Peter Waterfield and Tom Daley failed to claim a medal in the platform synchro at the FINA World Cup tonight. But the pair’s Olympic ambitions look on track after a vastly-improved showing at the Olympics Aquatics Centre in London. Southampton-based
COUNCIL tax is set to be frozen for the third year running today when ruling Tories on Hampshire County Council vote through cuts totalling £45m. About 30 anti-cut campaigners and union members demonstrated outside the Winchester council chamber before
A HOTEL entrepreneur has appeared in court accused of using his car as a weapon. Geoffrey Williams, 56, is alleged to have assaulted Antony Russell-Smith in Alresford on September 15 last year by deliberately driving his car four times into a
A Southampton man with an ambition to become a professional ice hockey player was fined £500 for common assault following a late night incident near a fast food outlet. Victim Louis Double was walking along Shirley Road, Southampton, when
POLICE are warning people to be vigilant after a woman returned home to find someone had tried to break into her property while she was out for the afternoon. The 40-year-old returned to her home on Conifer Road, Shirley, in Southampton, to find
A ROW has broken out between a national charity trying to cut alcohol-related deaths and councillors in the Hampshire town where they are based. The British Liver Trust is calling for a price floor of about 50p per unit of alcohol to reduce
PUPILS in Southampton have been given hands-on experience of the process of building their new £6m school. Youngsters at Newlands Primary School in Millbrook have been trying out trades including carpentry, plumbing, bricklaying and block paving
A WITNESS, who had helped police during an investigation and given evidence in a court case, was denounced as a grass and beaten up, Southampton Crown Court heard. Samuel Snook, 22, was knocked unconscious and suffered a broken jaw after
A Southampton foster carer who sexually abused young girls for almost 30 years has been jailed for 21 years. Rex Case, 68, was yesterday found guilty of 18 counts of sex abuse, sexual assault and rape of girls supposedly in his care.
A LEADING figure in the Hampshire business community has been cleared of raping a schoolgirl. Derek Chartres, former chairman of Hampshire Chamber of Commerce, broke down in tears as jurors found him not guilty of the offence and a string of
CONTROVERSIAL plans to transform a prime Hampshire waterfront site have been delayed. Council chiefs are withholding consent to build 168 homes, a restaurant and a riverside walk on the former Webbs chicken factory site in Lymington because
Danny Briggs will have to wait for his Twenty20 international debut after being left out for the start of the three-match series against Pakistan. Graeme Swann's return to fitness means Briggs is not playing in Dubai this afternoon, two days after
PLANS for a pioneering new school to tackle a shortage of places have been unveiled by education chiefs. Hampshire County Council has identified a potential site for a two-form entry primary in Winchester. The new school would be on
SOUTHAMPTON’S newest school building has officially opened for use – and created an instant buzz of excitement. Staff and pupils at Oasis Academy Mayfield have moved into their new state-ofthe- art £15m home. It is the latest step in
A SOUTHAMPTON GP surgery is the first to back a campaign to crack down on wasted prescriptions. Lordshill Health Centre has urged patients to help the NHS tackle the shocking problem of unused medicines. Its appeal comes as the Daily Echo
SHE was puzzled but not unduly alarmed at getting no reply at her parents’ home where she lived. So without a front door key, Millie Hitchcock returned to work but by chance encountered family friend, PC William McShane, cycling along the road.
Pete Waterfield and Tom Daley did enough to progress to tonight's platform synchro final at the FINA World Cup. Southampton-based Waterfield and teammate Daley showed signs of rustiness in their first competition since finishing sixth at
ONE of the first artefacts to arrive at Southampton’s new £15m Titanic themed SeaCity Museum will be unveiled today – an enormous scale replica of RMS Queen Mary. The seven-metre long model, carved from one log of white mahogany and weighing
JUSTIN Rose was defeated by Paul Lawrie in the opening round of the WGC Match Play Championship. The Hampshire golfer was behind for most of the contest, but fought hard to take his match with the former Open champion up the 18th in Tucson, Arizona
A GROUP of defiant pensioners will today tell council bosses they will not be moved after they received letters threatening them with eviction from their homes. Residents of The Graylings sheltered housing scheme in Southampton have been invited
A SAILOR who ran aground in the Solent was rescued after his distress flares were spotted by a passing aircraft. The yacht Peony was stranded on the Shingles Bank, near Hurst Castle, but a fisheries protection plane saw the flares and raised
KNIFE violence on a Southampton street left a man with a cut face and requiring four internal stitches, the city crown court was told. Jamie Halley, 21, of Bellevue Road, admitted wounding Anthony Snook with intent to cause grievous bodily
POLICE are hunting for a motorist who jumped out of his car and grabbed a teenage girl by the wrists. The 13-year-old was crossing Queens Road, in Ryde, at around 7.40am on Tuesday, when the driver stopped his car next to her and took hold of
MORE than 50 jobs are to go in Hampshire after the buyer of a collapsed retail chain moved to close two thirds of its UK stores. Peacocks’ administrators KPMG said the privately owned Scottish group Edinburgh Woollen Mill had acquired 388 of
LIGHTS, camera action.... Hampshire county chiefs will be filmed for the first time today as they vote on £45m of cuts. The Conservative- led council will debate a council tax freeze for the third year running and a further 230 job losses
HAMPSHIRE Police today admitted they missed several opportunities to prosecute Rex Case. Detective Chief Inspector Bob Maker, in charge of the force’s western area public protection unit, said an investigation carried out with Southampton
THEY buried their heads in the sand, they didn’t listen and as a result more young girls were abused. That was the damning accusation levelled at social services and police chiefs in Hampshire today by the very people they were there to protect
