IRC Class 0 1, Powerplay (Peter Cunningham) 2, Tonnerre De Breskens 3 (Vroon B.V. & Mr. P.W. Vroon) 3, Toe In The Water (Brian Thompson & Lloyd Hamilton) IRC Class 1 1, Antilope (Willem Wester) 2, Apollo 5 (Nigel Passmore) 3
CROWDS tonight flocked to a Hampshire village to welcome home Olympic gold medallist Dani King. The new queen of track cycling arrived in Hamble with her parents, Trevor and Lynn, to a champion’s welcome. Everyone from children to pensioners
More than 50 million people in the UK watched TV coverage of London 2012 - equivalent to 90% of the population. New figures show that 51.9 million people watched at least 15 minutes of the BBC's Olympic broadcasts during the fortnight-long sporting
2012 is the year for going for gold – and Linden Homes has got into the spirit of this by winning a Gold Award for the fourth year running at the annual RoSPA awards. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents only gives out the Gold Award to
I COULD not believe my eyes when I read Peter Baillie’s letter about Erskine Court. I have in my possession letters sent by Nick Cross, the council’s head of housing, to all the residents of Erskine Court when Peter Baillie was Cabinet member for
I WAS at the 1948 Olympics and saw the Dutch Fanny Blankers-Koen win her 100m race. She was considered too old at 30 and as a mother of two children to be capable. She went on to win the 80m hurdles beating a 20-year-old Briton. B. BRANSON
MAY I enquire if readers would prefer to pay say an extra 2 or 3p more in income tax in exchange for scrapping inheritance tax? In other words, your property including the home, collectables and savings are not again taxed after death. It will
IN response to the letter in the Daily Echo, August 4 (“Oak Trees in Distress” from Sally Hurst), we have a large oak tree at the back of our property, and like Sally have noticed the leaves are falling before they are fully open.
A HAMPSHIRE-based mapping agency is on track to raise thousands of pounds for a Southampton campaign. The Daily Echo-backed Red and White Appeal aims to raise £1.76m to build a dedicated unit at Southampton General Hospital for patients with
FOR decades, in the teeth of storms, gales and raging seas, it has stood guard on a lonely vigil but now the historic Nab Tower, the vital aid to navigation in the Solent, is to undergo a major upgrade. Perhaps not the most glamorous or elegant
A HAMPSHIRE furniture store has celebrated its 175th anniversary. Bradbeers, which has stores in Hedge End , New Milton and Romsey , was started in 1837 by Mr R S Smith, who opened a small drapery shop in Bernard Street, Southampton . In 1905
PRE-SEASON is now complete, but Saints themselves are not. Saturday night’s 4-0 friendly defeat to Udinese brought down the curtain on the summer preparations at St Mary’s. But, with less than a week remaining until the opening day visit to
A CHARITY that runs a respite centre in Hampshire says the south’s carers are risking their own health to look after their loved ones. National disability charity Vitalise, which runs the Netley Waterside House in Netley Abbey, says that six out
TRIBUTES have been paid to a former Southampton student, described as an “exceptional” Army officer, who was killed in Afghanistan. Lieutenant Andrew Chesterman, 26, from 3rd Battalion The Rifles, was shot by insurgents in the Nad-e Ali district
NIGEL Adkins confirmed Saints’ interest in Blackpool winger Matt Phillips – but insisted the club have not made an illegal approach for the player. Seasiders boss Ian Holloway claimed that a Premier League side had tapped up the 21-year-old, with
A WINCHESTER councillor is warning that the primary school crisis will worsen unless another new school is provided in the northern part of the city. Most local primary schools are operating close to capacity and several, such as St Bede and Weeke
REBEL councillors have called for a minireferendum on the future of a closurethreatened Southampton swimming pool – and have even offered to pay for it out of their own pockets. Labour city council representatives Keith Morrell and Don Thomas
A HAMPSHIRE hotel welcomed one of its most exotic guests as it joined the charge to be part of an unforgettable summer. The Holiday Inn Winchester has become the second business to be part of a rhino-shaped public art craze that will be sweeping
A BURGLAR was caught trying to climb through an open window in Botley. The occupant woke up and saw two men running away across his garden. It is thought the burglar had climbed up on to the conservatory to try to get into the house in Blossom
RAIL chiefs have rejected claims that plans to store containers beside a Hampshire rail route could cause a “disaster” on a neighbouring level crossing. Proposals to redevelop a former coal yard at Junction Road, Totton , have raised new fears
FINDING the right outfit can often get people in a flap, but it’s even tougher when you’re trying to pick up a new wetsuit for a penguin. Keepers at Marwell Wildlife are trying to find a new suit for Humboldt penguin Ralph to replace his current
A FAMILY jewellery shop has relocated within Eastleigh after a quarter of a century in its old premises. David Mellor Jewellers moved from the old location in the High Street to the new premises in the Swan Centre. The move has brought an extra
Sailors lining the decks of a Royal Navy warship as it returned to base have left a gap where a colleague who went missing during the deployment would normally have stood. Leading Seaman Timothy MacColl failed to return to HMS Westminster while
