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  • Hampshire are one step closer to promotion

    Hampshire took a step nearer a place in the CricInfo County Championship Division One with a convincing five-wicket win over promotion rivals Middlesex at West End. The home side picked up 15 points and need two more to be sure of regaining the First

  • STRIKING GOLD

    JUST one metre under the hallowed turf of the new £32m Saints stadium lay the ancient foundations of the city of Southampton. Part of the Saxon village of Hamwic - the birth place of the city of Southampton - was known to extend to the site chosen for

  • Stab-death victim named by police

    A YOUNG man stabbed through the heart in broad daylight in Southampton has been named by police. Murder squad detectives took three days to trace Devon Anthony Adamson's family in Jamaica before officially releasing his name last night. The 23-year-old

  • Flyover horror crash - driver found guilty

    A SOUTHAMPTON steelfixer has been convicted of causing a major accident on the Millbrook Flyer. Jurors rejected Rodney Traves's claim that he was a passenger in a van involved in a head-on smash after being driven on the wrong side of the Millbrook Road

  • 'I didn't get the job because I was male'

    A LAW graduate was overlooked for a job at a Hampshire police station because he was a man, an employment tribunal heard. Agency worker Mathew Phipps said he was turned down for the role of an administration assistant in a criminal justice unit in favour

  • FOOTBALL - Full time scores

    Full time scores from the top clubs in the South Portsmouth 2 - Gillingham 1 Bournemouth 0 - Swindon 0 Don't miss the Daily Echo's Sport on Monday supplement for full match reports and analysis of Sunday's Saints v Tottenham clash at White Hart Lane..

  • FOOTBALL - Half time scores

    Half time scores from the top clubs in the South Portsmouth 0 - Gillingham 1 Bournemouth 0 - Swindon 0 Don't miss the Daily Echo's Sport on Monday supplement for full match reports and analysis of Sunday's Saints v Tottenham clash at White Hart Lane..

  • A reel life tale

    SALLY CHURCHWARD looks back at the life of movie mogul J.Arthur Rank - sleepy Hampshire village Sutton Scotney's most famous resident TO the world at large he was J. Arthur Rank, millionaire miller and movie mogul - the man behind the gong that heralded

  • Mum stands by son who stole to feed drug habit

    THE MOTHER of Daniel Girdlestone who was jailed after stealing from her to feed a drug habit has said she would still support him when he was released. After hearing her son would serve six months in prison Jeanette Girdlestone said her son was a different

  • Music was blaring but owner slept on

    A NOISY neighbour has had his stereo equipment confiscated - despite being asleep while his friends played music so loudly in the early hours that it could be heard 50 metres away. Stephen Weavers failed to wake even when environmental health officers

  • Gypsy sites are on the way - and that's official

    OFFICIAL gypsy sites across Fareham could be in place by next year after funding was approved by councillors. Tensions between residents and travellers have risen over the summer months after several invasions by groups of gypsies, prompting Fareham council

  • SAINTS FIRED UP FOR WHITE HOT CLASH

    OAKS is burning with desire after putting the first match to the forest fire smouldering under Saints' visit to Spurs. Saints midfielder Matthew Oakley says that although the events surrounding tomorrow's White Hot Lane clash which have heated it up are