THE pace and trickery of Eastleigh loanee Mark Marshall would have impressed the scouts at Crawley Town's Broadfield Stadium. But even the Grays winger had no answer to the speed with which the hosts burst out of the traps. The Conference outfit were
Saints have received a formal request from the Scottish Football Association to speak to George Burley over the vacant national team job north of the border. The Echo understands that the SFA contacted Saints at the end of last week. They have also
PORTSMOUTH Football Club's ambition of building a state-of-the-art training facility at Titchfield has been shown the red card by planners. Members of Fareham council's planning committee unanimously rejected the Premiership side's controversial scheme
LIBERAL Democrat MP for Winchester Mark Oaten called for Elderfield Hostel to be closed down if the killers of pensioner Georgina Edmonds were found to be based there. He said: ''I am extremely concerned about the tragic murder of my constituent at the
IT'S hard to know whether to take heart from this performance or be concerned. They say that the key to being a good team is to be able to win games you probably shouldn't. If you are serious about getting promoted or winning anything, then there will
BEFORE Andrew Surman was picked by England U21s I was pushing for him to be called up by South Africa. I have been a television presenter for M-Net Supersport in South Africa since 1990 and last season pushed Surman's name forward for selection whenever
A TEENAGER was held captive in an alleyway and burned with two of her own cigarettes in a terrifying hour-long ordeal. The 18-year-old victim was walking along Calmore Drive, Totton, when she was confronted by two men who forced her against a wall and
THE son of murdered Georgina Edmonds today thanked the media for helping to publicise his mothers death and the hunt for her killer. In a brief statement Harry Edmonds, who also lives in Kiln Lane, said: "We are grateful for the level of media interest
DETECTIVES hunting the brutal killer of a 77-year-old Hampshire widow in her own home today arrested four men at a nearby criminal rehabilitation centre. Officers carried out the dawn arrests at Elderfield - a home for ex-offenders - as the investigation
POLICE in Fareham are celebrating success in their fight against crime. Crime in the borough has fallen about 13 per cent, with 722 fewer crimes, putting it in the top ten boroughs in south east England for reducing crime. In the period between April
THE hunt is on for thieves who are targeting vulnerable patients in their sickbeds at Southampton General Hospital. Police confirmed there have been a total of 28 thefts at the hospital reported over the past few months including six in November, 17
A PRE-SCHOOL in Netley is facing an uncertain future after a survey found that £16,000 was needed to bring it up to modern health and safety standards. The Recreation Ground pavilion has been at the heart of the community for half a century. Thousands
IAN Baird accused controversial Crawley Town boss Steve Evans of telling his players to break Adam Everitt's legs during Eastleigh's FA Trophy exit. Evans has already been sent to the stands three times this season and Baird was furious at his response
POLICE were called to a Hampshire house after one of the occupants was found dead. Officers entered the property at Winter Close, Holbury, yesterday following the sudden death of a 28-year-old man. Today a police spokesman said the death was not being
Check the latest travel news in Southampton A LORRY has crashed into a narrow railway bridge in Romsey blocking the road to traffic. The articulated lorry failed to squeeze through the bridge over the A3057 Greatbridge Road and has tilted onto its
UP to 40 new jobs are to be created by a £500,000 transformation of Southampton's popular Lizard Lounge nightspot into a vodka bar. In about a month, the Bedford Place bar will reopen as a Revolution Vodka Bar, complete with ice sculptures flowing with
IN 18 years of marathons, triathlons, cycling and hiking, Southampton accountant Bruce Elkins has raised £50,000 for a raft of local charities. Now he is planning to celebrate his 50th birthday with a bid to double that sum by cycling the length of
MEMBERS of the Solent MS Therapy Centre in Portsmouth raised £659.99 from a collection at Hedge End Park on January 5. We would like to thank all those who contributed. PETER HORNE, Portsmouth.
