COULD the next winner of Britain's Got Talent be from Hampshire? That was the question on everyone's lips last night as auditions for the hit show took place. Singers, magicians and musicians went to the Saints pub in Millbrook to take part
LIFEBOAT crews were called out after a couple on a yacht reported a fire on board the vessel. The couple on the 34ft Cara had called for help after their cabin filled with what they believed to be smoke after leaving Island Harbour in the River
THOUSANDS of people are set to descend on the New Forest for a three-day celebration of food, farming and the countryside. The New Forest and Hampshire County Show will kick off tomorrow. Last year’s event saw 105,000 people attend the show
ONE person was rushed to hospital after a collision between a car and a motorbike. Emergency services were called to Fordingbridge High Street shortly after 4.10pm this afternoon. One person was taken to Salisbury District Hospital for treatment
REVIEW: ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’The Villagers Open Air Drama Group,Three Choirs Vineyard, Wickham.GOOD to see The Villagers on such fine form, here presenting one of the Bard’s best-loved comedies in the company’s 30th Anniversary production.It’s
THERE will be no spare seats on Barnet’s bus for tomorrow's (Tuesday, 7.45pm) pre-season friendly at Eastleigh. Bees boss Martin Allen is bringing his full League Two squad down to face Chris Todd’s Vanarama National League promotion hopefuls at
THE Duchess of Cornwall is visiting Hampshire tomorrow to open a new £300,000 facility for servicemen and their families. Hampshire County Council has built a “Poppy Pod” village in the New Forest where members of the armed forces can enjoy free
CAMPAIGNERS battling to save a Hampshire bus station have failed in their attempt to secure special protection for the town centre facility. Civic chiefs have rejected a plea to designate the site in Lymington High Street as an Asset of Community
Saints have appointed Dave Watson as their new Head of Goalkeeping as part of a new deal to keep him with the club. Watson, who joined the club as senior goalkeeping coach two years ago, has also been working with the England team. Watson will
SOUTHAMPTON AC’s under-17s and under-20s finished sixth in their last UK Youth Development League upper age-group match of the season at Croydon. It ensures a mid-table finish of fourth in South/West 1A, effectively the third division of the league
A WAVE of strikes which could have thrown summer flights from Southampton Airport into chaos have been called off. Unions have secured a new pay deal with airport chiefs which will prevent industrial action being launched by the terminal's firefighters
IT DOES seem odd to me that MPs, for an example, who are paid for by the taxpayer, end up with honours such as Knighthoods. They are already quite well paid. Some appear to do very little, and achieve next to nothing. Then their followers treat
I SUPPOSE I should be used to being contradicted on these pages no matter what you say but I can’t have name and address supplied contradict what I said about feral pigeons. The photo they have supplied shows a young pigeon that has in all probability
THE much used 1960s quote from former prime minister, Harold Wilson, ‘A week is a long time in politics’, has had more than its fair share of airing this last week or so. How true that turns out to be fifty years later, when despite the transformation
MORE carnage on the streets of France and still the lesson hasn’t been learned. You will never beat terrorism by kindness, never defeat the ideology by human rights,and never stop the killing of the innocent by platitudes. Europe leaders need
I THINK I know the reason the government is fighting tooth and nail to stop Scotland leaving the union, it would mean the UK would still be without a Wimbledon men’s champion for 80 years. Paddy Maxwell, Southampton
YET again our council, in its wisdom, is pumping another 1.8 million pounds, making their contribution so far to date 3.75million, into the above project [the Studio 144 arts complex] for the privileged few, taking this money from capital grants such
MR HOUSE! Why in heaven’s name have you given misguided approval for Hendy to build on your former site? What an absolute prime piece of land that would have accommodated a very much needed ice rink in the South! Like Hendy it would have created
