VITAL council services in Southampton could be disrupted in a row over cuts to generous staff travel expenses. Unions have threatened industrial action after the council voted to slash mileage rates to 40p to save cash. They were left fuming
MOTORISTS were facing long delays leaving Southampton this evening following a crash on a major road. Traffic leaving the city was queued up more than three miles after a collision between a car and a lorry near the Redbridge flyover on the outbound
A HOME office pathologist told a murder trial that a teenager, beaten up and left for dead in a children’s park, had died from pneumonia. Luke Woolf died in hospital several months after he had suffered severe head injuries at a house in Northam
CAMPAIGNERS have lost their battle to prevent one of the world’s biggest chemical companies from redeveloping a site in a New Forest village. The National Park Authority (NPA) has given INEOS permission to build offices that will include a tennis
A HIGH-RISE housing block was evacuated yesterday following the third fire in Southampton student accommodation in five days. The 16-storey Mercury Point in Duke Street was evacuated after a fire ravaged a flat on the 11th floor. It was the
A MAN has been arrested after allegedly attempting to smuggle more than 350,000 cigarettes into the country through Southampton Docks. The 52-year-old was arrested by HM Revenue & Customs officers for allegedly evading duty payable on the
THREE teenagers were last night being quizzed by detectives investigating the false imprisonment of a woman at a Southampton house. A 17-year-old male and two girls aged 14 and 15 were arrested yesterday on suspicion of causing grievous bodily
THEY are axing jobs, taxing the dead, and making multi-million pound cutbacks. Yet today the Daily Echo can reveal how Southampton City Council is prepared to go into debt rather than sell off prized artwork to fund a multimillion pound Sea
IT was a getaway attempt that was caught on camera and helped to convict a thief as she tried to evade justice. As these images show, a police was almost run over as he tried to stop Kelly Golds fleeing Winchester City centre where she had just
Graeme Murty could miss the rest of the season after undergoing a further operation on his injured ankle. The 35-year-old was signed by Saints at the start of the season but has been limited to just eight appearances due to injury. Murty
IT’S a £1m armour-plated weapon of war that floats on a cushion of air and it’s made in Hampshire. Capable of carrying 16 Royal Marines across water, mud, sand and ice, the Landing Craft Air Cushion is the latest military product from Marchwood-
A CHAMPION figure skater has backed ambitious plans to bring an ice rink to Southampton for the first time in more than 20 years. Chris Howarth, 1980 British figure skating champion, has given his support to proposals to build a £10m ice
VT Group has continued to resist takeover interest after rival Babcock International upped its offer for the services firm to more than £1.2 billion. The cash-and-shares approach from Babcock significantly undervalues VT and its prospects,
The Daily Echo’s teenage Models posed as live mannequins in the windows of New Look, Westquay, Southampton, yesterday. Hundreds of shoppers stopped to see the twelve local teenagers, who are all part of the Daily Echo’s ‘Out There’ model team
DESPITE already receiving a helping hand from a city homeless group, allotment holders in Southampton will be grateful for advice from this visitor. TV gardening personality Charlie Dimmock, above, will visit Southampton tomorrow to meet allotment
FIREFIGHTERS raced against the clock to extinguish a fire that threatened to explode out of control. Crews from Fareham fire station had to act quickly to get the blaze at a garage in Highfield Road under control, before two gas cylinders inside exploded
MORE than twenty patients have been struck down by a winter vomiting bug which has swept through five Hampshire hospital wards. Three wards were closed at Southampton General Hospital today following an outbreak of Norovirus while two more
NEW question marks today hang over the future of a toxic ship blocked from leaving Southampton last year amid fears it could be illegally scrapped. The Margaret Hill, a 50,700 tonne liquified natural gas tanker, was prevented from leaving the
A MAJOR part of the controversial Hampshire Rose Bowl project will not be completed in time for its maiden test match, the Daily Echo can reveal. Work on the hotel is unlikely to be finished by next year and had been put on hold due to the
FANCY watching the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy final in style, while helping out ex-Saint Kevin Moore? Well, now you can, through a fundraising auction in aid of the dementia sufferer and former Dell defender. Fans are being offered the
THE father of a promising Hampshire footballer has told of the horror as his son collapsed during a match. Robbie Tambling stopped breathing while playing for Gosport Borough during the closing stages of their game at AFC Totton’s Testwood
UNIONS have warned services will suffer after civic chiefs in Southampton agreed to axe 120 jobs and make £8m of cuts to deliver an average council tax rise of £35. For the second year running Southampton City Council agreed the lowest tax
HAMPSHIRE councillors will today vote on a £672m budget which will see average council tax bills outside Southampton’s unitary authority rise by £20. A wage freeze for thousands of workers and slashing mileage rates are among a list of measures
Can somebody please shoot those effing seas gulls? And while you’re at it, melt down those effing distant church bells and turn them into manhole covers. There was a sharp frost in North Wales yesterday morning. Shane Castle beat Jordan Winbourne
WE want to hear your divorce/break up party experiences. Have you ever been to a divorce party? Are you planning a get-together to celebrate your own break up? Contact Paula Thompson on 023 8042 4484 or email paula.thompson@dailyecho.co.uk.
PORTSMOUTH have asked the Premier League for permission to sell players outside of the transfer window. Financially stricken Pompey said in a statement that they are 'exploring the possibility' as to whether they can have special dispensation
RICKIE Lambert and Grant Holt go head-to-head this weekend with both men looking to become this millennium’s top scorer for a single season in the third tier of English football. The Saints and Norwich hitmen, whose teams face each other at
SOUTHAMPTON householders are being asked to turn in their neighbours for leaving their wheelie bin out on the street for too long. Bin chiefs are turning to residents to help them in their crackdown on bins cluttering the city’s pavements.
A CAMPAIGN to reopen a Hampshire railway line could result in trains travelling as far as Fawley, the Daily Echo can reveal. The Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) has called for passenger services on the old Southampton to Hythe
DETECTIVES are appealing for information about the movements of a red Jaguar XJ Sport that was stolen after a burglary. The car – registration number HBZ 284 – was taken from a property in Picket View, Ringwood, on Tuesday at 10pm and was later
A TEENAGER was attacked by a gang of four as she walked home alone in Southampton. The 18-year-old woman had been in The Saints pub in Millbrook before she left and walked along Windemere Avenue with two friends. The victim then turned
AN inquest will look to shed light on the mystery death of a Hampshire tradesman. The body of 25- year-old Ian Allen was discovered at his Bitterne Park home following a night in with friends. His body was found by his girlfriend Jo on
