A HAMPSHIRE sports facility has been broken into. The break-in triggered the alarm at Fleming Park Bowling Club in Passfield Avenue, Eastleigh at around 2.30am yesterday. Police say they do not yet know if anything was stolen. Any witnesses
Arsenal are expected to formalise the loan signing of Real Madrid midfielder Nuri Sahin once Alex Song's move to Barcelona is complete. Cameroon international Song, 24, today passed his medical at the Nou Camp in a £15million deal which should
Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins today confirmed the club have had a bid accepted for Celtic midfielder Ki Sung-yueng. The Hoops confirmed earlier today the South Korea international was not travelling with the squad for their Champions League play-off
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has admitted he would be sorry if Adam Johnson decides to quit the club. Despite starting England's midweek win over Italy, Johnson did not even make the bench for City's 3-2 comeback triumph against Southampton
Click here for more screenshots Reviewed On: Xbox 360 Available For: PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 Publisher: THQ Developer: Vigil Games Genre: Third-Person Action Age: 18 (PEGI) Trying to give a full flavour of a game this large
A HAMPSHIRE man pleaded guilty today to raping three young children he had drugged and who were also forced to sexually abuse each other while he watched. Darren Mackrell, 45, subjected the two boys and a girl, all aged under 10, to a six-hour
I FEEL I cannot let this occasion go by without paying tribute to some young people led by 17-year-old Ryan Bishop who devised and produced such a wonderful show at Otterbourne Village Hall called A Celebration of Music. The money raised is going
CYCLISTS need helmets and bells and lights. I am amazed by intelligent people who say not. Any bare-headed cyclists in the Olympics ? I agree that cyclists should be given a wide space when overtaking, but as a powered vehicle on the road
LAST month at the full Southampton council meeting I proposed a referendum for the Millbrook and Freemantle wards so residents can express their views as to whether they are for or against the plans of Helius to build a biomass power station in the
SOME of your readers may have picked up a glaring inconsistency in the argument put forward by Dr Julian Lewis (Letters August 3). Our local MP thinks that it is fine for the law makers in the House of Lords to be unelected, on the basis that some
IN February 1998, as Mayor of Gosport , I was asked to receive in the Mayor’s Parlour someone who had trained with Stokes Bay sailing Club on The Solent and had won a silver medal for sailing at the Atlanta Olympics . The unassuming 20-year-old
THERE were thrills and spills aplenty during a wet and wild Great Waterside Raft Race. Teams splashed and paddled their way frantically around a course as they battled it out for supremacy on the water during the colourful annual contest. Around
Follow @EchoPics Click here to see images Are you at an event this weekend? If yes, our photographer may have even taken your picture. Included in the gallery are pictures from The Waterside Raft Race, Motocross Grand Prix, Pavilion
THE pensioner found murdered in her Southampton flat has been named by police. Delia Hughes was found in her home in Atlantic Close, Ocean Village on Saturday. A man aged 37 and a 29-year-old woman, both from Southampton, have been arrested
A LINGERING mystery from Victorian Southampton is the strange case of William Cantelo, inventor of a quickfiring gun, who mastered another skill, that of vanishing without trace and then re-appearing as someone else. This stranger than fiction
A Hampshire teenager has paddled into the history books – by being the youngest person to ever row across the English Channel. Harry Uglow, 15, from Botley, completed the 25.5 mile challenge in four-and-a-half hours. He battled fog and five
Southampton -based Princess Cruises’ newest ship Royal Princess has been “floated out” in traditional ceremony from her dry dock at the Fincantieri shipyard in Italy. Princess president and CEO Alan Buckelew and Royal Princess captain Tony Draper
A HAMPSHIRE choir is preparing to share a stage with Brit Award-winning vocal quartet Blake. It follows a nationwide search of the UK for local choirs to perform with the group during their Love Lifts Us Up UK tour. Successfully chosen, the
THIS is a production that emphasises the drama and power of the underlying story as much as the musical numbers, and director Julie Edwards has drawn out some excellent performances. The impressive set, designed by Dave Francis, which placed the
FOR the past year it has been the new kid on the Hampshire arts scene block. The Berry theatre has been drawing audiences to its stateof- the-art venue with its mix of drama, light entertainment, children’s shows and comedy since it opened in
COMEDIAN ANDY Hamilton, above, returns to the Hampshire stage this autumn with his hugely popular show Hat Of Doom. Due to illness, Andy was forced to postpone part of his spring tour but, determined not to let his fans down, he is now taking his
