She is a football mad little girl who will be cheering on her team at St Mary's this weekend. But three-year-old Manchester City fan Felicity Williams will have a team of Southampton surgeons to thank when she takes her seat in the crowd before
Chris Huhne's ex-wife insisted on having her fifth child, despite her husband demanding she have an abortion, a court heard today. Vicky Pryce said she was booked for a termination of her youngest child when she fell pregnant in 1992, but at the
ARE dog owners amongst the most inconsiderate and selfish members of society? When you consider the evidence, the answer is an overwhelming ‘yes’. The pavements around Wharf Hill in Winchester are littered with dog mess; clearly owners are
PHILIP Hawkins says that it’s interesting to learn there are no council elections being held in Southampton this year. Did he not know they are only held every two years? There is no extra year. We had council elections last year. The next ones
I would like to comment on my experience of the care my mother Irene has received over two years at Glen Lee care home. I have only praise for the caring and understanding treatment my mother received from the staff at Glen Lee who, despite very
FURTHER to your article on Glen Lee residential care home in Southampton, we were shocked and upset by your report. We have an elderly relative residing there and have never had any cause for concern over her care or safety. The staff do an
IN reply to Mrs B Brown “They should start listening to public” (Letters, February 4), I whole heartedly agree and believe that Southampton City Council leaders should read the Daily Echo and take into account what the people of the city want,
WHY am I not surprised that you are reporting that the new automated system on the Itchen Bridge is a shambles? What were our council thinking of by putting local people out of work in favour of an automated system? Shame on you. I would be interested
AFTER reading your story (Daily Echo, January 30), and months of frustration, I felt it was time to write to you to express how pathetic the new toll collecting machines are on the Itchen Bridge. Since their installation, a simple 20-minute trip
A woman was rushed to hospital with serious injuries this afternoon after colliding with a car in a Hampshire town. The resident, who is believed to be middle aged, suffered a fractured leg and serious head injuries in the incident, which were
A MULTI-NATIONAL storage firm has acquired a new base in Nursling. Titan Boxtainer Ltd, part of the Titan Containers group, has let an empty site in Nursling Industrial Estate. The land, which is owned by Tesco Stores Limited and lies adjacent
ASSOCIATED British Ports has recruited surveyors from Hampshire to fill vacancies in Southampton, the Humber and the North West. It was looking for high quality staff with a good knowledge of survey techniques and modern equipment. Leading
Roberto Mancini will be cheering Manchester United to Champions League success against Real Madrid next week - but only because it will give Manchester City more chance of retaining their Barclays Premier League title. The consolation from his
A MAN trapped on his boat after he collapsed had to be rescued by firefighters. They were called to the Haslar Marina, in Gosport, last night to help ambulance staff. The man, in his 50s, was said to be trapped in the bow of a vessel moored
STAFF at a popular Southampton fashion store have been left “stunned” after their shop closed without warning. Employees at West One, in the Marlands shopping centre, were given the news by company bosses in a shock meeting yesterday morning.
A woman had to be cut free from her car after an accident on a Hampshire road this afternoon. The 46-year-old, from West Wellow, was freed from her black BMW Coupe following the two-vehicle collision in Bursledon. The female driver was taken
With the road having been reopened, we will close the live blog. You can find a traditional-style story on the link below. Woman rushed to hospital after crash
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson fears the Premier League's new spending controls will be difficult to enforce. United were one of the driving forces behind the measures agreed yesterday, whereby clubs will not be permitted to rack up
DETECTIVES today renewed their appeal for information a week after robbers struck during a delivery of cash to a bank in a busy Hampshire high street. Raiders grabbed the money from a 64-year-old G4S security guard outside Lloyds Bank in the High
A MARVELLOUS gesture from David Beckham, announcing as he signs for French team Paris Saint-Germain, that he is to donate his £3.5m salary to a local children’s charity. I’m surmising that he wasn’t able to give some of it at least to a British
GOOD old Richard III. At least that, I think, is how we are supposed to see him now. News this week that old Dick’s bones had been dug up from beneath a car park in Leicester has led to a campaign to reappraise Shakespeare’s hunchbacked villain
"I CAME back to this country because I had nothing to hide." That's what murder accused Arben Lleshi told a jury as he repeated his denials that he played any part in the killing of drug dealer Agim Hoxha. Winchester Crown Court has heard how
HAMPSHIRE scientists have created artificial bone that could be used to heal shattered limbs. Researchers from the University of Southampton have used stem cells and a degradable plastic to create a rigid material that can be inserted into broken
Manchester City will check defender Vincent Kompany after training today before deciding whether he can feature at Saints tomorrow. Kompany has been sidelined by a calf injury that was expected to keep him out until after next week's FA Cup fifth-round
