Ross Morrison's life drastically changed when he was paralysed in a rugby accident. vicki green-steel reports... AT SCHOOL, rugby was Ross Morrison's favourite game. But eight years ago his life changed because of the sport he loved. During an after-school
Michael Buerk is a celebrated newscaster who chooses to stand largely apart from the rest - because he can't believe it is a respectable job for a reasonably intelligent grown-up. As he goes out of his way to make clear in this new autobiography, newsreading
Best selling hardback books for the week ending September 18th. 1 (1) Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation by Lynne Truss 2 (2) The Other Woman by Jane Green 3 (3) "And That's When It Came Off In My Hand" by Louise Rennison
Best selling paperback books for the week ending September 18th. 1 (1) You Are What You Eat by Gillian McKeith 2 (2) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 3 (3) A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 4 (4) The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The
THE Solent Stars lift the curtain on their competitive campaign tomorrow (4pm) when Coventry Crusaders visit Fleming Park in the National Trophy. Solent's pre-season build-up has been considered a success by the coaching staff. Apart from the many training
SCORES of cricket fans suffered traffic chaos before the Rose Bowl's first England one-day international. There was virtual gridlock around the ground early yesterday as a sell-out crowd of 16,000 flocked to see the likes of Michael Vaughan and Andrew
GEORDIE gunboat HMS Newcastle has been one of the big crowd-pullers at this year's Southampton Boat Show, with thousands of visitors climbing aboard. It's the first time the Royal Navy's longest serving Type 42 Air Defence destroyer has sailed into the
THE SECOND of four Romsey boys needing a life-saving bone marrow transplant will next week go into hospital for stage one of his vital treatment. Eight-year-old Daniel Hartley will travel to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital on Wednesday for his pre-transplant
AN ARTICULATED lorry caused traffic chaos when it became wedged under the notorious Greatbridge Road railway bridge yesterday afternoon. The accident happened at 12.15pm when the cab of the 14-tonne truck became stuck under the bridge and its trailer
TWO thousand runners will take to New Forest Roads tomorrow in two simultaneous races that will test them to the limit. As they line up on the start line in New Milton the runners will have behind them many hours and many miles of dedicated training.
FORMER Saints boss Alan Ball has set up his own Football Academy to develop young players on the south coast. Billed as 'elite coaching for the non-elite', Ball's vision is to provide "every player the greatest opportunity to develop their football skills
TYPICAL. This was the hat-trick that the Rose Bowl did not want. The abandonments of New Zealand v West Indies and Hampshire's only floodlit home match of the season were bad enough. But, two months after rain saw off the Natwest Series clash between
MARCUS TRESCOTHICK reckons England need 220 runs against Sri Lanka at the Rose Bowl today to clinch an ICC Champions Trophy semi-final against Australia. Opener Trescothick was unbeaten on 64 when the rains came down, while Andrew Flintoff was beginning
This is the remarkable story of a Jewish family called Frank - who had no connection to the famous Anne Frank - who went into hiding in the Hague in 1942 to avoid transportation to the east, and were never caught by the Nazis. The parallels between the
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HAMPSHIRE player Sam Rooney will not forget the Eastleigh Carnival finals night in a hurry. The former Winmau Youth Masters semi-finalist came close to missing the event when his wife went into hospital for their second child. Spencer Samuel Rooney weighed
A FORMER turkey farmer from the New Forest has turned his attentions to worms - all £10,000 worth of them. Daily Echo sea angling correspondent Chris Clark has retired from his poultry business which has given him the time to organise the World Shore
"DON'T worry, Dad, I won't let in any goals today." These were the last words a father heard from his sports-mad nine-year-old son before the boy collapsed and died at his Hampshire school. Anuj Panchmatia, pictured above with his dad, Manoj, was warming
A LEADING clergyman has spent £10,000 of church funds to prop up a cash-strapped charity that offers vital help to some of the city's poorest people. Southampton city centre parish rector, the Rev Ian Johnson, warned that the needy could be left starving
A DIRECTOR of the auction firm charged with selling Saints hero Peter Rodrigues's treasured FA cup winner's medal has expressed his sympathy for the star but confirmed the sale would still be going ahead. The football legend is said to be "devastated"
WHEN Dorothy Robinson first used the Internet she was hooked. The information super-highway opened up a new world for the pensioner and provided a hobby to help her overcome the grief of losing her husband. But now her Web surfing has been soured by so-called
THERE has been a lot of talk recently about the credentials needed for football management. Paul Sturrock, who had already managed two clubs in Scotland as well as Plymouth in two of our lower divisions, was deemed by some critics to be too inexperienced
TALKING about modern initiatives on the coaching front, some of my colleagues tell me that most of the top clubs now are employing different people to help out on the fitness and training in particular. At one time, there was the manager, his trainer
JAMES BEATTIE has spoken for the first time about his Euro 2004 heartache and confesses he's puzzled. "Sven's never called me," he says. Beattie admits he has been hurt to not even to get a phone call to tell him he had missed out on England's squad to
STEVE WIGLEY is shutting out the furore over his coaching qualifications to focus on his team. It emerged this week that the new head coach does not hold the UEFA pro-licence required to manage a Premier League side and, as such, is technically ineligible
SAINTS striker Brett Ormerod could be on his way out of St Mary's on loan early next week, writes Simon Carter. But his agent, Richard Dunwoody, last night told the Daily Echo that, if the forward was loaned out, it would NOT be to Sunderland. Black Cats
