Sorry about the long gap since my last posting. Despite it being very trendy, Your Life Your Style hasn’t gone bust, I’ve just been very busy with Christmas and the January aftermath. The new year has brought quite a few retailers to their knees
SAINTS have had a £10.2m bid for Brazilian playmaker Phillipe Coutinho accepted - but are waiting to see if Liverpool will match the offer. The Italian giants are understood to have accepted Saints' bid for the 20-year-old, who has played under
A SHOP worker suffered a broken nose after she was attacked by a gang she caught trying to steal from her store. The 44-year-old member of staff at New Look, in Shirley High Street, spotted a young woman in the group trying to steal items.
WORK has started on a £3.75m housing project that aims to provide living acco-mmodation for the over-60s. McCarthy & Stone is building 36 Later Living apartments in Southampton Road, Hythe, on the former Hartwells showroom site.
RESIDENTS were evacuated from a Southampton bungalow yesterday after a dishwasher caught fire. Firefighters from Hightown fire station were called at 12.54am to Valley Rise in Southampton. The two crews put out the small fire and the family was able
A VIDEO showing an alleged killer just hours after he is said to have murdered a Southampton man and torched his body in a car has been shown to jurors. Footage of Arben Lleshi leaving the flat where he allegedly killed Agim Hoxha was shown on
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THE chief constable today praised his officers and staff for helping drive down crime across Hampshire and reducing the number of burglaries to an all time low. Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed how break-ins at homes
TWO banks in Hampshire are set to close following a shake-up by the Co-operative Bank following its merger with Britannia building society. Branches in Southampton and Portsmouth city centres will be shut while the Co-operative Bank closes 37 branches
A HAMPSHIRE skate park could be set for an £80,000 revamp. American skateboarding firm California Skate Parks wants to take over the park at Wicor Recreation Ground, in Portchester. It plans to turn it into a state of the art facility by getting
FEARS have been raised fewer people are applying to go to university in the face of higher tuition fees. Higher education applications are down on last year, when a 6.6 per cent drop was seen as a response to the huge rise in the cost of taking
A TOTTON man is back in jail after hounding his mother again. Despite a court order banning him from contacting her, heroin addict Craig Steadman bombarded her with phone calls within days of being released from his latest stretch for harassing
A MAJOR blueprint for housing in the Hampshire countryside has been thrown into chaos amid a row over a huge plot of land. Up to 1,000 homes were due to be built at Woodhouse Lane in Hedge End as part of a far-reaching plan for development being
THE leader of Hampshire County Council was set to come under pressure today to rethink a blanket ban on wind farms on county council land. An environmental pressure group will tell Councillor Ken Thornber the ban is “misguided and harmful”.
HAMPSHIRE’S first community-run library has opened. County council leader Ken Thornber opened Stanmore Community Library at The Carroll Centre in Somers Close, Winchester. Centre staff have been working on the project for a year after the county
VILLAGERS are angry that the organisers of a music festival have avoided prosecution after breaking licensing conditions. Winchester City Council has issued a warning to Boomtown after the music event held at Cheesefoot Head last August. Parish
Mike Golding has completed his sixth circumnavigation of the World. The Warsash sailor is currently lying sixth in the Vendée Globe and completed his sixth circumnavigation as he crossed his outward track from his descent of the Atlantic over eight
A HAMPSHIRE grandad fighting an incurable disease claims he is still here thanks to the dedication of medics at a Southampton hospital. John Andrews, from Testwood, has endured months of chemotherapy and even a bone marrow transplant since diagnosed
BEING hooked up to a heart monitor could have saved the life of a four-year-old boy who died at Southampton General Hospital, an inquest heard today. Matthew Kenway, of Belllfield, Fareham, suffered a heart attack as he recovered from a kidney
A SOUTHAMPTON man, said to have links to a drugs cartel in the city, has been jailed for three years. David Caines, 48, was arrested outside his home after police found him carrying 50 wraps of heroin and 19 wraps of crack cocaine. Prosecutor
POLICE found about £50,000 worth of cocaine when they searched a Southampton man’s home, Winchester Crown Court heard. They made the discovery after stopping Ian Rose, 33, in his car, where they seized a small amount of the drug. Rose, of Woodmill
SOUTHAMPTON hospital bosses have been awarded hundreds of thousands of pounds to upgrade the city’s maternity unit. University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the Princess Anne Hospital, has been given £370,000 as part of
A large window of an Eastleigh cafe has been smashed. The incident happened at O’Briens, in Market Street, at about 9pm on Monday and police said it could cost the business up to £5,000 because the shop had to be shut until it was replaced.
