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  • Support from Twyford Elders

    MEMBERS of the Twyford Elders Club have given their backing to the Daily Echo petition to safeguard free bus travel for Hampshire's pensioners. Most of those attending the over-60s club say they would suffer if they were to lose the right to free countywide

  • SAINTS 2 – WOLVES 0

    IN a game between two sides that have struggled for goals, it was always going to take a moment of magic to separate them. As it turned out, Saints produced two. What's more, it was the men that created and finished them that will provide the most satisfaction

  • New kit for Barton

    KITTED OUT: Barton Peveril College's soccer team receives its new sponsored kit from Steven Collins of Steven Collins Quality Greengrocers, based in Nightingale Avenue in Eastleigh. Don't miss Mike Vimpany's college football page in this weekend's Pink

  • Chance to get involved

    Hampshire FA and Sport Hampshire & IOW are offering girls aged from six to 16 the opportunity to get involved in football this autumn. Girls aged 12-16 have the opportunity to get a taste of football as part of Football Kick Start course every Tuesday

  • BOWLS - Express rides in to rescue county

    RICHARD Shelley and Martyn Sekjer stayed calm in a crisis to edge Hampshire through to the second round of the Liberty Trophy after a last-end thriller against Berkshire at Reading. Having led for most of the contest Hampshire looked like being mugged

  • BOWLS - Title hangover for reigning champions

    RUSHMOOR outgunned Palmerston 6-2 (81-77) to go second and leave the reigning champions floundering in the Hampshire League Division One relegation zone. Barry Stafford trailed 14-7 after ten ends before collecting 13 shots over the next five ends to

  • SWIMMING - Wins are all important

    Eastleigh & Oaklands triumphed in round one of their Speedo League encounter at Reading. They finished level on points with Havant & Waterlooville but were declared winners due to having had more first places (14) in the event. The gala started well

  • ATHLETICS - JJ leads way as Eastleigh records fall

    Eastleigh & District Junior Athletic Club members landed an incredible 57 personal bests and three club records in their first Hampshire AA Sportshall League match of the season. JJ Peters led the way in the under-13 boys' age group with a superb 51cm

  • FISHING - Pike frenzy at Broadlands’ Main Lake

    Broadlands' Main Lake is producing up to 11 pike in a session to live baits, with Chris Willis from Basingstoke fishing peg 11 for 11 pike from 5lb to 10lb. On the carp front, Salisbury's Barry Black took the best fish of the week with a 21lb mirror

  • Town shares day in life of princess

    AN EASTLEIGH charity shop received a special visitor yesterday morning when the Princess Royal popped in to see volunteers. Dozens of people lined the high street to catch a glimpse of the princess as she spoke to Save the Children volunteers about

  • Toasting lifesavers’ record response

    A GROUP of Hampshire firefighters are setting high standards by responding to a record 1,500 medical emergencies. The New Milton Co-Responders have been helping to save lives for the past two years by giving on-the-scene medical treatment to people before

  • Mystery of £800 cash donation

    IT is not often that Eastleigh council's benefit office is on the receiving end of such generosity. So it was with much amazement that it received in its postbag a brown envelope containing £800 in cash. Attached to it was a note asking that the money

  • Sale harvests £750,000 as estate is split up

    AN auction of farm machinery near Winchester has been described as the biggest in Hampshire in decades. The sale was caused by the splitting up of the 5,000-acre Hursley Estate. The estate, owned by Geoff Squire, has been sold in a 2,500-acre and 1,300

  • Recreation site branded as yobs’ haven once more

    RESIDENTS near a recreation ground have renewed calls for more action to tackle loutish late night behaviour after a survey reinforced their claims. It found most respondents suffered from rowdy behaviour and foul language from youths gathering on Ewart

  • Madding Crowd look at village life

    MEMBERS of the Madding Crowd will recreate 19th century Wessex for a period costume concert of music, hymns, dances and marches as they take a light-hearted look at the life of a village. The performance at United Church, Jewry Street, Winchester on

  • Cruel trick ruined my Hallowe’en

    A HAMPSHIRE youngster's first ever Hallowe'en trick or treat outing ended in tears when yobs pelted her with eggs. Seven-year-old Caitlin McDonnel was targeted by thugs as they drove past in a car while she was out trick or treating with her friends.

  • Fan hurt in brick attack on bus

    A FOOTBALL supporter was left with a head injury after a brick was thrown through a window of the bus he was travelling on. The bus was carrying Wolverhampton Wanderers fans back home to the West Midlands following last night's match with Saints at St

  • Burley: We need a run

    George Burley is hoping last night's crucial win over Wolves will be a catalyst for another unbeaten run. Saints won three league matches on the trot earlier in September to lift themselves up to third in the Championship table. But a run of four

  • Nightmare over for strike duo

    THEIR nightmare is over. Bradley Wright-Phillips is lifted into the air by strike partner Kenwyne Jones on the night they both ended their Saints goal droughts. Wright-Phillips set Saints on the way to a much-needed 2-0 home win over Wolves with

  • £35m Super Bowl

    IT'S A STUNNING £35m vision which will create one of the world's greatest cricket venues right here in Hampshire. Lavish plans to transform the Rose Bowl into a glittering 23,500-seater super-stadium, with a first-class 175-bed hotel, world-class media