A LOTTERY winner is set to lose £1million if they don't claim their prize by midnight. The player won the prize in January but the deadline expires this evening after being bought in the Isle of Wight on February 27. The ticket's reference
A LEADING planning and design business, has opened a new south coast office in Hampshire. Barton Willmore hasve taken a premises at the Ocean Village Innovation Centre in Southampton, adding to the firm’s existing network of 11 offices across the
NOEL McCarthy-Gardiner made three successful debuts in five days for Brockenhurst. Last Tuesday he played for Luke Hirst’s under-18s and scored two goals in their 6-3 victory against Ringwood U18s. Wednesday saw him step up to Paul Nineham’
EX-SAINT Pedro Monteiro (AKA Pele) had a run-out for AFC Totton in their 3-2 home friendly win over Sholing on Saturday. Pele, who will be running the Stags’ under-16s this season as part of the youth link-up with Matt Le Tissier’s Natural Coaching
A HAMPSHIRE cafe has been named one of the best beach restaurants in the UK. Pebble Beach at Barton-on-Sea has been singled out in a national newspaper article which praises its cliff-top terrace and its menu. Overall it was named the 21st
WHILE the likes of Ryan Bertrand and Fraser Forster were still enjoying their (delayed) summer holidays, Graziano Pelle’s post-Euro 2016 break was not a long one. Just a fortnight after Italy’s Euro dream was shattered in a penalty shoot-out loss
MAY 11, 1983. Gothenburg, Sweden. The European Cup Winners Cup final between underdogs Aberdeen and Spanish giants Real Madrid. Sir Alex Ferguson’s Dons against the legendary Alfredo Di Stefano’s Madrid. There was a stunning upset, with
Bratislava Hot Serenaders, The Concorde, EastleighJAZZ does not come much hotter than this.On a sizzling summer’s night the Bratislava Hot Serenaders set a scorching pace with two sets of electrifying 20s and 30s style music. The 19 piece ensemble made
Songs From The ShowsThe Stage DoorThis type of show tends to feature company members singing well-known musical favourites with the occasional twist of gender marking the difference. Producer Julianne Watling-McCarthy trod part-way down this well-trodden
A MAN has pleaded guilty to sexual voyeurism after spying in a sports centre. Gerard Anthony Salmon admitted observing another person doing a private act, knowing that the person did not consent to being observed for his sexual gratification, at
IN a novel twist, Saints are being linked with a move for a Tottenham player! Fans have been used to the north London club being linked with moves for Saints players (and managers) in recent times. But today Saints, according to the Daily Star
A bumper crowd flooded into Thruxton for the sixth round of the 2016 MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship (BSB). And they were rewarded with a spellbinding spectacle of high-octane two-wheeled thrills at the north Hampshire track. As
HAMPSHIRE golfer Scott Gregory will be on the history trail again this week as he bids to become just the second player ever to land the British and English Amateur titles in the same season. Amateur legend Sir Michael Bonallack is the only player
DOZENS of firefighters tackled a lorry blaze on a Hampshire dual carriageway in the early hours of today. The parcel truck caught fire on the A34 southbound carriageway between Whitchurch and Litchfield at 3.32am. Crews from Romsey, Whitchurch
FANS, families and ice skaters have become concerned with the condition of the ice rink at Planet Ice in the leisure park. With one of the stands being condemned, the closure of one of the main changing rooms and poor condition of the ice, people
WE'RE on a mission to find the best beard in Hampshire - and it could be you. The Daily Echo has launched a competition to find the finest facial hair in the county, with top prizes on offer. So far we have had more than 30 entries but there
NEW music reveller, Stephanie Newenhouse is set to take to the BBC Radio Solent airwaves for her new weekly BBC Introducing Solent show promoting musical talent from Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight. With nearly 600,000 unique tracks uploaded
FOLLOWING the success of last year’s sold out UK tour, The Queen Extravaganza - the brain child of Queen drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Brian May - returns this Autumn to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band’s iconic album, ‘A Night At The
THE Daily Telegraph called him: ‘One of the most joyfully smart, stimulating and entertaining comedians this country has’ whilst Metro said: ‘Confident, engaging, thoughtful show... did someone say National Treasure?’ Now award winning comedian and actor
