TWO women have been taken to hospital after their sports car crashed into the barriers of a Hampshire motorway. Fire crews this evening cut through the green MG's soft top to rescue the driver and her passenger on the westbound slip road of the M27 at
THEY have thousands of lives in their hands as they guide planes to their destinations. But now three workers from the NATS air traffic control centre Swanwick will be steering their own path when they get on their bikes for the long haul to France
A new youth and community complex in Eastleigh is to get a royal lift-off this week. The Duke of Gloucester will visit the town on Friday to officially open The Pavilion on the Park. He will unveil a plaque before touring the £2.5m state-of-the-art
A UNIQUE maiden visit to a small French port has become the first destination on the Daily Echo's Magical Mystery Cruise. The island of Belle Ilse off the coast of Brittany welcomed the Saga Ruby for it's first ever visit as part of the cruise where
IT was hailed as a landmark victory for pensioners which will allow them to climb aboard any bus in Hampshire and roam across the country for free. But as millions of over-60s look to use their new bus passes for free travel around England,
A HAMPSHIRE taxi driver has been robbed of his takings at gunpoint. The incident happened in the early hours of yesterday when the cabbie dropped off two passengers in Whiteley. Police are now appealing for help tracing the pair, who ran off after demanding
THE bomb squad are making their way to the Isle of Wight after the discovery of an unexploded bomb. Police were called to a field in Cowes shortly after 10am today following the discovery of the device close to BAE integrated systems. Police have confirmed
SOUTHAMPTON City Council's idea to build a Spitfireinspired wind turbine at Woolston riverside has been labelled a "travesty". Under the proposal, the 15-metre high turbine, pictured right, would incorporate a design reflecting the Spitfire with
PLANS for a bypass to solve traffic bottlenecks in the capital of the New Forest have been thrown out. Hampshire County Council's Cabinet today rejected two proposed routes for relief roads to divert traffic away from Lyndhurst village centre. The decision
HE is the man who made the perm famous, he's Southampton's very own hairdresser to the stars and he's officially the world's fastest barber. He has also taken his success to the hairdressing world championships four times and guided Great
OCCUPANCY rates in Southampton's hotels are the highest in Hampshire at 71 per cent, according to the TRI Hospitality Consulting Survey. Of the hotels in the city and neighbouring Eastleigh, 90 per cent are three star or lower.
HAMPSHIRE'S Michael Carberry has been named in the MCC squad to face county champions Sussex in a four-day game at Lord's starting Thursday, April 10: Squad: Ed Joyce (captain, Middlesex), Ravi Bopara (Essex), Michael Carberry (Hampshire), James
DOWN at the bottom of a Southampton garden is a small shed, which is exactly how a shed should be: organised chaos. Tools spread across the workbench, an all pervading, rich smell of wood, and various bits and pieces of hardware packed on shelves
Click here to see more photos THE countdown has begun! In just seven days' time Southampton supership Ventura will make her dramatic entry into Southampton Water and berth alongside her home port for the first time. With her 21st century technology
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
FORGET prime minister Gordon Brown and French president Nicholas Sarkozy forging a closer Anglo-French friendship. When it comes to doing their bit for the entente cordiale, girls at St Anne's School in Southampton could teach politicians a thing
MERGER plans for two Hampshire colleges have been put on hold until June. The organisation responsible for making the final decision - The Learning and Skills Council - was meant to decide on the colleges' fate this month. But now it has asked
ONE of the main routes across the New Forest was closed this morning after a burst water main shut the A35. Both lanes of the route were shut at Spicers Hill between the Rushington Roundabout and Lyndhurst after water was seen gushing along the road.
