STEVE WIGLEY was in defiant mood after his Saints side restored some much needed pride with a 2-1 win in the south coast derby against Portsmouth at St Mary's today. There was huge pressure on Wigley and the team going into the game after days of speculation
THE number of jobs likely to be axed at Hampshire bases of insurance giant Zurich has climbed to 174, the Daily Echo can reveal. Fifteen of the posts will be filled by cheap workers in India and 26 staff in the Whiteley office already have their marching
DEBBIE Hampton of Southampton's Dynamo School of Gymnastics has scooped the female community coach-of-the-year award from Sport England. Hampton, who comes from Botley, is the community sports gymastics coach for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sports
SCAFFOLDING more than 20 feet high came crashing on to a Southampton street yesterday at the former Vosper Thornycroft site. The construction peeled away from the building just before 1pm and smashed on to the road and pavement, narrowly missing a postman
EASTLEIGH Running Club's Patricia Daas has revelled in three successive weekends of duathlon success. She was third female and winner of her age-group in the Goodwood Multilap Duathlon, an event comprising three 4k runs and two 12k bike rides around the
Latest score from the Southampton v Portsmouth south-coast derby at St Mary's this afternoon. SAINTS 2 - PORTSMOUTH 1 12 mins - POMPEY: Andreas Jakobsson (own-goal) 18 mins - SAINTS: Dexter Blackstock 71 mins - SAINTS: Kevin Phillips
KASEY Keller is expected to come straight into the Saints team to face Pompey this afternoon. As first revealed in yesterday's Daily Echo, the American international has been brought in on loan from Tottenham to add experience with both Antti Niemi and
HAMPSHIRE start life back in the county championship first division with a home match against Gloucestershire on April 13. New signings Kevin Pietersen and Richard Logan could return to Trent Bridge to play former county Nottinghamshire before the start
CONTRARY TO WHAT they say on the back of thrillers, it's quite easy to get inside the mind of a psychopath. You don't have to bother with empathy. All you need is a gimmick and a childhood trauma to explain it. Add eccentricities and academic qualifications
WORLD number three Paul Hunter had the shock of his snooker life at Chandler's Ford Snooker Club. The plan was for Hunter to demonstrate his silky skills to a capacity 100-strong audience. But in his first frame he lost to 14-year-old Joshua Hancock-Brown
THESE days most women start to think about making a home, marriage and possibly having children when they hit 30. However, singletons in Southampton admit they would rather be out having fun spending their cash in the city's pubs and clubs than saving
I WAS at the Rose Road Centre recently to help Southampton Council Care Department award certificates to about 50 of their men and women - mainly Down's Syndrome - who'd completed courses ranging from communication to learning to play computer games.
FORMER Saints striker Gordon Watson has jumped to Steve Wigley's defence, insisting: "He's been asked to go into battle without any ammunition!" Watson, part of the Saints teams that survived a couple of relegation battles in the mid-to-late 1990s, knows
Karenza Morton met Saints and England goalkeeping legend Peter Shilton... "AS A GOALKEEPER I used to come in after a game and hold my hands up if I'd made a mistake because that's what you should do, and that's exactly what I did when I realised I'd got
Former TVS news presenter Khalid Aziz talks to Kate Thompson... LOOKING back on his first day at TVS, you would be forgiven for wondering just how Khalid Aziz made it through. There was no time for nerves as he firstly had to contend with a bad case of
THIS FASCINATING book by an American author takes a new look at how one great national leader successfully "courted" another at a time of international crisis, and delves objectively into their complex five-year relationship. The "wooer" was Britain's
Best selling hardback books for the week ending November 13th supplied by Waterstone's. 1 (-) Jamie's Dinners by Jamie Oliver 2 (4) Himalaya by Michael Palin 3 (1) Going Postal by Terry Pratchett 4 (10) The Two Of Us: My Life With John Thaw by Sheila