I READ in the Daily Echo that the Hampshire Bus Company is withdrawing the Red Rocket bus to Hiltingbury. What are we supposed to do now? I am in my early 80s and live off Hursley Road. I can manage to get to Ashdown Road to pick up the bus when I want
NO wonder Lib Dem supporter Martin Kyrle (Letters, January 8) is unable or unwilling to address the poor state of his party nationally, as evidenced by the comments of the Lib Dems' former campaigns officer. Perhaps Mr Kyrle will now consider what Greg
WE are appalled that the councils are even considering any of the proposed sites for gravel extraction, if for no other reason than the daily congestion. I feel sure that none of those involved has ever tried to negotiate the roads during the day, when
I AM proud to say that I am a Conservative and will be voting for Caroline Nokes at the next election. My mother received Romsey Conservatives' Breast Cancer Care leaflet and I thought and still think that it was an excellent way to raise money for the
I DISAGREE with Teresa Rumsey and Proud Englishman over adopting Land of Hope and Glory as an unofficial English national anthem (Letters, December 20 and January 5). Land of Hope and Glory is a British royal anthem. I wonder how many are aware that
ACCORDING to the report Council Backs Plan to Extend Time You Must Pay to Park (Daily Echo, January 8), residents don't want this, neither do motorists or local businesses. This is just one more example of the contempt that local politicians have for
I TRAVEL to Portsmouth by train each week, and since starting more than two years ago, I have only had two days when all the trains have arrived on time. I have heard all the excuses possible, including 11 suicides (three of which were in one week, probably
PLANS to merge two Hampshire colleges have been criticised because no public meetings have been organised to discuss the proposals. With just three weeks to go before the end of the public consultation into the amalgamation of Fareham College and St
THE police investigation was launched after the body of Georgina Edmonds, 77, was found by her son and a family friend at her cottage in the village of Brambridge, near Eastleigh. More than 120 police officers have been involved in investigations including
THE upmarket Hampshire restaurant featured on a Gordon Ramsay TV show and destroyed by fire on Saturday was targeted by an arsonist two weeks ago, the Daily Echo can reveal. The Granary in Titchfield was wrecked on Saturday morning just a fortnight after
Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Grande Detroit, roro, 0030, 101; CMA CGM Balzac, container, 0030, 207; Arklow Rose, cargo, 0330, 36; Kobe Express, container, 0600, 205; Autotransporter, roro, 0630, 201; Grande Ellade, vehicle, 1430, 105; APL
A SOUTHAMPTON school has closed today because of heating problems. Education bosses have closed Mason Moor Primary School in Helvellyn Road, Millbrook, because of a heating fault giving all 248 pupils an extra day off.
A HAMPSHIRE beauty queen has become the first evictee from the Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack house. Jade Eden, 21, who was last year's Miss Winchester, wept as she found she had been chosen by E4 viewers to leave the house. Jade, who has been a member
Grzegorz Rasiak celebrated his 29th birthday with his first goal in over three months and insisted he is happy to stay at Saints - but only if he's playing. There has been plenty of speculation that Rasiak could be on his way from St Mary's during
A THIRD pressure group has been formed in a bid to defeat proposals to extract huge amounts of sand and gravel from Downton and Ashley Manor farms near New Milton. Barton, Ashley and New Milton Dedicated Against Gravel Extraction (Bandage) is due to
FRIENDS and family of a Hampshire dad have made an emotional appeal to help find how died when a night out turned to tragedy. More than 150 people turned up to pay tribute to Peter Lawrence outside Lloyds No 1 in Port Solent where the popular father-of-one
George Burley admits he'll have to go back to the drawing board to try and figure out how to plug the gap left by Youssef Safri. The central midfield lynchpin was missing for the first time due to his involvement with Morocco at the African Cup of
AN INQUEST will begin today into a man's death that was investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The IPCC was called in because Ali Farah Bullaleh had spoken with two police officers and paramedics shortly before he died. Mr Bullaleh
A MAJOR fundraising campaign has ended in triumph - thanks to a massive grant of nearly half a million pounds from the UK's largest sports charity. Fawley Parish Council now has all the money it needs to replace a football pavilion that was destroyed
ONE of Hampshire's most trouble-plagued pubs has had its late licence removed by councillors. But councillors stopped short of permanently closing the Home Tavern at Eastleigh. The restrictions on the pub, which has been shut under emergency police
