HE is the man who painfully tormented Saints as they crashed to a humiliating 4-1 defeat in their last visit to Fratton Park. And Blackpool striker Lomana Lualua has challenged Pompey’s current crop of players to produce a repeat performance
ONE of the firefighters who helped save a hospital from disaster has revealed how close the blaze was to spreading to rooms where patients were having surgery. Watch manager Steve May led the first crew to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in
COUNTY chiefs are officially mothballing a solar scheme for Hampshire County Council buildings, blaming cuts in Government subsidy. A total of 31,000 sq ft of roof space – equal to four football pitches – was earmarked for photovoltaic (PV) panels
A TEENAGER was confronted by a knife-wielding gang member in a park where children were playing. The 18-year-old was walking home from college when he was asked whether he wanted to buy drugs. When he refused, one gang member pulled a knife from
Police are appealing for witnesses to a ten-vehicle crash in Hampshire. The collision happened aton the northbound carriageway of the A3M at Waterlooville. The cars involved were: a black Saab, silver Nissan Almera, blue Renault Laguna, white Volkswagen
LOUD music could make it difficult to know how much you are drinking, Hampshire researchers have concluded. Alcohol tastes sweeter when loud music is playing and the noise could make it difficult for drinkers to judge how much they are consuming
NEW water meters with leak alarms are being fitted to save more than five million litres from being wasted every day. Southern Water is spending £83m installing the new devices and will be able to read them remotely by picking up readings on
IN THIS original yet faithful version of Aladdin all the elements of traditional pantomime were present in an eclectic mix of wit, corny jokes, gunge, magical illusions and stunning costumes. Emily Manion was brilliant as the beautiful, haughty,
DO YOU remember what it felt like to believe in fairies and honestly think you would never, ever grow up? If not, then Southampton’s Mayflower theatre is the place to visit this Christmas. For two-and-a-half hours this jaw-dropping musical
AN UNLIKELY double act were the stars of the show at Ferneham Hall’s annual panto offering this year. Who would have thought that Ian ‘H’ Watkins, best known as member of super group Steps, would gel so well with a 6ft-plus dame expertly played
FOUR young men will spend Christmas and the new year away from their families after they took part in what a judge slammed as a nasty and violent late-night incident. Southampton Crown Court heard how the four – Remi Williams, Callum Channell
A MOTHER is calling for greater restrictions on popular ‘glow sticks’ after an accident which left her daughter with chemical burns to her eyes. Melanie Hill had to rush her four-year-old daughter Poppy to hospital after she suffered the burns
EMERGENCY services battled torrential rain and high winds after they feared people may have leapt from a burning barge moored in the River Itchen. A large scale search and rescue operation was launched in the early hours of yesterday after reports
A murder trial this morning continued without the man who is accused of bludgeoning a Hampshire grandmother to death after his prison van became caught up in a major traffic jam. Matthew Hamlen was being transported to Winchester crown court from prison
A COUNCIL-OWNED industrial estate in Southampton has been sold for £3.6m to an investment company in one of the largest property deals in the south this year. Frobisher (Millbrook TE) Ltd purchased the freehold for 23-acre Millbrook Trading
IT WAS one of those typical gloomy, damp winter days and we were in need of some cheer. Somewhere quite the opposite to the weather really: where the welcome was as warm as the atmosphere and the promise of good food and fine company would sweep
A JUDGE rewarded a New Forest woman for staying off drugs by not sending her to prison. Judge Gary Burrell QC had earlier warned Sarah Hobby, 40, of Woodvale Road, New Milton, that she would be jailed for 15 months for battery, racially aggravated
TODAY the Daily Echo is launching its hunt to track down the unsung heroes of Southampton’s hospitals. The Hospital Heroes campaign is on a mission to celebrate the dedication of staff who go that extra mile to put a smile on the faces of patients
I WAS amazed to read that Eastleigh Borough Council may be able to invest over £6m to bail out the Rose Bowl. Two of our town-based facilities – Eastleigh Museum and Eastleigh Library, used daily by a much wider cross-section of the community –
WHY do the ‘anti wind turbine’ campaigners know they don’t work and the ‘pro-turbine’ campaigners all over the continent (for years) and here know they do? Who is right? MRS B ROBINSON, Southampton.
