A SOUTHAMPTON builder can look forward to more fun in the sun thanks to scooping the Find the Ball nearest miss prize. Steve Weakley, of Harbourne Gardens, Townhill Park, was over the moon to find out that he had won £2,250 for being the closest
Trent Copeland again shone with the ball as he took four wickets on the second day of Northamptonshire's LV= County Championship match against Hampshire at Wantage Road. After losing the toss and being made to bat by the Division Two leaders, Hampshire
A MOTORCYCLIST has died after he was in collision with a car in a rush-hour road smash. Police closed Shirley Road in both directions at the Paynes Road junction after the rider of a blue Kawasaki motorcycle was in a collision with a grey Vauxhall
The Friends of Riverside Park group who help look after the popular park in Southampton are holding their monthly litter pick on Saturday. The event runs from 10am to 12 noon.
GET this wrong in business and you lose out big time. Get it right and you’ll be in the running for the prestigious RSM Tenon Customer Service gong. Since the customer is always right, the winner must demonstrate genuine and innovative focus
An organist is needed to help entertain members of the Age Concern lunch club in Eastleigh on Thursdays from 12pm to 2pm. A free cooked meal is provided and expenses paid. Inquiries to 023 8090 2458.
IN THESE testing times for businesses, savvy use of technology can mean soaring to the top of the game. Using technology for competitive advantage and boosting customer satisfaction, as well as profits, is at the core of the criteria for the Best
Bransgore Rotary Club is preparing to stage its first-ever fun run. The event will be held at the recreation ground in Burley Road, Bransgore, on Sunday, with runners setting off at 11am and choosing to complete either a 5k or 10k course. Cash
Volunteer lifeboat crews were called out to rescue two walkers after they became cut off from the tide on the Isle of Wight. The couple were found in Luccombe and taken to safety aboard the Sandown and Shanklin Independent Lifeboat on Sunday afternoon
A FIGHTER who was set to take part in a Hardest Man tournament has pulled out of the competition. Trevor Soko from Eastleigh pulled out for reasons he did not want to disclose to the Daily Echo. The Muay Thai fighter was hotly tipped as one
JOINING forces, they work together to promote the Solent region as a great place to work, invest, study, live and enjoy. Business Solent’s 200-plus champions have teamed up as part of a mission to drive economic prosperity. Recognising the
IT would seem even the Americans have had enough of multinational companies failing to pay their dues. Their politicians are now gunning for, of all firms, Apple, because the Government maintains Apple have failed to pay the requisite taxes due
A SULPHUR plant should not be in the new docks at Southampton, it is too near homes. It should be at Fawley Power Station, at the south end of it, or at Fawley oil refinery. NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED.
PLEASE could someone explain to me why the cycle paths along Botley Road towards Whitenap seem out of bounds to some of our Lycra-clad lovelies. They insist on riding on the road, putting themselves and other road users at risk, holding up traffic
THREE men involved in a daring £1m cigarette raid on a warehouse in Southampton Docks will only have to pay a fraction of the money back – for now. The trio were members of a gang who drove a stolen lorry to the docks to collect a haul of 300,000
WHAT on earth is wrong with this Government? Their role is to govern the country, to solve its economic decline. First, it is ‘child minding’ – a purely domestic issue. Our mothers who managed much smaller household budgets, did not have problems
IT would appear that Richard Grant (Echo, Letters, May 22) sees something sinister in the fact that UKIP membership is not restricted to natives of Britain, so maybe it would make him happy if we took up the stance of BNP and allowed only white British
AS you will be aware, the traffic pollution levels in and around Lyndhurst are above those which the EU require. I am seeking the EU regulations through our local MP Dr Julian Lewis, to establish what can be done to reduce pollution to a safe level
Saints are understood to have received no approach from Benfica for Mauricio Pochettino, after a report emerged that the Portuguese side had offered him a deal to become their new coach. The future of Benfica’s current boss, Jorge Jesus, beyond
A GARDEN planted in memory of tragic teenager Jade Clark will be opened on Sunday – on what would have been her 17th birthday. The 16-year-old Ringwood Young Firefighter died in a road accident while riding her moped on the A31 near Ringwood in