CONSERVATIVE Eastleigh by-election candidate Maria Hutchings has been walking the streets of the town as she launches her bid to become its next MP. The mother-of-four walked Market Street shaking hands with people and asking about their concerns
Reviewed On: Nintendo 3DS Available For: Vita, 360, PS3, Wii U, 3DS Publisher: SEGA Developer: Sumo Digital Genre: Racing Age: 7 (PEGI) Price: £23.99 Click here to see the trailer The super-sized version of SASRT
SPORTING stars dropped in to inspire Hampshire pupils in their fundraising bid. GB canoeist Jonathan Boyton and paracanoeist Jeanette Chippington visited Meonstoke Infant School, in Meonstoke, as part of a Sports 4 All UK event. They witnessed
THE chairman of Lymington Conservatives has been suspended days after she launched a stinging attack on her own constituency association, the Daily Echo understands. Lady Georgina Craufurd spoke out after party colleagues picked a New Milton councillor
At WestQuay Shopping Centre... CELEBRATE the Chinese New Year in Southampton on Sunday. There will be a martial arts display, live music, dancing and a traditional Lion dance performed by the Chinese Association of Southampton and Waterside
THEATRE Royal Winchester is delighted to welcome back jazz legend Courtney Pine to the stage tomorrow. The ground-breaking multi-instrumentalist will showcase work from his latest album House of Legends which recently won the Jazzwise Album of
BIRMINGHAM’S exponents of sun drenched hooklines, exuberant grooves and an ever growing array of pop classics, Swim Deep open their biggest headline tour to date in Southampton on Thursday. The band have been studio bound adding the final flourishes
RITA Ora came from nowhere to release three No 1 singles and a charttopping debut album and is in the running for the Brit Awards. Her first UK tour visits the south coast tonight. At the tail end of 2011, she appeared in the video for Hot Right
EMERGENCY gas works are to close a Hampshire road. Southern Gas Networks (SGN) are carrying out repairs in City Road eastbound from Andover Road to Hyde Street in Winchester. The road will be closed from tonight and will remain so throughout
A PLAY about a woman who is terminally ill and planning her own funeral may seem an odd choice of play to kick off the New Year. But the Chesil Theatre Company’s latest production Colder Than Here promises to be a very funny play. It tells
THE WHITE stuff could be back in Hampshire within days. The Met Office has issued a yellow alert for snow on Sunday and Monday for the county as temperatures struggle to reach above freezing. It comes as a result of a band of rain spreading
A HAMPSHIRE MP has backed plans to get microchips in all dogs after expressing her fears about the numbers of attacks on people. New regulations will introduced from April 2016 requiring all dogs to be registered with an authorised national commercial
TESCO’S controversial plans for an edge-of-town store in Hampshire have received a major boost. A study commissioned by the council said the proposals to build a 35,000 sq ft store on the Broadlands Estate would have no significant impact on the
The Pompey Supporters' Trust is pushing ahead with its attempt to buy Portsmouth after the Football League announced it will not consider a new offer from Keith Harris. Portsmouth's administrators PKF yesterday confirmed they were considering a
BILLED as Bridget Jones 30 years on, Pulling Faces comes to The Berry Theatre tonight. In the monologue play, Louise Jameson plays Joanne Taylor, a former TV Diva who is on the verge of her 55th birthday, seriously single, ‘hot-flushing’ and about
A PARTY set up to fight the Government’s changes to the health service is to field a candidate in the Eastleigh by-election. The National Health Action (NHA) party will announce its candidate today.. The NHA, formed by frontline healthcare
INTERNATIONAL superstar Tim Minchin will be taking the seat behind his piano for an amazing show in Hampshire on Wednesday. He’s also at Theatre Royal Winchester, but tickets are sold out. THE Sony and Perrier nominated John Shuttleworth ventures
DURING the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family and narrowly escapes to Paris, where she forges a new identity as a cinema owner. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad
Police are appealing for witnesses after two vans were broken into in Hampshire. The Mercedes Sprinter vans were parked when raiders forced their way in stealing n a large quantity of tools from each van estimated to be worth £5000. The offfences
FIREFIGHTERS spent more than an hour at Southampton's A&E department last night helping to cut a ring of a patient's finger. A crew from Redbridge were deployed to Southampton General Hospital after a plea from medics to help with a patient
2:24pm Pryce walking once again to the witness box and jurors have taken their seats. 2:17pm Court reconvenes after lunch. There will be a delay for legal submissions before
LURED to his death, hit on the head with a crowbar and his body removed inside a duvet with a plastic bag over his head. That’s what prosecutors say happened to Agim Hoxha in the hours before his charred remains were discovered inside his burnt-out
MOST music lovers of a lesser age than I will know the Hendrix take on Wild Thing or Wet Wet Wet’s Love Is All Around. Even the mention of that Four Weddings and a Funeral hit, which was virturally rammed down your throat on repeat for the 15 weeks
