoth bar crawl. Run by controversial entertainment firm Carnage UK, the student nights out have been accused of encouraging binge drinking
FRAUDSTERS are offering disabled people across Hampshire hundreds of pounds to sell their Blue Badge parking permits on the black market, the Daily Echo can reveal. One pensioner says he was promised as much as £1,000 to sell his disabled parking
On the first year of Christmas my true love gave to me… a Festival to make you happy! 12 years on and that is still the case as Portsmouth Historic Dockyard will once again step back in time for the delightful Victorian Festival of Christmas, supported
THEY may be tiny but these gorgeous triplets are fighters. Over the last two months, parents, Darren and Lisa Bowen, have watched as their premature babies battled infections, heart failure and breathing difficulties. But after weeks of worry
COUNCIL chiefs have been handed millions of pounds to try and ease the squeeze on primary school places. Hampshire County Council has been given £7.8m, one of the largest allocations in the country, while Southampton City Council receives £3.1m
SAINTS will bid to end a run of five away matches without a win at Coventry tomorrow. Nigel Adkins’ men head to the Ricoh Arena top of the Championship, having powered to the summit largely on the back of their St Mary’s form. Of the 33 points they
THREE men have been jailed for a daring £1m cigarette raid on a warehouse in Southampton docks. The trio were central to the plot, which involved a stolen lorry being driven to the docks to collect the haul of 300,000 packets of American Legend
NIGEL Adkins and Rickie Lambert have been overlooked in the npower Championship awards for October. The Saints duo were shortlisted for the manager and player prizes respectively, but both have lost out. Unsurprisingly, Birmingham's
DING Junhui upstaged Ronnie O’Sullivan in front of a sell-out crowd in the partypoker.com Premier League Snooker at Southampton Guildhall on Thursday night. The 24-year-old Chinese sensation wrapped up a 3-1 victory in front of the Sky Sports
SAINTS remind Coventry manager Andy Thorn of Norwich’s remarkable promotion-winning team of last season. The struggling Sky Blues will host Nigel Adkins’ Championship table toppers at the Ricoh Arena tomorrow, and boss Thorn is expecting
LIFELONG Saints fan Lukas Jutkiewicz will attempt to derail his favourite club’s promotion charge tomorrow. The Coventry City striker is Southampton born and bred and has supported the Saints since he was first taken to The Dell as a seven-year-old.
CIVIC leaders in the New Forest are refusing to rule out more redundancies after warning that “tough times” lie ahead. The district council is already facing a £2.7m cut in its grant over two years and is expecting more bad news from the Government
A HAMPSHIRE market has collapsed – just three months after it was relaunched following a two-year shutdown. Stallholders have deserted Totton’s Wednesday market after seeing a “massive” reduction in the number of customers over the past few
A STUDENT house was targeted in a burglary in Westwood Road, Southampton. An HP laptop and Apple iPad, both worth around £500, were stolen between 9.30pm and 10.05pm on Tuesday. A hooded or hat-wearing figure, believed to be in his late teens
COUNCIL chiefs are fighting plans to redraw the political map of the New Forest. Lyndhurst – currently in the parliamentary constituency of New Forest East – is set to become part of New Forest West under proposals put forward by the Boundary
