Sir Alex Ferguson admitted his side lost to the better side as Barcelona won the Champions League final 2-0 in Rome, but vowed to come back even stronger. United were bright in the initial exchanges but after Samuel Eto'o opened the scoring after 10
FEARS are growing for the safety of a 42 year-old Fareham who has gone missing from his Fareham home. Police are appealing for help in tracing Darren Urry who disappeared after leaving his home in St Michaels Grove on Friday May 22. He left his home
IT WAS with great excitement that my wife and I jumped into a taxi and headed off for a rare meal out together without our 21 month old little boy in tow. Our destination was Joe Daflo’s opposite The Mayflower theatre – recently under new management
A CONSORTIUM of Irish businessmen has jumped to the head of the queue to buy Saints after an eleventh hour bid, the Daily Echo can reveal. The group is understood to consist of two people, who have £500,000 ready to put down as a deposit
PORTSMOUTH Football Club are apparently on the verge of being bought by an Arabian tycoon. Sulaiman Al Fahim is believed to be attending the Champions' League final in Rome this evening as a guest of Pompey owner Alexandre Gaydamak.
A CAR wash has been wrecked by vandals who are thought to have used a large vehicle as a battering ram. Police launched an investigation after the culprits caused thousands of pounds of damage at the Shell garage in Southampton Road, Hythe. Motorists
ROADS chiefs are considering installing new safety measures on one of Hampshire’s most dangerous roads. They want to cut the number of fatal crashes on the A338 between Ringwood and Fordingbridge. Numerous people have lost their lives
EASTLEIGH 100, which attracted rail fans from across Britain and Europe, has revived hopes of creating a railway heritage centre in the town. For some years there have been calls for a permanent reminder of Eastleigh’s proud railway past
AN ambitious vision to restore Southampton’s old docks to their glory days has been unveiled by the city’s heritage champions. Proponents say it will be like stepping back in time to Southampton in the 1920s or 30s, when the docks were filled
A FORMER Southampton councillor standing for the Socialist Labour Party has branded the European Union “Hitler’s imperialist dream”, writes Rob Vickery. Paramjit Bahia, the SLP’s number two candidate for South East, is fighting for complete withdrawl
IT was one of the biggest protests the New Forest has ever seen – and could weigh heavy in the minds of voters when they go to the polls next week. More than 1,000 placardwaving demonstrators gathered at Wilverley Plain, near Brockenhurst,
LOOKING forlorn, forgotten and unloved, Southampton’s former queen of the Atlantic swelters under the glare of the fierce, unremitting Dubai sun as temperatures climb to 109F. This is how the one-time Cunard liner QE2 looked just two days ago
A POLICE probe has been launched after images of ducks were paint sprayed outside the Gosport offices of the town's MP Sir Peter Viggers who was caught up in the Westminster expenses row. Pranksters are believed to have struck between 3am on
THIS is the striking tower set to become one of Southampton’s tallest buildings after councillors gave it unanimous backing. The landmark £30m hotel and apartment building will rise 25 storeys into the air next to the Itchen Bridge as a “gateway
MORE than 8,000 Hampshire staff of supermarket giant Tesco are today celebrating a windfall of up to £3,000 each. The 8,400 Tesco workers in the county are among 207,000 nationwide to scoop a share of a £98m bonus pot generated by the retailer
THIS year’s Southampton Race for Life looks set to be the biggest yet. Organisers Cancer Research UK say that there could be a record-breaking 12,000 women and girls taking part in the event on The Common in July. More than 7,000 have
A COUNCIL is to gamble with another £100,000 of taxpayers’ money fighting a long-running legal battle that has already set it back more than £500,000. Civic chiefs in Eastleigh have decided to appeal against a high court decision ruling they
HAMPSHIRE'S up and coming solo sailors are being put through their paces in the Original Singlehanded Transatlantic Race - and they're just two days in. Solent University students Oscar Mead and Katie Miller both reported gale force winds overnight
DAVID Cameron, Gordon Brown, and Nick Clegg have all said sorry and are taking some kind of action to punish transgressors for their abuse of expenses and allowances, but what action are the smaller parties taking? They are either very honest or for
NOW some MPs have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar they are coming out with some pathetic excuses . It makes me so angry that I am willing to make a contribution to private prosecutions. Although really it should be a job for the police
I AM writing to you, about the relaxed attitude the authorities seem to have towards victims of serious crimes. I was a victim of a serious stabbing, resultng in a punctured lung to which I almost lost my life. I understand there is alot of police
IN reply to Brenda Knopf 's letter, I would like to point out, point by point,my understanding of what Labour has done. You say national minimum wage, I say try to live on it. Winter fuel payments, one month’s poll tax and then we freeze. More
AFTER an agonising wait, VT FC are celebrating promotion to the British Gas Business Southern Football League. Despite outstanding FA appeals – including Winchester City’s – the Southern League have confirmed that Sydenhams Wessex runners-up Vospers
RICHARD Bland is nervously waiting to hear if he will make it into the US Open, after narrowly missing out on an automatic place in the major. The Southampton golfer took part in the international qualifying event at Walton Heath on Monday. After
SOUTHAMPTON MP John Denham has denied claims he wrongly claimed accountancy bills on his expenses. Mr Denham, MP for Southampton Itchen, was named among 40 Government ministers who allegedly wrote off charges for hiring an accountant on their allowances
A UNIVERSITY student who became the first confirmed case of swine flu in Hampshire has made a full recovery. The University of Southampton student was given the all clear by doctors yesterday and is no longer in isolation. A university
Villagers near Winchester gathered to toast a loyal and long-serving postman. Roger Eyles is leaving Royal Mail after nearly two decades of delivering the post to addresses in Itchen Abbas, Avington and Easton. Around 40 residents attended a reception
A 24-year-old man was struck to the ground and robbed as he walked home from the pub in a Hampshire village. Police have just released details of the incident which happened near to Shorts Road, Fair Oak at about half past midnight on Saturday
A SOUTHAMPTON sexual health clinic is moving from The Quays swimming and diving complex to the Royal South Hants Hospital. From June 8, the city’s Contraception and Sexual Health Clinic will be relocated to the hospital’s Fanshawe Wing.