Elderly people would benefit from a proposed £10.5m housing scheme in Hampshire. Winchester City Council has bid for a Government grant of £1.8m to help fund the Extra Care sheltered accommodation scheme. One of the sites considered is likely
VULNERABLE residents at a Hampshire care home were put at risk of burning and injuring themselves due to a lack of care, it has been revealed. In a critical report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), inspectors witnessed a catalogue of failings
A driver was threatened with violence in a parking dispute, police say. The 65-year-old van driver told police how he had been parked in Mount View, in Boyatt Wood, writing up invoices when a man knocked on his window and started shouting and swearing
Danny Briggs has been included in England's Twenty20 squad for the forthcoming tour of New Zealand - but left out of the one-day party. Briggs has not played during the current series against India and Graeme Swann's return to the one-day squad to
ROUTES out of Southampton Airport are safe as regional airline Flybe culls hundreds of jobs. About a dozen posts are to go at the city’s airport’s largest operator as it battles to plug a £3m black hole. Soaring passenger duty and fuel bills
WHAT a disgraceful way to treat potential police recruits by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, by slashing their pay by 20 per cent when only last week MPs went public asking for a 35 per cent pay rise. Does she not realise what sort of candidates
WHAT is it about snow that brings the Shackleton fever out in us? Even though I am in my 60s I still watch out of my window with the garden light backdrop when snow silently blankets the land. It is also the only time my garden looks as fine
I GOT into work at Southampton docks at 7.35am on Friday and had to drive through Millbrook, Shirley Road and then the docks itself. Not one of these roads was gritted. I would like to know why, it was treacherous! There was a bus on the wrong
THE Daily Echo is right (Echo Comment, January 17): it is the customers who are responsible, along with high prices, for putting people who work in retail at risk every time you sit at home in front of your PC or order items from your mobile. Also
LIKE Terry Butler (Letters, January 14), I am pleased to say my doctor’s surgery in Shirley Avenue sets a good example to others. Telephone calls are always answered by very pleasant and obliging receptionists who always offer a polite welcome
Best friends often stick together. But two Southampton girls took it quite literally – by handcuffing themselves to each other for two days. Chrissie Morris, 23, from Hanley Road in Shirley, and her friend Cat Blatchford, 23, from Grange Road
A Hampshire gardener accused of conning a vulnerable pensioner out of thousands of pounds told a court he would “rather die” than commit fraud. Robert Whitaker is alleged to have conspired with his two nephews, John and James Whitaker, to defraud
MINISTERS have hailed the latest fall in unemployment – although Hampshire’s dole queues nudged up again. The number of people looking for work last month reached 19,713 in December – up from 19,581 the previous month, new figures show. However
COUNCIL staff and teachers in Southampton who could not work because of snow will not lose any pay, the Daily Echo can reveal. Workers forced to stay at home by the cold snap were given the day off on full pay. In contrast, workers at other councils
DELIVERING their first baby can be a challenge for any student midwife. So imagine the task of farmyard apprentices who are poised to welcome 84 sets of triplets, 218 pairs of twins and 78 single lambs this weekend. Students and staff are expecting
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HE is aged just 21 and he is already the one to watch in the chess world. Each move is forensically and skilfully calculated in his mind – leaving his opponent with nowhere left to go. Skilled Dale McLauchlan- Young, who has made his debut
Reading defender and former Saints loanee Alex Pearce has been drafted into the Republic of Ireland squad for next month's friendly against Poland. The 24-year-old has received a late call-up after manager Giovanni Trapattoni agreed to FC Toronto's
AN inquest into the death of a four-year-old boy who suffered a heart attack begins today. Matthew Kenway, from Fareham, was nearly five when he died at Southampton General Hospital after an operation on his kidneys. The St Francis School pupil
England Under-21s coach Stuart Pearce is keen to take Jack Butland to the European Championship finals this summer but admits he is mindful of the balancing act that goes with the goalkeeper's progress at senior level. Birmingham goalkeeper Butland
Scotland defender Gary Caldwell has refused to give up on their World Cup qualification hopes with new boss Gordon Strachan now at the helm. Strachan was unveiled as national team coach earlier this month after a poor start to the World Cup qualifying
COUNTY council education chiefs have backed plans to build a new £2.2m temporary primary school to tackle the shortage of places for pupils in Whiteley. County councillor Roy Perry, Hampshire’s executive lead member for children’s services, yesterday
THEY are the paintings that prove there is life after rape. At the end of paintbrushes dipped in dark colours are teenagers who have suffered at the hands of sexual predators. Anger can be seen in one of the disturbing self-portraits and distress
HE may look like an average family pet but Tosh the springer spaniel has been at the forefront of the war on drugs across the county. His nose has been responsible for helping to sniff out £700,000 of illegal drugs in his last few years of service
