THE beauty of the Brecon Beacons inspired Franny Benali on the latest leg of his Big Run. Saints legend Benali put Thursday’s emotional finish behind him as he crossed the Welsh border before enjoying the splendour of the national park. “The
FIVE-year-old brain tumour patient Ashya King and his parents were tonight preparing to fly to the Czech Republic so he can be treated. The family from Southsea are understood to be trying to find a private jet company to take them to Prague after
RAPPER Lethal Bizzle has put in an explosive performance on Bestival's opening day. The Londoner was unveiled as the secret guest for the main stage at 3.15pm. Organisers of the Robinhill Park Festival teased the 55,000 revellers with
The Royal Navy's second new aircraft carrier, the Prince of Wales, is to be brought into service, rather than sold off or mothballed, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced. The announcement came as members of the 28-nation Nato alliance sealed
Newcastle boss Alan Pardew has been dealt a major blow as summer signing Siem de Jong could be sidelined for months by injury, ruling him out of next weekend’s game with Saints. The Magpies confirmed on Friday that the 25-year-old Holland international
Follow @EchoPics Bestival is underway for another year as 55,000 revellers join the ultimate party. As always, our photographers are there to capture a piece of the action. Our galleries will be updated with new pictures throughout the weekend
Theatre Royal Winchester has appointed Carl Woodward as its new Youth Theatre Manager. Carl is launching a new programme of weekly workshops for young people including one-off master-classes with visiting companies and professional actors, critics
CHRISTCHURCH-based drama and elocution teacher Tina Witham has revealed she is responsible for curing X Factor sensation Chloe-Jasmine Whichello’s lisp and helping her speak the perfect Queen’s English that got TV viewers talking this week. But
A LEGAL hearing in the case of five-year-old brain tumour patient Ashya King is taking place today. The telephone High Court hearing involved UK and Spanish lawyers representing the boy's parents, Brett and Naghmeh King. Ashya is in the Materno-Infantil
APPRENTICES are feeling positive about following a different career route after the success of their Winchester placements. Winchester-based ProcessFlows has taken on six candidates from colleges in Hampshire. The trainees, who come from Eastleigh
Harrison Reed was given a welcome surprise when he was asked to train with the senior England squad. The young Saints midfielder is away on international duty with England’s under-20 team but Roy Hodgson needed a few bodies to help make up the
THE LONG search to find that dream job you’ve been looking for could be over at the Daily Echo Jobs Fair on Thursday, September 18. Hampshire’s jobseekers will be flocking to the Novotel in Southampton, with more than 20 firms from across the south
ONE of Hampshire’s top hotels has been crowned the best in Britain. The five-star Chewton Glen in Christchurch Road, New Milton, has been named the No.1 UK holiday hotel at a prestigious award ceremony. The award is particularly special for
STUDENTS at a second Hampshire school have been sent home for failing to turn up in the correct uniform. It comes just a day after the Daily Echo revealed that 80 pupils at a Hamble school got into trouble on their first day back to class for breaking
Last week I found myself in the middle of a huge conspiracy. Visiting the Languedoc part of France, now renamed Cathar Country by clever tourism people, I climbed a hazardous mountain path to the ruined castle of Peyrepertuse and found myself in the
FATHERS 4 Justice campaigner Matt O’Connor has been arrested and charged with a public order offence. O’Connor, 47, was detained at an address in Stockbridge High Street at around 8am yesterday. The police have charged him with using foul
A THIRTEEN-MILE cycle event will take in some of Hampshire’s finest shoreline. Starting at the Bargate in Southampton at 10am on Sunday, the free SkyRide event will head across Itchen Bridge and then down to Weston, along the shoreline via the
THE GRIEVING FAMILY OF Pennie Davis have today visited the scene where she was brutally murdered. A group which included her husband Pete, all five of her children and her parents spent about half and hour at the spot in Beaulieu where tributes
