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  • American dream is over for Raymond

    Neil Raymond’s US Amateur adventure has come to an end, after suffering defeat in the quarter-finals of the competition. The Corhampton player lost 5&3 to Canada’s Corey Conners in the last eight at Brookline, Massachusetts. Raymond was

  • Mascarenhas: Carberry & Vince's best is yet to come

    IT is arguably Hampshire’s most dynamic opening partnership since Barry Richards and Gordon Greenidge. Since opening together for the first time at the beginning of Hampshire’s successful Clydesdale Bank40 campaign of last season, Michael Carberry

  • Sex abuse claims school to close

    A TROUBLED Hampshire school at the centre of sex abuse allegations is to close, the Daily Echo can reveal. Stanbridge Earls near Romsey announced tonight that it will shut its doors after failing to get enough children to sign up for classes in

  • Football's back - but how will Saints do?

    It’s okay. You’ve made it. You’ve survived the summer with a diet of nothing more than athletics cycling and cricket and are now chomping at the bit for something a bit more to your taste. Football is back. August is a paradox to the football

  • Mascarenhas wary of Edgbaston repeat

    YOU cannot blame Dimi Mascarenhas for being a little wary of the weather forecast as he bids to end his domestic t20 career by helping Hampshire make history at Edgbaston. The Royals can become the first county to successfully defend the t20 title tomorrow

  • Stage Highlights This Week

    THE classic children’s tale of Badger, Ratty, Mole and Toad will be coming to Sparsholt as as part of the college’s season of outside entertainment. Performed in the college’s beautiful library gardens by open-air garden theatre specialists, Chapterhouse

  • War Horse rehearsals under way

    REHEARSALS for the National Theatre’s production of War Horse, which is at The Mayflower in 2014 as part of a UK tour, began this week. War Horse is the powerful story of a young boy called Albert and his beloved horse, Joey, who has been requisitioned

  • Music Round Up

    SUBLIME FOLK HELD at The Talking Heads tonight, Sublime Folk is a great night of folk. Headlining the event is vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Maurice Dickson from Belfast. A talented musician for over thirty years, he has built an enthusiastic

  • Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - Review

     Reviewed On:  Xbox 360  Available For:  Xbox 360, PS3, PC (Steam)  P ublisher: 5 05 Games Developer: Starbreeze Studios Genre: Puzzle Adventure Age: 16 (PEGI) Price: 1200 MS Points (£10.20) As time passes and the gaming

  • Teacher jailed for abusing pupils at boarding school

    A teacher at a private boarding school has been jailed for three years after pleading guilty to abusing pupils as young as seven years old. Nicholas Quest, 59, admitted six offences of indecent assault of a child and asked for a further count to

  • A-Levels celebrations - Picture Gallery

    Pictures from schools and colleges around Hampshire as students collect their A Level results. Take a look at the gallery >> Click here to buy A-level photos >>

  • Between the Scales - this week at The Concorde Club

    AFTER being spotted by Doreen Davies, then head of Radio 2, Neville Dickie went on to have phenomenal success. His 1975 album Back To Boogie sold 100,000 copies and he remains one of the few British Jazz pianists to have had a record in the

  • MUSIC, LOOKING AHEAD: Ian Anderson to grace Guildhall in 2014

    LEGENDARY Prog Rock icon Ian Anderson has announced a 2014 UK tour, following the release of his new concept album to be recorded early next year and released around Easter. Anderson will be touring throughout 2014, starting in the UK in late April

  • Fiddling Fantastic

    CRAIG Revel Horwood is sitting so quietly in the corner that it takes me a while to register he’s actually there. Apart from the odd showbiz ‘darling’, the normally flamboyant Strictly Come Dancing judge is nowhere to be seen. He’s busy at

  • Alternative Cinema

    THE Victoria and Albert Museum presents David Bowie Is Happening Now, a nationwide cinema event screened live as the finale to the Museum’s enormously successful exhibition. This unique event was billed as your last opportunity to experience

  • Robin Cousins gives Southampton an icy outing...

