ATTEMPTS were today being made to salvage a Solent-based yacht at the centre of a capsizing tragedy in the English Channel. The 35ft Hooligan V was today still drifting off the south Devon coast after efforts yesterday to tow her ashore failed. One
AN eager ostrich at a Hampshire animal centre has laid her first eggs of the season six weeks early because of the warm weather. Zookeepers at Marwell near Winchester were amazed to spot a pair of bright white ostrich eggs in the big birds' enclosure
THE man at the centre of the row over plans to slash the wages of 5,000 Hampshire County Council staff has broken his silence. Chief executive Peter Robertson has given an exclusive interview to the Daily Echo after the newspaper was previously told
A RESPECTED community leader who spent years battling yobbish behaviour has been named as the man who died after being knocked down outside Southampton General Hospital. Retired Mike Sharples, whose campaign against anti-social behaviour was highlighted
A CAREER criminal who killed a 90-year-old woman when he snatched her handbag, and then went on to target five other pensioners, including two in Hampshire, has been jailed for 16-and-a-half years. Police described 46-year-old Ian Hemmings as a "a predator
THE Southampton boatyard fire that killed a Hungarian man was probably started by a stray gas flame igniting insulation foam inside the yacht he was working on, a court heard. Expert witnesses told Winchester Crown Court that the blaze in the hull was
POLICE are linking three distraction burglaries on the same night targeting elderly Hampshire residents. The first victim, an 83-year-old woman living in Canada Road, West Wellow, found three men in her kitchen. Fortunately, they left empty-handed.
