Young Saints may have only just returned to school this week after the Christmas holidays, but half-term is already in sight! The club are busy fixing up their latest batch of popular coaching courses from February 19-23. They are again casting their
GLENN HODDLE today welcomed Sven-Goran Eriksson to the international firing line. The Swede will take charge of England earlier than expected after resigning as boss of Lazio yesterday. He will now be installed as the national coach ahead of next month's
IT'S wait and see time for the four Hampshire bowlers who played in the senior England trial at Nottingham last weekend. Atherley's current international Peter Ward left the Midlands the happiest of the quartet after skipping his rink to a 24-12 win against
BANISTER PARK kept their hopes alive of finishing runners-up in Group H of the Famous Grouse Four Nations Top Ten Classic with an 11-4 victory over cellar-dwellers Dolphin B. To stand any chance of reaching the final stages at Darlington, the Eastleigh
THIS is the amazing picture of last night's lunar eclipse over Southampton. It was taken at about 9.15pm in Bitterne Triangle, and showed that the predicted-cloudy skies failed to black out the views of the South's skywatchers. Stargazers from across
COMMUTER Dr Michael McCabe is so fed up with the trials and tribulations of train travel in the South that he has come up with a bizarre way to beat his daily rail nightmare. University lecturer Dr McCabe finds it better to make not one but two sea crossings
HASSAN Kachloul has denied national newspaper reports he has been given a new one-year deal at The Dell. Manager Glenn Hoddle was quoted as saying the Moroccan has been offered a 12-month contract with the possibility of a further year's extension. But
ONE-CLUB man Francis Benali will reluctantly pull on different colours for the first time in his career after agreeing a month's loan at Nottingham Forest. After 304 league games in a Southampton shirt, the popular club captain will step into the unknown
Kenny Tibble is on track to become a leading contender for the British Supersport Championship after landing one of the most sought-after motor cycle road-racing rides for next season. The 20-year-old Swanwick based racer has signed for the V & M
A CARIBBEAN posting beckons for Ordnance Survey's Grant Vincent, who has just begun a two-year secondment to the government of Montserrat. As the island's new director of lands and surveys, he will implement new surveys and integrate digital mapping with
RANDSTAD, one of the world's largest recruitment organisations, is expanding its network in the South with the opening of an industrial unit. The move comes hard on the heels of its six new branches, providing operations in Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch
Today's shipping movements around the Southampton ports... Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Hual Tramper, ro/ro, 0400, 40; Autocarrier, vehicle carrier, 0730, 201 link; Hockenheim, ro/ro, 0945, 105; Antwerpen Express, container, 1200, 205; OOCL
FIVE hundred jobs will be axed after one of the biggest factories in South-West Hampshire announced it was closing down. Workers at the Webbs Country Foods chicken processing plant at Bridge Road, Lymington, were given the bombshell yesterday. They were
THE Daily Echo's campaign for justice for some of the South's most vulnerable youngsters yesterday struck a resounding victory. More than 16 months since we launched Make A Difference to improve the quality of life for child amputees, the government has
Saints fans have been quick to voice concerns over the great shirt scandal that is currently rocking the club, with fears that their votes are going to be wasted by the club. With Saints looking for a new shirt to go with their new St Mary's home, the
