KEITH HAMILTON looks through past editions of the Echo and reviews the issues which made the headlines

50 Years Ago An Andover bride found herself with an unusual wedding present, a friesian cow called Judy.

The former land girl looked after Judy while working on a local farm so her friends and fellow workers clubbed together to buy the cow as a present on her wedding day.

40 Years Ago Newport on the Isle of Wight was completely cut off by floods and landslides after one of the one of the worst storms in living memory.

Union Castle announced that rising operating costs meant an increase in passenger rates from Southampton to South Africa.

30 Years Ago Southampton police were trying to identify an unknown man dressed in a velvet suit, T-shirt and hippy beads found unconscious in Tebourba Way, Shirley.

Guitarist Bert Weedon was on stage at the White Buck public house in Burley.

20 Years Ago Snow lay deep, crisp and even in Lymington due to special effects produced by Southern Television filming the children's series, Worzel Gummidge.

Movie stars James Cagney and Pat O'Brian arrived in Southampton on the Queen Elizabeth 2 to film in London.

10 Years Ago Plans for a new ice rink for Southampton were revealed by a developer who wanted to build the venue in the Lordshill area of the city.

The Olympic-sized rink, proposed to be completed by 1992, would be built alongside a new ten pin bowling centre.

Converted for the new archive on 25 January 2001. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.