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  • Bournemouth romp to Rose Bowl final

    Bournemouth crushed Alton by ten wickets last night to clinch a place in next month's Southern Electric Contracting Cup final at the Rose Bowl. Ben Jansen (40) and Huw Ross (32) shone as Alton scored 137-8 off 20 overs. But Bournemouth openers Adam Voges

  • Cash boost will ensure high standard of schools

    SCHOOLS in south-west Basingstoke are in line for a £3.7million boost that will provide better quality classrooms and other new learning resources. County executive member for education Cllr Don Allen has proposed a programme of building work at Hatch

  • MP issues plea to keep store open

    TADLEY MP Sir George Young has asked Sainsbury's not to shut down the town's main supermarket for six months. Sir George intervened after being contacted by worried residents who had heard about the planned closure, which was exclusively revealed in The

  • Bashley stunner

    BASHLEY rocked Cherries with a goal after just 22 seconds at the Recreation Ground last night. The DML outfit took a shock lead through Tony Wallis. But a stunned Cherries side hit back to win 2-1. Wade Elliott, the Cherries midfielder who joined from

  • Netball: Sokoveti wins a place at England training camp

    Well done to Sokoveti Kauwale who has been picked to attend the England Netball Talent training camp in October. The 15-year-old Soko who attends Applemore School and plays for Applemore Netball Club, moved to Marchwood from Fiji two years ago and has

  • BANNED

    A FORMER pupil of prestigious Winchester College has been warned to stay away from the controversial Bar End park-and-ride extension after being sentenced in a Hampshire court. Oliver Tate, 18, whose father Dr Nick Tate is a former headmaster at the school

  • BITTER PILL

    NEARLY 200 workers at a pharmaceutical giant in Eastleigh are today reeling over controversial plans to relocate nearly 80 miles away. Pfizer markets and sells non-prescription medicines like Calpol and Benylin from its consumer healthcare operations

  • Crunch time for old biscuit mill

    A FORMER steam mill, which was built to make ship's biscuits for the Royal Navy more than 200 years ago has been put on the "at risk" register of historic buildings. Chapel Mills, which is close to the banks of the River Itchen in the Southampton's American

  • Jemini bounce back

    BRANNIGANS is hoping to score a little more than "nul points" with the punters when Eurovision rejects Jemini perform at the Southampton venue this week. The duo, who shot to infamy after becoming the first ever UK act to score no points at the Eurovision

  • Come on you Blues!

    BLUES fans will be heading for Fort Purbrook near Portsmouth in September for the fifth annual Blues at the Fort Festival. The line-up for the event, taking place on Portsdown Hill on September 19 and 20, has just been announced with some top acts including

  • HOSPITAL'S MAY START DATE

    WORK on a state-of-the-art hospital serving 182,000 people in the New Forest is set to start next May after years of delays, the Daily Echo can reveal. Health chiefs have announced that two companies involved in the race to build the £36m complex are

  • BITTER PILL

    NEARLY 200 workers at a pharmaceutical giant in Eastleigh are today reeling over controversial plans to relocate nearly 80 miles away. Pfizer markets and sells non-prescription medicines like Calpol and Benylin from its consumer healthcare operations

  • WHAT'S IN A NAME?

    RUPERT LOWE has pledged to use the £7m from the transfer of Wayne Bridge to invest in strengthening Saints. But responding to fans' calls for Saints to make more big name signings, Lowe said: "Graeme Le Saux is a big name signing, but what is a big name

  • New signings must be right for wage bill - Strachan

    SAINTS manager Gordon Strachan has admitted he won't have the final say on whether more new signings would be added to his squad. Strachan was bitterly disappointed at losing Wayne Bridge and would not have let the deal go through had Graeme Le Saux not

  • Forget Cardiff, a new season starts here ...