POLICE have released this new image of a man they are hunting, after a would-be robber held up a Southampton arcade. The closed-circuit TV image has been released after a man sneaked in through the back door of Slot Casino at Above Bar Street,
A UNIVERSITY facility which has worked with Formula 1 motorsport and the Great Britain Olympic cycling team wants to build a two-storey extension. Southampton University bosses want to add to The RJ Mitchell wind tunnel building at the Highfield
Click here to see the pictures We had a photographer at the Matterley Bowl in Winchester for the Boomtown Fair Music Festival 2012. Check out the pics! Click here to read about the event
AFTER a hard week at the garage, there is nothing mechanic Malcolm Brown likes better than sitting in a hide by the river Test waiting to snap a photo of a kingfisher. For many of us the most we ever see of one of these birds, which are protected
A SERVING soldier who represented the British Army as a footballer has been jailed after punching a man so hard it knocked him unconscious and left him with a fractured skull. Martin Keenan was told by a judge there was “absolutely no excuse” for
A WOULD-BE sex attacker tried to assault a woman in Gosport as she walked home from a night out. The 20-year-old had left the Clarence Tavern in Mumby Road at 1.15am yesterday when she was approached by the man. He tried to sexually assault
VOLUNTEERS are sought to take part in a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of loan sharks in Southampton . The specialist England Illegal Money Lending Team, working in partnership with Southampton City Council, is launching Bite Back Week
Click here to see the pictures Check out the pictures from Saints pre-season friendly against Italian side Udinese. Click here for match report
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has become the latest member of Roy Hodgson's England squad to pull out of Wednesday's friendly with Italy in Berne. The ex-Saints winger reported for duty this morning but, after picking up an ankle injury in Arsenal's
FOR the past two weeks, all eyes have been on them as they battled it out with the best in the world to show they can go higher, faster, stronger. But now the exhilarating action of the Olympics is over for another four years, the question is whether
A HAMPSHIRE man has been arrested after a bomb threat was made against mosques in Southampton. Police say they are satisfied that the threats were never credible and were just a hoax. The threat was made on Saturday night. Timothy Jon Bingham
IT’S NOT every day that you see two DJs playing on top of a police van. But the Police Rave Unit was by no means the most surreal sight at the sold-out Boomtown Festival. A giant mechanical spider, a spectacular night-time laser show and controlled
MUSIC lovers are to celebrate the life of Mr Joiners, five years after his death. Mint Burston, pictured, was responsible for turning The Joiners Arms from a backstreet Southampton pub into one of the most important venues on the UK gig circuit
WINCHESTER’S Rob Moore has “no idea” what he will do now following GB’s failure to medal in the London Olympics. The 31-year-old was part of the men’s squad that finished fourth after losing the bronze medal play-off game to Australia 3-1 at
THIS will be the final nail in the coffin. That is what one struggling shop owner is claiming about a Southampton supermarket giant’s plan to extend its opening hours just months after it arrived in the area. Sainsbury’s in Portswood initially
FRANNY Benali admits he is concerned at the lack of summer signings ahead of Saints’ first game back in the Premier League . Saints have added four players to their squad since the end of last season; Jay Rodriguez , Steve Davis, Nathaniel Clyne
A CRASH between two vans has forced the closure of a major Hampshire road causing traffic chaos for motorists this morning. The two vans collided on Mansbridge Road, close to the White Swan pub, just before 7.25am, blocking the carriageway in
HAMPSHIRE star Alex Danson ended the London 2012 Games with a personal honour as well as a bronze medal in the women’s hockey tournament. The Southampton -born striker, who started her career at Trojans, netted GB’s opening goal in their 3-1 bronze
Eastleigh let slip a two-goal lead to lose their final pre-season game 4-2 at home to a stronger than expected Reading XI on Saturday. The seven friendlies played by Ian Baird’s newly-built team have produced a whopping 29 goals – 15 for and
A TEACHING assistant may have to sell her home to pay back benefits she received fraudulently, the city crown court heard. Mother-of-two Helena Boyce wrongly claimed more than £27,300 in council tax benefit and income support. Boyce, 34, of
A MAN who made nuisance calls to the police had “too much time on his hands”, a court has been told. Jason Garrad admitted contacting Hampshire police up to seven times in a day – at one point talking to officers about his pet hamster. He already
TWO teenagers have been arrested in connection with a one-night spree of vandalism in a Hampshire town. A fire was started, garden ornaments were smashed, a bus stop was damaged and sheds were broken into across Eastleigh . In total,11 incidents
For the last 16 days the sport has been hard fought and serious, but last night it was party time in the Olympic Stadium as Britain said goodbye to London 2012. As the world bade farewell to London, the host city gave the concert of a lifetime
