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  • Hants face battle to avoid Championship defeat

    Hampshire face a battle to avoid defeat on the final day of their LV County CHampionship match against Northants. Andrew Hall, the Northants captain, took three wickets in 16 balls as Hampshire collapsed from 249-7 to 276 all out in reply to the visitors

  • Forte joins Crawley on loan

    Saints forward Jonathan Forte has joined Crawley Town on loan. The 26-year-old has agreed a three-year deal with the League One side.

  • Furious Bologna deny Ramirez deal

    BOLOGNA insist they have not agreed a £12m deal to sell Gaston Ramirez to Saints. The 21-year-old has said he has agreed a deal to join Saints, but his Italian club, Bologna, are furious as they claim not to have accepted a fee, and are understood

  • McCarthy & Stone Triumphs with Pride

    McCarthy & Stone site manager, Dan Lampard, is celebrating after scooping a prestigious award for demonstrating outstanding levels of ‘Pride in the Job’. Having been selected from more than 13,000 entries, Dan was awarded the coveted accolade from

  • Listener petition to save the Day show

    OUTRAGED music fans across the south have launched a campaign to prevent popular Radio Solent presenter Roger Day being taken off the air. The former Radio Caroline DJ is due to be axed as part of a major cost-cutting drive by the BBC, which is

  • KP set for Hampshire return

    Kevin Pietersen will play his first game since being axed by England on Sunday - against Hampshire at West End. Having been left out of the squad for the final Test against South Africa, Pietersen will return to his former county for the top-of-the-table

  • Monster challenge fear

    In her letter (August 4) Sally Hurst raises the problem of withering leaves on oak trees and asked if anyone else has a similar condition. I, too, have that problem on my huge oak tree in my back garden. When the same thing happened two or three

  • Protecting lords

    DR Julian Lewis , MP for New Forest East, had published one of his letters in the Echo (August 4), as he wants to protect the present system of the House of Lords from Liberals! That is not democracy, it is protectionism. How on earth can

  • Roads need care by all

    IT IS great that Bradley Wiggins should highlight the safety of cycling on our streets. He is right to say that things are improving as more people cycle and that “there’s got to be a bit of give and take” so we all get along better whether driving

  • Vision for sensible second chamber?

    DESPITE many efforts over many years to reform the House of Lords, no consensus as to what to do has emerged. Certainly the present state of affairs is most unsatisfactory. Most members are politically appointed party hacks, political ‘has-beens

  • Neglect let nature take over

    JOHN Vetterlein is wrong to congratulate Southampton council over its alleged maintenance of the Old Cemetery (Letters, August 4). The flora and fauna have only flourished because of many decades of neglect by successive councils. My wife and

  • Buzz of excitement at community festival

    GET a buzz of excitement at a special free community festival in Southampton tomorrow. Ropewalk's Summer Buzz is being held at the Ropewalk Community Centre and Garden, Derby Road, Southampton, from 12pm to 3pm, featuring fun free and low-cost

  • Marathon fist fight is declared a draw

    BEHIND a pub in the north of Hampshire flows the river Blackwater, borderline between the county and its next door neighbour, Surrey. It was in a meadow here, on April 17, 1860, that was enacted the last great battle of the golden age of pugilism

  • Travelodge to offload two Hampshire hotels in rescue deal

    TWO Hampshire Travelodges are set to be offloaded by the budget hotel operator as it seeks to tackle a £700m debt mountain. As previously reported Travelodge, which has 18 sites in Hampshire, wants to walk away from 49 of its 505 hotels and write

  • Partnership could produce vital cycleway

    A LEADING New Forest organisation is being asked to donate enough land to enable a cycleway to be built between Totton and Marchwood . The Marchwood-based Barker-Mill Estates could play a vital role in the campaign to provide cyclists and pedestrians

  • Injured man on rail tracks

    A MAN suffered deep lacerations after he was found on live railway tracks in Hampshire last night. Train drivers reported seeing a man who was bleeding both sitting near and walking along the railway in Totton . British Transport Police officers

  • Horrific injuries in horse ripper attacks

    HAMPSHIRE horse owners have been warned to be on their guard after four animals were deliberately slashed. Staff at Victri Sports Horses in Lavey Lane, Titchfield , said they were shocked to find their horses had been cut. Three animals at

  • Saints making a statement with Ramirez deal

    Saints will make a major statement if they can finalise a deal for Uruguay international Gaston Ramirez. The 21-year-old Bologna star is on the verge of moving to St Mary’s, having revealed that a deal has been agreed in principle between the clubs

  • Rodwell could make City debut against Saints

    Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini will run the rule over Jack Rodwell in training before deciding the extent of the midfielder's potential involvement in the Barclays Premier League opener against Southampton at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.