    Saints prepared for tonight's first match since the FA Cup Final and the start of life without Wayne Bridge by picking up a few timely injury boosts. After a run of injuries had threatened to rule many of the first team squad out of this week's pre-season

  • Ready for a mobbing

    ANDERS Svensson will be one of the busiest players on Saints' tour of Sweden. The squad arrived in the country yesterday afternoon for an eight-day tour which includes three matches. Svensson, as revealed in the Daily Echo last week, was voted the fourth

  • IT WAS THE BEST DEAL WE COULD DO

    RUPERT LOWE has defended the deal which saw Wayne Bridge transferred to Chelsea, saying: "We did what was best for Saints." With Wayne Bridge having put in a transfer request to join Roman Abramovich's Chelsea, Lowe eventually negotiated a fee of £7m

  • My best is yet to come says '£30,000 per week' Le Saux

    GRAEME Le Saux completed his transfer to Saints yesterday - and predicted his best days as a footballer could be at St Mary's. The 34-year-old will be the highest paid player at the club and it is understood that the former England star has not taken

  • LE SAUX IN BRIDGE DEAL

    WAYNE BRIDGE will this weekend finalise his move to Chelsea - with Graeme Le Saux set for St Mary's in a £7m deal. The 22-year-old Bridge has admitted for the first time that the deciding factor in his decision to move was the chance to play Champions

  • The Bridge deal - What the Saints have to say

    Statement on Wayne Bridge from Saints chairman Rupert Lowe: "I regret to inform our supporters that we have today given Wayne Bridge permission to speak to Chelsea Football Club with a view to signing for them. Wayne has quickly achieved great footballing

  • Royal Southampton Yacht Club - Spanish crew win double hander

    After a tough passage from the Solent, the clear winners of the Royal Southampton YC's inaugural Double-handed Santander race was Flying Neleb, a Swan 39R from the destination club Real Club Maritimo Santander, sailed by Alvaro Lopez-Doriga and Antonio

  • ROYAL SOUTHAMPTON YACHT CLUB HOST RYA SAILABILITY

    This month the Royal Southampton Yacht Club will be welcoming some very determined disabled sailors who will be participating in this year's RYA Sailability South Coast Blind Week. On Saturday 12th July 22 yachts assemble in the Club's section of the

  • Caned by Burch

    MARC Burchill fired a 12-minute hat-trick as a youthful Pompey XI caned Havant 6-0 at Westleigh Park last night in front of a ground record attendance of 2,500. Burchill opened the scoring when he pushed home Carl Robinson's through ball in the 14th minute

  • Eye-opener for new boy Griffit

    Saints' new French signing Leandre Griffit has already discovered there are no easy games in English football - not even against your friendly non-League neighbours! Incredibly Steve Wigley's young guns were trailing 3-0 to Dr Martens League new boys

  • Bashley stunner

    BASHLEY rocked Cherries with a goal after just 22 seconds at the Recreation Ground last night. The DML outfit took a shock lead through Tony Wallis. But a stunned Cherries side hit back to win 2-1. Wade Elliott, the Cherries midfielder who joined from

  • Caned by Burch

    MARC Burchill fired a 12-minute hat-trick as a youthful Pompey XI caned Havant 6-0 at Westleigh Park last night in front of a ground record attendance of 2,500. Burchill opened the scoring when he pushed home Carl Robinson's through ball in the 14th minute

  • Cygnets orphaned after parents shot

    AT just two months old this pair of fluffy cygnets are all alone in the world. Their mother's broken body was found in a cloud of white feathers at a Hampshire beauty spot yesterday, ripped to shreds by an animal after it is believed she was shot. Just

  • New technology to aid bus passengers

    SATELLITE technology looks set to make life easier for bus passengers in the Basingstoke area. Under a new proposal, all 60 vehicles operating in the Stagecoach bus fleet in the town will be fitted with automatic vehicle location equipment. The technology

  • In Port

    Today's Principal Arrivals: Britta Oden, ro/ro, 0830, 25 link; Autosky, ro/ro, 1600, 201 link; OOCL Shanghai, container, 1830, 206. Today's Principal Sailings: APL Ireland, container, 1130, 206; Barcarolle, tanker, 1900, No. 7 Dry Dock; Autosky, ro/ro