WOOD carving, stick making and wood-turning will be some of the activities at a craft show in Ringwood. There will be four one-hour lectures focusing on different craft skills, as well as tools and craft material being available to buy. Entry
A DAY of fun and games for the whole family is returning to a Hampshire community. After a break last year, the Hiltingbury Extravaganza is back and will take place at the Hiltingbury Recreation Ground in Chandler’s Ford on September 14, from 12pm
A NEW retailer is offering support to community organisations in the local area. The Home Bargains Eastleigh store is pledging £500 to support local groups. It wants visitors to the store, in the Channon Retail Park, which opened last month
SEWING fanatics will have the chance to hear all about the art of embroidery. The Solent branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild has invited Louisa Macfarlane to share her expertise as a professional couture embroiderer. Louisa will be running her
TWO Hampshire men are taking on a gruelling physical challenge to raise money for a national charity. The pair are cycling for four days from London to Paris in a bid to support the Royal British Legion. Ben Bell, 30, and Tom Forbes, 26, were
A BUDDING Hampshire table tennis player is competing at the highest level at a tournament in Manchester. Fifteen-year-old Letitia McMullan, from Fareham, is competing at the Sainsbury’s 2014 School Games, which started yesterday and ends on Sunday
A NEW chief officer has been appointed to lead Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service. Dave Curry will take over from current chief John Bonney, who is stepping down from his role after a decade in the top job. Mr Curry, the current deputy chief
THESE stunning photographs capture the drama of one of the south’s biggest sailing events – and have won the people who took them prizes. They are the winners of the 2013 Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week photography competition. Will Ball
CARNIVAL colour will light up the streets of Eastleigh with organisers of the Mardi Gras hoping for their biggest turn out yet. The annual event, now in its third year, will see hundreds take to the streets to bring a flavour of Rio de Janeiro
FOOD lovers are expected to flock to Romsey on Sunday for the town’s annual festival. Organisers of Romsey Food Festival hope to cook up a storm of interest from the public. Town centre streets will be filled with food-orientated attractions
THE former director of agricultural shop SCATS shot himself in the head, an inquest heard. Mark Walford, 86, was found in his garden at Down Farm Lane, in Headbourne Worthy, by his carer, Lesley Webber. Ms Webber said it was clear he had taken
YOU can learn the basics of rowing in a four-session course in Southampton. Southampton Water Activities Centre will host sessions from 9-11am on September 7 to 28, and 1-3pm on September 7 to 21. The sessions at the centre in Floating Bridge
PROPOSED changes to a Hampshire park has raised noise fears. Eastleigh Borough Council wants to install a raised orator’s plinth, three flag poles and acoustic screens, at the Leigh Road Recreation Ground in Eastleigh which would be used for civic
HAMPSHIRE Writers’ Society opens its fourth season with an ambitious programme of talks presented by leading authors. The society will be addressed by Lady Antonia Fraser, former diplomat and author Sherard Cowper-Coles, foreign correspondent Luke
MARWELL Zoo is hosting a large scale event to help people learn more about biodiversity. The BioBlitz will help visitors get involved with surveying and monitoring local wildlife and green spaces giving everyone, from amateurs to budding specialists
FOR more than a year they have plagued a Hampshire street, driving frustrated residents round the bend. But after relentless campaigning by neighbours, their pothole-riddled road is set for a long-awaited makeover. To the relief of residents
TWO poets will go head-to-head in Southampton on September 12. As part of the Archimedes Screw Showcase at the Art House Cafe in Above Bar Street, poets Myriam San Marco and Simon McCormack will compete against each other. The winner will take
CITY councillors have approved Clare Hayles’ plans to use a Southampton house as a child-minding business. She had handed in proposals earlier this year to use the house in Merridale Road as a dwelling and for business purposes.
