Chelsea 1 Manchester United 1 (after extra time, Manchester United won 6-5 on penalties) Manchester United became kings of Europe for the third time on a night of high drama and emotion in Moscow. Goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar was the hero with
POLICE are searching for a 95-year-old Southampton woman with dementia who has not been seen since this morning. Daisy Boddy known as "Molly" was last seen when she walked out of Brookvale House residential home in Portswood at 11.45am. It is believed
WALKERS raised more than £1,000 for a children's charity by walking round a famous Hampshire garden. More than 50 people walked three miles at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum in Ampfield to raise money for the charity NCH. A total of £1,300
POLICE have cordoned off part of a Southampton gravel yard near St Mary's Stadium after Second World War bullets were dredged up from the River Itchen. Workers found ten 20mm bullets as they were dredging materials at the Solent Aggregate yard in Marine
WINCHESTER'S new post office opens at WH Smith tomorrow. Postman Pat, pictured, is due to cut the ribbon to open the facility that controversially replaces the post office in Kings Walk. Many local people fear that the new base will be too cramped
A FAILED Parliamentary campaign to restrict women's right to abortion split MPs in the south, an analysis of Commons votes has revealed. Last night, politicians voted to retain the 24-week upper limit for abortion by blocking a series of attempts
A VAN driver suffered head and shoulder injuries after being hit by a car in Southampton at 2.30pm yesterday. The 50-year-old Portsmouth man had got out of his van along the A33 Millbrook Road when he was hit by a silver Peugeot and knocked into neighbouring
THE company behind TV's Dancing on Ice will today unveil plans to transform Southamp-ton's Civic Centre into a winter wonderland this Christmas. Council leisure bosses will announce the deal which will see the eagerly-awaited return of an ice rink as
SUSTAINABLE knitwear label Keep & Share is bringing its eco-friendly travelling store to Winchester School of Art this July, writes Paula Thompson. The "pop-up-shop" is travelling around the country giving customers a chance to touch, try on and buy
A PLAN to pump millions of gallons of water from the Solent into Hampshire homes can be revealed today. Water bosses want to invest in a new £73m scheme which transforms sea water into tap water. It comes after environment experts warned that the county
HE will be hoping his 60-year-old car can last the distance. Hampshire classic car enthusiast George Proudfoot is taking part in a 100-mile charity rally in his 1948 Rover P3 sport saloon 75. Along with about 150 other classic, historic and unusual
A DEVELOPER has launched a second attempt to gain permission for a scheme that would result in the demolition of a historic Hampshire farmhouse. Frogmore Residential Ltd has submitted an application to build 12 homes and an office block on the old Unigate
SOLO sailor Adrian Flanagan has sailed triumphantly into Hamble today to fulfil a lifetime's dream. He became the first person to complete a single-handed vertical circumnavigation of the globe westwards around Cape Horn and across the Russian Arctic
DETECTIVES have arrested a man over the rape of a young woman in Southampton. The man, aged in his 30s, was picked up at an address in the Bitterne area of the city late last night He was today in police custody at a Southampton station where he was
THE National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, is one of the UK's top 25 bank holiday destinations, according to the Internet search engine Ask.com. Ask.com says the top bank holiday destination is Chester Zoo, followed by London Zoo and the Natural History
DRIVERS are being urged to take extra care on the M27 motorway this morning after extra heavy traffic caused miles of tailbacks. Motorists have been stuck in extra long queues through the roadworks from junction three for Nursling and junction five for
SOUTHAMPTON might need another two passenger terminals if the popularity of cruising continues to grow, according to the port's deputy manager. Captain Steven Young said he wanted the city to handle two million passengers a year, up from the current
ON Monday, April 21, I parked my car at the entrance to Harold Close, Totton late that night. The next day I realised I did not have my handbag. After a fruitless search I gave up on it and cancelled my cash cards. That evening a very kind gentleman
Majority was incorrect THE Daily Echo likes to be accurate with its reporting, especially when it comes to local election results. When it comes to majorities I'm sure you can more than understand how important these things are to us in local politics
AFTER our letter appeared in the Daily Echo last October, we had a great response to take part in our research project which aims to investigate why some people develop distressing stress reactions and recurrent physical pain after a car accident, whereas