  • Netball: Title decider an exciting finale

    THERE were plenty of exciting matches when it came to deciding the ultimate winners of this year's Summer League. The play-offs were held at the Netball Centre with the upper section matches, held a couple of weeks ago, seeing Home James come out on top

  • GETTING THE HUMP

    STATE-of-the-art bendy buses have been forced off routes through Southampton because they cannot get over new humps. The multi-million-pound fleet of low-floor First Hampshire vehicles were scraping over free-standing speed ramps in Millbrook, destroying

  • Student injured in resort bomb blast

    A STUDENT at Southamp+ton University was hurt in one of two bomb attacks on the Costa Blanca in Spain. Modern languages student Ellie Carr, 20, was taken to Hospital General Universitario in Alicante after a blast near a hotel. She needed 20 stitches

  • I am so proud of BBC's Iraq stand

    INTREPID war reporter John Simpson CBE has spoken during a visit to Southampton of his pride at the way BBC bosses have stood up to the government in the furore over the Iraq War dossiers. Famously the first man into Kabul, Afghanistan, during the US-led

  • Crackdown on homelessness

    A BLUEPRINT to crack down on the "scourge" of homelessness in Southampton is to be launched by city housing bosses. The new strategy follows figures revealed in the Daily Echo this week which show that the number of homeless people in the city has almost

  • Sally wins Craig's signed shirt

    NO WONDER young Sally Roe looks happy - she's just won a Saints football shirt signed by her favourite singer, Craig David. The 13-year-old Daily Echo reader of Longmore Avenue, Woolston was one of scores of entrants to our competition to win a footie

  • PCs turn to pedal patrol

    POLICE in Southampton are turning to pedal power to tackle antisocial behaviour across the city. From today, a team of officers will be patrolling on hi-spec mountain bikes equipped with police livery, lights, sirens and blue flashing lights. The Southampton

  • Coach boss Dave is one of the team

    HAMPSHIRE businessman Dave Pitter is celebrating a 40-year link with the firm that supplies that Saints team coach. Dave is managing director of Southampton based Coliseum Coaches, the only company he has worked for since leaving school in 1963. Coliseum

  • Bikram spices it up

    FEW musicians come with pedigrees like Bikram Ghosh's. The Asian music star's father, Pandit Shankar Ghosh, was a pioneering performer who worked with the Grateful Dead, while in recent years Bikram has been tabla accompanist to legendary sitar player

  • PATIENTS HIT BY CLOSURE

    NEARLY 400 patients at Southwick will have to travel to Wickham after their local doctor's surgery closes this week following two years of uncertainty. The once-a-week surgery is being shut down because it it considered that there are not enough patients

  • Strach walks down memory lane

    WHEN Gordon Strachan touched down in Gothenburg with his St Mary's squad yesterday, memories from 20 years ago were surely not too far away. For it was in this Swedish city on May 11, 1983 that Aberdeen created one of the greatest moments in British football

  • Lundekvam joins Swedish tour

    Claus Lundekvam is poised to make a surprise appearance on Saints' Swedish tour. The centre half was expected to miss the three-game tour following exploratory key-hole surgery to discover the cause of sever stomach pains. He was rushed to hospital from

  • £1.5m A YEAR FOR WAYNE

    WAYNE BRIDGE will more than double his wages to in excess of £1.5m a year when he signs for mega-rich Chelsea. The England left-back finalised personal terms and successfully completed a medical over the weekend and is set to sign a five-year contract

  • Bridge sale is sending out the wrong messages ...

    AVID Saints fan Dave Ford believes Rupert Lowe's decision to sell Wayne Bridge to Chelsea for around £7m is "disgusting". While Ford, chairman of the Fair Oak branch of the Saints supporters club, does not blame Bridge for quitting to further his international

  • Royal Southampton Yacht Club - Double hander to Spain

    On Saturday morning 12th July the Royal Southampton YC's inaugural Double-handed Solent to Santander race started in bright sunshine and a gentle easterly breeze, building during the afternoon to a useful force 3-4. Covering 510 miles altogether, the