AS the sun popped out for one last time before disappearing for the winter, people from all over the county gathered at the Hampshire Rose Bowl for the third annual Rose Bowl Run. Hundreds turned out for the run, this year in aid of the Wessex Cancer
ANGRY pensioners were today to get the chance to grill bus and council transport chiefs over what they feel are poor and unfair services. Elderly residents in Southampton are incensed the city council has not joined a countywide scheme allowing free
A LACK of cash could torpedo plans to give a Hampshire town a shopping centre fit for the 21st century. A leading member of New Forest District Council has confirmed that proposals to transform Totton town centre are in danger of being foiled by a shortage
SMILES and sunshine surrounded the official opening of a brand new centre to help children with physical disabilities. Regional television presenters and Daily Echo columnists Fred Dinenage and Sally Taylor teamed up to open the new £1m Bradbury Building
A VILLAGE pub near Winchester has set a record by being voted the Hampshire dining pub of the year for the fourth year in a row. The Plough in Sparsholt, has been run by licensees Richard and Kathryn Crawford for 11 years. Wadworth brewery spokesman
WINCHESTER City Council has organised drop-in surgeries for local people in Winnall. It follows the success of a similar scheme in Stanmore last year. Winnall Community Centre will be the monthly venue for residents to meet the neighbourhood wardens
A DECISION over whether stables can be used for a horse carriage hire company went down to a photo finish. The applicant, Terry Jewer, lost by a single vote at the planning committee meeting at Winchester Guildhall. Opinion amongst nearby residents
PLANNERS ruled that a detached house in a village near Winchester can be demolished and replaced with four homes. The proposal to bulldoze Martins Close in Compton had drawn criticism from some residents. Around a dozen wrote to Winchester City Council's
PINK was the colour of the day at a Hampshire hair and beauty salon as staff did their bit for Breast Cancer Awareness month. They donned Cancer Research UK T-shirts and pink wigs at the Vanilla Rooms Hair and Beauty Salon in Bursledon Road, Hedge End
A NEW FOREST couple have organised a fundraising night with a difference in aid of a Hampshire charity. Avid fundraisers Dave and Patsy Green, of Brokenford Road, Totton, will be holding a boat party in the middle of Southampton Water on Saturday in
HAVE you got the cutest spotty dog? The Lynn's Bowel Cancer Campaign is trying to find the cutest spotty dog as part of their campaign to encourage people to think spotty and spot the symptoms of bowel cancer. The campaign is a voluntary charity led
The Cowes Week Working Party (representing Cowes Combined Clubs and Cowes Week Sponsorship Limited), tasked with reviewing the current arrangements for the regatta and planning for the future, is grateful for the large response it has had to the on line
Alf Charles may have made just one appearance for Saints first team but it was enough to secure him a momentous place in the club's history books. A professional magician turned cricketer turned footballer was not the most obvious career path for a newcomer
The ever-popular Hamble Winter Series began, for the twenty fifth consecutive year, in the Solent over the past weekend with sponsorship provided again by Garmin. The main series, which will continue to 3 December, provides excellent racing for thirteen
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MORE than 100 protesters marched through the centre of South-ampton at the weekend to "save the NHS". The health workers, patients and supporters are opposing plans by the Department of Health to open an independent sector treatment centre in the Royal
A SOUTHAMPTON psychiatric unit has today found itself at the centre of controversy over its security. Mentally-ill patients have regularly been escaping from the controversial Department of Psychiatry by scaling a 20ft security fence, an undercover programme
POLICE are trying to establish whether a body found in woods is that of a missing Hampshire man. Roy Davage, 43, went missing from his Southampton home Last Tuesday having left a note for his mum saying he was going out for a walk. His car was later
CANCER specialists in Southampton are celebrating a massive cash windfall - thanks to thousands of women who took part in Race for Life. The Cancer Research UK unit in Southampton will receive £2m over the next five years. The aim is to create an Experimental
The Jubilee Sailing Trust received a wave of support last month as over eleven thousand pounds was raised for the organisation at the Official Southampton Boat Show Charity Gala Dinner. The fourth annual Charity Gala Dinner, which took place on
While there was a happy gathering of ex-professionals at Eastleigh, sadly this week I saw many of the real veterans at the funeral of Tommy Traynor. Also, last Sunday at Stamford Bridge when Chelsea put on a magnificent service when the urn containing
The intimidating bunch of youths swigging from bottles on the street corner. The alcohol-fuelled groups of loutish teens roaming our estates and parks. They are familiar scenes played out across Hampshire on any given evening. But behind the nuisance
Southampton striker Bradley Wright-Phillips has issued a don't drink message to budding sports stars. The 21-year-old Saints hitman warned youngsters not to be swayed into a path of under-age drinking if they want to make it and stay healthy. He told
