TOM Alsop and Joe Weatherley sharing an opening partnership of 297 against Sussex in the Second Eleven Championship. After beginning day two on 57-0 in reply to Sussex’s 367, Hampshire’s first-wicket pair scored at more than four an over. Their
HAMPSHIRE suffered two batting collapses in a day after being asked to follow on for the second time in three matches. After resuming on 86-3 in reply to Worcestershire’s 478, Hampshire collapsed to 183 all out due to a combination of Saeed Ajmal
Isle of Wight Council executives have tonight agreed to a multi-million pound contract to manage the Island’s waste disposal. Councillors have now confirmed they will be giving a 25 year waste contract worth around £225million to maintenance company
Jay Rodriguez put 15 months of pain behind him as he marked his long awaited Saints comeback with two goals. The 25-year-old has been out since rupturing his ACL at Manchester City in April 2014, with two operations and a couple of setbacks having
BUSINESS leaders in Hampshire have given George Osborne’s Summer Budget a mixed reaction. It was thumbs up when it came to slashing business and inheritance tax as well as changes paving the way for local powers over road spending. But opinions
A WOMAN was sexually assaulted while walking alone in Southampton. The late-night attack took place in Old Redbridge Road when a 42-year-old woman was approached from behind by a man, who pulled her to the floor and sexually assaulted her.
ANDOVER Town’s powerhouse striker Michael Dixon is stepping into the Southern League. The muscular former Winchester City frontman has joined promoted Sydenhams Premier champions Petersfield Town who are hoping he will give defenders headaches
Saints under-18 coach Anthony Limbrick has left the club for personal reasons. The Daily Echo understands that Limbrick has returned to his native Australia. The 31-year-old joined the club in 2011 and was appointed as under-18s coach in July 2014
I APOLOGISE in advance to your readers, having written previously that I was going to have break from my letter writing. I am afraid, however I do get annoyed by the continual inaccuracies of the UKIP supporters – a political party that is now
READING the Daily Echo, Thursday June 18, with the proposed Spitfire memorial, I agree it has has been a long time coming, so long that most people alive have forgotten about it or never heard of it and as a tourist attraction, 10 minutes to walk around
Hampshire spirits were the toast of special event at Winchester. Winchester Distillery and the River Cottage Canteen hosted "Winchtini Night" on Tuesday as part of Hampshire Food Festival. Head Chef, Mark Price, devised the menu brimming with
WHILE not agreeing with Mr Grane of Burley, he is entitled to his own opinion. But Mr Billows has the right idea offering to carry his case should he move to the continent. I will personally give him a large tip for doing so. I also have an
JUST to say thank you to two very kind people who helped my brother-in-law. When he fell on his back in St Denys on Friday, June 22, at about 3.15pm, a gentleman in a car stopped and stayed with him until a lady came along. But the gentleman
I AM really annoyed by the letters from Tom Doak re the summer conference. My husband and myself were speakers at the conference and we were NOT handed sheets of paper by any council officer. What we read out was what we had written ourselves
IN REPLY to John Burns and Barbara Rothwell’s letter Thanks to South West Trains staff. I don’t know how many are sure of the facts. Firstly there are no railway companies. The British Railways Board still hold my pension funds. I lost my job
WHAT will be the likely future for UKIP should it be on the losing side of the in-out referendum on Europe to be held within the next 18 months? Well, if it turns out to be similar to the SNP it would be good news. That party was comfortably
I SEE the possible closing of the Bitterne Walk in centre has shown its ugly head yet again. It makes you wonder what planet the city Clinical Commissioning group are on. We on the west side of the city have already lost our walk in centre
REGARDING ‘Drunk boot attacker is spared jail’. What a great example this mother is to her four children. Out at 2am, drunk and committing an unprovoked attack on a man with the heel of her boot, causing an injury which could have been much
SOUTHAMPTON Solent University student Kelly Simm has won gymnastics gold, silver and bronze at the World University Games in South Korea. Simm, who is studying BSc Applied Sports Science, claimed her first medal – gold – in the women’s individual
WELL done Winchester city fathers for taking a punt on a project to turn the ancient capital of England into one of its first solar cities. Well done also for adding a note of caution to plans to make use of up to 50 sites in the city to provide
POLICE were called in to investigate the death of a two-year-old after doctors raised concerns about how she had come by her injury, an inquest heard. Amelia Dew was rushed to Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth after she became unresponsive
MORRIS dancers provided some added to cheer a brewery open day, run as part of Hampshire Food Festival. The Hook Eagle Morris Men entertained the crowds and Andwell Brewery's family day. More than 500 people attended the event on Sunday and
STRICTLY Come Dancing is one of today's biggest television hits but back in the Southampton of the 1920s and 1930s people wanting an evening out on the town preferred to step out on the ballroom floor themselves.There will be many older local people who
BUSINESS chiefs and council leaders in Hampshire have welcomed plans to relax Sunday trading laws in the county.The Chancellor is today (Weds, July 8) set to launch his plans to give councils the freedom to relax Sunday trading laws that currently stop
A DRUNKEN burglar walked into the home of a Southampton family while they were in different rooms of the property, the city crown court heard.Peter Grant initially walked upstairs into the bedroom of a nine-year-old girl who was sitting on the floor.
