MORE than 100 prostitutes worked in a brothel operated from a house in the heart of Southampton. The girls were brought from the Far East to work in the city’s sex trade run by an organised gang. They would work in the city for a couple
A rare first edition of Hampshire author Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice is expected to fetch up to £100,000 when it’s auctioned. The literary romantic masterpiece, whose heroine Elizabth Bennett famously falls for the haughty charms
PORTSMOUTH are still in administration, after the Football League turned down the club's latest bid to regain its golden share. The league is yet to be satisfied that all requirements needed to leave administration have been met. There
HEALTH chiefs paid £300,000 to consultants before telling scores of Hampshire hospital workers their jobs were being cut, the Daily Echo can reveal. Bosses at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester are poised to axe more than 120
Saints manager Nigel Adkins has warned his players to expect a big test at Huddersfield this weekend. He said: "Huddersfield will be up there with us at the end of the season, Lee Clark’s team are always very competitive, they’ve got some good
A HOST of Hampshire yachtsmen were today set to be named in an exciting academy created to promote British excellence in solo sailing. The Artemis Offshore Academy was launched in June as a training scheme to put talented UK sailors on par with the
ISLE of Wight yachtsman Chris Stanmore-Major will set sail this weekend on an epic 30,000-mile solo round-the-world race. Just a few months after completing the Clipper Round-the-World Yacht Race, the 32-year-old from Cowes is off again, this
DETECTIVES investigating the disappearance of a malaria-infected man believe he may have gone abroad. Police say they are considering the idea because they have still not had any confirmed sightings of the 37-year-old who has not been heard
THOUSANDS of council staff in Southampton have been invited to quit their jobs in a bid to slash costs. All the council’s 4,500 workforce, excluding teachers, have been asked to consider voluntary redundancy as the Government prepares to announce
AN elderly man spent his last days as a “broken man” after being knocked out by a teenager in a pub brawl, a court heard. Paul Finlay, 64, was trying to break up a fight in the Mountbatten in Lordshill, Southampton, when Jamie Greaves turned
ENGLAND hockey star Richard Smith insisted the best side hadn't won as England missed out on a bronze medal with a cruel case of déjà vu in Delhi. Smith and Winchester-born Rob Moore had already endured heartache in their semi-final clash with hosts
SOUTHAMPTON netball star Geva Mentor helped England round off a topsy-turvy Commonwealth Games campaign on a high by claiming bronze on the last day of action in Delhi. Mentor faced a tough battle to get herself motivated for their last shot at
RINGWOOD’S Forest Forge Theatre Company has had a play based on Forest life shortlisted for a national award. In April, Forest Forge presented a new play called Free Folk, written for the company by Gary Owen. The script is one of ten shortlisted for
A HAMPSHIRE apprenticeship scheme has received a £50,000 cash boost. The county council has topped up its apprenticeship grants scheme which helps local businesses take on young people as apprentices. The money is enough to support about another
OVER 50 canaries, worth a total of £1,500, have been stolen from a Hampshire home. The birds were stolen overnight on Tuesday, October 5 from the outbuilding of a property in Fir Tree Lane, Horton Heath. A second outbuilding was also broken into
ADAM Lallana is attracting attention from Premier League side Birmingham City. According to a report in a national newspaper, the Blues are considering a £3m January bid for the highly rated midfielder. Lallana's current contract at Saints runs out
ANTHONY Pulis has spoken of his frustration at “being left in the cold” at Saints. The 26-year-old midfielder joined Saints on a free transfer in August 2008 but hasn’t yet made his first-team debut. He did manage to get some first-team
From Dirty Dancing to Bollywood, drive in movies return to Southampton this weekend thanks to Wave FM and the Daily Echo. A big screen TV will, once again, be erected next to WestQuay shopping centre for three nights of outdoor screenings.