WINCHESTER nanny recruitment agency Family Match has bought out a major London rival for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of Kensington based London Nanny Company means Family Match can now offer childcare services to families throughout London and
AN entire parade of shops in a New Forest town is expected to raise around £2.2m when it goes under the hammer at a London auction. Numbers 61 to 71 Station Road New Milton go on the auctioneers block in London on Thursday October 19. The property consists
Today's principal arrivals: Aurora, passenger, 0630, 106; Autoroute, roro, 0700, 203; Otello, vehicle, 0830, 43; Arroyofrio Dos, roro, 1100, 201; Copenhagen Express, container, 1315, 204; Tristan, vehicle, 1315, 34/35; APL Ireland, container, 1345,
AS many commuters to Southampton will be aware ,the A35 westbound carriageway gets completely blocked up when the container box lorries exit the docks on their way to the M271 during rush hour periods. The traffic backs up as far back as Millbrook. On
THE Daily Echo's front page article (Pupil Takes Gun To School, September 26) was grossly misleading and sensationalist. The image of a gun that you included in the report gave the impression that it was a real gun and not a plastic toy. With breathtakingly
ALTHOUGH the windows are whitewashed and the building unoccupied, all of the interior lights in the old Somerfield supermarket in Salisbury Road, Totton, are burning bright, 24 hours a day and have done for some weeks now. I know that a lot of local
I REFER to M MacQueen's letter of October 2 about disposal of hazardous household waste. As it correctly stated, items like household batteries, fluorescent lighting tubes, garden pesticides, some types of paint, and other hazardous chemicals, are now
I WISH people would stop complaining about so-called dangerous dogs! Do these dogs attack children without cause? In my view it is normally the children or adults who provoke the dogs into attacking them. I have been around dogs since I was born and
SPEED limits certainly do have their place in our society but we seem obsessed with them to the exclusion of matters that have greater effect on road safety. Of far greater importance are "safety zones" around vehicles, the most important of which is
Well, he tried to... it just wasn't his battle. The Daily Echo's very own News Knight took to the woods at the weekend to take on an army of opponents. But for all his confidence - and armour - Echo reporter Ash Bolton was to meet his match at the fourth
Youngsters from Sholing Junior School had the time of their lives when they left their parents behind for an exciting break to France. They didn't need asking twice to muck-in when staff suggested taking part in assault course - with predictable consequences
HEALTH chiefs have revealed that Hampshire's new out of hours service handled more than 85,000 calls in its first year. The potentially life-saving service operates in the evenings and at weekends, when the vast majority of the county's GPs are off duty
AFC Totton blew Chipping Norton Town away with the quality of their attacking play as they marched through to the FA Vase second round. Yet it was a defender, the towering Ross Bottomley, who edged manager Stuart Ritchie's vote for man-of-the-match
JIM Hone admits the new board of directors spent money the club didn't have in the summer. But the St Mary's chief executive is in no mood to offer any apologies for the close season spending spree. During the first eight weeks of the Michael Wilde
SAINTS starlet Gareth Bale can "really excite" Welsh football for the next 15 years. That was the verdict from national skipper Craig Bellamy after Bale's superb free-kick provided his country with their sole ray of light on Saturday. The 17-year-old
SAINTS are currently working on a loyalty scheme' to reward fans and businesses who have stuck by them following relegation. Commercial director Andy Oldknow will announce the precise details of the scheme within a matter of weeks. But the Daily
Mine clearance operations at the former HMS Daedalus Royal Naval Air Base at Lee-on-Solent are today set to move into their third week. Army experts have already had to deal with a live explosive which meant that the evacuation arrangements had to be
THE New Forest Tour bus which attracted 10,000 visitors for a car-free ride this summer has been hailed as success by council and national park bosses. The open-top hop on, hop off service ran for one hundred days from May to early September and gave
Civilian defence workers in Hampshire will start a work-to-rule today which union leaders have warned could disrupt the supply of equipment to the armed forces. The action by employees at the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) is in protest at the
SMILES and sunshine surrounded the official opening of a brand new centre to help children with physical disabilities. Regional television presenters and Daily Echo columnists Fred Dinenage and Sally Taylor teamed up to open the new £1m Bradbury Building
A LACK of cash could torpedo plans to give a Hampshire town a shopping centre fit for the 21st century. A leading member of New Forest District Council has confirmed that proposals to transform Totton town centre are in danger of being foiled by a shortage
ANGRY pensioners will today get the chance to grill bus and council transport chiefs over what they feel are poor and unfair services. Elderly residents in Southampton are incensed the city council has not joined a countywide scheme allowing free travel
