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Health secretary backs controversial implants for school girls

7:40am Friday 10th February 2012

HEALTH Secretary Andrew Lansley defends sexual health services that fitted a 13-year-old girl with a contraceptive implant at her school without her parents knowing.

Ed visits city in jobs boost campaign

8:30am Friday 10th February 2012

LABOUR leader Ed Miliband was due to visit Southampton today to campaign for more jobs and growth in the south.

British Gas call centre goes face-to-face

7:58am Friday 10th February 2012

BRITISH Gas call centre staff in Southampton will be talking face-to-face with customers through a new video service.

Crash car may have been in convoy

7:00am Friday 10th February 2012

POLICE are investigating reports a car containing five teenagers that smashed into another vehicle and a garden wall was being driven in convoy around a town before the crash.

‘Don’t rock the boat’ warns boss of taxi association

6:30am Friday 10th February 2012

THE chairman of a taxi body in Southampton has criticised fellow trade leaders for “rocking the boat” over a review into the number of cabs in the city.

Break-in at house

5:00am Friday 10th February 2012

THIEVES forced the door to get into a home in Jupiter Close, Southampton.

Mum demands answers from health chiefs over 13-year-old's contraceptive implant

4:00pm Thursday 9th February 2012

Health bosses asked a mother for permission to talk to her young daughter about contraceptive services – even though they fitted the 13-year-old with a birth control implant without her knowing.

Man crushed while fixing caravan

1:00pm Thursday 9th February 2012

A man died after his large Sterling caravan fell of its jack and trapped him underneath, an inquest has heard.

Parents' campaign to see speed limit cut on busy school road

6:00pm Thursday 9th February 2012

Parents have launched a campaign to slash the speed limit on a busy Hampshire road.

Aldi store planning persmission deadline nears

5:10pm Thursday 9th February 2012

Time is running out for cut-price supermarket chain Aldi to build a new store in a Hampshire city.

'Business as usual' at sex club

2:10pm Thursday 9th February 2012

Bosses of a sex club in the New Forest say it is “business as usual” despite a bid by council chiefs to shut it down.

Taxi trade survey 'flawed'

1:30pm Thursday 9th February 2012

Taxi trade leaders have called a survey that could flood Southampton with more cabs “flawed”.

Rapist hunted after city centre attack

11:40am Thursday 9th February 2012

A RAPIST is being hunted by police today after a young student was attacked in a city underpass.

£131,000 fraudster must repay £14,000

9:31am Thursday 9th February 2012

AN office worker, who ripped off her employers for more than £100,000, has been ordered to pay just a fraction of the cash.

Support groups and sports clubs celebrate big donations

5:40pm Thursday 9th February 2012

Support groups and sports clubs in Southampton and Totton are benefitting from donations of thousands of pounds.

Solent coastguard help save explorers - in Iceland

12:50pm Thursday 9th February 2012

Two Hampshire explorers trapped on the edge of an Icelandic glacier in a freezing storm were saved from disaster – by Solent coastguards.

Poignant re-enactment of Titanic's departure

12:10pm Thursday 9th February 2012

Titanic’s departure from Southampton will be re-enacted at the city docks to mark centenary commemorations of the liner tragedy, The Daily Echo can exclusively reveal today.