They used to say that todays news was tomorrows chip paper. While the days of getting your fish supper wrapped in newsprint are long gone, there is now an even better use for your old papers. Today you can do your bit to help tackle global warming
ISLE OF WIGHT residents have attacked a new vision to build an underwater tram tunnel linking the Isle of Wight with the mainland. The cross-Solent tram tunnel would link Ryde, at the north east of the Island, with Gosport, under a plan submitted
The Rep squad have 2 friendlies arranged for Monday 31st March at Fleming Park. The 2 squads will be playing Bashley & Lakewood Under 12's. Can all players please be at the ground for 5.45pm for a 6.15pm kick off. Please come wearing your training
The Rep squad have 2 friendlies arranaged for Monday 31st March at Fleming Park. The 2 squads will be playing Bashley & Lakewood Under 12's. Can all players please be at the ground for 5.45pm for a 6.15pm kick off. Please come wearing your training
Nigel Pearson was left ruing missed chances after his side slipped to a 1-0 defeat at Cardiff. Paul Parry's sixth-minute strike was the difference between the sides but it didn't quite tell the whole story. Though Saints rarely played that well
WITH just hours to go until the big switch-off, residents and businesses across Hampshire and the world are preparing for a dramatic global blackout. From 8pm tonight iconic buildings around the world will be plunged into darkness in a united statement
Saints sunk deeper into relegation trouble after a 1-0 defeat at Cardiff. Nigel Pearson's side lost to a sixth minute Paul Parry goal at Ninian Park and other results were not kind to his side and they finished the day just one place and one point
HAMPSHIRE'S leading academics enjoy six figure salaries that far outstrip those earned by council fat cats, the Daily Echo can reveal. And their inflation-busting rises awarded last year (2006-07) are, in some cases, double the four per cent
VENTURA, Southampton's stunning new supership, will make a dramatic sight as she enters her home port for the first time next weekend. During a special ceremony in the Italian shipyard where the £300m vessel was built, the latest addition
PRINCE Charles has been asked to open a £700,000 treehouse complex that is taking shape in the New Forest. Two classrooms-on-stilts are being built by the Beaulieubased Countryside Education Trust (CET), which teaches city kids about rural life
This weeks Green League matches will now be played at Fleming Park on pitches 1 and 2 as Sarisbury Sparks ground is waterlogged
THE Isle of Wight Festival has been given the go-ahead after organisers reached an agreement with police over the number of officers attending the event. A big question mark hung over the festival after police urged councillors not to allow
A SOUTHAMPTON residents' group has branded city council chiefs' controversial pay to park plans as "ridiculous" and "underhand". Regents Park Community Association has joined the battle against council plans to charge residents to park outside
IT was like a scene from a Hollywood blockbuster. Thick black smoke billowed from the smouldering engine as two men rushed to remove items from their van. Seconds later a series of explosions ripped through the vehicle blasting it into an inferno
USUALLY when I write to The Southern Daily Echo it is to complain about something or other. Well today I wish to share an experience that made me feel good about the society in which I live. I was travelling by bus to Southampton city centre; every
HOORAY! At last the people of Harefield seem about to get the new school which was promised by the council in 2005 when they approved the amalgamation of the infant's and junior schools. So it might seem from Echo report on March 19, but are we? Since
I READ with horror the comment from Baldy Badger regarding the demise of the New Forest Ponies, he says the picture of the pony inbedded in the front passenger window will not stop him. What a sad, loveless individual. I write down the registration
HAVING returned to Southampton after a period of some 25 years I too am disgusted at the state of the roads, I probably have more reason to feel this way than most for in the early 1970s I held the Chair of Public Works. In those days by comparison with
WHAT a crazy world we live in! On a recent police TV programme I saw an ignorant yob punch an innocent passer-by in the face, without provocation, giving him a very painful swollen face and closed black eye. He merely received a police caution! An ignorant
WHEN we opened our borders to Eastern Europe were there any contingency plans by the government for additional hospital places including maternity wards who are sending pregnant women home to source their own assistance and A&E departments who are over-worked
LAST week the Echo ran a story about a national Conservative campaign to accuse all Labour MPs who had objected to Post Office closures in their constituency of hypocrisy, since they had voted against a Conservative motion in the House of Commons calling
THE arrival of four new bells has made one Southampton church the first in the city to have a ring of 12. The ancient art of bell-ringing is being brought into the 21st century at the Church of the Ascension, in Bitterne Park, where years of fundraising
A BURGLARY victim escorted an intruder from his home after he was unable to find the way out of the building. Sean Davey woke up to find Joseph Horgan in his bedroom and challenged him. As the stranger turned to leave, Mr Davey spotted his wallet
One Hampshire band can be forgiven for blowing their own trumpet after winning a place in the National Brass Bands finals. Otterbourne Brass is celebrating after beating off competition from 12 other bands, to represent the West of England in the finals
Hampshire are more hopeful Shane Bond can play for them next month. Bond's move to Hampshire for the first eight weeks of the season became doubtful when New Zealand Cricket decided not to issue the required no-objection certificate' after he signed
SAINTS' directors are bracing themselves to hear from former chairman Rupert Lowe on Monday. Lowe is poised to call an EGM that day in a bid to evict the current board and re-install himself and Michael Wilde in power. The Daily Echo recently revealed
IT was a gruelling 300-mile challenge that took three days to complete and raised thousands of pounds for charity. Now, ten years since they first set off, a team of intrepid cyclists are set on re-enacting a challenge to ride from Lymington to Land's
A POPULAR drumming workshop is returning to a Hampshire community hall. The Magic of the Drum Circle teaches African drum rhythms through games and exercises. The workshops will take place at The Vine Centre in Church Lane, Curdridge, from 11am to
CLICK HERE TO READ THE COUNCIL'S REPORT A MULTI-million pound plan to turn Hampshire Rose Bowl into a home for international Test cricket could soon take a major step forward. Eighteen months ago Hampshire Cricket chiefs unveiled spectacular proposals
FOUR men were last night charged with the manslaughter of a Hampshire dad of one. Peter Lawrence died nearly three months ago after a night out at a bar in Port Solent. Mr Lawrence, 37, who lived in Titchfield Common, had been at Lloyds No 1 bar with
