EASTLEIGH have confirmed four prestigious home friendlies against Football League opposition. Due to report back for training on the last Thursday of June, the National League Spitfires will kick off their pre-season programme against Sky Bet League
SOUTHAMPTON AC ladies kept alive their hopes of making it to the Southern Area final with a strong second-placed finish in the Hampshire Vets League. They finished eight points adrift of Winchester & District, who have dominated the league
SERIAL Chelsea loanee John Swift is on the brink of completing an alternative route into the Premier League. Turning his back on the Stamford Bridge high life can’t have been easy for a young man who, not so long ago, was playing for Totton-based
Hollywood actor George Clooney has said the world needs to become more engaged in doing good for humanity.He chairs the selection committee for the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, awarded in Armenia to an outstanding humanitarian worker.The accolade
Hampshire (162 & 293) beat Somerset (197 & 168) by 90 runs HAMPSHIRE are up to third in the Specsavers County Championship after spinners Liam Dawson and Mason Crane bowled them to victory at Taunton. The pair picked up nine of the
Two-fifths of non-voters think who is in government makes no difference to their lives, a new poll has found.Meanwhile, a similar number (42%) said they felt all the candidates they could vote for did not understand their life.The survey, carried out
A WEATHER warning for torrential rain has been issued for Southampton and Hampshire. If all that lovely sunshine seemed too good to be true yesterday, that's because sadly it was. The mercury reached 20C yesterday and parts of the county saw
Watford have named former Hull boss Marco Silva as their new head coach.Silva left Hull following their relegation from the Premier League at the end of the season, and replaces Walter Mazzarri at Vicarage Road.The announcement puts an end to speculation
By Ronny Potiwal SILVER screen characters including the Mask and Luigi served customers at a Hampshire shop to raise money for charity. Fundraising organiser and sales assistant Abbie Lloyd put the event together and managers, team leaders and all
By Liam WhitlockBREAKIN’ Convention optimised its name with a superb original performance from start to finish. Described as the “world’s biggest festival of hip hop dance theatre’’ it certainly gave that feel-good feeling to the audience. It was a rare
WITH the third Common People music festival taking place this weekend, the Echo takes a look at when music first came to Southampton Common.It was the common land once used for grazing animals and foraging, now mostly used for sporting, dog walking, taking
Artists and art lovers had a special treat with the twelfth annual Arches Open Studios event. More than 400 visitors passed through the Captain's Place studios, which host 22 artists in the converted arches underneath Central Bridge. With free activities
A Southampton man has been given a suspended sentence after stealing nearly £1,000 worth of items in a two-month crime spree. Lukas William Michael Fudge, 32, of Pear Tree Close in Botley, pleaded guilty at Southampton Magistrates Court to stealing
A SPECTACLE unfolded on Southampton Water as more than 100 yachts, RIBs and motorboats paraded en masse as craft of all types took to the water to take part in a parade of sail, celebrating the first-ever Southampton Sailing Week. At the front on Saturday
IT HAD been 19 months. After flooding the streets with posters when he first went missing, one Southampton woman had accepted that her cat wasn’t going to return home. Now, in a remarkable turn of events, 38-year-old Rebecca Morris is celebrating
IT WAS rated by professionals as one of the liveliest venues in the country.Wrestlers in the nineties would relish the prospect of travelling to Southampton to flex their muscles in front of screaming crowds at the Guildhall.During a championship wrestling
IT WAS a good year for Junior Saints members, winning prizes, meeting stars and enjoying training days.It was January 1987 and Arsenal were sitting pretty at the top of the First Division when Junior Saints Team B took on their youngsters at the JVC Indoor
HAMPSHIRE villagers raised more than £3,000 in just two hours for families struggling to survive in drought-stricken Ethiopia.They staged a highly-successful cake and plant sale in support of aid agency CAFOD, which is striving to help hundreds of people
SOUTHAMPTON has been ranked as one of the most expensive cities for students to rent accommodation, costing more than Brighton, Manchester and Birmingham. The city has been named the 11th most expensive place to live in across the UK, with the
BOSSES behind a new mass cycling event taking place in Hampshire next month have revealed the 8.5 kilometre route. Thousands of people are expected to take part in Southampton’s first City Ride, which has replaced the annual Sky Ride event following
ONE of Britain’s biggest hotel chains is creating more than 100 jobs across Hampshire as part of a national recruitment drive. Travelodge says seasonal vacancies and the company’s expansion plans have resulted in 1,000 new positions at its sites
PLANS have been unveiled to create a new junction on the M27 to link up the entrance of a proposed £3bn tunnel link between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Able Connections Ltd, the group developing plans for a cross-Solent tunnel link, say motorists
SHOCKING footage has been released by police telling the horrific story of how two of their officers were violently assaulted. Two response officers, PC Geoff Hill and Karl Odgers, were brutally attacked while attending a domestic incident in Aldershot
A DIRTY care home which “smelled of urine” and has suffered three infection outbreaks in a year has been put in special measures by a health watchdog. Lawnbrook Care Home in Southampton was rated inadequate after an unannounced inspection by the
A PERVERT who groped a 13-year-old during a concert by the Royal Marines band has escaped being put behind bars for a second time. Martin John McHugh, 69, fondled the youngster over her clothing and tried to get her to touch him intimately.
BUSH Hill are determined to secure grants of £80,000 in a bid to bring Sydenhams Wessex League football to the club. The Southampton-based outfit walked away with the 2016/17 Hampshire Premier League top flight title, winning it by a huge 18 points
