Southampton hockey star Alex Danson has won a bronze medal as part of Great Britain's Olympic women's hockey squad. Team GB cruised past New Zealand 3-1 this afternoon in the Riverbank Arena to secure third place, easing some of the pain they endured
THE search for a rare breed dog that is thought to have been stolen from its Hampshire home has gone nationwide. Dog wardens from around the country have been contacted in the hunt for Frankie, the Kerry Blue terrier pictured, who went missing
SAINTS have one last opportunity to sharpen themselves up for the Premier League season when they host Udinese tomorrow night. The Italian side, who will feature in this year’s Champions League, promise to provide the sort of stern test that Nigel
TIME travellers step this way! Southampton is about to journey back through the centuries to Tudor times. The lilting tune of Greensleeves, Henry VIII and his six wives, the English reformation, and the tragic tale of Lady Jane Grey all combined
NEW cash to boost a Hampshire town will be concentrated on helping independent traders, a council boss has promised. Fareham Borough Council has pledged £100,000 to improving the town centre – matching another £100,000 grant given by the Government
Portsmouth have avoided the threat of liquidation and their administrators are now trying to push through the sale of the club. Trevor Birch of administrators PKF had said all the club's senior players had to be off the payroll by today or he would
At The Mayflower… Have you ever wanted to find out what it would be like to stand on the Mayflower’s stage, or get up close to the beautiful stage costumes? Well now is your chance, as part of the Mayflower’s 25th Anniversary celebrations this year
OZZY Osbourne guitarist Gus G and his band Firewind stop at The Talking Heads on September 14, before heading out on a three-week tour of Europe. A renowned musician, Gus has spent the past three years touring the world as Ozzy’s right hand man
THEY performed the first ever jazz concert in Albania in a marble pyramid. That was in 2000 and 12 years on top pianist Craig Milverton and ace clarinettist Julian Marc Stringle will be in a more traditional jazz setting when they headline an international
A MARRIED, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her. It’s family politics from a
HUNDREDS of hopeful dancers donning stars, stripes and Union Jacks hit the dance floor in Portsmouth to battle it out at The South Coast Street Dance Championships. Eleven schools from across Hampshire and beyond battled it out at The Mountbatten
GREASE is back at Bournemouth’s Pavilion for a six night run from Monday. Following its electrifyin’ four year London run, the hit West End show began a new tour last spring which is continuing like Greased Lightnin’ across the UK in 2012.
THE classic tale of Oliver Twist is brought to life by RAODS Youth theatre next week. Lionel Bart’s version of the Charles Dickens story has been around since 1960 and was made world famous by the 1968 film. Food Glorious Food, I’d Do Anything
THOUGHTS have been on little else than the wonderful spectacle of the spell-binding Olympic Games for the last fortnight. But now it’s becoming the guessing games as we await what I’m sure will be the greatest after party in the world. The
DUBBED the UK’s maddest fair, BoomTown has unleashed its mayhem on the Hampshire countryside. The sold out festival, at Matterley Estate near Winchester , has attracted the likes of Reel Big Fish, Caravan Palace, Alborosie, Beenie Man and Tanya
LITTLE Anthony Smith has always been a hero in the eyes of his dad. Kevin Smith is full of admiration for the way his four-year-old has coped with a rare genetic disorder that has severely affected his hearing. But the schoolboy is now officially
Gareth Barry and Micah Richards have both been ruled out of Manchester City's Community Shield encounter with Chelsea at Villa Park on Sunday. Barry has failed to recover from the abdominal complaint that kept him out of Euro 2012, whilst Richards
A 90-year-old retired doctor with failing eyesight and confusion who ploughed into a car head-on and killed a man while driving on the wrong side of a dual carriageway in Hampshire has been given a nine-month suspended sentence. Dr Turner Waddell
A POPULAR cemetery caretaker faced with eviction has been backed by ward councillors in his bid to stay in his home. Jim Emery, 60, faces the loss of his four-bedroom home at Hollybrook Cemetery after Southampton City Council axed his job of
I READ the interesting “In my View” article “Fluoridation at any cost?” on July 12. I agree that it’s madness to add to tap water chemical that must be avoided by some sections of the community. We are now told that babies’ milk feeds should
I TOTALLY agree with Councillor Brian Lewis about raising the fine to £45 for cycling on the pavement – but I would suggest £145. You have got to deter the people, who persist in this dangerous, inconsiderate and irresponsible practice but the
BEFORE Dr Bindo Gopinathan Nair gets any more involved in a tendentious anti-smoking campaign (picture and report, July 28) she needs to be reminded that the health risks arising from branded cigarette packaging are far smaller than going into hospital
FEW cannot have viewed on TV some horrific reports regarding abuse or neglect within the NHS. Hardly a month seems to pass without a sorry tale of people, particularly the elderly, allegedly being poorly treated. However, as a 65-year-old recovering
