THE Chinese value ‘jen’ can be roughly translated into English as ‘benevolence’. Let’s hope that Eastleigh’s Jen is blessed with the same virtue. To spare anybody’s blushes, the unnamed but newly-crowned Southampton & District Social Clubs League
A BARGE that sank and leaked sewage into the River Itchen has been salvaged. The MV Humber Star was recovered from the riverbed off Woolston Jetty after sitting partially submerged for a week. The 40-year-old vessel is used by Southern Water to
Mark Wotte conceded his side were just not good enough defensively as they slipped to a demoralising 3-2 defeat against Charlton. The Championship’s bottom club picked up only their seventh win of the season at St Mary’s to plunge Saints deeper into
HAMPSHIRE’S children’s hospice should benefit from a one-off Government bailout for charities which lost millions when the Icelandic banking system collapsed last October, MPs have said. The Treasury Select Committee said it was ''imperative
Southampton 2 Charlton 3 A miserable week for Southampton was exacerbated today when Coca-Cola Championship bottom side Charlton claimed just a second away win of the season. Financially troubled Saints were a goal down after seven minutes
SAINTS sponsor Flybe has guaranteed its support to the club until the end of the season. However the Daily Echo understands the low-cost airline is considering whether to axe its £250,000-a-year support for next year, a contract only signed
THE family of a Hampshire teenager killed when he was knocked off his motorbike believe the sentence given to the young driver responsible is “a waste of time”. Yesterday the man behind the wheel of the car that hit Nicholas Hobbs’ motorbike was
IT WAS the most depressing afternoon since Kanu stuck out a foot and Pompey lifted the FA Cup. Traipsing around as a photographer’s assistant, documenting the rash of empty shops spreading like a virus across Southampton is not a task for the
AS horses and riders charge towards the first fence of the Grand National, the famous sporting spectacle will be described by a commentator who honed his skill by watching television in Winchester. As a student, Mark Johnson, made something
inquiries AN incredible 19 different approaches were made to administrators of Saints’ parent firm about buying the company, the Daily Echo can reveal. At least two are known to be from serious potential buyers, leading administrators to
HE’S been banging on about his love of Saints for years. Now one of the city’s most famous sons, Coldplay’s Will Champion is happy to beat the drum and lead fellow fans in the fight to save the club in its hour of need. The drummer – pictured
ON Thursday I attended a fundraising dinner at Lymington Town sailing club which was all in aid of a project to build a lift to allow disabled sailors to access all of the club’s facilities. In the middle of my speech I said to everyone assembled
FAMILY and friends gathered yesterday to pay their last respects to a highly decorated ex-soldier who shot himself in a Southampton park. William Foxton, who lost his arm in combat, used a semiautomatic pistol to fire a single shot to his head
THERE was standing room only as hundreds of friends and relatives said a tearful farewell to Hampshire teenager Daniel Jolly. The popular 17-year-old, nicknamed “DJ”, collapsed and died in front of his mum Brenda at his Bursledon home after
A HAMPSHIRE engineer who smashed the world land speed record for a wind powered vehicle is due back home this weekend. Richard Jenkins became the fastest naturally powered human on the planet when he clocked 126.1mph in the Ecotricity Greenbird. He
SEVERAL beach huts in Calshot were damaged by fire in the early hours of this morning. Firefighters were called to the blaze on Calshot Road at 2.43am. Two of the beach huts were severely damaged and two were slightly damaged by the fire.
A RECENT TV news programme showed numerous illegal immigrants at Calais chasing after a lorry and on opening the rear doors, climbing in. Surely a good strong lock attached to the rear of lorry doors would stop this practice. ER GOODALL, Southampton.
I WAS horrified to read in the national press that S.Yorks police prevented neighbours with aluminium ladders from rescuing a woman screaming for help for her children with her at a window in a house fire. What have we come to, that on Health and
OF course Richard Grant is right (letters May 27) in as much that UKIP MEP’s are not there in Brussels to help members of other parties. Why should they be when they are all heading in the opposite direction we (UKIP) wish to go? No, they are there to
COUNCIL staff at three of Southampton’s most popular tourist attractions are on strike this weekend in a row over wages. Southampton’s City Art Gallery, Maritime Museum and the Museum of Archaeology will all remain closed today and tomorrow. The row
JADE Goody did more in her short lift than others will ever do in a lifetime. Jade’s true grit and determination was to be admired. It’s certainly made more women seriously think about getting tested for cervical cancer and the government bringing down
A HAMPSHIRE vicar who was arrested and questioned on suspicion of historic child sexual abuse has been released without charge. As revealed in the Daily Echo, the Rev Canon Barry Fry was arrested over allegations of sexual abuse and indecent
THERE are now two centenarians at a Winchester nursing home after great grandmother Gladys Nichols reached the milestone. She was born on April 2 1909, in which year Edward VII was on the throne and the first rugby match was played at Twickenham
EASTLEIGH’S biggest car park is due to reopen on Monday with a new look. The usual access to the 620-space Swan Centre rooftop car park has been closed for 18 months during the construction of the town’s new £25m leisure complex adjacent to the shopping
FORMER boardroom rivals Leon Crouch and Mike Richards will put the past behind them today in a bid to ensure a brighter future for the club. Ex-football club board chairman Crouch and Rupert Lowe’s long-time board supporter Richards are planning
RUPERT Lowe’s former boardroom supporter Mike Richards has revealed why he has joined forces with former Saints rival Leon Crouch. The pair have signed a letter which will be given to all corporate hospitality guests at St Mary’s today.
THEY were reunited under the same roof again just in time to celebrate 60 years of wedded bliss. Pauline Cole, 81, has lived at The Laurel care home in Salisbury Road, Totton, since June last year but husband Ken, 85, did not move in until last week
ABSENCE made the heart grow fonder for Romsey couple Alfred and Rosemund Mayhew after they were forced to live apart just after getting hitched. Having tied the knot in Romsey Abbey in 1949, Alf left on a posting to Hong Kong and the newlyweds
