DAN MILLER was the Sholing hero as they celebrated their first Southern One South & West victory in just over a month at the Silverlake Arena this afternoon. Defender Miller stuck in the 59th minute to secure a 1-0 victory over Cinderford Town
A MAN has been airlifted to hospital after falling from a ladder this afternoon. Ambulance crews were called to an address in Bury Road, Gosport, after the man plummeted two storeys to the ground at 1.19pm. He taken by air ambulance to Queen
TRAFFIC was once again at a standstill in Southampton today after traffic light failures. The city centre was gripped by gridlock after the lights at two key junctions stopped working, leaving motorists to slowly inch through the traffic. Drivers
I WAS truly appalled at such an act of human evil, when I read the article from your newspaper, about these innocent beautiful dogs abandoned and utterly neglected. I sincerely hope you will catch the perpetrators, for they deserve to be tried
WE of Southampton Choral Society are greatly saddened by the sudden death of one of our most stalwart supporters, Alban Rees-Jones. Alban was our main accompanist for many years and never missed a rehearsal. His musicianship and depth of passion
WHAT is happening in this city in which I was raised? Re architecture, I feel on the same wavelength as Gregory Cooper (In My View, January 24). Also, we now have the O2 Guildhall instead of the once lovely Southampton Guildhall, which, along with
SOUTHAMPTON traffic has now become a joke. I had a hospital appointment at 9am this morning so I left my house in Bitterne at 7am to get to the General Hospital. I thought this would be plenty of time but no. It took me over an hour to even
TWO pages in the Daily Echo took my thoughts back some 60-plus years. On page 12 I read “Dream of home ownership begins to fade” and on page 17 I read “16 years to buy a house in the city”. I write this to encourage young people of today not to
MOST local residents will probably be looking forward to the completed redevelopment of the shops and residential buildings at the corner of Weston Lane and Wallace Road. It had previously become a very neglected and unattractive area. An announcement
LATELY I have read in the Daily Echo that tourists find Southampton to be not very interesting, a place where people just pass through on their way to places of more interest. In all honesty, who can blame them? Give it some thought – office blocks
A GIRL has come forward as the mystery lady featuring in the selfie of a lovestruck football fan whose appeal to track her down went viral. Maria Betania, 17, who is originally from Venezuela but is studying English in Bournemouth, said that she
A BUSINESSMAN has vowed to support Chris Evans after the award-winning DJ revealed that he is having tests for prostate cancer. Restaurant owner Rob Smith went into partnership with Evans last year but knew nothing of the broadcaster’s health scare
IMAGINE a world where Saints players were not only celebrated on the pitch - but heroes of the Silver Screen, too. Saints players in film posters - in pictures >> As revealed by the Daily Echo today, drive-in movies are coming
SAINTS’ rise from bankruptcy to the verge of Champions League football has all the making of a Hollywood blockbuster. And, while the players play a starring role on the pitch, the car park at St Mary’s is now set to be turned into a cinema.
Eastleigh have completed a couple of busy days in the transfer market with attacking midfielder Dan Walker arriving on loan from Vanarama Conference rivals Braintree Town. The 24-year-old, formerly of Luton Town, Eastbourne Borough, Southport
Eastleigh's Vanarama Conference match at Kidderminster Harriers today has been postponed after a pitch inspection deemed the pitch unplayable. At a 9.15am check of the Aggborough turf it was decided that the game would not go ahead. The fixture
THE discovery of a hand grenade sparked an evacuation drama at a Basingstoke tip. Officers and a bomb disposal team were called to the Basingstoke Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC), in Wade Road, after a worker uncovered the explosive.
IT was the South Coast’s answer to the Academy Awards. A sold out crowd of 500 thespians, crew and theatre lovers gathered for Hampshire’s own Oscars, the Daily Echo Curtain Call Awards. Curtain Call Awards 2014 - in pictures >>
OYEZ! Oyez! Oyez! A town crier has been targeted by conmen trying to obtain cash from people he knows. Romsey town crier Terry Hamer’s email account was hacked by the scammers, who then sent out hundreds of messages as part of their con. Their
Saints will have Sadio Mane and Maya Yoshida available for tomorrow’s game against Swansea after both returned to full training. The duo have been away with Senegal and Japan respectively playing in the Africa Cup of Nations, and Koeman is pleased
ONE of the nine dogs cruelly dumped in the Hampshire countryside is being fostered. The poodle-crosses, which were found near Winchester in appalling condition last week, are being cared for at various RSPCA centres across the county. But now
Last week one of my main topics was whether we should do away with replays in the FA Cup. I defended replays, particularly for the smaller clubs, and, lo and behold, that came about with the Cambridge efforts as they not only held Manchester United
A mass cycling event due to be held in Hampshire today has been cancelled due to snow. Hundreds of riders were due to take part in the sold out OS January Insanity Sportive starting in Winchester. But due to snow falls overnight organisers
Deaths from liver disease have risen 400% in the last 40 years, according to a Hampshire health charity which is calling for early screening. The British Liver Trust has called on the Government to launch a nationwide awareness campaign about the
TV BOSSES who have refused to axe a controversial reality show have also revealed the series may be shorter because of filming difficulties. Protesters in Southampton have held crunch talks with senior Channel 4 bosses over the future of the proposed
He couldn’t have known it at the time, but Graziano Pelle’s decision to book a holiday to Spain in 2012 would end up becoming one of the most important moments in his football career. It was at a beachside club during the summer of that year that
HAMPSHIRE councils have been handed a near-£1m cash injection amid growing fears of a social care crisis. The authorities are among 125 that will share a £37m pot which has been rushed forward ahead of a planned hand-out for the next financial
A PENSIONER has died after he was struck by a car on a busy main road in Hampshire. The 86-year-old suffered head injuries following a collision with the vehicle in Caird Avenue, New Milton, at 5.43pm. He has been taken to the Royal Bournemouth
A surviving crewman of an ambulance which crashed in the New Forest and killed his colleague is to scale Mount Kilimanjaro. Ambulance crewman Richard Riley suffered life-changing injuries in a high-speed crash while driver, Gillian Randall, 42,
A HAMPSHIRE grandad has died after suffering from a pigeon allergy. Peter Willoughby allowed a friend to keep pigeons at the bottom of his garden and spent more than 25 years cleaning bird mess off windscreens at Ford. But the 72-year-old did