EXCITEMENT is building on board Saga Ruby as globetrotting passengers move in to their third day of a magical mystery cruise. More than 300 guests are waiting with bated breath to see where the luxury ship will take them first. With the sell-out
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a motorcyclist was killed in an accident in the New Forest. A green Kawasaki was being ridden along the B3078 Roger Penny Way last night when it left the road and smashed into a tree. The rider, a 22-year-old
WHILE cities across the globe were plunged into darkness to mark Earth Hour on Saturday night, Southampton remained well and truly lit. And while the city council managed to turn off the lights on the clock tower and civic centre during the one-hour
INDEPENDENT traders in Southampton will "go to war" with the council's new transport boss if she fails to honour a previous decision to remove a traffic restriction hitting their business. Lib Dem councillor Jill Baston has refused to commit
THE organiser of a major community event in Southampton turned to hard drugs to solve entertainment costs, the city crown court heard. Donald Cooper, 54, pictured, contacted a friend to give him crack cocaine which he could sell on at a profit
SAINTS' relegation rivals Sheffield Wednesday are sweating over a possible point deduction for naming too many loan players in Saturday's squad. The Owls included six loan players in the squad for the 1-1 home draw with high-flying Stoke - one more
IT was a bloody battle that left hundreds dead - but it paved the way for a Parliamentarian victory over England's Royalist army. On Saturday, 364 years to the day since the Battle of Cheriton, the normally quiet Hampshire village near Alresford
SAINTS are to host the second Alan Ball Memorial Cup at St Mary's in May. Teams of former English and Scottish internationals will meet in a game that celebrates the life of the England World Cup winning legend and former Dell midfielder and manager
THEY were blatant lies that ripped apart the lives of a Hampshire family. It was in 2006 when an 11- year-old girl claimed she had been indecently assaulted by her own teenage brother and his friend as they played in the park. A court believed
THE chairman of the Southampton Independent Supporters Association has hit out at Rupert Lowe and Michael Wilde for their "disgusting timing". Lifelong fan Mike O'Callaghan is furious that supporters efforts' to help back the team on the pitch could
NIGEL Pearson insists he won't be giving up on Saints' survival bid even if others are. The Saints boss saw his team slide ever nearer the Championship drop zone with a 1-0 defeat at Cardiff. Results elsewhere - both Coventry and Leicester jumped above
EASTLEIGH now know that their ground is up to play-off standards, but Ian Baird's team face a nailbiting five-game finale to the season to secure a top-five finish in the Blue Square South. With £50,000 floodlights installed and £17,000-worth of seating
AFC TOTTON crashed through the 100-point barrier for the first time in the club's 122-year history on Saturday with a 2-0 win at Lymington Town. But it still may not be enough to earn them a first-ever Wessex League title. The reality is that the sensational
NIGEL Pearson admits he is becoming increasingly concerned by Saints' inability to take their chances. Saints created opportunities at Ninian Park against Dave Jones' FA Cup semi-finalists, but fired a third successive league blank. Saints scored 31
RICHARD Wright has urged his Saints teammates to take the positives out of the 1-0 defeat at Cardiff. Paul Parry's sixth minute goal sunk Saints and came just after Mario Licka had missed a great opening for Saints. Wright feels the fact Saints did
A scheme which created a non-emergency number in Hampshire as an alternative to 999 has been saved after the Home Office pulled funding. Hampshire County Council is one of four local authorities in the country to save the service afetr it was set up
An inquest resumes today into the deaths of 10 servicemen, including one from Hampshire, who died when an RAF Hercules aircraft crashed in Iraq. The plane came down between Baghdad and Balad air base on January 30 2005 after enemy gunfire pierced a
VICTIMS of domestic abuse can now attend court and give evidence free from intimidation following the launch of a new type of court in Southampton. The Southampton Specialist Domestic Abuse Court will bring together agencies from across the criminal
DETECTIVES have spent the weekend scouring CCTV footage after an arson attack at a Southampton home. The fire was started during the second of two incidents that may be linked at the same address in Cranbury Avenue. The first incident happened around
PUPILS at the former school of murdered teenager Lewis Singleton will this week be reminded of the dangers of carrying knives - exactly one year after the 18-year-old's death. Youngsters attending Woolston Language College in Southampton will be told