AS an ex-Labour voter I was amused to read Councillor Don Thom-as's In My View column (May 13). A more bitter and twisted view would be hard to find and just about sums up the Labour party. Also, what an insult to the people of Southampton after they
IT is imperative that Southampton City Council installs a pedestrian crossing in Lordswood Road at the crossroads with Dale Valley Road and Dunkirk Road. Residents have been risking their lives attempting to cross and have petitioned me to take action
IT'S glaringly obvious that Mrs Beasley of Weston (Letters May 5) is not a regular reader of the Daily Echo or she would have read the letter from Brenda Parkinson who got only as far as Lyndhurst before being turned off the Wilts & Dorset bus when she
INSTEAD of attending the football legends match at St Mary's, I spent an hour and a quarter and travelled 27 miles on a motorcycle in the rain for nothing due to the inadequacies of the stadium and city council. With there being ample cycle and motorcycle
A robin turned the normal garden pecking order on its head as it ruffled the feathers of a blackbird in this scene pictured in Hythe. Normally robins have to wait their turn while bigger birds such as blackbirds and magpies eat their fill. However,
Building on the 2007 / 08 season, AFC Hiltingbury are looking to develop and expand their squad for U10 teams for the forthcoming season. If you are currently in School year 4 and would like to have a trial to play for AFC Hiltingbury U10's next season
PUNTERS at a Southampton bar will be helping raise money for charity as they watch tonight's Champions League final. Walkabout will be showing the final between Man-chester United and Chelsea and collecting donations for the Southampton-based Rose Road
A PLAN to pump millions of gallons of salt water from the Solent into Hampshire homes can be revealed today. Water bosses want to invest in a new £73m scheme which transforms sea water into tap water. It comes after environment experts warned that the
A WOMAN was viciously attacked with a bottle as she jogged along a footpath. The unprovoked assault left the 32-year-old victim with cuts to her head and face after being hit repeatedly about the head with the glass bottle. Police launched a manhunt
POLICE are appealling for witnesses to help find out how a Southampton man was abandoned on a Hampshire motorway naked. The 20-year-old was seen walking along the central reservation of the M3 heading southbound. Police received four phone calls to
IT is a tradition as old as the picturesque Hampshire village it transforms for one day every year. Hundreds of buyers, sellers, traders and onlookers descended on Wickham yesterday for the annual horse fair. One of the major events in England's wider
THERE are not many women who would follow their ex-husband to the ends of the earth. But that is just what Louise Flanagan has been doing for the past two-and-a-half years. As solo sailor Adrian Flana-gan, 47, set out to fulfil a boyhood ambition,
MARKS & Spencer's annual profits topped £1 billion for the first time in a decade yesterday, but staff failed to cash in after the retail giant slashed bonus payouts. The company's 62,000 customer assistants, including about 1,000 in the Southampton
Today's Southampton arrivals: Independence of the Seas, passenger, 0515, 101; Queen Elizabeth 2, passenger, 0545, 38/9; Arcadia, passenger, 0630, 106; Arklow Raider, cargo, 0800, 36s; Boheme, vehicle, 1100, 34/35 Sailings: Phoenix Leader, roro
THEY say it's harder staying at the top than getting there in the first place. But Peter Symonds sixth-form college in Winchester is making it look easy. The college cemented its lofty position as one of the best sixth-form colleges in the country by
THIS is the stunning new look for the £50m Millennium Hotel in Southampton's Ocean Village Marina. It's the centrepiece of a bold plan to recapture Southampton's title as the home of ocean sailing. Alongside the 15-storey, 225-bed, glass-sided hotel
Nigel Pearson will today meet Rupert Lowe and Michael Wilde for the first time as he discusses his future as Saints boss. Pearson is out of contract this summer and speculation has been raging over whether he will still be in charge when the new campaign
A DEAL uniting Hampshire and the UK's two remaining naval shipbuilders will proceed thanks to the Government's £4 billion aircraft carrier deal. Called BVT, the new company, which is due to be established by July 1, will instantly be one of the biggest
HAMPSHIRE gardeners are celebrating after scooping a host of medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. Ampfield's Hillier Nurseries and West End-based Hampshire Carnivorous Plants both bagged gold medals for their spectacular floral exhibitions. Isle of Wight
A DEVELOPER has launched a second attempt to gain permission for a scheme that would result in the demolition of a historic Hampshire farmhouse. Frogmore Residential Ltd has submitted an application to build 12 homes and an office block on
