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  • Portsmouth 2 - Tottenham 0

    Patrik Berger blasted Pompey to three precious points on his return from suspension. Hot-shot Berger was suspended for the 3-0 defeat against Saints at St Mary's but fired Pompey out of the relegation zone with two second-half free kicks in his first

  • In Port

    Today's Principal Arrivals: Coral Highway, r/r, 0400, 43; Montlhery, r/r, 0530, 201 Link; Suar Vigo, r/r, 0700, 105; Asian Emperor, r/r, 1600, 43; Gediminas, cg, 1730, 108; Nobleza, r/r, 2130, 201; Tamerlane, r/r, 2330, 34/35. Today's Principal Sailings

  • Bashley 2 - Salisbury 4

    SALISBURY City consolidated fourth spot in the Dr Martens Eastern Division table with a 4-2 victory over local rivals Bashley at the Recreation Ground. But it was the home side who took the lead after 12 minutes. Richard Gillespie's cross was met by the

  • Five-vehicle smash adds to A36 anxiety

    RESIDENTS who live along one of Hampshire's most dangerous roads are demanding more safety improvements after another pile-up. Four cars and a van were involved in a frightening smash on the notorious A36 between Southampton and Salisbury. One vehicle

  • Supermarket's super act for people in need

    SCORES of homeless people in Southampton are being given Christmas cheer thanks to a supermarket. Tesco has donated gifts for the festive season for the city's Fareshare scheme, which redistributes surplus food to groups who support vulnerable people.

  • Winchester City 9 - Andover 3

    WINCHESTER City and Andover produced a real Christmas cracker with an amazing twelve goals as City triumphed 9-3. But sadly the match will be remembered for a horrendous injury to Lions stalwart Alan Kennedy. Kennedy, who has made over 400 appearances

  • Southampton Guildhall - New Season 2004

    AS THE New Year approaches, a new season of musical entertainment is shaping up at Southampton Guildhall, with plenty for everyone to enjoy. As usual, January kicks off with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's Viennese Gala (January 3), featuring performances

  • Liner offers bug victim total of £72

    PASSENGERS hit by a sickness bug on a Southampton-based cruise liner are being offered as little as £36 compensation for each day they were ill. Hundreds of people were hit by the highly contagious virus on board Aurora during a Mediterranean cruise earlier

  • PETER PAN (PG)

    A CENTURY after its premiere on the London stage, JM Barrie's timeless tale gets its first faithful live-action adaptation from Hollywood. Wendy Darling (Rachel Hurd-Wood) and her two younger brothers Michael (Freddie Popplewell) and John (Harry Newell

  • FULHAM 2 - SAINTS 0

    CHRISTMAS cheer was rather short on the ground for Saints fans at Fulham yesterday. In fact they had nothing to cheer about. Just a few days ago Saints fans on a high as a 3-0 defeat of Portsmouth left Gordon Strachan's men in fourth. After that game

  • Sherwood injury adds to troubles

    Harry Redknapp is hoping that a pain killing injection will help Gary O'Neil play against Chelsea following Tim Sherwood's horror injury against Spurs yesterday. Pompey travel to Stamford Bridge for a lunchtime kick off against Chelsea tomorrow without

  • Sydenhams Wessex League: Horror injury mars City stroll

    WINCHESTER City and Andover produced a real Christmas cracker with an amazing twelve goals as City triumphed 9-3. But sadly the match will be remembered for a horrendous injury to Lions stalwart Alan Kennedy. Kennedy, who has made over 400 appearances

  • Dr Martens League: Bashley Whites-washed

    SALISBURY City consolidated fourth spot in the Dr Martens Eastern Division table with a 4-2 victory over local rivals Bashley at the Recreation Ground. But it was the home side who took the lead after 12 minutes. Richard Gillespie's cross was met by the

  • Bowls: Palmerston to face Five Rivers in singles battle

    IT'S Palmerston against Five Rivers in the Zone 14a semi-finals of the English Women's Indoor BA singles championship. Sandy Moyse and Jill Cook will be flying the flag for Palmerston against Ann Hindley and Ann Humphries respectively of the Salisbury

  • QUEEN OF THE SEAS

    BOXING DAY 2003 will go down in history in Southampton as the day when the world's biggest cruise liner, Queen Mary 2, arrived home. The £550m Cunard liner berthed right on cue at lunchtime yesterday and will be in the city over the next couple of weeks

  • QUEEN OF THE SEAS

    BOXING DAY 2003 will go down in history in Southampton as the day when the world's biggest cruise liner, Queen Mary 2, arrived home. The £550m Cunard liner berthed right on cue at lunchtime yesterday and will be in the city over the next couple of weeks

  • Crowds flock to south

    IT was a moment to savour for hundreds of thousands of people who had lined the Solent coastline. Spectators eager to catch the first glimpse of Queen Mary 2 began taking their places hours before she arrived. And not even the miserable Boxing Day weather

  • Readers play Santa for Erin

    GENEROUS Daily Echo readers have brought Christmas cheer to a two-year-old who had her presents stolen from beneath her tree. Mum Carla Isaacs feared she would be forced to write off the big day for daughter Erin Dear because she had little money to replace

  • Reveller's roof plunge

    A YOUNG reveller had to be rescued by Eastleigh firefighters after he plunged off a roof at the town's Barton Peveril sixth form college. The Christmas Eve skylark went wrong after two young men - thought to be in their early 20s - climbed scaffolding

  • Canine flu ends hunt

    A CANINE flu epidemic forced a Hampshire hunt to call off its prestigious annual New Forest Boxing Day meeting. The New Forest Hounds abandoned this year's Brockenhurst hunt after several of the foxhounds caught kennel cough. The disease, described as

  • Giving blood is the perfect present

    SHOPPERS found themselves rubbing shoulders with Father Christmas when they arrived at a Hampshire supermarket to give blood. The National Blood Service (NBS) sent one of its mobile donor units to the Totton branch of Asda on Christmas Eve. It was the

  • Bournemouth International Centre/Pavillion - New Season 2004

    FANS of live music are in for a treat at Bournemouth this year, with performances by everyone from current chart stars such as the Sugababes and Atomic Kitten to living legends like Brian Wilson. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the release of the

  • COLD MOUNTAIN (15)

    IF THERE'S one film which could stage an upset at next year's Oscars and pip The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King to Best Picture, it's Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Charles Frazier's novel. Cold Mountain is a sweeping, emotionally fraught

  • OUT OF TIME (12A)

    BAD THINGS happen to good people all of the time, especially in the movies. Matt Lee Whitlock (Denzel Washington) is sheriff of the picturesque coastal resort of Banyan Key in Florida, where the only dark clouds on the horizon are precipitated by the

  • CINEMA LISTINGS

    Films showing in the Hampshire region until 1st January 2004. BROTHER BEAR (U): Environmentally-friendly Disney animation about a boy who is turned into a bear by the spirits to teach him a lesson about love. COLD MOUNTAIN (15): See review. ELF (PG):