  • Gold in 1720's

    Ben Field and his teammates landed a gold medal for Great Britain after winning the 1720 European Sailing Championships in St Malo recently. Field who works for Deloitte Professional Services in Southampton, was part of a six-man team that included

  • UKIP has no real policies for Britain

    HAS Leslie O'Bee lost the plot? His and UKIP's pussy-footing around the present administration of the US surely shows that UKIP has no real policies on Britain but only on Bush and his power over the British government. But as a European, as all kids

  • EU's law will increase unemployment

    HOME Secretary John Reid has announced he will place limits on entry into the UK for the citizens of the new EU countries when they join on Jan 2006. How stupid does our government think we are? As part of the EU these new members' citizens have the

  • Sufferers of chronic conditions are missing out

    TOMORROW, November 3, a six-week course teaching self-management skills to people with chronic conditions is scheduled to start at the Fenwick Hosipital in Lyndhurst. Sadly this valuable course may not run. Why? Simply a lack of interest from the public

  • Curb on dogs on St Catherine's Hill

    ALTHOUGH I do not live in Winchester, I love to exercise with my dogs at St Catherine's Hill, the place offers wonderful views over the city, and I was present at the inaugural protest with my spaniels purely by chance. I feel several points need to

  • Hoonies are active. . .

    ARE the Hoonies mounting a letter campaign in the regional and national press? The letter from Rob Reed (October 23) eulogised that "A vision of European unity grew from the horrors of the Second World War," etc "In the 60 years since the Second World

  • EU's mission is total control

    I AN astonished by people like Rob Reed extolling the so-called virtues of the EU (Letters, October 22). The 'vision' as he calls it of European unity was not born out of the horror of war, but out of the greed of governments and politicians like Edward

  • US calls on city firm to combat dirty bomb threat

    TECHNOLOGY developed by a Southampton firm has been chosen by the US government to help protect American citizens from the threat of a "dirty bomb". Hand-held radiation detectors from Southampton University spin-out company Symetrica will be given to

  • Full house on way at city shopping site

    OWNERS of Winchester's Brooks Shopping Centre say they are on course to be full for the first time in years. The centre, which was opened in 1991, has recently seen vacant shops filled with Bliss Accessories and Kingfisher China and Glass and says the

  • Dock Movements

    Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Liberty, vehicle, 0930, 38/9; Hoegh Paris, roro, 1230, 40; Asian Trust, roro, 1330, 43; Baltiskiy 103, cago, 2030, 36; Autostar, roro, 2100, 201 Today's principal Southampton sailings: Nordsee, cargo, 0400

  • City in line for first toll road

    SOUTHAMPTON is set to get its first toll road within the next ten years, the Daily Echo can reveal. From 2016, drivers could have to pay to drive into the city from the east along the A3024 - the route from the Windover roundabout to the city centre

  • Engineering works cause commuter chaos

    OVER running engineering works caused misery for scores of commuters this morning across the south. Trains were delayed for up to an hour due to the work on the line over running between Brockenhurst and Bournemouth. Services into Southampton Central

  • Girls rescued from mud

    TWO young girls had to be rescued after becoming stuck waist high in mud on a Southampton river bank. The pair became trapped near Monks Way in Mansbridge for around 45 minutes until their cries for help were heard. Chris Thompson, 43, operations manager

  • Creeper 2 has struck again

    A SERIAL BURGLAR dubbed the Creeper 2 who breaks into homes while the owners are asleep has struck again. Within hours of the Daily Echo reporting how the burglar, who often creeps into properties at night, was targeting homes in a Southampton community

  • Police release CCTV image of man they want to quiz

    A MANHUNT is underway for one of the south's most wanted fraudsters. The man at the centre of the inquiry is thought to be responsible for stealing almost £50,000 after using stolen cheques to withdraw cash at a string of banks. Daily Echo readers are

  • Police hunt man and woman after bus driver was assaulted

    A BUS driver was punched in the face after a passenger became abusive. The 53-year-old driver of the number 8 First bus service picked up the man, and a female friend, outside the central library in Southampton. As the pair got up to disembark at a

  • Mother of brain op Meg in hospital

    A Hampshire mum who helped raise £50,000 to send her daughter overseas for cancer treatment is recovering in a Southampton hospital after she also developed cancer. Helen Bulbeck, 44, had helped raise the money to send her 21-year-old daughter Meg

  • American talk show host is cruise ship's godmother

    NORWEGIAN cruise operator NCL has announced that American actress Rosie O'Donnell will be godmother of its latest ship Norwegian Pearl which arrives in Southampton next month. The popular talk show host and actress, pictured, will christen NCL's newest

  • Switch on and watch Amy in her dance spin

    HER spins on the dance floor have wowed competition judges across the country and have even caught the eye of television producers. Now the dancing talents of 11-year-old Amy Hayter will be seen by millions as she appears on a new series of short programmes

  • Former Saints star is still scoring for Southampton hospital

    HE MAY have left Southampton Football Club but goalie Antti Niemi will always have a place in his heart for seriously ill children at Southampton General Hospital. The 34-year-old former Saints player began helping the hospital's Paediatric Intensive