Don't forget to pick up your copy of this weekend's Pink for the latest news from the non-league scene. In this weeks edition read... - Salisbury boss Nick Holmes on Robbie Matthews' memorable midweek goal. - Winchester City manager Steve Moss
George Burley has reiterated his stance on Gareth Bale as the media speculation draws to a crescendo. The Saints boss came in for something of a grilling as a much larger than usual media contingent rolled up at Staplewood just after lunchtime for
PEUGEOT'S popular 107 range entry-model is, from next month, to be available in a new three-door Sport XS trim level, for young-minded individuals who like a more racy and personalised vehicle. Available from just £8,345, the 107 Sport XS is a combination
THE all-new Lexus LS 460 is an engineering masterpiece, a car that more than any other Lexus before it exemplifies the brand's famous "relentless pursuit of perfection" motto. On sale now, the new LS is the fourth-generation of Lexus's luxury flagship
THE Jetta, Volkswagen's medium saloon car, has always represented good value for money and, with the introduction of even lower running costs thanks to a new servicing package, this claim has been taken a step further. From now until March 31, buyers
LEG warmers at the ready - Fame The Musical is returning to the Mayflower next week. And there are a few familiar faces among its twinkle-toed cast. Abigail Finley, semi-finalist from BBC TV's How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria, along with Strictly
THOUGHT the panto season was over? Oh no it isn't! The Waterside Theatre Company's production of Jack and The Beanstalk starts on Tuesday (Jan 30). Over in panto land the Princess is coming home to celebrate her birthday, the King has declared a holiday
IT is the highlight of the amateur dramatics calendar and this year's Daily Echo Curtain Call Awards are shaping up to be a star-studded affair. Guest host Syd Little, one half of comedy duo Little and Large, will be presenting awards at tonight's glittering
Charlton have agreed a £2.5m fee for Sheffield Wednesday defender Madjid Bougherra. The Addicks had previously had a £1.3m bid turned down by the Owls, who visit St Mary's next Wednesday.
A HAMPSHIRE boy who almost died in a horrific motoring accident is about to complete his breathtaking recovery by appearing on Oprah Winfrey's US television show. Chris Stewart, 12, has amazed doctors with his miraculous recovery after he broke his neck
Being in the music business for 40 years, is a lifetime in today's society, what do you think has kept your success going? "We have a very unique situation, because we never had a heyday. When we get on stage, we are not going back to a golden period
RAY Davies has extended his UK tour and will be appearing at the Southampton Guildhall on Wednesday May 30. Davies' tour proceeds the release of his critically acclaimed solo debut effort Other Peoples Lives and has seen him trawl the western World through
Parachutes are a Southampton based Coldplay tribute band that have been causing quite a stir recently with their uncanny coverage of the indie golden boys. As most Coldplay fans will know, Chris Martin and co. only play a handful of gigs every couple
Harry Redknapp admits he would love to emulate Sir Alex Ferguson and continue to manage until he is 65 as the pair prepare to meet in the FA Cup fourth round at Old Trafford. Portsmouth travel to the north west to take on Barclays Premiership leaders
FORMER Saints manager Gordon Strachan has admitted Celtic must travel to the United States for the second summer in a row to try to match the increased spending power of clubs in England. From next season, the winners of the Barclays Premiership will
WHEN you least expect it, cinema transcends its role as escapist entertainment and manages to spark debate and even change the world. Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 launched a blistering attack on the American government for its role in
With a starry cast - Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore to name a few - Emilio Estevez's historical drama is an ambitious and engrossing movie that relives events leading up to the shooting of Bobby Kennedy through the eyes of 22 fictional characters
Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn star in this haunting and perplexing love story, set in three different eras. Director Darren Aronofsky's movie is sometimes impenetrable, but if you give yourself completely to The Fountain, you're rewarded
FORMER Saints star Kevin Davies is hoping to end 10 years of hurt and collect an FA Cup winners' medal. The Bolton striker was making his way in the game in 1997 and wearing the colours of unsung Chesterfield. The Derbyshire side reached the semi-finals
MANCHESTER City boss Stuart Pearce believes Gareth Bale is only worth £4m. Ahead of Sunday's FA Cup tie against Saints, Pearce feels the Saints star's £10million valuation is a bit steep despite the teenager's obvious promise. ''You are paying
Wales boss John Toshack has advised Gareth Bale to ''go with your gut reaction'' in deciding which big-money move the teenager should take. Bale, still only 17, became Wales' youngest international debutant and goalscorer under Toshack earlier this
SAINTS' Premiership neighbours Pompey have put the boot in to plans to create a travellers' site in Southampton. Residents battling the unpopular Stoneham Way proposal now find themselves fighting side-by-side with Portsmouth Football Club. Bosses at