I WAS moved to write after seeing the picture of St Mary’s stadium at sunrise, sent in by Reuben Porter-Brown (Daily Echo, December 6). His picture shows off our great stadium, but I think we should be ashamed of the state of the approaches to the
AS an admirer of David Cameron’s famous call for ‘a big society and we are all in it together’ speech, I am concerned that he did not really mean what he said. I am one of the 72 per cent of Southampton citizens who are opposed to fluoride being
THE organisers of the Woolston Festival again gave Macmillan Cancer Support the privilege of mingling with the crowds to collect donations. The festive atmosphere and the many attractions made them very generous and the amount raised was £77.21.
I WAS pleased to discover that this year’s Christmas stamps have a religious theme to them, in contrast to the secular children’s favourites Wallace and Gromit, who featured in 2010. It is, after all, a festive season. PHILIP G HAWKINS, Sholing,
I HAVE just walked through Woolston in Southampton where there is a gentleman selling The Big Issue. He is not asking for money and is very well mannered, wishing everyone who walks by good morning and a lovely Christmas. I stood and watched him
FOLLOWING David Cameron's momentous decision not to go along with the EU, I would like to put my point as I think he acted correctly for Britain. The EU is financially unviable and wanted us to pay even more in bail outs that cannot, in my opinion
I WAS interested but not impressed to read the article (Business News, December 8) about the great success of Solent Stevedores at Southampton docks. I assume that neither the writer nor the general manager lives in Shirley, Millbrook or Freemantle
LIKE your readers I’m counting down the days until Christmas and am really looking forward to spending some time at home with family and friends. Home is so important at this time of year, which is why it shocked me to learn that every two minutes
WELL done Itchen Sixth Form College on their performance of Schools Will Rock You on December 6 and 7. The two evenings were filled with fantastic acting, dancing, singing and music. Congratulations to you all on a brilliant show! From a proud parent
IT’S no surprise to hear that wildlife expert Chris Packham welcomes the ten-year incarceration of two pandas from their home in China to Edinburgh Zoo. He has recently said on a leaflet issued by the Isle of Wight Zoo, run by his present
SOUTHAMPTON City Council should be ashamed at the non-display of Christmas lights and a tree in the city centre. Years ago we always had a big tree and lights from the Bargate all the way up to the old Tyrrell and Green store. If the Christmas market
LAST month, whilst out walking in Southampton, I was caught out by the temperamental weather so I decided to jump on to a Bluestar bus to finish my journey. I boarded the bus at Foys Corner, Shirley, to travel the 500m to Shirley Police Station and
IF you are disabled and have received excellent care from your local doctor’s surgery, Leonard Cheshire Disability wants to hear from you. For the seventh year running, we have teamed up with the Royal College of General Practitioners for the
SINCE becoming Prime Minister David Cameron has repeatedly demonstrated his support for his rich party donors against the interests of the ordinary masses of the electorate, so his veto of the latest attempt at a new EU treaty, in order to protect
I WOULD like to take the opportunity of thanking the League of Friends of Moorgreen Hospital for a very generous donation to our club, Hedge End Retirement Club. Our members will be able to enjoy extra treats and also continue subsidising the community
The Isle of Wight is to benefit from improved broadband after the Isle of Wight Council's cabinet announced plans to invest £3 million in helping to provide super-fast technology. The announcement by Isle of Wight Council deputy leader, George
THE letter from Councillor Harrison (November 29) claims there are benefits from the EU. He then says that £10m is to be spent on the New Forest, but omits to say that it is our own money returned from Brussels from the £50m per day that we send
THE Tax Payers Alliance are absolutely correct in objecting to the council getting involved in the Rose Bowl. I have written to Keith House expressing my thoughts in this issue and asking why the council’s spending of over £1m this far has been hidden
I FIND it rather amazing that, of all the nations who use the euro only Germany actually meets the original criteria for joining the euro currency! BARRY BURTON, Fareham.