    THE World Premiere of Olympic champion Robin Cousins’ new skating show will take place in Southampton next year. Robin Cousins’ Ice – The Skating Stage Experience opens at The Mayflower from January 15 to 19 ahead of a national tour. Olympic

  • Biker killed in fatal crash is named by police

    THE MOTORCYCLIST killed in a road crash on a Hampshire motorway earlier this week has now been named by police. Robert Simmonds, 49, of Blackmoor Walk, Havant, died after he was involved in a crash near junction five of the M27 at 6.40am on Wednesday

  • £20K fine for firm after activity centre rope failed

    A HAMPSHIRE firm has been fined £20,000 after an outdoors activity instructor was left permanently disabled in an accident. Joshua Senior, 25, plunged 30ft to the ground after a rope supplied by Pfeifer Rope & Tackle Ltd in Marchwood failed

  • Delays of up to one hour on railways

    TRAIN passengers face delays of up to an hour as signalling problems cause disruption in Fareham. Replacement buses have been put on for cancelled trains between Eastleigh and Havant. South West Trains says there are delays of up to 60 minutes

  • Arrest after woman's body found

    A MAN has been arrested after the discovery of a woman's body at a home in Hampshire. A woman’s body was located by police at an address in Wilmcote House, Tyseley Road, Southsea on Tuesday evening. Officers attended the address following a

  • Animals rescued from barn blaze

    ANIMALS had to be led to safety as a fire destroyed a barn on a Hampshire farm. Seven young calves and 20 pigs were rescued as fire crews battled the blaze at Grove Farm in Hedge End. After 12 hours of effort, all that remained of the building

  • SWT the 'least popular' train company

    Analysis of angry comments on Twitter by rail passengers has suggested that the least popular train company was South West Trains (SWT). SWT had the largest percentage of outright complaints from the tweets from its customers according to a survey

  • Hants pair knocked out of Boys Amateur

    Hampshire's Jack Singh-Brar and Harry Ellis both saw their Boys Amateur Championship bid come to an end in the last 32 of the competition today. The pair had enjoyed a strong week at Hoylake, advancing through the stroke play stages and then breezing

  • Thieves ransack charity music store

    CALLOUS and disgusting. That is how police and bosses have described burglars who stole thousands of pounds’ worth of stock from a Southampton charity shop. They broke into the Oxfam Music Store in East Street and took two computers, a stereo

  • The Rumour Mill - Friday, August 16

    The Daily Echo brings you a round-up of the transfer rumours making headlines in today's newspapers... Tottenham expect to sign Roma striker Pablo Osvaldo in a £15m deal today, despite reports in the Italian media yesterday that Saints had agreed

  • Stags hope to get embargo lifted

    AFC TOTTON are hoping to get their transfer embargo lifted ahead of tomorrow’s Calor Southern Premier Division opener at home to title favourites Stourbridge. With wages still outstanding from last season, the cash-strapped Stags were told they

  • Eastleigh tipped as favourites

    EASTLEIGH have been tipped as Skrill Conference South favourites by the man who led his team to the title last season. Jamie Day, manager of Welling United, says he can’t see past the Spitfires and their impressive trio of new attacking signings

  • Garage fire

    FIRE crews were called to a garage blaze this morning. Two appliances from Hightown fire station attended the incident at a detached garage in Holly Gardens, West End, at 6.06am. The blaze was out on arrival but firefighters are currently dampening

  • Burglars take gadgets from home

    BURGLARS have taken electrical items from a Hampshire home. They took a Samsung Galaxy tablet and Samsung S3 mobile phone with a pink cover while the owners, a 44-year-old man and 36-year-old woman, were out of the house, in Dutton Lane, Eastleigh

  • Saints legend Paine: Lambert is no one-cap wonder

    Saints legend Terry Paine believes it would be disgraceful if Rickie Lambert’s England career ends with just one cap. The club’s honorary president is adamant that the striker must be included in future squads after his fairytale debut at Wembley

  • Pub landlord pleads guilty to wife attack

    A WINCHESTER pub landlord has admitted attacking his wife. Rob Plunton, 25, managing tenant at The Ship Inn, Wales Street, pleaded guilty to assault by beating of Hannah Plunton on July 4. Plunton, now of Bishopstoke Lane, Brambridge, near