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  • Taking short cut to Costa Rica

    AN Eastleigh teacher has literally used her head to help fulfil a dream trip to the rain forests of South America. Emma Walmsley faced the task of raising £2,000 for a teaching trip to Costa Rica. But the answer to her dilemma came after she hit on the

  • Saints boss arrested

    SAINTS manager Dave Jones has been arrested by police investigating sex abuse claims in Liverpool. The married dad-of-four was arrested when he voluntarily walked into a police station yesterday afternoon after attending the funeral of his brother-in-law

  • Pan's another brick in restoration

    A FORMER Hampshire brickworks, now a museum, is well on the way to restoration with the arrival of a 14-tonne wet pan. The Victorian cast iron pan is to be restored and repositioned at Bursledon Brickworks. It has been bought with money made available

  • Helping to ease woes lots of fun

    AFTER 20 years dealing with other people's problems, Frances Briant should be in need of a well-earned rest. But the manager of the Waterside Citizens Advice Bureau is still full of passion for the work she is preparing to leave behind. The 63-year-old

  • The bare-faced cheek of theft!

    A SOUTHAMPTON student is openly advertising the fact he is wearing no knickers. Scott Harris has put a sign up in his Livingstone Road home appealing for information on his missing 15 pairs of boxer shorts which were stolen from his washing line. The

  • Nose snub pleas over pong probe

    EASTLEIGH residents near Southampton International Airport have turned their noses up at the way air pollution from planes is monitored. The Daily Echo was the first to reveal how Eastleigh Council's environmental health department was using a squadron

  • I'll fight to keep my child

    A HEARTBROKEN stepfather faces losing his four-year-old stepchild in a bitter custody bat-tle - just days after his wife Karen died in a motorbike crash. But devoted Hampshire father Adam Charman today vowed: "Karen would want the fight to go on and see