ONE of the major routes out of Southampton ground to a rush hour halt today following an accident. The five-car pile up cause huge tailbacks along Millbrook Road heading out of the city this afternoon. The accident, which happened at 3.50pm, closed
SOUTHAMPTON City Council will be run by the conservatives. The shock decision means the tories will be in charge of the authority for the first time in 23 years. The drama unfolded as councillors gathered to elect a new leader at the Civic Centre last
A life jacket worn by a survivor from the Titanic sold at auction today for £60,000. Laura Mabel Francatelli's life-preserver, signed by some of the 10 men and two women also fleeing the luxury liner on lifeboat number 1, was picked up by an anonymous
THE memory of a much-loved classroom assistant and dinner lady at Stockbridge Primary School will live on thanks to the effort of hard-working pupils. Josephine Tuff, 10, is a pupil at the school, where her late mum Katie, pictured right, used to help
WINCHESTER City Council planners are moving offices to centralise their services. On Friday, May 18 the Avalon House offices in Chesil Street will close and the entire planning service will be available from City Offices in Colebrook Street, the main
LIBRARY workers have called off a strike planned for this week but are still at loggerheads with county bosses. Hampshire County Council is planning to axe 27 out of 60 qualified librarians and downgrade a further 17 to lower-paid library officer jobs
A SECOND scheme to redevelop a chunk of Winchester city centre will be discussed on Friday. City council planners are considering the proposal by London and Henley for the redevelopment of land off Middle Brook Street. The developer wants to demolish
THE search is on for Hampshire's best-drawn dad. Forget boring socks and predictable slippers, youngsters from across the county are being invited to show their dad how much they love him by entering the Daily Echo's Father's Day drawing competition.
"IF we were the last people to experience heartache like this then that would be good." Those are the selfless words of the parents of a Hampshire care worker fatally stabbed as she carried out a routine visit to the home of a client. Margaret and Terence
WHAT now for Southampton FC? Following last night's emotionally-draining defeat - exactly two years to the day since relegation from the Premiership - what will the next few weeks bring? George Burley's players start their summer break today.
A CAMPAIGN to stop people dropping chewing gum will be launched in west Hampshire this summer. Posters to raise awareness about the social nuisance of discarded gum will go up around the Test Valley area in August and September after Test Valley Borough
A NEW multi-million-pound link road planned for Eastleigh could lead to a jobs rush in the former railway town. The scheme will see a huge swathe of land formerly occupied by Eastleigh's massive railway works opened up to new businesses following the
A HAMPSHIRE father will today visit the grave of the baby son he has admitted killing. Today would have been the first birthday of Johnathon Skinner, but on August 22 last year, aged just 11 weeks old, the baby was killed by his father Richard, pictured
BRITAIN'S new racing superstar Lewis Hamilton has given British motorsport and the Formula 1 tourism trade a major booster. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes ace Hamilton, nicknamed "Hammy", made his F1 debut at the Australian Grand Prix in March this year,
BRITAIN'S new racing superstar Lewis Hamilton has given British motorsport and the Formula 1 tourism trade a major booster. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes ace Hamilton, nicknamed "Hammy", made his F1 debut at the Australian Grand Prix in March this year,
SUZUKI GB and the British School of Motoring have joined forces to launch a dedicated Suzuki training scheme. It will see successful participants not only gain a full motorcycle licence, but also qualify for a special £99 insurance offer on selected
PICTURED right is the latest BMW safety development, a neck brace which is claimed to greatly reduce the risk of serious neck injury for riders. Will it be taken up and become a success? Well, not so long ago riders took to the road without the reassuring
HISTORIC Hampshire shipbuilder VT could be out of the industry in three years, it has emerged. One of the most famous names in British warship-building history, VT Group - formerly Vosper Thornycroft - has put together a deal that could ultimately see
AN award-winning Eastleigh film company is chronicling the role of women married to men of the cloth. Vicars' Wives has been made by kmb productions, which is based in Eastleigh council's Wessex House Business Centre, in Upper Market Street. It focuses
Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Cape Falster, container, 0400, 205; Mogami Refer, refrigerated, 0600, 104; Hual, Ame4rica, roro, 0615, 43; Autoline, roro, 0615, 201; OXL Blue Sea, cargo, 0630, 202; Autotransporter, roro, 0630, 203; Oriana, passenger
IT seems the Government is approving/allowing the housing industry to build more and more three storey houses in order to let house builders make yet more profit and, at the same time, establishing the future housing for elderly home owners. No doubt
COUNCILLOR Keith House states we (allotment holders) continue to oppose building more homes for those in need. Allotment holders do not oppose building of homes at all. What is opposed is building them on allotment sites (classed as greenfield sites
MARTIN Kyrle made it perfectly clear after losing his seat in the 2003 local elections at West End that his local seat was not important. He told the Echo reporter "I have an MP to look after, that's more important than my local seat". At the recent
FOLLOWING the previous letters regarding noise from fireworks, I, too, wish that the event organisers would find a less intrusive way to mark the occasion of a cruise ship naming or departure. Since the millennium celebrations, the increasingly frequent
IN REPLY to M Pringle (Letters, May 9) Give Bike Riders Free Rein. Bike riders take no notice of traffic regulations. They have too much free rein. N V DOSWELL, Shirley, Southampton
