SAINTS remain top of the Championship, despite falling to a 2-1 defeat at Cardiff tonight. Kenny Miller’s second half double gave the Bluebirds all three points, inflicting only a second loss of the season on Nigel Adkins’ side. Substitute
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VOLUNTARY patients were detained against their will for days in a Hampshire mental health unit where staff are not properly trained to care for vulnerable people, inspectors found. The care industry watchdog has given health bosses two weeks
CARE homes in Hampshire run by ailing provider Southern Cross have been saved from closure. All but one home in the county were due to be transferred to new landlords over the next two months, it was confirmed last night. Operators Southern Cross
POLICE are hunting two female thieves who stole gold necklaces from elderly women in the street. One case saw them steal a gold necklace, worth about £6,000, from a 92-year-old woman. The pensioner was on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and Highfield
Landscape architects from across the country have come together to create a picturesque new garden in honour of Jo Yeates, who was killed in December last year. The tribute to the 25-year-old, herself a landscape architect, will be built at the
HAMPSHIRE police are going ahead with a plan to spend £67m on four state of the art custody suites. The centres will replace Hampshire and the Isle of Wight’s current nine cellblocks, many of which are becoming unfit for purpose. It is hoped
THEY are about to risk their lives on the front line. Soldiers from across Hampshire have arrived in scorching Afghanistan where they will spend the next seven months taking on the Taliban and facing the daily threat of roadside bombs and gunfire
More Hampshire Tigers talk to the Daily Echo about their hopes and fears for the next seven months in the Afghanistan war zone. Corporal Matt Dean, 37, from Hedge End KEEP your head down and don’t take any risks. That’s the advice
THE TRAINING is complete, their bags are packed and they are as ready as they ever could be. During the next few days, the final wave of soldiers from across Hampshire will leave their barracks in Germany and deploy to Afghanistan for a testing seven
THE Rose Bowl will stage England's first one-day international of next summer. England will begin their three-match series against West Indies at The Rose Bowl on Saturday, June 16. And after five ODIs against Australia, England will be back at
The League Cup is expected to have a new name from next season after the Football League confirmed they had failed to agree a new deal with current sponsors Carling. The exclusive negotiating period with Molson Coors, who own the Carling brand, has
THE dream of a £40m arts complex and restaurant quarter in Southampton has moved a step closer. Councillors have approved plans for the arts complex development on the site of the former Tyrrell & Green department store in Northern Above Bar
FOR his debut production at Bench Theatre director Callum West has chosen this funny, tender and extremely touching play by Chris Chibnall. It follows two very different couples partying on the same night: Tony and Ruth, who meet for the first
RARELY has the label karaoke musical been quite so apt. But it’s not quite that straight forward – by the end the cast have the entire audience on their feet in a mass line-dancing session! Of course, no-one would ever have commissioned
PASSENGERS on the cruise ship Balmoral were expected to depart this afternoon after the ship was delayed due to a technical fault with a lifeboat. The Southampton-based ship was inspected by officials from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency yesterday
A Hampshire engineer was jailed today for killing his lover in Australia more than 26 years ago. Stephen Hutton, now 56, strangled Sandra White and set fire to her body in a caravan in rural Victoria. Hutton, who suffers from paranoid
FIFTEEN Southampton schools are set to produce their own green power thanks to a £700,000 scheme. The city council is installing solar panels on the roofs of schools across Southampton in a bid to reduce reliance on the national grid and cut the city
A TEENAGER has been charged by police after fire ripped through flats in Southampton. Jason Bartlett will appear in court accused of arson - recklessly endangering life following a blaze in Mansel Road East, Millbrook. The 19-year-old, from Sedbergh
HUNDREDS of schoolchildren from across Hampshire will descend on the Rose Bowl today to have their eyes opened to life with sight problems. The youngsters, 95 per cent of whom are not visually impaired, will take part in blind sports taster sessions
