KEEN cyclist Raymond Viner is getting into a top spin to raise funds for the Wessex Cancer Trust. The 59-year-old father-of-two will be setting off from his North Baddesley home for a trip that will take him to Lymington and then around the Isle of Wight
IN A week where Saints' strikers and Championship referees have been in the spotlight, one certainly came out of this game with a lot more credit then the other. They always say you know a good referee because you hardly notice he's there. Well,
LOOKING for positives when things seem bleak is not easy. But at Saints there is still one - George Burley. Even with things going wrong on and off the pitch, everybody must remain strong and invest their faith in him to get it right. His pedigree
ANYBODY who thought the Championship was about turning up each week and knocking over inferior teams got a reality check on Saturday. While the novelty of Saints playing in a league they can actually win regularly in and going six games unbeaten is
GEORGE BURLEY is not so much tinkering with Saints as virtually starting again. The new boss is certainly stamping his mark on the batch of players he has inherited. When he took over he reckoned there were 32 professionals at the club, and that
IT'S a long, hard, gruelling season in the Championship. Phase one is almost over and so far it's going pretty well. In this league, more than any other, if you're going to be in and around the top you are going to go through phases where you win a
IT MIGHT only be temporary but George Burley did Rupert Lowe a big favour last night - and did himself and his squad the world of good, too. Saturday's dismal defeat against Ipswich and the anti-Lowe protests that followed marked one of the lowest
IF there is a team in the Championship this season with a midfield as good as Saints, then I can't wait to see them. Premiership quality in the Championship - that's the best way to describe them. And the rest of the side aren't doing too bad either
YOU GET the impression that at Saints right now something has got to give if things are to get any better. After relegation, the sale of the best players and a relegation struggle in the Championship beckoning, you could almost be forgiven for thinking
THE title of Sir Clive Woodward's autobiography is simply Winning! The exclamation mark is there for a reason. Winning! is when everything - collective and indivdual performances, preparation, result - all fall into place. Winning (no exclamation mark
IF EVER there was a case for Saints deciding to sell Theo Walcott, we have seen it in the last few months. Before the hate mail comes flying my way, let me explain. In Walcott, Saints have an incredible talent. He has searing pace, that, dare I
IT'S TIME for Harry Redknapp to be backed to find the men who will make his good team great. The Saints boss has pulled off a remarkable job this summer. Having lost so many star names, he has done what Harry Redknapp is famous for - uncovered some
THE FA CUP - the most magical cup competition in world domestic football. Also the most cliched. The romance of the cup, David v Goliath, giantkilling, the form book goes out the window - just some of the phrases you hear at this time of the year far
IT was billed as Paul Sturrock v Saints - but for Harry Redknapp's men, it was much more important than that. Defeat at Sheffield Wednesday, following on from the loss at another newly-promoted side Luton in midweek, would have meant a nightmare few
FOR DEXTER Blackstock, a new year looks like bringing new hope. The promising young striker, who impressed so many when he burst onto the scene with a Carling Cup hat-trick last season, has not enjoyed the best of times of late. Though he is probably
CONFIDENCE, unlike quality, is one thing that can't be bought in football. And while Saints look short of both at the moment, it is the former that could ultimately prove more problematic than the later. If anybody wanted to know what life in the
HAPPY NEW YEAR. After the disaster that was 2005, there are few Saints fans that won't be glad to see the back of it. It's hard to imagine how it could have gone much worse, but now it's a case of looking to the future rather than the past. That
CHILDREN at a Hampshire hospice took tea with Oscar-winning film stars Wallace and Gromit. The animated movie heroes dropped into Naomi House at Sutton Scotney, near Winchester to chat to the children and staff. The film charaters were publicising Wrong
NEW Forest police and licensees have relaunched a Pubwatch scheme to make sure the World Cup stays a safe and fun event for fans. The Lymington and District Pubwatch scheme will target troublemakers with orders banning them from all member pubs. The
THE residents of Fareham are recycling more than any other area in Hampshire according to the latest statistics. Fareham is successfully recycling 35.4 per cent of its waste beating the 30 per cent target set for the borough for April 2006 and is working
A HAMPSHIRE museum has been officially accredited by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. The newly refurbished Westbury Manor Museum in Fareham is part of a network of newly accredited museums. The Museum Accreditation Scheme sets nationally
ARTISTS of all ages are being invited to come up with some truly creative and inspirational ideas for scarecrows and win a cash prize. The annual scarecrow competition at Garsons Garden Centre, in Titchfield has been going from strength to strength
STALLHOLDERS at a car boot sale on Sunday will help support the vital work of a local charity, the Winchester Young Carers Project. The WYCP provides services for young people who help care for ill or disabled family members. The sale will be held at
THE SKY was the limit as a Hampshire school's travel plan switched into top gear. Fair Oak Infant School has joined forces with Eastleigh Council, parents and the local community to develop the plan. They celebrated the launch, which coincided with