SUNDERLAND striker Fraizer Campbell is a shock call-up in Stuart Pearce's England squad to face Holland at Wembley next Wednesday - but former Saint Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain did not make the cut. There had been plenty of talk ahead of today's
A CORONER is demanding answers after a well known teenager who was waiting for an operation died of an asthma attack. Jack Boothroyd died after suffering a severe asthma attack, Southampton Coroners Court heard. The popular 15-year-old had
A PERVERTED foster carer was allowed to systematically sexually abuse young girls in his care – even after the alarm was raised by a five-year old who had been raped. Despite the desperate cry for help paedophile Rex Case went on to sexually
A broken-down bus has caused major tailbacks this morning. The bus blocked a lane on Twyford Road, Eastleigh, causing major delays right back to junction five of the M27 westbound. Police were called out to direct traffic around the blockage at about
I WRITE to express my condolences to the owners of the Junction Inn, in St Denys, Southampton, for the devastation caused by the recent fire. This pub is a key part of the local community, from which people have been benefiting for many years
WITH regard to the death of King George VI and television, I don’t know about this part of the country but I was at RAF Leconfield, near Hull, in 1952 and I remember listening to the TV commentary of the funeral by retuning a radar receiver and
I AM writing in response to the letter from Mr Jeatt (February 8) about Southern Water’s metering programme. People on a water meter tend to use about ten per cent less water, so we are installing water meters for the majority of our customers
SARAH Jones’s article “A Family of Influence” (Daily Echo, February 11) was one of the best items one could wish to read, and the photos brought it to life. Some of the Barker-Mill proposals mentioned are enough to bring to life what we can expect
I BEG to differ with Mr Sheriff’s letter of February 11 (in reply to mine) saying Japanese Akitas make loving family pets. They don’t always. I’m glad he can feel at ease with his family and grandchildren living in harmony with his Akita. But, like
IT’S only a small article but with huge implications. The piece “Spring Clean” about Southampton City Council leader Royston Smith (Daily Echo, February 15) leads me to believe that, as he has now destroyed our street cleaning services, he is now
THANK YOU Mrs Robinson for bringing up the subject of our Benny Hill. I have been campaigning for Benny for a few years to have something done for him in the city he loved very much. As a taxi driver in this city for over 25 years I picked Benny
I AM writing in response to ‘Council not caring about tormented’ (Letters, February 17). Southampton City Council and Hampshire Constabulary work closely together to reduce antisocial behaviour which we fully realise can have a serious effect on
I NOTICED a letter from Mr A Hargreaves in the Polygon, Southampton, complaining about the cost of visting the SeaCity Museum. Then I saw the next day the Conservative council was giving away free tickets for all Southampton residents. It sounds
WHEN Saints last visited Watford, they were a club very much on their way out of the Championship. The same might be true when they travel to Vicarage Road this weekend – although for very different reasons. Nigel Adkins’ men will be
BEN Reeves has joined League Two strugglers Dagenham & Redbridge on a one-month loan deal. Saints' versatile 20-year-old, who can play at left-back, in midfield, and even up front, has been sent out to gain further first-team experience.
Police are hunting a driver after a hit and run in Hampshire last night. A teenager suffered head, neack and nback injuries after being hit by a car as he crossed to the road. The 18-year-old managed to walk to a nearvby Tesco store where he collapsed
THE gap between AFC Totton and Southern Premier leaders Brackley is now four points following the Stags’ uneventful 0-0 draw at struggling Swindon Supermarine last night. Totton still have two games in hand but, with a tough assignment at
HEAVEN or Hell? I’m talking about two colliding worlds, governed by Jupiter (David Collis) and Pluto (Roger Lamb) and not my opinion of the show. Offenbach’s operetta has been seamlessly updated in a clever and humorous fashion, though it steps
BRYONY Lavery’s play may be exploring grisly, familiar territory, but it is looking more for insight than cheap thrills. A serial killer of young girls, the mother of one of his victims, and a psychological researcher meet. NEIL GWYNNE is energetic
ONE of Southampton’s most iconic office buildings has been put up for sale for nearly £30m. The freehold of Skandia House, the landmark purpose-built headquarters for the financial services giant, has been put on the market for £28.5m by its pension
FIREFIGHTERS evacuated a block of flats this morning when fire broke out. Residents were woken and taken to safety following the blaze at 4.29am. Up to 20 people had to leave their homes during he drama at Westwood Road, in Southampton
WITH an exceptional cast of all singing, all dancing, high kicking nuns in sequins, this is a heavenly night’s entertainment. A dazzling triumph from start to finish, Sister Act opened a two-week run by raising the rafters and having the crowd
OLYMPIC Silver medallist Southampton’s Pete Waterfield will take to the board today with teenage star Tom Daley in day four of the FINA World Cup at London’s Aquatics Centre. The pair, seen as Britain’s best chance of a diving medal at London 2012, are
THE construction group behind a masterplan for a proposed £450m regeneration of Southampton’s Royal Pier district and £50m of affordable housing schemes in Hampshire has reported a 12 per cent fall in profits to £45.3m. Morgan Sindall, which
POLICE have arrested four people after a gang of rogue traders conned elderly and vulnerable Hampshire residents into handing over cash for unnecessary gardening work. Pensioners were among the people targeted by the conmen, who forced people to spend
The government says it is considering clamping down on parents who take their children out of school for holidays during term time. Not on they say. Parents - naughty, naughty, parents - who are struggling to make ends meet thanks to the idiocy
Bought my ticket from Southampton Central rail station for London past Soton - on way back into New Forest. Nice lady served me. Asked if my home journey was that evening. Didn't bother to explain no trains running past Southampton