SAINTS legend Lawrie McMenemy went to Staplewood today thinking he was going to cook burgers - and ended up handing out bottles of Coca Cola to Claus Lundekvam and his fellow players instead! Saints had sent out a press release yesterday afternoon
SAINTS starlet Gareth Bale is set to come up against club colleague Chris Baird. Bale was today named in the Welsh squad for the friendly against Baird's Northern Ireland in Belfast on February 6. Wales squad: P Jones (QPR), Ward (Sunderland),
West Brom have suspended goalkeeper Russell Hoult following newspaper articles about his private life. The 34-year-old former Portsmouth star has been first choice since Tony Mowbray took over as manager at The Hawthorns in October. But the club
TODAY Alan Ross, the man who once kept Southampton dancers' feet tapping, jiving and waltzing, sits in his Chandler's Ford home and looks back over "a million musical memories''. Alan was at one time the top-of-the-bill band leader at Southampton's former
Newport police station on the Isle of Wight was evacuated today after a member of the public brought a live hand grenade to the front counter. An elderly woman brought the device into the station after finding it when she was clearing a derelict house
THESE little piggies went to school. A New Forest school has got a couple of unusual new additions to the register. Two pigs are making themselves at home at Priestlands School, in Lymington, where they are performing a crucial role in the school's
DAREDEVIL mountain bikers created a downhill trail on Hampshire crumbling cliffs . Three men thought to be in their early 20s were seen hacking away at the clifftop with pickaxes and long-handled shovels. They have been accused of vandalising the cliffs
WHITELEY parents face an agonising 24-hour wait to see if their children have been accepted to Whiteley County Primary School. If they are unsuccessful they face a five-mile journey across the M27 everyday just to get their children to school, and even
PUB landlords in a New Forest town have joined forces with police in the fight against yobs. Fourteen premises in Ringwood and neighbouring villages have signed up to the Pub Watch Scheme. Now, if a troublemaker is banned from one pub in the area, they
HAMPSHIRE civic chiefs have backed a new scheme to boost business in Winchester city centre. The county council has agreed to give £20,000 to the Business Improvement District. But its Cabinet heard that the council does not want to be the only public
WINCHESTER civic chiefs are discussing how to tackling a pigeon problem in the city centre. A flock of more than 50 of the birds are roosting in the Bridge Street area. They like the buildings close to the River Itchen, as they offer secure roosts and
IT IS a date teachers around Hampshire look forward to all year. For one glorious day the school canteens and corridors are filled with a glorious silence as pupils keep quiet in the name of charity. However, that is only at the schools which have signed
Former Southampton defender Matthew Mills has joined Colchester United on a month's loan in the build up to current club Manchester City's FA Cup fourth-round tie against the Saints. Mills,20, has only played 66 minutes in City's first team since following
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger insists a number of injuries to his first-team squad will not tempt him into the January transfer market - even for Saints left-back Gareth Bale. The Gunners have been linked with the £10million-rated 17-year-old but Wenger
CAMPAIGNERS who did not want to see an Argos lowering the tone in an affluent Hampshire town have had their wishes granted - Marks & Spencer is definitely coming instead. When it emerged that the Argos catalogue store planned to set up shop in Lymington's
IT WAS a day of celebration they thought they would never see. The first birthday of tiny miracle boy Matthew Wing was celebrated with a party at Southampton General Hospital. Matthew was given just a 50 per cent chance of surviving when he was born
MORE than 250 people were arrested across Hampshire in a blitz on fine dodgers, it was revealed today. Teams of police officers and court officials targeted people who had failed to pay court fines as part of a two-week crackdown called Operation Payback
This original musical comedy, written and directed by John Conway, is a modern fairytale with a dash of magic, a dose of evil and a camp fairy in a tutu. A group of misfit school kids put on a musical and realise their dreams helped by a fairy godmother
NORTHERN Irish classic blues guitarist Gary Moore has just announced a UK tour - with a stop on the south coast. Tickets to see the music legend go on sale today at 9am. Moore is acknowledged as one of the finest musicians the British Isles has ever
EASTLEIGH and Chandler's Ford Ladies Circle will be hosting a charity film night in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care tonight. This fundraising event will be held at The Point, with a reception beginning at 7.30pm and the screening of the film Wah-Wah starting
A FAMILY fighting deportation to their homeland of Iran are confident they will not have to vacate their Southampton flat within the next few weeks. The Khameneh family had been told they would have to leave the property in Briarswood, Shirley, yesterday
ONE mobile company is going that extra mile for their customers and painting the town pink. To celebrate the opening of their new store at Fareham Shopping Centre, T-Mobile is offering tuk-tuk rides to weary shoppers. And the sight of the pink motorised
BRITAIN'S defence chiefs want to see a tie-up between Hamp-shire shipbuilders VT and BAE within a few months, it has emerged. Talks between the two companies about merging their shipbuilding interests have been ongoing since last year, but the Government