  • Band members in hospital following viaduct crash

    Three members of a US punk rock band injured when their tour bus plunged down a viaduct remain in hospital. The band, Baroness, from Savannah, Georgia, were touring Britain and Europe when their bus crashed in heavy rain on Wednesday. A statement

  • Plan to pipe heating to city from incinerator

    AN AMBITIOUS green scheme to pipe cheap heat under Southampton Water and the River Test to homes and businesses has been unveiled by the city council leader. Councillor Richard Williams wants to turn the Marchwood incinerator into a 40-megawatt

  • McMahon relishing Eastleigh challenge

    NEW Eastleigh skipper Daryl McMahon will not be daunted by the huge weight of expectation piled on the Spitfires’ shoulders. The Stoneham Lane club have made no secret of their lofty ambitions, investing in 11 pedigree players this summer to

  • New look Sholing pleasing boss Diaper

    DAVE Diaper says Eastleigh loan man Cassius Newton “ticks all the boxes” to help Sholing make it fourth time lucky in their quest for Southern One South & West promotion. After missing out in the play-offs for a third season running, the Boatmen

  • Saints 'agree record fee for Ramirez'

    SAINTS have reportedly agreed a club record £12m deal for Uruguayan star winger Gaston Ramirez. The €15m move for the 21-year-old would smash Southampton's record fee - the £7m paid earlier in the summer for striker Jay Rodriguez - and represent

  • Fox after Wales revenge

    SAINTS defender Danny Fox is hoping to complete his international rehabilitation when Scotland travel to Wales in their World Cup qualifier in October. The 26-year-old Southampton left-back made his Scotland debut against the Welsh in a challenge

  • Adkins: We deserve our Premier place

    NIGEL ADKINS will remind his Saints players of one, vital message as they prepare to walk out to face champions Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday – you have earned the right to be here. With the majority of the first team having

  • Business gets grant to help refugees

    A LINGERIE business which provides vital training to help marginalised women and refugees learn workplace skills has benefitted from a £2,000 grant from the BAA Communities Trust, on behalf of Southampton Airport . Northam -based whomadeyourpants

  • Record breaking day at Cowes

    IT was a record breaking day as some of the biggest names in yachting raced around the Isle of Wight in a £10,000 charity bonanza. Giant trimaran Foncia stormed around the 55-mile Artemis Challenge course in just two hours 21 minutes, taking this

  • Alex jets in to bolster Stags squad

    AFC Totton have added Alex Baldacchino to their squad in time for tomorrow’s Evo-Stik Southern Premier kick-off at Frome Town. But the 21-year-old striker has signed on the understanding that he is not guaranteed a regular start in Steve Riley’

  • Pregnant cow put down after accident

    POLICE in the New Forest are investigating a hit-and-run accident in which a pregnant cow was seriously injured and had to be destroyed. The collision, which occurred on the B3055 Beaulieu to Brockenhurst road, involved a dark-coloured Citroen

  • University joins probe into tsunamis threat to UK

    A TEAM of Southampton experts is to study the threat to the UK posed by potentially-devastating tsunamis. Scientists and engineers from the University of Southampton are involved in the project led by the city-based National Oceanography Centre

  • Saints up against the clock

    SAINTS are facing a race against time to recruit new faces for their Premier League opener against Manchester City on Sunday. Nigel Adkins has been busy working on bringing in new transfer targets but with only four players signed so far this summer

  • Demand for full tests on impact of fluoride

    CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans to add fluoride to Hampshire tap water have called on the Government to end a “medical scandal” by fully testing the impact it has on health. Hampshire Against fluoridation wants the chemical to be treated as a medicine