LIBERAL Democrat letter-writer Richard Grant (Letters, August 3) wants to ban car use on Sundays and restrict shop hours. And, he would like to see a four-day working week, which would be great for the country’s GDP at a time we are basically bust
THEY’VE hit the jackpot! Two lucky Daily Echo readers are celebrating today after winning a share of a £29,000 prize. Mr M Coxon and Mrs P Legg scooped £14,500 each in our weekly Find the Ball competition after both correctly guessing the location
Flybe shares nose dived as much as 15 per cent this morning after it issued a profits warning and revealed its planes are flying from the UK less than two-thirds full. Southampton Airport ’s largest carrier said economic challenges at home and
MEMBERS of a Southampton community fear that a cat-killer could be on the loose after four family pets were mysteriously poisoned in the same street. Two of the moggies eventually had to be put down by vets after the poison caused acute kidney
JACK Cork’s absence through injury could mean a first Saints start for Steven Davis tomorrow. Nigel Adkins has revealed Cork faces a spell on the sidelines after damaging his ankle in Tuesday’s 1-1 draw at Bristol City, meaning he is likely to
DEVELOPERS have submitted plans to build a new “landmark” office block at the former NXP site in Southampton that will create 300 jobs. Canmoor Developments said the modern three-storey office block will become a new “landmark gateway” at the entrance
The Isle of Wight’s Richard Jefferies successfully negotiated his heat in the men's 200m single canoe this morning on Eton Dorney Lakee. The Bembridge man finished third behind Russia's Ivan Shtyl and Germany's Sebastian Brendel. Ed McKeever
Portsmouth will not go into liquidation today after Liam Lawrence, the last remaining senior player on the books at Fratton Park, agreed to leave the club. Midfielder Lawrence has reached a compromise agreement with Pompey 's administrators, paving
UNION members have today thrown their financial muscle behind a campaign to save a council pool ahead of a public meeting tonight on its future. Oaklands Swimming Pool in Southampton has been shut since May putting 33 jobs at risk. The Labour
Should have known the BBC couldn't keep it up. After a magnificent Games for the broadcaster, they have now been ordered from on high to stop being so patriotic. A memo from the Director General no less, Mark Thompson, has demanded news
Even in death it seems, we cannot escape the cuts. Yesterday the Daily Echo reported how Southampton City Council is making redundant Jim Emery who has been caretaker of the Hollybrook Cemetery for the last 26-years. In that time he has helped
AFC Totton plan to take another look at striker Alex Baldacchino in tomorrow’s final pre-season friendly at Fleet Town. The Havant & Waterlooville striker scored the only goal of the game for the Stags at Wimborne last Saturday and then featured
WINCHESTER’S Rob Moore was on target for GB last night in their Olympic men’s hockey semi-final against the Netherlands. But there was no happy ending as it was merely a consolation as Moore and co were embarrassingly outclassed 9-2 by the Dutch
Nigel Adkins has assured Saints fans he will bring in more new faces before the transfer window closes. With the start of the Premier League season looming, there have been just four new arrivals this summer. While Adkins is delighted with
Wolves are fighting to hang on to Matt Jarvis after rejecting a £9million bid from West Ham. On Wednesday the club confirmed Steven Fletcher had handed in a transfer request on the back of a number of offers rejected by Wolves for the Scotland
EASTLEIGH’S last big summer signing Mark Hughes is almost certain to miss the start of the Blue Square Bet South campaign at Boreham Wood tomorrow week. The former Barnet skipper has his foot in plaster after falling victim to a bad challenge in
PETE Waterfield will tonight start what will almost certainly be his final chance of Olympic glory. The 31-year-old Southampton-based star is back at the Acquatics Centre competing in the men’s 10m platform individual preliminaries. Should
HAMPSHIRE’S Alex Danson is adamant Britain’s women’s hockey team will not be leaving London 2012 without a medal – despite their crushing semi-final defeat on Wednesday night. Victory against the reigning world champions Argentina would have guaranteed
No prizes for guessing what the tone of the questions might be at the pre-match press conferences when Roy Hodgson’s England team meet up to play Italy in Bern in a friendly next week. What can England learn from the Olympics ? Manager Roy
LAST night Hampshire’s emergency services were involved in a search for a 12-year-old boy that has been reported missing. But the search in Warsash, which involved the Coastguard and Hampshire Search and Rescue, was called off this morning when
DOCTORS in Southampton have discovered a child’s risk of developing an allergic disease is doubled if a parent of the same sex has suffered from it. Professor Hasan Arshad, a consultant in allergy and immunology at Southampton General Hospital
POLICE are investigating a security hoax after a bogus safety warning was issued to a university. Staff at the University of Winchester said they received a warning claiming to be from Hampshire police that a potentially dangerous person was
MORE than 1,000 people have signed a petition calling for the New Forest ’s busiest road to be made safer following a spate of crashes. Highway chiefs are being urged to tackle the “appalling” accident rate on the A31 by imposing a 50mph speed
