Congratulations - you are now £20 richer thanks to The Gazette's Faces in the Crowd competition! No, you're not having trouble with your eyes, there is indeed only one face circled here. The Gazette will publish a different face in each edition - Monday
I recently read the confessions of an acupuncturist. They were tucked away in the back of the House of Lords' report on alternative medicine. Dr Adrian White is a well known researcher and writer on the subject. He said that when he was a GP, he studied
SEATS in the centre of Fair Oak should stay put, the parish council has decided. Fair Oak and Horton Heath Parish Council considered removing the seats after beat officer PC Mick Cook suggested it might deter troublesome youths from congregating in hotspots
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help with house-to-house collections for Age Concern in Fair Oak and Horton Heath. Age Concern says 70 per cent of money collected is spent in Fair Oak and Horton Heath, while the rest is used to benefit elderly people elsewhere
Spend Spend Spend, The Mayflower, Southampton SPEND SPEND SPEND is a classic morality tale about living life to the limit and paying the price. Those who paid the price to see this musical on its opening night at The Mayflower last night were not disappointed
PROTESTERS fighting controversial development plans in their Hampshire village will have to wait at least another month for the battle to be decided. Last night, planners at Test Valley Borough Council deferred a decision on an application by fibre-optic
A Monday morning crisp and dry, the dirty linen piled up high, she's sorting colours: dark and white. The laundry must be dry tonight. The driving wind brings on the clouds, and turns her certainties to doubts, yet no one knows the housewife's plight:
CIVIC chiefs agreed last night to take the first tentative steps along a road that could see Eastleigh's shopping streets paved over. Members of the borough council's Eastleigh Local Area Committee agreed to call for further research into the pros and
'Nothing can stop the pain I'm feeling. No one should ever have to die like that. It was horrible... Danny was a poor, innocent boy and we're devastated' WITH these words a mother movingly praised her courageous son - the south's bravest youngster Danny
ANOTHER pothole posse with a licence to fill Southampton's crumbling roads is to be created, the Daily Echo can reveal. The city council is spending £70,000 on doubling the number of teams despatched to smooth over cracks in the highways. A new two-man
In the wake of the latest police shooting in which a man died, we focus on gun usage... IT'S THE split second decision that can cost someone their life. When the country's armed police squads are deployed they don't have time to dither - and, what's more
IT MAY be the highpoint of her career to date, but Faith Brown's starring role in Sunset Boulevard means she will suffer the heartache of being separated from her loved ones - a cat and two dogs. Animal-mad Faith, who plays Norma Desmond in the forthcoming
Iwan Thomas is bitterly unhappy that his chances of competing in the World Championship individual 400 metres all hinge on Sunday's British Grand Prix at Crystal Palace. With all avenues to Europe closed on the British record holder, Thomas's only other
EASTLEIGH Council's Labour group has been rocked by the defection of 43-year-old Councillor Angela Roling to the ruling Liberal Democrats. Turning her back on being a "Blair Babe" she said: "I am very sad that the Labour Party I joined many years ago
JUSTIN ROSE is set to enlist the help of an old friend when he tees off in his third British Open Golf Championship at Royal Lytham tomorrow. The 20-year-old Hampshire player is seriously considering using the tried and trusted old putter which helped
A MURDER inquiry has been launched after a Basingstoke woman was found stabbed to death in a hostel. Valerie Tallett, 38, was found dead on the stairwell of the 26-bed hostel in Sussex Street, Winchester at 11.45pm on Saturday. Ms Tallett died from a
A TIMELY arts grant from the borough council has saved a Basingstoke school's musical production after a businessman pulled out of a sponsorship deal at the last minute. Staff at John Hunt of Everest School in Popley feared they would have to cancel their
Today's Principal Arrivings: Montlhery, vehicle carrier, 1300, 201; OOCL China, container, 1500, 205; Gerd Sibum, container, 1600, Con Term; P&O Nedlloyd Vespucci, container, 1900, 207; Autocarrier, vehicle carrier, PM, 105; Autosun, behicle carrier
WINCHESTER sports car ace Steve Hyde has moved up to third place in the Privilege Insurance GTO Championship after a brilliant podium finish with his co-driver Richard Stanton at Brands Hatch. The Kent circuit staged a one-hour endurance race with an
SOUTHAMPTON new housebuilder Drew Smith Homes has broken its own record for the value of homes sold in a month. The sale of seven homes last month was enough to break through the £5m barrier. Among the hot properties on offer were a £600,000 detached
WARTIME favourite Dame Vera Lynn has given her backing to the Daily Echo Spitfire campaign. Dame Vera is supporting the scheme for a tribute to the aircraft which was designed and built here in Southampton and went on to become one of the saviours of
SOUTHAMPTON could lose out to Portsmouth if the ambitious proposals for the Sports Centre in Bassett fall through. UK Athletics have earmarked Southampton for an Indoor Regional Performance Centre - including an 82 metre running straight. Estimated to
SAINTS will tonight give a trial to QPR midfielder Paul Murray, one of three new faces as the club begin their pre-season warm-up campaign. New signings Rory Delap and Anders Svensson will play in one friendly at Farnborough, while Murray will line up
TWO sessions of play were lost to the rain in Hampshire second XI's latest championship game against Surrey at The Oval. Hampshire picked up three Surrey wickets for 99 runs in the 35 overs bowled during the morning session. Surrey resumed on 51-0, but
TOTTON motorcycle road racer John Crockford is the fastest rising young star in the British Superstock Championship which moves on to Oulton Park on Sunday. Crockford has come from nowhere to take fourth place in the national series with a second place
HAMPSHIRE hairdresser Andy Sinclair has spoken for the first time of the "excruciating" pain he suffered when a man dressed as a clown threw acid over him. The 51-year-old watched his clothing and skin dissolving before his very eyes in the attack at
EASTLEIGH Council's Labour group has been rocked by the defection of 43-year-old Councillor Angela Roling to the ruling Liberal Democrats. Turning her back on being a "Blair Babe" she said: "I am very sad that the Labour Party I joined many years ago
A SCHOOL in Southampton has received a top accolade after being awarded a highly sought after educational plaudit. Southampton's Chamberlayne Park School has received national recognition for its excellence in arts after being awarded an Artsmark. This
A MAJOR blitz on car thieves who plague Southampton motorists is expanding out of the city. Just over a year after its launch, the high profile Operation Cobra campaign has been adopted in Eastleigh. The crackdown will continue to focus on ridding both
A MAJOR blitz on car thieves who plague Southampton motorists is expanding out of the city. Just over a year after its launch, the high profile Operation Cobra campaign has been adopted in Eastleigh. The crackdown will continue to focus on ridding both
