Hampshire are still without a Friends Life t20 win after suffering a second home defeat in five days at The Ageas Bowl last night. The Royals looked to be on course after reaching 51 without loss at the end of the six-over powerplay, having
Danish Kaneria was today banned from English and Welsh domestic cricket for life and described as “a grave danger” to the sport following his involvement in a spot-fixing plot. The 31-year-old Pakistani was today found guilty by the England and Wales
FROM Union Jack Russells and truly British bulldogs to regal beagles, hundreds of you entered the Daily Echo Patriotic Pets competition. Over the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee festivities, pets of all shapes and sizes were submitted from across Hampshire
MUSIC bands and groups are being offered a chance to play live at a Hampshire festival. Organisers of the Master Builders Food and Drink Festival at Bucklers Hard in the New Forest are looking for acts who want to showcase their tunes on June 30 and
TWO huge container stacking cranes are on their way to Southampton to boost the lifting capacity of the port’s leading rail freight operator. The £9m rail-mounted gantry cranes, made for Freightliner by Liebherr, will be the largest of their type
A GANG of drug smugglers have been jailed for a total of 20 years after trying to get £300m worth of cocaine into Southampton. The three men were today jailed in their home country of The Netherlands after the plot was foiled by Border Force
THE Queen will meet Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness next week and shake hands in an historic first for the Northern Ireland peace process, it was confirmed today. The Deputy First Minister will attend a cross border event in Belfast on Wednesday, which
England's players are increasingly confident they can 'do a Chelsea' at the European Championship, according to Scott Parker. Comparisons were drawn between Roy Hodgson's men and the Champions League winners even before they set out for Poland and
A FIREFIGHTER badly hurt in the terror blaze that killed two colleagues has described the "bedlam" inside the high-rise flat. Liam Ryan told Southampton Coroner's Court he "lost his mind" as extreme heat engulfed the home in Shirley Towers.
THE Daily Echo today calls on Hampshire councils to commit to giving our elderly the dignity of at least 30 minutes of care in their own homes. Charities and elderly campaigners have already supported the move after we revealed that both the county
Basingstoke & North Hants will be joining the Southern Electric Premier League next season. Clubs voted overwhelmingly at this week’s EGM to allow the long-established May’s Bounty Club to switch their two senior sides from the Thames Valley League
COUNCILLORS are today making their final decision on whether to close Test Valley Borough Council’s Romsey offices in the face of bitter opposition from staff and unions. A special meeting of the borough’s full council is due to consider selling
PLANS to scrap GCSEs in favour of a return to Olevels could damage the prospects for Southampton’s children, the city’s new education boss has warned. Cllr Sarah Bogle said Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove’s proposals to axe the qualifications
A HOMEOWNER scared off a burglar in Swanwick. The 53-year-old man heard a loud bang upstairs in his house and ran to take a look. A rear window was open at the property in Swanwick Lane and a man was seen climbing over the garden fence. Stolen
A SOUTHAMPTON woman has been fined and ordered to do unpaid work after she was discovered with £21,000 worth of Ann Summers products at her house. The haul was part of £70,000 worth of goods stolen from the Portsmouth store in October, 2011.
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British number one Andy Murray will begin his Wimbledon campaign against Russia's Nikolay Davydenko. The world number four, who has reached the semi-finals at SW19 for the last three years, has won five of the nine encounters he has had against the
IT WAS a day of action that some feared would leave patients without vital medical care and treatment. But it soon became clear yesterday it was business as usual for the majority of doctors across the south. At Southampton General Hospital
Southampton’s new council leader has been accused of a farcical U-turn by appointing another efficiency tsar – just weeks after declaring he was axing the job when the last holder of the post resigned. Cllr Keith Morrell quit as Cabinet
BRADING Town have withdrawn from the Sydenhams Wessex League due to the ever increasing cost of travelling to the mainland. The Romans, who finished second to bottom of the Premier Division last season, had been placed in a provisional 17-strong Division
Southampton MP John Denham today admitted the Government got its estimates wrong on the number of migrants who came to UK when eastern European countries joined the EU. Mr Denham said Southampton alone received as many migrants from eastern
Headlines • Traffic problems easing across the island • Cars being towed on to site • Hundreds slept in their cars overnight • Ferries made to wait in The Solent • Main car park was flooded leading to delays
ONE former Hampshire player has overtaken another as Cricket Australia’s best paid international star. The announcement of the contracted players list, which sees the total contracts trimmed from 25 to 17, has been delayed for over a month as the ACA
Click here to see pictures The Daily Echo's Lorelei Reddin, Shelly Fountain and Jenny Makin are tweeting their experiences of the Isle of Wight Festival 2012. Also be sure to check out the gallery of photos being taken there by Echo
ARSONISTS are believed to be behind a blaze at a Southampton pub early this morning. Firefighters were called to the now derelict Park Hotel Pub, in Shirley Road, Freemantle at 4.30am. Crews from both Redbridge and St Mary’s took two
A second car park is going to be opened to ease scenes of chaos outside the Isle of Wight festival- as 400 gridlocked motorists are still trying to get into the site. The chaotic scenes unfolded due to severe flooding at the festival site main
EX-SAINTS winger Theo Walcott insists the England players believe they can “beat anyone” as they prepare for Sunday’s European Championship quarter-final against Italy. The former St Mary’s star has proved instrumental in guiding Roy Hodgson’s side
FAMILIES living on the edge of the New Forest have hit out at the latest plans for a £300m power station on the opposite side of Southampton Water. Proposals to construct a biomass plant in the Western Docks came under fire at a public exhibition
Basingstoke & North Hants will be joining the Southern Electric Premier League next season. Clubs voted overwhelmingly at this week’s EGM to allow the long-established May’s Bounty Club to switch their two senior sides from the Thames Valley League
COUNCIL chiefs have issued an alert after a grieving family was targeted by online fraudsters. A New Forest solicitor raised the alarm when one of his clients received an e-mail from someone claiming to have been a friend of his mother, who had
POLICE are looking for arsonists that started a blaze in Fair Oak. Witnesses say they saw two youths start the fire in a tree in Witt Road, which then spread to an electricity pole. Eastleigh fire crews found the wire on the electricity pole