A 29-year-old woman has been arrested this morning on suspicion of murder and is currently in police custody where she is being questioned by detectives. The arrested follows the death of a woman in her 80s who was found at her home address in
A petrol station has been given the goahead to sell booze – despite fears over vandalism and under-aged drinking. Dozens of residents, including about 30 from the same road, signed a petition in a bid to block moves to stock alcohol at Chickenhall
PART of Fawley refinery was cordoned off today following reports of a suspicious package. Members of Hampshire Constabulary flocked to the scene, setting up a zone around the package while it was investigated. The conference centre at the site
A DISABLED woman has been left outraged after being banned from a city casino – because staff apparently thought she was drunk. Marian Brook was spending a night with friends in the Genting Club in Terminus Terrace when she suffered a severe attack
ROMSEY interior fit out experts Spaceway have helped the UK’s biggest online cycling retailer expand its operations in Hampshire. Spaceway won a £500,000 project to design and fit out a new warehouse, office and bulk pallet storage facility for
Eastleigh travelled to Boreham Wood as 4/1 favourites for the Blue Square Bet South title – and came home licking their wounds after a painful 3-0 defeat. After splashing out thousands this summer in pursuit of promotion, the Spitfires were once
A DEPRAVED Scout leader who tied up a young boy for sick photographs and made another perform perverted sex acts to indulge his fetish for socks has been jailed. A judge branded Earl Adams, who admits getting sexual kicks from boys’ grey socks
Click here to see the pictures Check out the pictures from Saints first game of the season against Manchester City. Click here for match report
POLICE have released an efit of a man wanted following the attempted abduction of a child in a city park. As previously reported by the Daily Echo , a three-year-old girl was the subject of a snatching attempt in Riverside Park in the Bitterne
So earlier in the year I received an email that officially confirmed that I would be carrying the Olympic flame in July. I was over the moon it was a dream come true. I don’t ask for recognition for what I do but to get this was something
A Fordingbridge man stole £800 from his grandmother. Daniel James Brindley, 21, from High Street, admitted to stealing cheques for £450 and £350 from his grandmother and defrauding her on two occasions. He was sentenced to a 12- month community
THIEVES have stolen a bird of prey from a home in Bishopstoke . The two-year-old Harris hawk was taken from an aviary in Guest Road. Neighbours spotted two men breaking into the garden, before a group of four walked away from the home.
A POLICE crackdown on drug peddlers and related violence in Hampshire has seen more than 60 people arrested since its launch three months ago. The Operation Fortress campaign – a Daily Echo backed two-year drive to reduce the supply of and demand
A NEW stage adaptation of one of Charles Dickens’ best-loved novels is coming to The Mayflower this autumn. The national tour of Great Expectations forms part of a celebration of the famous writer’s life and work throughout 2012, to mark the bicentenary
Nigel Adkins was full of praise for academy star James Ward-Prowse after he made his first league appearance for Saints in the most incredible of circumstances. The 17-year-old, whose only previous experience had come in two cup matches last
Kelvin Davis revealed that Saints’ visit to Manchester City opened the team’s eyes to the demands and sheer speed of Premier League football. Nigel Adkins ’ side nearly stunned the defending champions in a thrilling contest at the Etihad Stadium
POLICE last night confirmed the man they were questioning was not escaped convict Ricardo Pisano, who is the prime suspect in a Brighton murder and is known to have been in Southampton . The 35-year-old was last seen captured on CCTV in The Marlands
THERE were thrills and spills aplenty during a wet and wild Great Waterside Raft Race. Teams splashed and paddled their way frantically around a course as they battled it out for supremacy on the water during the colourful annual contest. Around
Saints are confident of more signings before the close of the transfer window. The club have been chasing the signatures of Matt Phillips and Gaston Ramirez, and continue to trail centre halves. The latest coming out of Italy on the Ramirez
A pensioner murdered in her Southampton waterfront home was killed by a blow to the head, it has been revealed. Police were called to the scene following a frantic 999 call at 7.55pm on Saturday and the area surrounding the pensioner’s home in
SOUTHAMPTON'S mayor has labelled a city university's decision to digitally alter a photograph of a female student in its prospectus to please foreign students as “an embarrassing blunder”. Derek Burke was speaking out after the Daily Echo revealed