Nathan Redmond showed Saints fans the first glimpses that he can provide the firepower to replace Sadio Mane with a quick-fire brace in only his second game for the club. The £10m summer signing from Norwich has big shoes to fill in the shape of
COLOUR filled Eastleigh as hundreds of people filled the Leigh Road recreation ground in the town for the Mela festival 2016. The event is a celebration of diversity and learning about different cultures. Musicians and dancers are providing entertainment
TWO youths are being hunted by the police after one of them drove a quad bike at officers. Police are asking for the public’s help to trace two youths who were riding a quad bike and a scrambler around the Millbrook and Redbridge area of Southampton
THOUSANDS are being urged to have their say on a series of masterplans which could change Hampshire’s political landscape forever. Hampshire County Council is launching a £150,000 consultation, asking people to give their verdict on landmark devolution
RELATIVES of an inspirational Southampton councillor are celebrating the first phase of a project to restore the gardens created in his memory. They spoke out after joining the mayor, Cllr Cathie McEwing, on a visit to the new-look Vokes Memorial
OAKWOOD FC hosted a two-day tournament at the Test Park Sports Ground in Southampton. Competing in the tournament were 88 teams divided into six age groups, from the under 7s to the under 12s. For all the pictures from day one see here
IT WAS an ambitious multi-million pound scheme to transform Southampton’s run-down estates. Hundreds of council tenants were promised new homes and revamped communities. But today the Daily Echo can reveal the plans to completely overhaul estates
IT’S BEEN 20-years since the last one – but 2016 has been deemed the year Southampton will get its Pride back. A committee headed up by some of the city’s top cabaret acts is putting together a one-day rainbow-filled extravaganza for the city’s
A BODY has been found and two people were rushed to hospital after a rescue operation on the south coast. Emergency services, including a lifeguard team from the Solent, were called after the disappearance of a young man who got into difficulties
TENS of thousands of pounds’ worth of illegal cigarettes have been seized by trading standards. A raid using sniffer dogs on a grocers in Shirley lead to about £10,000 worth of illegal cigarettes being found stashed away in hidden compartments.
IT IS the craze that is sweeping the world. And now Southampton gamers are working together to catch em' all at the Alexandra pub in the city. Pokemon Go is the new force that has made people go outside to catch as many Pokemon as possible.
A MAN has been hospitalised with a bleed on the brain after an assault. A 37 year-old man is in hospital with a broken jaw and bleed on the brain following an assault after he left The Fox Pub, Lion Walk, Gosport. The vicious attack happened
SAINTS have been linked with one of manager Claude Puel's former strikers. The club are one of the frontrunners to sign Monaco forward Valere Germain, according to Seville-based newspaper Estadio Deportivo. Real Betis have also been linked
A MAN hunt has been launched after a man was assaulted when attackers burst into a property. A woman and two men went to an address in William Panter Court, Eastleigh, where the woman said she was delivering a package. The two men then entered
A MOTHER and daughter have won £50,000 between them in the lottery. Katrina Walcroft and her mum Sharon, both from Fareham, won £25,000 each in the People's Postcode Lottery, a month after signing up. Katrina, a chef, said she decided to start
POLICE are investigating sex smear allegations against former Saints star Nathaniel Clyne after a video showing him with a girl and a friend was leaked. The 25-year-old England ace claims someone is making a deliberate attempt to ruin his reputation
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge perched on the front of a high-speed catamaran as they cheered on Sir Ben Ainslie's America's Cup team to victory yesterday. The royal couple joined thousands of spectators to support Sir Ben's Land Rover BAR team
TRIBUTES have poured in after a body was found in the water during the search for a missing man. Hampshire police searching for missing Michael Stratton have said they have found a body in the water in Gosport. The family of the 27-year-old