THEY engaged with the public and their call was heard.A scheme to turn two Southampton phone boxes into tiny art galleries is set to go ahead after the project gained enough votes from the public to win a £5,000 grant.The K6 Galleries project had to finish
A taste of Africa proved a huge success at a Hampshire festival.A stall selling Kenyan coffee, tea and food was a hit at the multi-cultural event.Members of the group Kenyans in Hampshire staffed the stand at the festival to celebrate Phillipines Independence
AS sausages sizzled and sautéed vegetables splashed colours across the pan, the aroma of this year’s Sparsholt College food festival was something to behold.Residents came from far and wide to enjoy the splendour of Hampshire produce at the Taste of Hampshire
A CHARITY cream tea, held at the Cloud Hotel in Brockenhurst on Sunday part of the Hampshire Food Festival, raised £700 to be shared between the Variety Club Children's Charity and Naomi House Children's Hospice.Among the guest enjoying chef Alex Guilfoy
FAREHAM are getting ready to paint the Town red after becoming one of the beneficiaries of Portsmouth’s Spinnaker Tower fiasco. Vast quantities of red paint were left sitting around unused as a result of the huge public backlash stirred up by plans
A CRISIS-HIT Hampshire college is asking the public for its views on its future as part of a consultation project.Totton College, which was given damning criticism in its final Ofsted inspection earlier this month, has announced it will merge with crime
WITH just a week to go until Larmer Tree Festival organisers have announced the release of additional day tickets for each day of the festival. This includes a limited allocation of Wednesday tickets to see headliner Sir Tom Jones live at Larmer Tree,
A WOMAN charged with the attempted murder of her sister has pleaded not guilty. Cathy Bartlett, appeared at Winchester Crown Court on today charged with one count of attempted murder and one count of fraud. The 30-year-old spoke clearly from
Director Deborah Edgington calls it her ‘Marmite production’The audience, she says, will either love or hate her version of Chekhov’s The Seagull when it opens at Winchester’s Chesil Theatre this Saturday (July 11).It’s a bold statement from a director
ANIMAL welfare investigators are appealing for help after a dead dog was found dumped in a ditch near a Hampshire supermarket. Mystery surrounds how the female, adult Staffordshire bull terrier died or how it came to be left in a spot notorious
IT’s all about the garden. Sandwiched between two sections of the River Itchen, The Willow Tree is getting started with its busy summer season. Just recently it’s had a new lick of paint and carpets exchanged for wooden floors, and it shows
MORE than forty years after storming the charts across the globe Leo Sayer is set to perform in Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight.He plays The Shanklin Theatre on Thursday October 1 and The Concorde Club, Eastleigh on Friday October 2.Audiences can expect
THEY are billing it 'the Ultimate 80s Festival' and it returns to Southampton Common on Saturday.Let's Rock will feature performances by The Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey, Kim Wilde, Jimmy Somerville, Nik Kershaw, Alexander O'Neal, Midge Ure, Heaven 17,
THIS is one of three men police are hunting after a schoolboy was attacked outside a Southampton pub. The 15-year-old was taken to hospital after suffering a concussion and cuts to his forehead, along with a 23-year-old man, following the assault
WINCHESTER City will use Saturday’s home friendly against Sutton United (July 11, 3pm) as their final trial game before manager Paul Masters starts trimming his squad. Masters used well over 20 players in last weekend’s 0-0 stalemate with Gosport
WINCHESTER could be on course to become a Solar City after community chiefs launched a pilot programme of energy panels.Campaign group Winchester Action on Climate Change has identified 50 sites which could kickstart the Solar City programme, saving enough
Saints have missed out on signing Belgium international Toby Alderweireld after he completed his controversial transfer to Tottenham this morning for a fee of £11.5million. The saga surrounding the signature of the 25-year-old, who impressed
DETECTIVES have released a CCTV image of a suspect after a dog walker was assaulted. The 45-year-old victim had been sitting on a park bench while his pet was running around. A group of males then approached him and the victim thought they