WE had a great day out at Wembley cheering on AFC Totton at the FA Carlsberg Vase Final. The new stadium is truly spectacular. However one visitor's day was marred by the loss of their Matchday programme and ticket. We rescued this from the floor in
SO Hugh Cleverly thinks I am wrong. I am not. In his first letter he put the National Service man on a par with inmates of borstal. They were not. They were, in the majority, decent hard-working young men, as are the youngsters of today. As in every
THE arithmetic of the recent Eastleigh council composition of de facto 37.5.2 is almost exactly as it was in May 1976 (after I had stood down from the council) except that then 36.5.1 the largest party was the Conservatives and the single seat was the
COMMERCIAL estate agents Holloway Iliffe and Mitchell has let 42a London Road, Southampton, to First Property Management. The premises offer a lock-up shop with open plan sales area of 61.13 sq m plus rear store and first floor offices, totalling a net
AGENTS Primmer Olds have been instructed to dispose of the drinks giant Bacardi's production and warehouse facility in Southampton Docks. As previously reported in the Daily Echo, the historic Cuban rum maker has axed 200 staff as it calls time on its
Saints fan Mark Heathorn has emailed this letter to the Daily Echo this morning. Brave or foolish to let Leon Best take the penalty? Foolish in hindsight, but he should be praised for his bottle. He didn't have his greatest game, offside far
HOW could they do it? The owners of this blind and deaf dog simply abandoned him in a Winchester street. Patrick, the seven-year-old Border collie, is lucky to be alive after the ordeal. After being alerted by a member of the public, who saw the confused
A WOMAN who died in a car crash on the M27 has been named by police as a grandmother from Fareham who moved to the UK 45 years ago to work as an au pair. Marie-Luise Elisabeth Monika Woodward was the passenger in a car that crashed on the slip road off
HAMPSHIRE rail passengers are facing their second weekend of disrupted services after Network Rail announced more line closures. For the second weekend running, lines between St Denys and Fareham will be closed from 8.30pm on Saturday until Monday morning
It may not have ended at a rain-soaked Pride Park the way they had planned it ... ... but at least they had the much warmer climes of Australia to dream about. Aussie-based Saints fan Matt Pearce, 28, flew over to England last week on a wing and
Race three for the Cape Wrath Challenge was the Round Durness Run. Of all the five races being staged in the remote outpost of Scotland, this event sounded like a doddle. An 8.4-mile saunter around the tracks and trails surrounding the pretty village.
Andrew Surman praised the magnificent Saints support for contributing to a play-off epic. Surman admitted that the 4,878 away fans in the 31,569 crowd camped behind the Derby goal in the second half of normal time helped Saints to two vital goals through
Manager Billy Davies has revealed he could not bear to watch the Pride Park penalty shootout which propelled the Rams into the Championship play-off final at Wembley. Davies said: "I could not watch the penalties so I just sat on the bench with my
After being handed his first Saints start for 15 months, Martin Cranie produced an outstanding performance at centre back in the heartbreaking play-off semi-final second leg last night. Cranie, who is now out of contract, was last named in a Saints
Two-goal Jhon Viafara set his sights on winning promotion with Saints next year after doubling his tally for the club. Viafara had only scored two goals in 39 appearances before last night. He ccould not have picked a better time to net his first
George Burley has urged Saints and their devastated fans to "keep believing". The boss may have seen his side end their season with a heartbreaking play-off semi-final penalty shoot-out defeat to Derby at Pride Park last night. But he feels that
A WOMAN had her handbag snatched at knifepoint in an early morning robbery in Southampton. The 35-year-old was walking near the junction of Tremona Road and Laundry Road when a man approached and demanded her handbag. When she refused to hand it over
NODDY fans young and old were given a treat of family fun at Paultons Park. Back by popular demand, Toyland's most famous resident returned for the fourth consecutive year and brought some friends with him. Loveable Noddy was joined by Big Ears, Mr
POLICE are searching for two men who robbed a student at knifepoint as he used a cash machine in Southampton. The 17-year-old victim was using the cash machine outside the HSBC Bank at the junction of Burgess Road and University Road. He had just withdrawn
THE memory of a much-loved classroom assistant and dinner lady at Stockbridge Primary School will live on thanks to the effort of hard-working primary school pupils. Josephine Tuff, 10, is a pupil at the school and her mum, Katie, used to help there.
A HAMPSHIRE teenager who ploughed his car into a tree while carrying three passengers just days after a driving ban had ended has again had his licence taken away. Portsmouth Crown Court heard how Christopher Cooper, 19, had no insurance and only a provisional
WINCHESTER City Council planners are moving offices to centralise their services. On Friday, May 18 the Avalon House offices in Chesil Street will close and the entire planning service will be available from City Offices in Colebrook Street, the main
A SECOND scheme to redevelop a chunk of Winchester city centre will be discussed on Friday. City council planners are considering the proposal by London and Henley for the redevelopment of land off Middle Brook Street. The developer wants to demolish
A CAMPAIGN to stop people dropping chewing gum will be launched in West Hampshire this summer. Posters to raise awareness of the social nuissance of discarded chewing gum will go up around Test Valley in August and September. The campaign is being run
THE memory of a much-loved classroom assistant from Stockbridge will live on thanks to pupils from her former school. A memorial garden in memory of Katie Tuff has now been set up complete with garden bench, plants and a bird-feeder. Pupils from Stockbridge
A TERRIFIED blind and deaf dog that was left abandoned on a Winchester Street is lucky to still be alive say the animal charity that rescued him. Patrick the seven-year-old Border Collie was spotted by a passer by wandering the city's streets almost
