THE desperate search for a saviour for Southampton Football Club has begun as its parent company Southampton Leisure Holdings entered administration today. It has also been revealed that unless a buyer steps in, Southampton Football Club may
SAILING legend, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, is to invest a massive £1.6m in the next edition of a gruelling solo round-the-world race to support skippers. Sir Robin’s company, Clipper Ventures will pour the money, including a £460,000 prize fund, into the
IMMIGRATION officers targeted two Winchester restaurants early yesterday evening in a crackdown on illegal workers. The Daily Echo accompanied the team of officers from the UK Border Agency as they carried out the raids following a tip-off
TRADERS and independent shopkeepers in a Southampton community have become the latest to give their backing to the Daily Echo’s bid to get people shopping near where they live. Businesses in Bitterne Precinct have thrown their weight behind the
LEON Crouch said he is not concerned that his shareholding in Saints will be wiped out this morning by administration. Instead, the former chairman said all he is worried about is whether the club survives. Crouch has been the second
IT is a million miles from the blustery Solent race course or the comfort of the yacht club bar. A Hampshire yacht club is offering the chance for one lucky sailor to swap life on the seas for the grim reality of Weatherfield, Britain’s favourite soap
THE Daily Echo today calls on every Saints supporter to fill St Mary’s for the next three games to try and Save Our Saints. Saints’ parent company, Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC, was this morning placed into administration, but that could
ARMED forces personnel taking part in an epic round the world voyage have been given a royal boost. The Duke of York has taken on patronage of the Exercise Transglobe, which will see more than 500 Army, Navy and Air Force personnel take to the seas
A 93-year-old driver has been fined £3,750 for causing the crash that killed a Hampshire man on the first day of his retirement. Alfred Ross today told a court he had no intention to get behind the wheel ever again after he was also banned
THE administrators appointed at Southampton Leisure Holdings held a press conference at 1pm this afternoon. Below is a live feed taken from that meeting. Important points from the
SAINTS' parent company is now officially in administration. The stock exchange released a statement confirming the appointment of the administrators Begbie Traynor at Southampton Leisure Holdings. They also confirmed the resignations
DID we manage to fool you yesterday? Some Daily Echo readers may have thought our page three article about seals sending mobile phone texts to marine conservation researchers was our traditional April Fool story. In fact that was true
THE ROW over whether Saints should be docked points has provoked an angry backlash from their relegation rivals. The club looks to have sensationally avoided the normal ten-point deduction faced by teams going into administration. Although Saints
A DEVELOPER believes that the first houses could be built on the controversial Barton Farm site in Winchester as soon as 2012. Cala Homes is poised to submit a planning application for 2,000 homes on the farmland on the northern edge of the city
SOUTHAMPTON shoppers are being offered a novel way to keep fit and prepare for Cancer UK’s Race for Life – hurrying around a shopping mall! These ladies were among the first to try out WestQuay shopping centre’s “Shop for Life” map – a 2km training
DO BLONDES or brunettes have more fun? It’s an age-old question that the Junk club in Southampton hopes to answer tonight, when two teams of blondes and brunettes compete against each other in a series of games. Magazine models will
AS many as 500 construction jobs could be on their way to Hampshire as part of what is being called the “biggest rail expansion since Brunel”. About £150m is being pumped into the county’s rail services to stimulate business and improve passenger
POSTMAN Pat and Rupert Bear have been sold to America after the company founded by Hampshire Cricket chairman Rod Bransgrove was put into administration. Debts of £125m saw Entertainment Rights put into administration yesterday and be immediately
MICHAEL WILDE has laid a large part of the blame for Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC falling into administration at the door of the club’s bankers Barclays. The former football board chairman was today standing down as administrators took
WHAT a waste of council money! Everywhere I go lately I see street name signs have been changed. Why is the council doing this when the money could be better spent on repairing the roads around the city? Waterloo Road in Freemantle and the Chapel
WHERE is the fluoride to be injected into the water supply? If it is injected at the treatment works at Otterbourne or Testwood not only will it be in the water supply to people in Southampton but also to the people living in Winchester, Romsey, Totton
WELL I thought this had to be an April Fool’s joke (Passports to the Isle of Wight), but who knows, or is this just another flawed waste of public money? Whoever would think that one could book a crossing and then allow others to use the ticket...hardly
A 93-YEAR-OLD driver will be sentenced today for causing the crash that killed a Hampshire man on his first day of his retirement. Alfred Ross pulled out in front of biker Jeffrey Bennett, 65, on the A337 near Brockenhurst in October last year
Hampshire’s cricketers have given Duncan Fletcher the thumbs up. The former England head coach spent a fortnight with the Hampshire players on their pre-season trip to Cape Town last month. It was his first stint as the county’s new consultant.
FRANCIS Benali has joined the Daily Echo ‘C’mon You Saints’ campaign to pack out St Mary’s this weekend. The tough-tackling Dell legend knows the Saints fans have a crucial role to play in the club’s survival bid. “Just thinking back
SAINTS look set to avoid a points deduction – for now at least – despite their parent company going into administration this morning. Shares in Southampton Leisure Holdings were suspended by the Stock Exchange yesterday morning, as they
A REPRESENTATIVE of our MP Alan Whitehead thrust a Labour leaflet through my door recently. In it he talks about the Warmerhome Programme. He says there will be “an increased allocation to come over the next two years’’. That is not quite true!
MARK Wotte has issued a passionate plea to all Saints fans as he and his side prepare to resume their survival bid this weekend – “prove we are not alone in our fight to stay up.” The Saints head coach says he and his players will be doing
LESS than half an hour was all it took for the maiden voyage of the Queen Elizabeth, to sell out. In just 29 minutes and 14 seconds passengers to snapped up all the tickets for the maiden voyage of the newest Cunard liner that will sail from
AN inquest into the death of a sailor who was killed during a visit to Hampshire was due to take place today. Southampton coroner Keith Wiseman was set to examine the final moments in the life of Gregory Fernandes, who was literally frightened
THEY were set up to protect the elderly from rogue traders in Hampshire. But a county councillor has been told off by a resident for door knocking in a no cold calling zone he helped officially launch last year. Councillor Roy Perry
BULBS planted in a Hampshire park have raised more than £800 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. The bulbs were planted in Woodside Park, Pennington, near Lymington, in memory of loved ones and have now turned into daffodils, transforming the area
A GRANDMOTHER died when she fell down a flight of stairs and broke her back on Christmas morning, an inquest heard. Dorothy Withers, who was 91, fell down the stairs at her daughter Prudence Hockley’s house in Blackfield in the early hours
A Hampshire pensioners’ club is betting on a bright future thanks to a £400 donation. The North Baddesley Whist Club received the money from the Testway Transform Money Box Fund. The donation will buy five new card tables for the club, replacing
HAMPSHIRE sailors became removal men for the day to help one charity get ship shape. Sailors from HMS Collingwood took time out from training to spend the day helping Community Action Fareham move to their new premises. The team used