Best selling paperback books for the week ending November 13th supplied by Waterstone's. 1 (1) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 2 (-) Lovers And Liars by Josephine Cox 3 (-) Sickened: The True Story Of A Lost Childhood by Julie Gregory 4 (-) Big Bad Wolf
IT WAS a big achievement when The Gregg School won the under-13 Southampton City Schools netball tournament at Millbrook School. The school has a very small annual intake so numbers are limited for netball selection while the teams they came up against
NEVILLE WRIGHT and Laura Power have won their respective Hampshire Super League North singles events at the Academy Snooker Centre in Basingstoke. Wright overcame Gary Hawkins 5-3 in the final while Laura Power beat Wendy Reinstadtler 4-3. Results: Men
Oh! What a Lovely War, RAODS Plaza Theatre, Romsey IN this time of remembrance, RAODS has chosen to mark the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War with its current production. It should be proud of its effort to mark the occasion. Director
Chess,Waterside Musical Society, Waterside Theatre, Romsey A BRAVE decision to put on one of the lesser performed musicals is successfully borne out by this production of Chess. Set in the Cold War period, the plot uses international chess players as
IT'S A VICTORY for nearly 4,000 people - five weeks of campaigning and a three inch-thick petition have finally paid off for thousands of readers who backed the Daily Echo's Have a Heart campaign. Today health bosses have finally seen sense and reinstated
IT'S a football chant with a difference. A song written by pupils and staff at a Hampshire school is designed to unite fans at today's crunch derby match between Southampton and Portsmouth football clubs. The children from Hook-with-Warsash Primary School
REMEMBRANCE Day will take on an extra meaning for sailors serving on the city's adopted warship HMS Southampton. Currently on exercise in the eastern Mediterranean, the ship - the sixth to be commissioned bearing Southampton's name - will conduct a moving
WHEN the country stands in silence for two minutes tomorrow - as it has done every year for the past 85 years - war veterans young and old will remember friends and colleagues who lost their lives in battle. The image associated with Remembrance Day is
IT'S a football chant with a difference. A song written by pupils and staff at a Hampshire school is designed to unite fans at today's crunch derby match between Southampton and Portsmouth football clubs. The children from Hook-with-Warsash Primary School
COLOURFUL celebrations have taken place across Hampshire to mark the biggest event in the Hindu calendar, Diwali. Thousands of people joined in events to highlight the religious occasion, known as the Festival of Lights, which commemorates Lord Rama's
Gabrielle, Portsmouth Guildhall THE Queen of British soul, Gabrielle, began her new tour in style at Portsmouth Guildhall on Thursday night. Despite arriving on stage late and spending the rest ofthe night apologising, Gabrielle, pictured above, treated
TEAM Solent's up-and-coming distance prospect Tommy Davies has decided against running for England in the Margate Cross-Country International tomorrow. Instead the Loughborough University student is sticking to his original race plan formulated with the
THE PASSING of Emlyn Hughes this week was unfortunately not a shock. He had suffered for quite a while and it was no surprise to hear medical people say it was only his fighting spirit that earned him the bonus of a couple of more years. As a player,
IT WAS interesting to see Bryan Robson getting the manager's job at West Brom despite a few foreign names being linked with the vacancy. Bryan was captain of England in my time with the national team and, coming from the same part of the country, we got
Final score from the Southampton v Portsmouth south-coast derby at St Mary's this afternoon. SAINTS 2 - PORTSMOUTH 1 12 mins - POMPEY: Andreas Jakobsson (own-goal) 18 mins - SAINTS: Dexter Blackstock 71 mins - SAINTS: Kevin Phillips FOR THE BEST COVERAGE
SAINTS' Carling Cup nightmare at Watford meant misery for exiled fans across the world. The shockwaves of the 5-2 setback at Vicarage Road were felt as far afield as China for expat supporter Jonathan Peters. The world's most populous nation woke up on
