Saints lost their penultimate game of pre-season on penalties after playing out a goalless draw with Celta Vigo. Both sides hit the bar during a match of very few chances and the game went straight to spot kicks at the end of 90 minutes. Saints
A HAMPSHIRE pub has gone from being empty and unwanted to an award winner - in just 18 months. The Rockstone pub in Bevois Valley, Southampton, has beaten off competition from hundreds of other entries to scoop the Best Cask Beer Pub in the Great
A FORMER project manager died at home as a result of a head injury, an inquest heard. The exact date that Colin Macleod fractured his skull could not be established, but he was found unconscious on the floor of his home in Goldfinch Way, South
A COUNCIL leader has been criticised for tweeting during a council meeting. Cllr John Cadwell (Cons, Hiltingbury East) brought up the issue at a full Eastleigh Borough Council meeting, saying that on a previous occasion leader of the council Cllr
THE world’s biggest regatta is underway. The annual Cowes Week, which starts today, has seen thousands of spectators and hundreds of sailing vessels descend on the Isle of Wight. Boats and their crews have travelled from across the world to
VANDALS are being blamed for the collapse of a heavily-used bridge over a Hampshire waterway. The crossing on the north east side of the Itchen Navigation Canal near Bishopstoke has been described as “dangerous” after it fell into the weir.
THE Daily Echo can today reveal why Southampton didn’t bid to stage one of the world’s most famous sailing events. A Freedom of Information request by the Echo has discovered the city council snubbed the chance to host the latest edition of the
A “GROUNDBREAKING” deal between Hampshire Police and telecoms giant BT could save millions of pounds of public money. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Hayes, pictured, has signed the £37.4million deal alongside chiefs
A RUNAWAY lorry which left a trail of destruction when it rolled down a hill was among a fleet of vehicles previously suspected of mechanical faults, the Daily Echo can reveal. An investigation is under way after the articulated truck – belonging
A NEW Forest restaurant has had its opening hours cut back following allegations of late night fighting, heavy drinking and drug taking. The Siam Thai Lounge in Lyndhurst has been forced to close at 11.30pm rather than 12.30pm. In the future alcohol
A WOMAN is standing by her boyfriend even though he viciously attacked her in a late-night drunken row witnessed by passing motorists on a Hampshire road. Hannah Cove sat in the public gallery at Winchester Crown Court as a judge heard details
A WOMAN has appealed to council bosses to let her stay in the home she has left only once in 20 years. Sandra Shaw who suffers from agoraphobia, claims she is being thrown out of her house because city chiefs want to give it to a family on its
A HAMPSHIRE soldier has been handed an historic military honour after being named the top student at his regiment. Stephan Harris, from Bishopstoke, has been presented with a 90-year-old silver stick to reward him for his hard work at the King’
A HAMPSHIRE man dubbed the Naked Rambler has failed in a bid to challenge his latest jail sentence. Stephen Gough gained notoriety after walking naked from Land’s End to John o’Groats ten years ago – and has since been handed prison sentences totalling
ROCK music may not be the first thing that comes to mind for the idyllic Hampshire village of Wickham. But the Wickham festival has seen music lovers descend in their thousands to see the likes of Dexys, 10CC and The South. Crowds soaked up
A BLAZE ripped through a Hampshire farming building overnight. Five fire engines were called to the hay building at a farm in River Lane, near Fareham at 6.48pm. It took the crews more than six hours to extinguish the fire, which gutted the
FOUR young people were cut from a car after an accident in the early hours of the morning. The car crashed on the Hythe by-pass near to Dibden Purlieu in the New Forest at about 1.53am. Four people - two men and two women who are all in their
YOUNG potters aged eight to 17 received their trophies at the Eastleigh & District Junior Leagues presentation. Above are the under-18s and, left, the under-13s. New players wanting to join League 44, which takes place at Chandler’s Ford
AFC TOTTON’S interim executive committee has been sliced in half for what acting chairman Andy Straker describes as “the good of the football club.” After several failed attempts by outside parties to take over the financially stricken club during
Former Tottenham and Saints manager Harry Redknapp believes Gareth Bale would flourish at Real Madrid as talks over a potential transfer continue. The 24-year-old former Saint enjoyed a remarkable season with the north Londoners in 2012/13, bringing
A MAN who burgled a house in the New Forest had sentence adjourned at Winchester Crown Court for a probation report. Michal Bednarcyzk had pleaded guilty before magistrates to breaking into a property at Hale, near Fordingbridge, and stealing £20
Tonight represents one of the final chances for some Saints players to impress Mauricio Pochettino before the new Premier League campaign begins. The manager has once again taken his side abroad, this time to face Spanish outfit Celta Vigo in what
Teenage Saints midfielder James Ward-Prowse has hailed the club’s commitment to youth. The 18-year-old is one of a number of talented academy graduates to have recently pledged their long-term future to the club. Ward-Prowse signed a five-year
POLICE have issued an appeal after two mopeds were stolen. The vehicles were taken from the Drill Hall Road car park in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The theft of the mopeds – one an orange Peugeot Speedfight and the other a red Peugeot V Clic
A MAN needed hospital treatment for facial injuries after a late night attack. The 48-year-old victim was walking home with a friend when they were approached by a man outside The Guildhall, Winchester. Two other men appeared and began kicking
THE fate of Southampton’s proposed biomass plant could rest in the hands of the city council. Anti-biomass campaigners say Helius, the firm behind the proposed 100 mega watt dock plant, needs to find a local demand for the energy produced if it