WINCHESTER architects have designed a new £4m embassy for British staff in the Middle East. Design Engine, based in St Clement Street, landed the contract through a competition. Their brief was to draw up plans for a new embassy in Sana'a, capital
LOOKING at Southampton City Council's magazine City View, I saw a picture of the development of Vosper site. I hope they are not going to build high-rise buildings opposite the bottom of Lake Road. We put up with the covered in berths because it was
PROPOSED mobile phone mast on Bishops Waltham church: Patricia Wilson is worri3ed about health implications for the congregation of a phone mast on Bishop's Waltham church. What about people like us who have a mast 50m from our house? There was nobody
ME thinks a strange malady has overcome the corridors of power. I don't I remember the headlines during the Cold War when America and Russia were jostling for strategic advantage by invading Afghanistan in turn with dismal success? The poverty of the
IT seems that we are way behind the times. Gordon Brown's insistence that we should preserve our British way of life, fly the flag, etc, and that talk about a referendum to give Scotland its independence is a non-starter. The EU, using the facilities
DAVID Cameron accuses Gordon Brown of trying to frighten Scotland into remaining within the UK. At the same time, Mr Cameron is going the right way about forcing Scotland out of the UK. Wessex (Our Home) has no plans to separate from the UK. We want
I have just been reading about the Royal Marines in Afghanistan who flew strapped to the sides of the helicopter into enemy territory to rescue a fallen comrade, who sadly was already dead. Bearing in mind that originally a knighthood was awarded by
Cabinet member Councillor Liz Mizon denies that Lordshill is neglected (Letters, January 19). She has proved the points I was making because her reply is full (once again) of 'perhaps', 'maybe's', 'in the future', 'if's and buts'. I've only ever said
I AGREE that we should be more tougher with people who use their mobile while driving. I live in Maybush and every time when I am in Shirley or the city centre I see many people talking on their phone while driving and this is dangerous because they
THE A36 was closed this morning after a motorist was killed in an accident. The crash happened a mile past the Whiteparish junction going towards Southampton on the southbound carriageway. A Renault van and a Peugeot saloon car were involved in the
Today's principal Southampton arrivals Nikos, cargo, 0100, 25; Morning Miracle, vehicle, 0530, 43; Aegean Breeze, roro, 0630, 202; Freedom, vehicle, 0700, 34/35; Autoroute, roro, 100, 201; Toronto Express, container, am, 207; Santa Cristina, container
England today crashed to their most humiliating defeat of a miserable tour Down Under after capitulating for a sorry 110. They chose Australia Day to nosedive to their lowest ebb of the three-month trip, dismissed in just 34.3 overs, and barely stretching
GEORGE Burley has repeated his message to Gareth Bale: Please stay at Saints. The St Mary's manager has consistently told the Daily Echo in recent weeks that his prize asset should not consider a transfer window move away from the club. After last
IF George Burley and his players are seeking any inspiration ahead of Sunday's FA Cup trip to Manchester City, a trip down memory lane will provide it. Way back in January 1960, 47 years ago this month, Ted Bates' men went to Maine Road and recorded
Steve Wigley insists he does not dwell on his 17-game spell as Saints manager. Wigley, now the first-team coach at Manchester City, will be up against Saints for the first time since leaving his post as academy director 18 months ago during Sunday's
TOMORROW'S Daily Echo is set to make a reader's dreams come true. Holidays abroad, a sports car, a yacht or diamond jewellery could be on the shopping list of whoever wins our weekly Find the Ball competition. The jackpot now stands at £48,000, and
WHITELEY parents face an agonising 24-hour wait to see if their children have been accepted to Whiteley County Primary School. If they are unsuccessful they face a five-mile journey across the M27 everyday just to get their children to school, and even
FIVE more men have been charged over the kidnap of a French lorry driver and his consignment of brandy in Hampshire. Michael Slinger, 42, Orchard Farm, Holgate, Liverpool, and Dean Swanson, 23, of Mottram Close, Liverpool, are charged with conspiracy
WINCHESTER City's Ian Mancey has been clobbered with a seven-match suspension after admitting a charge of threatening behaviour towards the referee at Bashley on New Year's Day. The 35-year-old targetman stunned a 302-strong crowd at the Bashley Road
A BUILDER'S labourer stole two cheques from the house he was working on then he drew cash for more than £5,000. Philip Flaherty, 19, squandered most of it at a Southampton casino and spent the rest on a car and food. He was arrested after a police officer
ONE of Totton's biggest retailers is vowing to raise the money needed to give the town's war dead the recognition they deserve. Asda is backing a campaign to enlarge Totton's war memorial and add the names of more than 160 servicemen killed in the two
SECRETS of the Second World War Dambusters raid were revealed to young mathematicians during a workshop at Southampton University. Pupils from schools across Fareham and Gosport found out how renowned war-time mathematician and engineer Barnes Wallis
