Chart topping singer songwriter John Newman will headline Curious Arts Festival, Lymington on Saturday July 21. The performance will be one of the first in a while by Brit Award nominated John whose breakthrough hit ‘Love Me Again’ shot to no.1 in July
A MAJOR regeneration project aiming to breathe new life into one of the city’s largest housing estates has been given a multimillion-pound funding boost.Civic chiefs have been given £3.75 million by the government towards the redevelopment of Townhill
OSCAR-winning film star Colin Firth visited the rehearsals for a Hampshire youth theatre's production of a much-loved musical. The Hampshire-born star became patron of ENCORE Youth Theatre in May last year, having previously gone to Montgomery
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched following a spate of night-time thefts from work vans in the Eastleigh borough. This comes after reports of six crimes in Bishopstoke and Fair Oak between January 31 and February 3. Vans parked in Sedgwick
SAINTS have announced they intend to put together a "supporters' panel" to "encourage and maintain a positive dialogue between the club and its fans". The club want up to 12 fans to form a panel, which will meet with "key staff" three-to-four times
LOCAL charities, schools and good causes across Hampshire could receive a share of £10,000 thanks to the CALA Homes Community Bursary being launched this week (12th February).Now in its second year, the scheme aims to provide support for a wide range
GENEROUS Daily Echo readers flooded a Southampton period poverty group with support, following an article in the paper last year. Vie Portland, who set up the Red Box Project Southampton, which supplies schools and youth groups with boxes of sanitary
FORMER Blackfield & Langley midfielder Jordan Ngalo has scored his first goal for Weymouth and his boss is confident he will "flourish into a fantastic footballer." The teenager struck in time added on to crown the Terras’ 3-1 win over St Neots
Teenager Gaia Pope died from hypothermia, an inquest has heard. Dorset Coroner Rachael Griffin opened the hearing into the death of the 19-year-old student at Bournemouth Town Hall in Dorset on Tuesday. The court heard that Miss Pope was reported
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A driver has been stopped by police after watching a film on a Hampshire motorway. The vehicle was travelling in the middle lane of the M3 yesterday when officers pulled the driver over for watching the film on his phone. Police issued the
SEVERE traffic has greeted commuters on a Hampshire motorway this morning after a vehicle broke down.Delays have been building up on the M3 northbound after the incident, which happened at the junction nine interchange with the A34 at Winnall, Winchester.Slow-moving
THE parents of a former Bournemouth head girl who died in a 'crushing' incident outside a nightclub in Durham last week say they are “totally devastated and heartbroken” by the loss of their “beautiful daughter”. Olivia Burt, from Milford-on-Sea
A THIEF is behind bars after she breached a suspended sentence order.Rachel Hughes-Freeman was found to have stolen £140 cash and £480 worth of jewellery in Marchwood in August.This activated an earlier sentence the 38-year-old was given for stealing
A Hampshire lawyer has been elected by CBI members to join the South East Regional Council. Blake Morgan commercial litigation partner Susie Dryden will work with the CBI to shape their messages to the UK Government on a range of issues from fostering
STRONG demand for industrial units and office space in the Solent region are driving up rents, according to a recent report. The Q4 Industrial and Office Market Pulse reports, unveiled by LSH at a breakfast briefing on Wednesday, also predicts that 2018
“WE ARE all at breaking point.” That’s the cry from embattled campaigners who are continuing their fight to bring back an axed respite centre. Carers were given a major boost last week when civic chiefs performed an unexpected u-turn and revealed
HUNDREDS of drivers were left almost at a standstill as weeks of work on a major road Southampton began yesterday.Bassett Avenue is undergoing a series of drainage works, and cars were left bumper to bumper crawling towards the Chilworth roundabout for
IT’S the £49k project to bring Hampshire’s LGBT history out of the shadows. A year ago the Daily Echo reported on a new project funded by Heritage Lottery to unearth the county’s hidden lesbian and gay past. Young LGBT people were trained in conducting
THE DAILY Echo takes a trip back 40 years ago through the pictures snapped by local photographers at the time. These images were taken on the same month as severe blizzards hit the south west of England Central defender Gordon McQueen became
Oriol Romeu has urged Saints not to panic ahead of a massive Premier League survival battle. The Spanish midfielder, who also insisted manager Mauricio Pellegrino retains the full confidence of the squad, is well aware of just how precarious Saints
A BOOK marking nearly 20 years of practice by an architect firm had its charity launch in Winchester.More than 150 clients, consultants and friends of Design Engine Architects gathered in their Coker Close studios to celebrate the launch of Building Stories
TWO Hampshire women are taking part in a plus size beauty pageant to give themselves a platform to speak out about body confidence and celebrate women's curves. Hollie Jackson, 18, from Fareham, and Rebecca Tasker, 26, from West End are both finalists
‘THEY are not motorcyclists.’ That’s the view of one of Southampton’s leading figures within the motorcycling community after a spate of incidents involving riders causing mayhem across the city. Last week, The Daily Echo told how Hampshire
A MAN from Southampton was on-board a helicopter which crashed in the Grand Canyon, killing a young receptionist and two British brothers. Becky Dobson, 27 and brothers Jason Hill, 32, and Stuart Hill, 30, died in the incident at 5.20pm local time
SCORES of motorcyclists paid tribute to a “well-loved” and ‘caring’ Southampton motorbike mechanic today. More than 200 people attended a procession of motorcyclists in memory of Peter Doswell, who died last month aged 75 from chronic obstructive