SIR Norman Wisdom will be guest of honour at the reopening of a Winchester military museum tomorrow. The King's Royal Hussars Museum in Peninsula Barracks is being reopened after a £360,000 refurbishment. The ceremony will be carried out by Prince Michael
HAMPSHIRE'S win at Headingley at the weekend saw them record the third-highest successful run chase in the county's history. Here, the Daily Echo reflects on the top two chases. (1) At Northlands Road in September 1990, Hampshire successfully chased
AUSSIE spin king Shane Warne breathed life into Hampshire's hopes of retaining their C&G crown taking career-best one-day figures of 6-42 as Hampshire thrashed Surrey. The Hawks captain defied the tiredness of a long overnight journey down from Headingly
Shane Warne hailed Hampshire's record-breaking win as "special". Warne rated the five-wicket victory against Yorkshire at Headingley alongside the win against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge last year. He said: "I don't think we could have planned it
ONE of the Southampton finalists in the South Coast Idol contest has scooped second prize and a £5,000 recording contract. Singer songwriter Billy Phillips, pictured, who is just 16, sang a song he wrote himself called Girl Like You. A fantastic evening
Michael Wilde and his proposed new regime of Saints directors have accused chairman Rupert Lowe and his allies of causing "unnecessary distress to all concerned" as the battle for power at St Mary's rumbles on. In a statement released to the Daily Echo
GWEN PALMER has tirelessly donated her time and efforts to others touched by a deadly disease for the last ten years. Now Gwen, 62, from Southampton has been thanked for her efforts with a prestigious award from charity Leukaemia Research. Gwen joined
EVER dreamed of locking your boss away and feeding them only bread and water? Now is your chance and you can raise cash for a good cause at the same time. Lock Up Your Bosses is the call from children's charity Banardo's who will hand over keys to
A HAMPSHIRE early years centre is to undergo a £300,000 refurbishment. Oak Meadow Early Years Centre in Fareham is to have a self-contained nursery unit with new creche, toddlers' room, pre-school areas, staffroom, laundry, toilets, kitchen and baby
BEST-SELLING children's author Malorie Blackman will visit youngsters at Southampton General Hospital this Wednesday. Malorie, author of the Noughts and Crosses trilogy and Pig-Heart Boy, is stopping by as part of the Children's Party at the Palace outreach
SOUTHAMPTON carers looking after friends or family are invited to a free course to start on Wednesday. The Carers Awareness sessions, to be held at the Wesley Centre in Whites Road, Bitterne, will cover benefits, stress awareness, community services
SOME people simply forget while others start to feel better and just don't bother to cancel them. But missed appointments are weighing down an already overburdened and stretched NHS service in Hampshire. The true cost of people failing to turn up when
IT'S official summer is finally here! Scorching weather drenched Hampshire at the weekend with temperatures in the county soaring to 24C that's hotter than Ibiza! As the county sizzled its way into June, recording some of the highest temperatures
SCORES of parents are expected to descend on South-ampton Civic Centre today in an attempt to force the scrapping of plans to close two city schools. Teachers, governors and parents of pupils at the Grove Park Business and Enterprise College in Sholing
HUNDREDS of people turned out in the glorious sunshine to Hoglands Park in Southampton for a music, arts and sports festival. The Knowledge 2 (K2) festival is the first of three urban festivals to take place in the city during the summer months. Attractions
On the pitch, in the headlines, and now on stage. The life and texts of Hampshire cricket captain Shane Warne are about to be given the Broadway treatment with . . . Shane Warne: The Musical. Melbourne comedian Eddie Perfect is writing a large-scale
A CONGREGATION prayed for justice for Hannah Foster last night as the alleged murder victim was remembered in their prayers. At the service at Highfield Church in Southampton a bronze statue was also unveiled by the Rev Graham Archer in memory of the
FOR MOST people decorating involves a lick of paint or a change of wallpaper but for one Southampton family it involved transforming their three-bedroomed semi-detached into a giant World Cup display. Lee Martin, 28, of Bitterne, thought the best way
YOUR CAR may sport an England flag or two or be painted in St George's colours but the most sought-after World Cup decoration in Hampshire has to be the Daily Echo's Grilly. Our newspaper delivery vans were the first to sport the distinctive white
TELEVISION newsreader and Daily Echo columnist Fred Dinenage had the honour of cutting the ribbon of a new community store while picking up donations for two Hampshire charities. The famous face for viewers in the south was more than happy to open the
AN elderly Southampton man is fighting for his life after he was thrown in the air following a collision with a Fiat Punto. The collision occurred in Kingsway, at around 4pm yesterday. The man, 61, suffered serious chest and head injuries which were
ONE of the most famous housebuilder names in the region has seen shares soar on the back of takeover speculation. McCarthy & Stone, Britain's biggest retirement home specialist, confirmed it has received approaches regarding a possible offer. At one
FLYBE has revealed that the key factor in agreeing a three-year sponsorship deal at Saints was to put something back into the local community. Southampton International Airport's biggest airline carrier has just officially launched the first sponsored
Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Toronto, roro, 1400, 40; CMA CGM Bizet, container, 1630, 207; Grande Anversa, roro, container, 2230, 105 Today's principal sailings: Montlhery, roro, 1200, 201; Diezeborg, cargo, 1800, 107; Apollogracht