HAMBLE Sea Scouts have received a financial boost. Co-operative members in the local area have given the Scout group a grant of £1,600 to replace their camping equipment. This came about through The Co-operative’s Community Fund, a pot of money
PATIENTS waiting in ambulance queues outside accident and emergency departments across the south have increased, according to the Labour Party. A Labour Freedom of Information (FoI) request submitted to ambulance trusts nationwide found there has
Police are investigating a spate of burglaries in a Hampshire village. Thieves have targeted three homes in Bransgore, including a Burley Road property occupied by a pensioner who was out celebrating her 80th birthday. The intruders fled empty-handed
A council has stepped in to help fund one of the south’s food banks after its reserves started to run low. The Isle of Wight Council and The Southern Co-operative are working in partnership to make a combined donation of £2,000 worth of food to
MANY people celebrate their 21st birthday by having a wild night out on the tiles. But one Southampton student will instead be whizzing around London on her bike to raise money for mental health charity MIND on June 8. Second-year mental health
THEY ARE incidents that “should not” happen in a safe hospital – but two have taken place at Southampton General since the beginning of the year. One of the so-called ‘Never Events’ saw a swab left inside the leg wound of a patient for two days
THE head of a Hampshire business has been shortlisted for two awards. Paul Fox, who is managing director of Romsey-based asbestos removal company Merryhill Envirotec, is in line to win the Institute of Directors’ director of the year for small
A RETIRED couple from the Isle of Wight are celebrating a national lottery windfall. The couple from Ventnor scooped a £115,486 windfall from numbers that came up in the Lotto Draw earlier this month on May 18. The pair were enjoying a Scottish
MORE than 2,000 offences were committed in just 12 months by prisoners leaving Hampshire jails after short sentences, new figures have revealed. Around two-thirds of inmates released from Winchester and Isle of Wight prisons – after less than one
A HAMPSHIRE accountancy firm says its practice is strengthened by a new addition to their board. Langdowns DFK have added new blood to their organisation with the appointment of Ross Garfitt to a main board director and shareholder. Mr Garfitt
THEY are the villains who masterminded high-end drug dealing or unleashed brutal violence to try to control the market in Southampton. Today 22 men are behind bars serving sentences that total 112 years for their roles peddling drugs on the city
Former slaughterhouse worker Mark Bridger has been found guilty of abducting and murdering schoolgirl April Jones. April vanished while playing on her bike near her home in Machynlleth, mid-Wales, on October 1 last year and her body has never been
A WINCHESTER estate agent is celebrating a successful year back in the commercial property market. Carter Jonas completed a number of deals including finding a base for a language school in Southgate Street and helping Moss Bros move to a larger
Police at Southampton are appealing for witnesses to an assault that left a man with a bleed on the brain. At about 1.15am Sunday, May 19, a 29-year-old man was assaulted outside of Pizza GoGo in Bedford Place, Southampton. Detectives particularly
TEENAGERS will take to the stage as part of a music festival for young people. The first ever Teenage Kicks Festival in Southampton takes place today at The Cellar, from 6pm to 11pm. Twelve acts and five DJs are expected to take part. This
FAREHAM MP Mark Hoban will be among those pressing businesses for better health and safety at work. Around £8.7m is paid out by businesses to meet the costs of people made ill or injured at work and in light of that Mr Hoban, pictured, aims to
ONE of Britain’s largest electrical retailers will pull the plug on its huge distribution centre in Totton within six months. Retail giant Dixons yesterday confirmed it will close its Currys depot in Testwood Park, Salisbury Road, this autumn.
THERE’S a new man at the helm of the Southern Daily Echo and Hampshire Chronicle advertising departments. Steven Lucy has joined the papers as regional advertisement manager from our sister publication, The Dorset Echo. Steven began his career
WITH its imposing and luxurious cream frontage and ornate flourishes it’s been part of a Southampton streetscape for more than 100 years. Yet for the past four years the future of one of Hampshire’s oldest cinema buildings has been unclear.