SAINTS bid to dent one of the best home records in English professional football this weekend as they bid for the win which could take them into the play-offs. Outside of Premier League champions Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge fortress, there has been no
After a gruelling 16 date UK tour, the last gig finally arrived for Glenn Hughes and his band (Soren Andersen guitar, Anders Olinder, keyboards and drummer Pontus Enborg) at the Brook. From the opening notes of Muscle & Blood, which kicked
Southampton General Hospital has taken delivery of a new £5,000 paediatric heart probe, thanks to a charity set up in memory of a little girl. The vital piece of equipment was paid for by money raised through the Lahna Appeal. The fund was established
A MAN arrested in connection with the discovery of an imitation hand grenade at an Isle of Wight home has been released with no further action. The incident on Tuesday saw residents in Arctic Road, Cowes, evacuated and the road closed for five hours
THE number of people on out-of-work benefits in the south is likely to rise again before the region’s economy is back on track, a Government minister has warned. Employment Minister Chris Grayling said that he would be “very surprised” if improvements
THOUSANDS of Hampshire staff of Lloyds bank are this morning breathing a sigh of relief that none of the 4,500 job cuts announced yesterday will come from the county. The cuts, described as a “devastating blow” by unions, take the losses at Britain’s
INVESTIGATIONS will take place in the next year that could lead to a £15m programme to shore up cliffs along the Hampshire coastline. The Environment Agency has paid £300,000 for borehole drilling and pumping tests at Barton on Sea in the New Forest
Today’s principal Southampton arrivals: DS Blue Wave, container, 0630, 207; Azura, passenger, 0630, 46; Independence II, vehicle, 0700, 40; Toledo, vehicle, 0700, 34/35; Gran Canaria Car, roro, 0730, 105; Lord Nelson, training, 1200, 104; OOCL California
After only two weeks, Southampton-born businesswoman Joy Stefanicki has been axed from The Apprentice. Joy faced Lord Sugar’s wrath in the boardroom for taking too much of a back seat. He said: “I haven’t seen anything from you and neither
A CHARITY dinner has been called off due to not enough interest. Wessex Heartbeat’s Hampshire Harvest Dinner was to have been held at the Rhinefield House Hotel, in Brockenhurst, tonight. The event included a gourmet three course dinner, a food demonstration
We can all sleep soundly in our beds (or someone else's bed) knowing Winchester is a bastion of propriety. The Echo reports there will be no lap dancing clubs or other sex centred businesses in our capital city thanks to the Licensing Committee
Matthew Barney has been handed an “unbelievable” chance to get two titles from one fight and take revenge on Paul Morby this weekend. Southampton’s former world boxing champion Barney was due to meet Portsmouth’s Morby for the vacant Southern Area
Hampshire have been given the chance to play in their first overseas Twenty20 tournament in the new year. The Hampshire Royals missed out on the Twenty20 Champions League place after winning the Friends Provident t20 in August because it clashed
AUDITIONS will hunt for Jesus, his Disciples and other characters to recreate the last days of the Lord’s life. Budding actors, singers and dancers are urged to try out for roles in Southampton Passion 2011 to reignite the true meaning of Easter for
Brazilian forward Guly do Prado’s exciting display against Tranmere Rovers has given Nigel Adkins one of a number of selection dilemmas for the trip to Huddersfield. Saints travel to the Galpharm riding high after back-to-back wins against Cherries
A DRUNKEN motorist drove home from the pub with only three tyres after he had hit a central reservation kerb. Though on medication for depression, Darin Bailey, 42, knocked back six pints of shandy and two of Guinness at a Totton pub on New
A FAMILY has paid tribute to a mother-of-four who died after falling from her bicycle on the Isle of Wight. Forty-seven-year-old Kathryn Anne Hollis, of Brighstone, fell on the B3399 at Brook Shute and died at St Mary’s Hospital, Newport, on
SUNDAY parking charges will start in central Winchester next year, civic chiefs decided. A £2 flat fee will be payable in short stay car parks as the city council tries to combat falling parking income. As previously reported in the Daily Echo
