WITH just eight people sitting among the 80 seats laid out at Romsey's Crosfield Hall, it was the best turnout yet in a series of public meetings to discuss the future of Southamp-ton's hospitals. Previously, no one had turned up to two other open sessions
A PUB has been told by a judge to stay shut over Christmas and New Year because it is so likely to descend into trouble. The bar's owners did not object to the police-backed application. Officers ordered the Home Tavern in Eastleigh to close after a
IT WAS an exciting end of term for these Hampshire school pupils with a chance encounter with X Factor winner Leon Jackson and the Christmas show. Two pupils from Stoke Park Junior School in Bishopstoke won a day out to the ITN studios in London to read
EASTLEIGH MP Chris Huhne was today named as the Liberal Democrats' new home affairs spokesman. Newly-elected party leader Nick Clegg, who beat Mr Huhne to the top job by just 551 votes, unveiled senior members of his front bench team. Mr Huhne takes
Paul Collingwood insists there is "plenty of passion" in the England dressing room but admits today's capitulation to Sri Lanka suggested those looking in from outside might have reason to doubt the team's resolve. The tourists were made to follow
LEON Crouch has been installed back as chairman of Saints' football board. The club's PLC board director was kicked off the football board by the executiv directors back in the summer. But following Jim Hone, Ken Dulieu and Andy Oldknow's resignations
AN open verdict has been recorded on the death of a Hampshire teenager whose body was discovered on a motorway near Southampton. Sara Clark is thought to have jumped to her death from the bridge over the M27, though yesterday the inquest heard a lot
FOUL-MOUTHED celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay called him pompous, arrogant, prickly, fat - and those are just the insults we are allowed to print. Owner of The Granary, Nigel Nieddu, was torn to shreds on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares where his staff
A "MINI Paultons Park" could be built in the heart of the New Forest. The owners of a derelict former equestrian centre in Brockenhurst have grand plans for the site - and are able to bypass tricky planning restrictions. The half-acre building at Black
AT just 4ft 10in, her diminutive size usually holds her back from getting the best acting parts. However, Hampshire actress Nicola Curzon's petite stature has finally worked in her favour. Nicola, 27, a graduate of the University of Winchester, landed
WORK is due to start in the new year on a £1.75m scheme which will reduce the risk of flooding to properties in Winchester city centre. It will mean the closure of one of the city's busiest roads, bringing weeks of traffic disruption. Southern Water
IMAGES of what is believed to be the face of a serial rapist have been released in a fresh bid to track him down. He is being hunted after his DNA was linked to a number of historic attacks on teenage girls across Hampshire. The two images of the suspect
A YOUNG child was left terrified after wandering into his parent's bedroom at night to find them being held at knifepoint by a man who claimed to have committed a murder. High on drink and prescribed drugs, intruder Andrew McCall, 39, who has been branded
FOR most dads-to-be, their role in their child's birth involves little more than offering a hand to be squeezed. However, when Steve Amato's partner Kate Hiscock went into labour at their Hampshire home, he soon realised he was going to have to play
YOUNGSTERS from Southampton have been helping to bridge the generation gap while spreading some festive cheer. As part of a youth group project, the children from Northam in the city helped cook and serve a Christmas meal for a local pensioners group
AS a self employed artist, the Christmas period is obviously when we make a lot of our income. This year though, things are not good. Galleries that I supply all over the UK are closing down as owners can no longer make a living. In Southampton, brave
POLICE are investigating a fire that destroyed a derelict building close to a Hampshire hospice early today. The blaze in Lower Pennington Lane in Pennington, near Oakhaven Hospice, was discovered at 5.50am, but the two-storey building is thought to
COUNCILLOR Alec Samuels' pathetic attempt to "bait'' me over past council tax rises could be taken seriously if he were to say that he and his cronies were not benefiting from those increases in THEIR budget this year. Of course they could pretend that
I DO like Richard Frampton's article in Saturday's Echo. We do feel that Portsmouth has the edge on tourists information. Now, regarding Southwestern House. This was a magnificent building, most awe inspiring. I saw it in the Eighties when I went in
MR Kebbel's recent In my view' of (December 14) offers an interesting perspective on how to solve youth crime in his area - abolish the Youth Offending Team and pass the cost of dealing with the consequences of this move to the Home Office. Mr Kebbel
FOR many years now I have received a Christmas card addressed to a Mrs June Edwards at my home in Freegrounds Road, from someone called Roy. I have tried very hard to find who this Mrs Edwards is, even one year had Nick Girdler ask on his radio show
I THINK it is a really good idea that a wind turbine could be built somewhere close to Southampton. We must do all we can to create power that does not use fossil fuel, we have a responsibility to cut our use of coal, oil and gas, and be doing all
WHY don't we be bold and combine the two? A giant Spitfire on the edge of the city by the M27 at Stoneham, with the propeller actually rotating because the design is also a fully functional wind turbine. The energy produced would help to pay for the
Billy Taylor is expected to accept a one-day contract with Hampshire in the New Year. The fast bowler attracted interest from Leicestershire and former county Sussex after being deemed surplus to requirements in the Championship for Hampshire last
Hursley Park's notoriously waterlogged ground at The Quarters could be flood free in the future if a drainage scheme implemented by the local ECB Southern Electric Premier League club pays off. The low lying ground, arguably one of the best in the area
POTENTIALLY dangerous clinical waste has been unearthed in a former railway cutting and old council tip north of Winchester. The items were accidentally uncovered by a bulldozer clearing shrubs and small trees from land north of Alresford Drove, South
A ROYAL Navy warship has spent the night sheltering Southampton yachtswoman Dee Caffari after her vessel lost a mast in high winds in the Bay of Biscay. Dee, 34, was close to finishing the single-handed transatlantic Transat Ecover B2B race from Brazil
PLANE travellers from Southampton could face disruption because of strike action in the new year. More than 5,000 firefighters, security, maintenance, administrative and clerical staff at BAA's seven airports, including Southampton, have been voting
AN inquest will resume today into the death of a teenager who plunged from a motorway bridge just days after telling police she had been raped. Sara Clark, 18, was found dead under a bridge spanning the M27 on June 2. Her parents said at the time that
SAINTS director Mary Corbett has spoken of her belief that brighter times lie ahead for the club. The daughter of former club president John was appointed to the football board by Michael Wilde following his regime's takeover at St Mary's at the end
SAINTS shareholders will tomorrow be told that the club can avoid selling their star players in the January transfer window. Since SISU completed their takeover at Coventry last week there has been speculation that big name players such as crowd favourite
HAMPSHIRE'S air ambulance service has become a 365-day-a-year operation thanks to increased funding. Previously the helicopter - which relies on charitable donations - has only been able to fly five days a week. So far the service has been called out
AN exhibition featuring the history of Titchfield Carnival aims to help revive the event next year. The display will be held on Sunday, January 6 in Titchfield Parish Rooms. Proceeds will go towards the Titchfield Bonfire Boys' fund to pay for the historic