THESE are the faces of people suspected of stealing £10,000 from a woman in a Hampshire car park. Police released these CCTV images after the distraction theft in The Brooks Shopping Centre car park in Winchester, between 1.40pm and 1.50pm on Wednesday
THREE Hampshire cricket clubs are having their accounts investigated by the taxman. The news comes as Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) launches a new crackdown on perks to professionals and payments to ground staff. Tax inspectors are
CREWS battled it out in a test of strength and determination at a Hampshire naval base. Two field gun teams from HMS Collingwood competed for the 12-Pounder Cup at the Fareham establishment yesterday as a precursor to the base’s annual open day
I WAS the peacemaker.” That was the claim by one of the three defendants accused of taking part in the horrific Southampton flat murder of Jamie Dack. Andrew Dwyer-Skeats told the jury of eight women and four men how he had applied a tourniquet
IT WAS a rare film that captured the atmosphere of Southampton’s 1960s music scene. But Concorde Club boss Cole Mathieson had almost given up hope of ever finding the footage of a rhythm and blues session led by a band which became one of the super-groups
A supermarket worker in Hampshire who was suspended for wearing a Help for Heroes bracelet and a poppy pin badge in tribute to Drummer Lee Rigby has been allowed back to work. Adam Austin was disciplined by bosses at the Morrisons store in Portsmouth
THE brutal killing of Drummer Lee Rigby cannot be used a springboard for more attacks and reprisals. That was the message of a mum who led a group of 15 to Romsey’s war memorial to lay flowers in memory of Drummer Rigby. Julie Burman, 48, said
Police have issued an appeal to find a Southampton man after a teenage boy was the victim of an alleged robbery in the city. Officers want to track down Conner Halford, who is wanted after failing to appear in court in Southampton on a robbery
A LEADING Southampton consultant has reassured patients following research that showed those who undergo surgery at the weekend are more likely to die. Tim Underwood, an oesophageal and gastric cancer surgeon at Southampton General Hospital, has
The Daily Echo brings you a round-up of the transfer rumours and managerial gossip doing the rounds in today's newspapers... Saints are lining up a £4m bid for Brighton winger Will Buckley. The 24-year-old was a star performer for the Seagulls
DIY chain B&Q saw spring sales of outdoor seasonal products plunge by more than 10% as the retailer was hit hard by the prolonged cold spell. The Hampshire based firm, said takings on building products were also down in the quarter to May 4
Police are hunting a gang after a man was attacked in an alley during an attempted robbery in Hampshire. It happened when a 19-year-old man was walking in an alley between houses in the area of The Links off Rowner Lane in Bridgemary, Gosport.
AFTER a one-year break, Ejector Seat returns to Southampton’s Palmerston Park on Saturday, June 8 to kick start the 2013 festival season in style. Gracing the stageas this year’sheadliner is East India Youth aka William Doyle, a London based electro
AROUND £16,000 was raised at the Geoff Smith Foundation’s annual golf day and gala dinner. The charity, which helps to provide support for sufferers of multiple sclerosis, has now hosted the event for 16 years. A total of 22 teams competed
ROMSEY Town look like being spared relegation from the Sydenhams Premier Division. All looked lost for the Bypass Ground club when they finished rock bottom of the Wessex top flight with just 22 points and an horrendous goal difference of minus
Police have today named a teenager killed in a road crash in Hampshire. Luke Pitt died after the car he was driving hit a tree on the A323 Fleet Road between Fleet and Aldershot during the early hours of Saturday. The 18-year-old, of the Lea
Tributes have been paid to Saints legend Ron Davies. The former Dell striker passed away in hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, last Friday, a day short of his 71st birthday. Davies was born in the Welsh town of Holywell and got his first
Police today stepped up a manhunt after a teenager had a knife held against her neck during a terrifying attack at a party. Serial offender Michael Easy, who has a history of attacking women, is wanted by officers in Hampshire after the alleged
Nick Clegg has invoked ''disciplinary procedures'' against a Liberal Democrat Hampshire MP accused of sexual assault in a High Court civil action. Mike Hancock is being sued by a ''vulnerable'' constituent, accusing him of sexual assault after
A new £27 million museum is to open in Hampshire tomorrow which will bring together the wreck of the Mary Rose with thousands of its artefacts for the first time since they were lifted from the seabed more than 30 years ago. The ''jewellery box
ELECTRICAL equipment has been stolen from a vehicle. A yellow and black wacker plate, worth £700, an orange and black Husqvarna disk cutter, worth £600, a Stihl chainsaw and Logic lazer level were taken from a Ford Transit Tipper in Beaver Drive
Saints have lost one of their greatest ever centre forwards, according to Ron Davies’ former teammate and fellow club legend Terry Paine. The duo were part of a devastating combination in attack, with flying winger Paine and his partner on the
The clock is counting down to the biggest ever challenge in the careers of two of Hampshire’s rising stars of solo sailing. In just 72 hours Ed Hill and Jack Bouttell will each set sail alone in 32ft yachts with more than 2,000 miles of gruelling
A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after a vehicle was said to have hit a barrier on the M27. Police were called by a member of the public who reported seeing a Mercedes Benz Sprinter van collide with a barrier near junction
SOUTHAMPTON is to get a slice of a £1.8 million lottery windfall to help the city’s most vulnerable people. The share of the cash from the Big Lottery Fund will help hundreds of homeless people, asylum seekers, migrants and victims of people trafficking
MORE than 2,000 offences were committed in just 12 months by prisoners leaving Hampshire jails after short sentences, new figures have revealed. Around two-thirds of inmates released from Winchester and Isle of Wight prisons – after less than one