A WOMAN died as a result of asbestos exposure while working for the Post Office, an inquest heard. Susan Bell, 66, died at the Rowans Hospice in Portsmouth on July 13 from an asbestos-related illness, after working during the 1960s and 1970s for
WINCHESTER City co-boss Danny Robinson could not have picked two tastier games to come home to after a sunshine break in Turkey. Having celebrated his return with a 2-1 win at Andover on Tuesday, he can’t wait to get stuck into tomorrow’s visit
Primmer Olds acting for the owners negotiated a new lease on this prominent corner retail unit in the heart of the professional area of the city. The property benefits from good footfall and became available following the failure of the previous tenant
CHAIRMAN Stewart Donald says non-League Eastleigh are well on their way to establishing themselves as “a proper football club”. The Spitfires are less than a month into their maiden Vanarama Conference season, but already their fame is spreading
ROUND the world racer Alex Thomson has announced that his team are building a new boat for his tilt at winning the Vendee Globe in 2016. Thomson, from Gosport, finished third in the last edition of the race in 2012 and now has his sights on the
A TOWN hall finance chief has resigned after being subjected to a spate of abuse that left her “terrified” of attending council meetings. Sue Finnimore was repeatedly targeted by councillors and members of the public with one of the speakers accusing
THE waiting is over. The first full day of Bestival is set to kick off with a packed schedule of music and entertainment. Thousands of revellers have set sail for the Isle of Wight since yesterday as the 55,000-strong crowd prepares to party
SAINTS legend Matt Le Tissier will be taking his ear plugs with him tomorrow after being told the location of a documentary he is taking part in. Le Tissier can expect some jeers when he takes to to the field at Portsmouth’s Fratton Park! He
A CRACKDOWN on the sale of many puppies and kittens has been demanded by a Hampshire MP, to stamp out cruelty. Caroline Dinenage, the Gosport MP, condemned “backyard breeders” and called for authorities to have greater powers to drive up standards
SAINTS legend Franny Benali last night fell into his son Luke’s arms as he finished the latest stretch of his remarkable charity run. Benali was in tears as he completed a 45-mile stretch in the Herefordshire village of Whitney-on-Wye. The
Ronald Koeman and the Saints board have received overwhelming support from the club’s fanbase for the work they conducted during the transfer window. A Daily Echo poll, in which nearly 2,500 people voted, revealed that 95 per cent of supporters
HAMPSHIRE sailor Annabel Vose has been crowned the best young match racer in the country. Vose, 20, and her crew Tim Gratton and Matt Wallis saw off competition from the country's best young sailors to win the RYA Youth National Match Racing Championship
EASTLEIGH’S Michael Green is available again after a three-match suspension for tomorrow’s Vanarama Conference showdown with Southport at the Silverlake Stadium. But manager Richard Hill says the left-back – a big favourite with Spitfires fans
HAMPSHIRE are still in contract negotiations with Michael Bates and David Balcombe. “There are a few players we haven’t made decisions on just yet,” said Hampshire director of cricket Giles White, when asked about the futures of the out-of-contract
THE big day is here. One of the south’s biggest music festivals will explode into life today as 55,000 revellers get ready for the ultimate party. Bestival returns to the Isle of Wight for an action-packed weekend of music and madness hosted
TRIBUTES have been paid to a pillar of Southampton’s football community who has tragically died. Popular Ryan New, 32, was described as “a true gentleman and a genuinely nice guy” by a former manager and friend, while others remembered how he was
CRAIG Feeney has come a long way for someone who, in his own words: “Couldn’t hit a barn door in pre-season.” The red-hot AFC Totton marksman will be gunning for Stratford Town tomorrow as the table-topping Stags look to celebrate Non-League Day
A HAMPSHIRE head teacher stayed true to her word and got showered in freezing water thanks to the generosity of her students. Krista Dawkins, head at Crestwood College in Eastleigh, came up with a novel way of encouraging pupils to donate to the
LYMINGTON dinghy ace Sophie Weguelin has suffered a blow to her Rio 2016 campaign after being diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis. Weguelin, 25, developed a blood clot in her leg during the flight home from Brazil last month after competing in
EVERY firm bidding to build a super-casino in Southampton have gone through to the final phase of the competition. In a bizarre twist, all of the companies bidding to run the gambler’s paradise went through after a mammoth meeting during which
Sailing is arguably one of the most physically demanding sports out there. The sheer amount of power and energy that goes into pointing a boat in the right direction is phenomenal. The winching, hoisting of sails and halliards makes most seafarers
POLICE have recieved 150 calls as part of its appeal into the murder of mum-of-five Pennie Davis. It comes as detectives step up their manhunt to find the killer of the 47-year-old who was discovered in a field by her husband Pete. This afternon
