Baddesley Park B played host to Botley Vllage in Division 6 encounter at Hunts Farm. A much improved Botley started brightest by given us an early scare.Baddesley played some good football which culminated in a Moody goal, his first for the Club, after
A MIST hovered over the park as a stag, its antlers standing proud, foraged quietly amongst the trees. A cold snap filled the air as the sun tried to pierce a way through the low-lying mist. This could have been picture straight out of the desolate Scottish
Felipe Massa grabbed pole position for his home Brazilian Grand Prix - but Lewis Hamilton remains in the perfect position to take the Formula One world title. Massa thrilled his home fans at the Interlagos circuit with a searing lap in his Ferrari
IT'S HARD to know what's more pleasing for Saints - making it three wins out of four or keeping a clean sheet. A win over Cardiff has lifted Saints right up the table and back in the play-off mix-up, an important milestone for them even this early in
Justin Rose stopped feeling "like a fool" and did his chances of winning the European Order of Merit no harm at all today. A third-round 66 in the Portugal Masters at the Victoria Club in Vilamoura lifted Rose out of the pack and onto the fringe of
TORY council bosses in Southampton have drawn up a hit list of more than £10m worth of cuts and savings in a bid to meet their pledge of a below inflation council tax rise next year, the Daily Echo can reveal. A total of 116 jobs would be axed while
THE terrifying moments when a 90-year-old woman was mugged and pushed to the ground by a man who stole her shopping trolley were captured on CCTV, the Daily Echo can reveal. The thug threw the woman on to the concrete and ran off with her purse containing
POLICE hunting a suspected sex offender have issued a nationwide appeal for help in tracing a white builder's van which they fear he might be using to try to flee the country. Detectives say 53-year-old Paul Anthony Bures - who is featured on the Crimestoppers
INVESTIGATIONS were continuing today after a gas leak at one of Hampshire's biggest industrial sites resulted in thousands of residents being told to stay indoors. Fawley refinery was at the centre of a major alert yesterday after hydrocarbon vapour
THERE will be no shortage of venues to watch England and South Africa battle it out tonight in the Rugby World Cup final. Bars and pubs throughout the county will be switching on their widescreen TVs, turning up the volume and throwing open their doors
HAMPSHIRE was today going rugby mad as the whole county prepared to get behind our boys in the World Cup final. England shirts, flags and face-paint have become a familiar sight on the streets as rugby clubs, shops, pubs, and schools show their support
Click HERE for coverage of the trial so far. THE judge in the trial of a man accused of murdering a Hampshire teenager has begun summing up the case to jurors. The hearing at Winchester Crown Court got under way yesterday afternoon after building
FOR the actor who will forever be known as the undemonstrative heart-throb Mr Darcy, there was no more fitting place to collect his honorary degree than Winchester Cathedral. That is where Jane Austen, whose Pride And Prejudice catapulted Colin Firth
A SOUTHAMPTON pub at the centre of a vicious firebomb attack involving rival gangs has been put up for sale. The Castle was targeted when a mob of nine youths burst in, armed with a handgun and a Molotov cocktail, believing their enemies to be inside
IN Parliament on October 11, John Hutton MP, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, said "There will be no taxpayer subsidy and no hidden subsidies for new nuclear power if Her Majesty's Government reaches that decision.'' It
Re: "Call to outlaw hate crime against gays" - Echo: Monday October 8. SOUTH-EAST MEP, Caroline Lucas on the need for Governments to outlaw hate crimes perpetuated against gays, lesbians and bisexual people appear to be uninformed. She ignores
TO try and help expose matters, I made a journey to the Daily Telegraph's office with the hope of just speaking to a journalist. The first words to me from the office based at 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London. SW1W ODT. You can write in if you like
THE front page of a national daily newspaper stated Williams Boys Own tour of the armed forces. Prince will quit the army to learn to fly with the RAF ... then try life in the Navy. Top marks to Prince William, also his brother Harry! They know what
I NOTICE that the MP Sandra Gidley, pictured, has still got her claws into the police over their handling of the Chandler's Ford shooting. I am well aware that her job is to keep an eye open but in this case I think she has gone off the rails! What would
MAY I say thankyou for printing the news, Honesty After Cash Find Wins High Praise (Echo Tuesday October 9). The children involved were thrilled that the Echo sent a photographer and news reporter. The Echo reporters were courteous and helped Carl
THE planned new student residences at the University (Echo October 10) are on a site which is already exclusively used for that purpose. The proposed 375 new beds will replace around 110 existing ones. The planning application is therefore to increase
A LEWIS (Letters Oct 13) appears to be under the misconception that we have an elected mayor here in Southampton. We don't! The mayors and mayoresses we have had until now have been duly nominated by the town or city councils of their time. These mayors
TWO brave sailors were this morning set to climb into huge, hollowed-out pumpkins and attempt to pilot them from Lymington to the Isle of Wight. Ian Paton, of Pennington, and fellow sailor Dave Robbins, of Warsash, expect to take several hours to complete
HAMPSHIRE MP Chris Huhne is set to go head-to-head with his rival for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats today to pitch for activists' votes. It is the first time the two candidates have appeared alongside each other since the race to succeed Sir
Inigo Idiakez is ready to put a nightmare first year with Saints behind him - and help win promotion to the Premiership. The Spanish playmaker missed most of his first season at St Mary's after tearing the same thigh muscle three times - before missing
GRIEVING widow Pauline Haywood, whose husband was killed in a Hampshire car crash, has set up a social club for others facing the future alone. Mrs Haywood's husband Alan was the passenger in a Volkswagen Golf driven by their pregnant daughter Annabelle's
Inigo Idiakez is ready to put a nightmare first year with Saints behind him - and help win promotion to the Premiership. The Spanish playmaker missed most of his first season at St Mary's after tearing the same thigh muscle three times - before missing
HAMPSHIRE'S James Wade has never been so happy to be proved so wrong. The newly-crowned World Grand Prix winner used to be a rare visitor to the practice board - relying on his undoubted talent to pull him through. But after more than 12 months of marching
Any manager having a run of five games in succession winning 3-0 each time would normally look on a 2-1 away defeat, particularly when one of the goals was a dodgy penalty, as a bit of bad luck. Unless, of course, you happen to be the national team manager
Winchester's Derek Manning is confident he will not have to wear an England shirt during lessons at Itchen College next week. The South Afrian PE teacher has had a bet with one of his pupils that his countrymen will win the World Cup final tonight.
FORMER Premier League referee Graham Poll believes football CAN learn from rugby with regards to discipline. England take on South Africa tonight in the rugby World Cup final in Paris, and no-one expects the referee to cop a load of abuse. Sadly