ROMSEY Toy Library has a new home for the mountain of children’s favourites it offers for loan. Staff transferred hundreds of toys from the charity’s old premises at Frankie’s Fun Factory 100 yards to Academy Studios on Romsey Industrial Estate
LAND around Winchester Railway Station could be a step closer to being developed. Corporate director Steve Tilbury told the town forum the cabinet would receive a presentation from David Ashe of CH Design Partnership on developing Station Approach
A NEWLY discovered dinosaur is changing forever the way we look at birds, a Southampton scientist claims. Dr Gareth Dyke has co-written a paper following the discovery of a bird-like dinosaur in China, which roamed the Earth long before the beasts
A HAMPSHIRE MP is set to launch work transforming Fareham Business Park. Caroline Dinenage, MP for Gosport, will today mark the beginning of demolition work at the site. Originally the home of a US based global healthcare company, CBRE sold
A HAMPSHIRE pensioner died after falling down steps at a recycling centre just moments after a warning from his daughter, an inquest heard. Bruce Norton-Amor, 85, began climbing the steps to a skip when he toppled backwards, hitting his head on
IT WAS good but it could have been so much better. Those were the feelings of head teachers across the south today as the results of last year’s GCSE examinations were published. They show students are continuing to improve across the board
HAMPSHIRE’S colleges and sixth-forms largely saw their results remain steady. Changes to the way standards are measured in further education made it difficult to compare progress over recent years but results largely stayed stable with some only
A table showing how schools and colleges across Hampshire and Southampton performed in A-level results in 2012. HAMPSHIRE Average point score 2012 2011
MIKE Golding has ‘declared war’ on his Vendée Globe arch-rival as the solo round the world race enters the final sprint to the finish. Veteran racer Golding, 52, has been trading blows with Frenchman Jean Le Cam since the 24,000-mile odyssey started
A superb undulate ray of 24lb 8oz has beaten the best British weight. But Barry Knight, who caught it off The Needles, won’t be able to claim the record. Present restrictions on landing such a type of ray meant the fish was weighed, photographed
JIM Freeman was a high flyer during his business life – now he has hit the high spots in bowls as president of the New Forest BA for 2013. Jim is a one-club man, having taken up the sport in 2001 at Totton and Eling following the death of his wife
Reports in Italy have again linked Saints with a move for Inter Milan playmaker Philippe Coutinho. It has been suggested that the club are considering a bid of about £10m for the 20-year-old Brazilian, above. Saints have been regularly linked
Saints were given a tour of the Nou Camp before being put through their paces at Barcelona’s training ground yesterday, as their trip to Spain with new boss Mauricio Pochettino began. The squad are spending a few days away with their latest manager
It was brought as a “cheap run around” by a Southampton student for just £30 back in 1966. This vintage 1937 MG was snapped up by a young Lob Vinycomb from a Hampshire garage almost half a century ago. Now, 46 years later, the same car has
Hampshire have been given a huge boost after Cricket Australia confirmed that George Bailey will be available for the forthcoming season. Bailey is Hampshire’s main overseas player for the upcoming campaign but was subject to speculation regarding
POLICE were called to an argument after two men turned up at a house in Eastleigh. The two people came to an address in Tommy Green Walk and were having a heated argument with a 30-year-old man at the house. A neighbour called the police yesterday
REPORTS in Italy have again linked Saints with a move for Inter Milan playmaker Philippe Coutinho. It has been suggested that the club are considering a bid of about £10m for the 20-year-old Brazilian. Saints have been regularly linked with
Saints midfielder Jason Puncheon believes Rickie Lambert deserves an England call-up. Manager Roy Hodgson will soon be selecting his squad for next month’s friendly against Brazil, at Wembley. Lambert has made a strong case for inclusion, with
WINCHESTER town forum has revealed its proposed grants for city organisations for the next financial year. City centre councillors outlined their funding for charities, community and arts groups at a meeting last night. The largest grants of
A WOMAN was hit in the face as robbers snatched her handbag. The 43-year-old victim was walking her dog along an access road that runs alongside Dutton Lane, in Eastleigh, when two men ran towards her. She was hit on the forehead and cheek
POLICE are appealing for information following a break-in at Leckford Golf Club near Stockbridge on Monday night. Officers say that a number of tools were taken and failed attempts were also made by the raiders to get into two club houses at the
ALRESFORD civic chiefs are caling for the public's help as they struggle with drawing up plans for how the town can evolve over the next 20 years. A packed meeting last night heard how the town council was calling for the public to help it draw
THIEVES broke into a woman’s Southampton home while she was away visiting her parents. The 20-year-old tenant returned to her Shirley flat in Kent Street to find the front door had been forced open. A 32-inch Samsung flat screen television
A STUDENT arrested for possessing thousands of pounds worth of drugs following the death of a trainee doctor has been warned he could go to prison. But Alex Pearson will not be sentenced until June – to give him time to do his university exams.