THEATRE bosses have just signed up two more exciting shows for The Mayflower. Dirty Dancing – The Classic Show on Stage, a smash hit last year, will return to Southampton in June 2014 as part of a new tour of the UK. Written by Eleanor Bergstein
FIRE crews were called to deal with a moped set alight on a Southampton green. A team from Hightown responded to a call from a member of the public who spotted the blaze in Smythe Road, Sholing, just before 7am, and had thrown a bucket of water
EMERGENCY work was carried out in Fareham last night when a large hole appeared in the ground. The hole – about 60ft wide and 15ft deep – appeared yesterday afternoon above a sewage pipe at Oxleys Coppice on Rowan Way, Titchfield, pulling in surrounding
IT’S a feast of folk. Miranda Sykes and Rex Preston, pictured, kick off a line-up of folk greats to grace Southampton this weekend. The duo, the third member of Show of Hands and one of the few female double bassists in England, plus a fine
Bosses at King John's House Museum plan to bottle up people's memories of Romsey jam factory for a special exhibition this spring. Staff are now appealing to anyone who has memories of the factory which stood in The Hundred and was destroyed by
ROMSEY and surrounding villages will benefit from a £160million package aimed at improving Hampshire's road and transport network. County highway chiefs are behind the cash injection and Romsey town centre is pencilled in for work to make it more
DEVELOPERS behind a planned 800-home new village near a Hampshire market town have admitted there is a problem with flooding at the former gravel pit site, it is claimed. Hampshire’s Romsey Extra division member Roy Perry claims this was confirmed
Former Australia fast bowler Brett Lee has demanded the naming of individuals as the country faces up to the magnitude of yesterday's revelations into widespread drug-use and match-fixing. A 12-month Australian Crime Commission (ACC) investigation
WITH ten wins and two draws from 13 league games at Testwood Park, AFC Totton’s home record is not far short of perfection. Now, with his seventh-placed side knocking on the door of the Evo-Stik Premier Division play-offs, manager Steve Riley wants
SAINTS face the daunting prospect this weekend of trying to score against the side with the second best away defensive record in the top four divisions. Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart has only conceded 10 goals in his 11 away Premier League
Mauricio Pochettino knows three of his countrymen stand between him and a first win as Saints boss tomorrow night. David Silva, Carlos Tevez and Sergio Aguero are all major players for Manchester City and the kind of attacking threats Saints will
Saints are facing a potential injury crisis ahead of the visit of Premier League champions Manchester City. Nathaniel Clyne, Luke Shaw and Gaston Ramirez are all touch and go to be ready for the prestige St Mary’s fixture against City’s £300m star-studded
HUNDREDS more police officers could be armed with Taser guns on the streets of Hampshire, the Daily Echo can reveal. The county’s new chief constable Andy Marsh said a review was under way that could see frontline officers in rural communities
THE Chief Constable has been in the job five days and has issued a series of pledges he hopes to keep while in his high profile new role. They are: I want the people who work for Hampshire Constabulary and the public to say I was visible
A TASER is described as a “less lethal” weapon used by police officers in situations where once a firearm may have been used to deal with a violent or lifethreatening situation. They can also be used to deal with people thought to be carrying a
HUNDREDS more police officers could be armed with Taser guns to respond to violence on the streets of Hampshire, the Daily Echo can reveal. The county’s new chief constable Andy Marsh said a review was under way that could see frontline police
WINCHESTER council chiefs have won a partial victory in the High Court in their battle to evict travellers from a showmen’s site near Micheldever. Deputy Judge Philip Mott QC ruled Carousel Park off Basingstoke Road is not open to Gypsies or travellers
HAMPSHIRE County Council’s budget has been unveiled with some big increases in spending. The Conservative-run council, which is up for election this May, is planning to dip into its £307m cash reserves to balance the budget over the next two years
A HAMPSHIRE teenager sacrificed her hair to help children undergoing cancer treatment. Suzie Douglas was all smiles when her head was shaved, knowing that her black locks will be used to make wigs for children who have lost their own hair.
MORE than 100 studio flats for students are to be created above a Southampton city centre bar and restaurant. Work has begun to convert the former offices above Que Pasa in Above Bar into apartments, with developers hoping the project will be finished
Tories were warned not to expect a direct boost in support from Chris Huhne's fall from grace as they unveiled their candidate for the Eastleigh by-election. Maria Hutchings, who failed to topple Huhne in 2010, will fight the seat again after a
The ex-wife of former Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne will continue giving evidence at her trial for perverting the course of justice today. Vicky Pryce yesterday claimed the disgraced politician bullied her into taking speeding points for him in 2003
Conservatives start the Eastleigh by-election campaign with a three-point lead over the Liberal Democrats, according to polling for former Tory treasurer Lord Ashcroft. The survey, conducted immediately after the resignation of disgraced former
