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  • World Cup sale - in Bitterne!

    THERE will be huge World Cup and football memorabilia sale taking place in Bitterne this afternoon. Football memorabilia expert Jim Chamberlain has secured a host of products that will be available from 12-5pm at the Station Hotel, Bullar Road, Bitterne

  • Six potters happy to go on trial

    SIX of the best junior potters from the Southampton area are in with a chance of winning £200 worth of sponsorship each after being selected for the Cuestars trials in August. The Cuestars organisation runs handicap tournaments for all age groups across

  • Southampton runners Itchen for a win

    NEW boy Dave Branfoot ensured a Southampton Running Club one-two at round seven of the RR10. Branfoot and Andy Morgan-Lee, pictured, made much of the early running at Itchen Valley Country Park over a 4.5-mile course where Morgan-Lee chalked up his fourth

  • More than 100 jobs to be lost at city plant

    BOSSES at Southampton's Philips Semiconductors are to slash the workforce by almost one in four with cuts of more than 100 jobs. Staff fear that it could be the beginning of the end for the historic site and the news has cast a shadow over plans to celebrate

  • Ten out of ten for Saints investors

    The Daily Echo understands there are TEN wealthy individuals prepared to pump money into Saints. As the Michael Wilde camp battled for control of Southampton FC it was made clear that new money would come into the club if they won control from Rupert

  • Good Samaritan gave burglar lift home

    A MAN who found a burglar in his house then offered an astonishing act of charity he drove him home. The good Samaritan handed the thief a glass of water before driving him away from his house in a bid to save his neighbours from being targeted. It

  • Police appeal for missing man

    HAMPSHIRE Police have launched an appeal for an Isle of Wight man who has been missing since June 22, and who could be staying on a campsite in the county. Isle of Wight CID are concerned for the welfare of Arthur Maslen, 55, who has been missing from

  • Dimi's four wicket haul sees off Sussex

    DIMITRI MASCARENHAS changed the course of a low-scoring Twenty20 Cup match at the Rose Bowl last night with four wickets as Hampshire scraped home against Sussex by 15 runs. Hampshire recorded the lowest score ever at the Rose Bowl in the competition

  • They've taken my soulmate, my best friend

    THE sister of a man killed in a factory accident has branded the suspended sentence imposed on the man responsible for his death as an "outrage." Georgina Bail, 27, was speaking minutes after Michael Shaw, 45, received a two-year prison sentence suspended