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  • Saints under-23s face title decider

    Saints’ PL2 Division 2 title hopes will go to the last game of the season after they drew 1-1 at West Brom. Victory would have seen Radhi Jaidi’s team go two points clear at the top of the table and within touching distance of the title. But

  • Eastleigh boss: League Two football can keep us together

    BOSS Ben Strevens believes promotion to League Two is his best chance of keeping his Eastleigh squad together. With just over a week of the regular season remaining, the Spitfires have three games left to cement their place in the National League

  • Saints have injury doubts ahead of Newcastle

    Jannik Vestergaard is an injury doubt for Saints’ game at Newcastle on Saturday. The giant defender has been forced to sit out training with a minor niggle as a heavy season starts to take its toll on his body. Vestergaard is one of several

  • SMALL BUT PERFECTLY FORMED

    JEEP RENEGADE (2015-2018) MODELS COVERED: (1.6 petrol, 1.6 MultiJet diesel, 2.0 MultiJet diesel 4x4) By Jonathan Crouch * Introduction The Renegade is Jeep’s interpretation of what a compact Crossover or small SUV really should be and

  • A FULLY EQUIPPED COMPACT SUV

    Hyundai are aiming high with this improved version of their stylish Tucson, a sharp-suited family mid-sized SUV aimed at the Qashqai-class. Jonathan Crouch takes a look. Ten Second Review With this Tucson model, Hyundai has got serious about

  • HYBRID BRINGS EFFICIENCY AND REFINEMENT

    Honda CR-V Hybrid The fifth generation Honda's CR-V makes plenty of sense in Hybrid form, thinks Jonathan Crouch Ten Second Review In Hybrid form, Honda's fifth generation CR-V mid-sized SUV aims to reach a wider audience than the previous

  • True crime: Man shot his bigamist wife's other husband

    THE prosecutor turned poet to damn the fickleness of her character. 'Oh, woman in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard to please.' Two men had vied for the affections of Fanny Wells, both of whom she wed. And when her true husband

  • Meet Dieter, who's taking on 26 half marathons in a year

    MEET the man who will be running the ABP Southampton Half Marathon as part of his 26 half marathons in 52 weeks. Dieter Sullivan, 64, took up running in his early 40s and has since run in many events around the world, including Berlin and Cyprus

  • Fly tipper caught dumping piles of rubbish in quiet road

    A MAN has been fined more than £850 for fly tipping in the Test Valley. Mark Cooper, of Lockerley dumped the bags of rubbish in October last year along Roman Road in Broughton. He was fined the lump sum at Basingstoke Magistrates Court on April

  • Hospital security staff are set to go on strike again

    SECURITY staff at a Southampton hospital are to strike for a second time in a dispute over safety, pay and sick leave conditions. Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, revealed to the Daily Echo that talks on Tuesday with the employer Mitie

  • Man found guilty of flashing

    A MAN has been found guilty of exposing himself in a Hampshire town. Aaron John Diamond, 31, exposed his genitals during an incident in Lee-on-the-Solent in June. He denied the allegation, but was found guilty during a trial at Portsmouth Magistrates

  • Builders give school playground a new lease of life

    A GROUP of volunteers have given a children’s playground a new lease of life. Volunteers from Morgan Sindall Construction transformed the play area at Springwell SEN School as part of the company’s Give and Gain Day. Springwell, in Thornhill,

  • Hunt for four men after serious assault in Southampton bar

    Police have released CCTV images following a serious assault in a Southampton bar. The assault happened at Revolutions in Bedford Place just after 2am on April 7. A 31-year-old man suffered a broken jaw following the incident. Now, Hampshire

  • Yoshida outlines target for safety

    MAYA Yoshida thinks a win against Newcastle on Saturday will be enough to keep Saints in the Premier League. The south coast side saw their eight-point cushion above the relegation zone shrink to five after Cardiff’s 2-0 victory against Brighton