AFTER recently being appointed chairman of New Forest East District Scouts I was asked to place a letter in the Daily Echo as we need helpers and leaders. Leaders are required for all ages of boys and girls from Beavers at six to Explorers at 14
I HATE to break it to M Clements (“Pedestrians’ road foolishness”, Letters, December 5) but perhaps a re-read of the Highway Code is in order? First of all there is rule 207 (Particularly vulnerable pedestrians – eg children). Rule 206 is of particular
YOU are to be commended on your daily Caught on Camera feature, and on Wednesday the shot by Tony Jones of the cruise ship Independance of the Seas, made me think of something which has been in the news of late. The picture was interesting in itself
SO 600 light years away astronomers have found a planet with similar life-enabling possibilities as our own planet. The only problem I have with this information is the time it will have taken to reach us. The details we are gathering from space
WHY are Britain and the US continuing to pour millions (and hundreds of lives) into the Afghan war? Did a report from Reuters’ African correspondent come up with the answer? “Afghanistan’s government has pinned its hopes of rebuilding the country
IN response to “Disgruntled Tenant”ÿ (“The forgotten estate”, Letters, December 3) writing about the Itchen Estate window replacements. I have spent plenty of time in the Itchen Estate, and it strikes me as having something that cannot be bought
What better way to say thank you than to give a thoughtful, handwrapped gift, filled with Lush goodies. Give a gift to your teacher, Brown Owl, babysitter, carol singers, favourite colleague. Have a Sweet Christmas.£5.95. Want
WE are always being encouraged to “think bike” but given the laxity given to all bike users whether it’s motor cyclists overtaking at 10 or 20 mph over the speed limit, or cyclists on the pavement are we asking the wrong people to “Think”? Yesterday
AT last my Uncle Harold who died in action in Italy October 1944, and who I never met, is being honoured. Southampton City Council is honouring all who were killed in the two world wars, in between and after, on new memorial plaques, but Uncle
A CIGARETTE is thought to have caused a fire that tore through a ground-floor flat in Thornhill, Southampton, last night. Fire crews were called to the property in Hinkler Road at 4.40pm after a woman returned home from a trip to the shop to find
MULTI-MILLION-POUND tax payer-funded bail out of the Rose Bowl moved a step closer to completion last night. As exclusively revealed by the Daily Echo in November, behind-the-scenes discussions have taken place about the possibility of Eastleigh
Great Britain suffered a double setback at the World Championships in Perth today with Southampton-born Iain Percy suffering a back injury and Ben Rhodes forced to pull out due to a rib problem. Percy was left in agony when his back gave out while he
A MAN lost two teeth in a racial attack in which he was punched by a woman as he walked along a street. The victim, who is black, was racially abused by the woman and two men before she assaulted him. The 19-year-old had been walking through the Flowers
ARSONISTS torched a car in Southampton last night. Firefighters from Redbridge station battled the blaze for nearly one hour at just after 11pm last night. The small hatchback was left abandoned in the middle of a field off Tottenham Close, near Kendal
A SERIAL offender took a knife outside his home after two of his front windows were smashed, Southampton Crown Court heard. Lee Wookey, 34, had been remonstrating with another man in the street who followed him to his front door. After he went inside
SALISBURY City boss Darrell Clarke set up a dream FA Cup date with his old Hartlepool teammate Danny Wilson as the Whites created history with a dramatic second round victory at Grimsby Town last night. City’s 3-2 replay triumph books them
SAINTS will go to Fratton Park to face a Pompey side packed with Premier League experience in this Sunday’s south coast derby. Michael Appleton’s squad is set to boast as many as ten players who have previously featured in the top flight.
The boyfriend of murdered Hampshire landscape architect Joanna Yeates has spoken of his pain at losing her, nearly a year after she was found murdered on Christmas Day. In an interview 28-year-old Greg Reardon said the couple would probably
A MAN had almost £1,000 in cash, which he had saved for Christmas presents for his family, stolen from his sheltered accommodation. The 63-year-old had been away for the weekend and returned to find his flat in Paynes Road, Southampton, had been broken
Part of a Hampshire town centre is closed off today as police hunt a robber. The raider struck as security guards attended a cash machine in the centre of Fareham last night. It happened at an ATM machine at the Nationwide Building Society
HAMPSHIRE bowler David Balcombe has signed a new three-year contract at the Rose Bowl. The 26-year-old's previous deal was due to run out at the end of the 2012 season. But, following an impressive loan spell at Kent towards the end of the last
BOSSES at Southampton General Hospital last night closed two wards to new admissions due to outbreaks of diarrhoea and vomiting - just 24 hours after two wards in Winchester were struck down by the vomiting bug. Relatives are being urged to think before