The Toby Alderwiereld transfer saga is rather complex and has had a number of twists and turns. Here, the Daily Echo tries to put in some sort of context what has happened so far. September 1, 2014: Saints sign loan deal for season, which
IN September, 1980 the wreckage of a Spitfire aircraft emerged from the sands of a French beach, a unique piece of Southampton history, lost for decades, had been rediscovered. Now this Spitfire, P9374, to many a thing of beauty but also an iconic
EMERGENCY services had to rescue a man from the Solent this morning after they were seen jumping into the water. Gosport and Fareham Insure Rescue Service were called after receiving reports that someone had jumped from Clarence Wharf in Gosport
SCIENTISTS in Southampton will work on a project to create a deep-sea robot to sample the depths of the oceans. Experts at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) are part of a team from across Europe that will work on the glider that can sample
3:46pm [Southampton FC] Ramirez's Saints career could be revived by holiday http://t.co/Il96sYRmx9 #saintsfc
Ronald Koeman will give his young guns a chance to impress in pre-season – starting with tonight’s first game of the summer against RB Leipzig. Saints have taken a large squad with them to Austria, as they get straight down to business with a match
IT was billed as a school for the future offering pupils a different kind of education that could better prepare them for the world of work. But less than two years after it opened its classrooms, bosses at the Inspire Academy have announced it
A WOMAN suffered “potentially life-threatening” injuries in a head-on crash on the A35. The 41-year-old, who is from the town, was airlifted to Southampton General Hospital following the horrific incident at 5.44pm on the Lyndhurst Road at Roeshot
A “DETERMINED and independent” woman was found dead at her Southampton home approximately two months after she died. An inquest heard how Shirley Rackham, 64, was found at her home in Plover Close, Lordswood, on April 25 by her daughter and a policeman
THESE are the latest images of the £36m hotel complex that's set to transform a waterfront site in Southampton. Development giant Bouygues UK has been named as the firm to deliver the five star Southampton Harbour Hotel and Spa that could create
YOUNGSTERS got a kick out of meeting champion cage fighter and TV personality Alex Reid when he visited a Hampshire gym. See more pictures of Alex's visit>> The former winner of Celebrity Big Brother put a class of children, aged
Gaston Ramirez could still have a Saints future – partly thanks to taking a holiday. The 24-year-old Uruguayan international has struggled to make a significant first team impact in the three years since his £12m move from Bologna. Ramirez spent
A DENTAL patient has narrowly avoided prison after she stabbed a dental worker in the eye with a pen when the surgery refused to treat her. Hayley Ross was told she was “very lucky” she had not blinded Pauline Khanna when she picked up the pen
TWO women who had been drinking booze sparked a rescue drama when they clambered on to the roof of a Hampshire home. Emergency services descended on the scene after the pair were spotted on the top of the two storey house in Netley Abbey. Shocked
ELDERLY residents have been left worried for their safety after a daylight knife attack in their sheltered accommodation. Police have launched an investigation after a report that a man had been attacked in the lift at Hamwic House in Onslow Road
YOUNGSTERS got a kick out of meeting champion cage fighter and TV personality Alex Reid when he visited a Hampshire gym. The former winner of Celebrity Big Brother put a class of children, aged between five and 12, through their paces at Gosport
TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular teenager who has died in hospital days after being found unconscious in woodland at a Southampton park. Emergency services were called to woodland at Riverside Park after 17-year old Jay Cheshire was found by
A YOUNG man was subjected to a daylight knife attack at a block of flats in Southampton. Now detectives are appealing for information after the assault in the Bevois Valley area of Southampton. At around 2.30pm on Saturday, July 4 police received
JULY 8 Hampshire Food Festival Lunch at Lainston House Mon-Sat lunch throughout July, 12-2pm Local Flavours at The Southern Co-operative We’re great supporters of local food and our stores’ Local Flavours range promotes
