Archive
-
Date
In Port
Today's Principal Arrivals: MOL Promise, container, 0430, 207; OOCL San Francisco, container, 0530, 206; Tolosa, ro/ro, 0530, 30; Repubblica Di Genova, ro/ro, container, 0530, 105; Arabian Breeze, ro/ro, 0730, 202; Black Prince, passenger, 0730, 101;
-
Date
Skaters roll up to tackle Euroblade
UP to 1,000 in-line skaters are descending on Southampton tomorrow to take part in the city's annual Euroblade event. The streets of the city will be closed to traffic as hordes of English and French 'bladers' get their skates on during a ten-mile skate
-
Date
Joshua back home and recovering well
JOSHUA Hartley is back home. The 12-year-old has been in Southampton General Hospital after suffering an illness following his lifesaving transplant in June. The schoolboy had been suffering from a mild case of graft versus host disease, which means that
-
Date
Kindness puts icing back on Maxine's wedding cake
BRIDE-TO-BE Maxine Cutler was devastated when she found her handbag containing money for her wedding cake had been stolen while she worked in an Age Concern charity shop. Maxine had only just withdrawn the £125 she needed to pay off the last of her bills
-
Date
One year on, and not a single bad accident
SAFETY measures installed after a Daily Echo campaign have brought a halt - temporarily at least - to serious crashes on one of Hampshire's most dangerous roads. Speed cameras placed at an accident black spot on the notorious A36 have so far cut out collisions
-
Date
Saints starlet kept his ex-club alive
LEON BEST was today set to make his first Saints start - but however big an impact he makes it won't be as important as his move to St Mary's was for his former club. Notts County still remember the day the 18-year-old's move to Saints kept the league's
-
Date
Warney's benefited from ban
HAMPSHIRE chairman Rod Bransgrove added his congratulations to close friend Shane Warne on his record-breaking achievements and confessed: "Perhaps the year off did him some good!" The Rose Bowl chief was speaking in the wake of yesterday's milestone
-
Date
Stu beauty lifts Havant
Academy prospect Stuart Ransley played the pivotal role as Havant celebrated a NatWest Hampshire Under-16 Indoor League win double against Andover and St Cross Symondians at the Rose Bowl. Ransley hit 31 and took 2-27 in the seven-run win over Andover
-
Date
SNOOKER - Cuestar Maz is £160 richer
PETER MARAZIOTIS is £160 richer and top of the rankings after the 16-year-old from West End won the first South of England Cuestars event of the season at Salisbury SC. Cuestars run a series of handicap tournaments in four age groups based at various
-
Date
BASKETBALL - Crusaders repelled?
Solent Stars have two sets of Crusaders to repel in men's league basketball action at Fleming Park tonight. Crusade number one pitches Solent's second team against East Kent Crusaders in the National Division 3 East (6pm), writes WENDY GEE. The opposing
-
Date
DARTS - Hants storm to Lancs success
ROY BROWN made a stunning return to the Hampshire county scene as they handed out a beating to Lancashire in Morecambe. He was voted Trophyman Player of the Match for winning his Men's B game with a 31.57 average - that coming after the Basingstoke engineer
-
Date
£100,000 TO FIND MY SON'S KILLER
A REWARD of £100,000 was offered today to catch the gunman who killed Southampton gold dealer Ricky Haywood 15 years ago. The huge sum was pledged by Ricky's elderly mother, who said she would sell her West End home to finance the reward. Phyllis Haywood
-
Date
Wedding gifts lost as firm goes bust
A NEWLY-WED Hampshire couple have been left without wedding presents after an on-line gift company went bust. Lisa and Gareth Shaw thought The Gift Registry was the perfect place to keep their wedding list as it enabled guests to select presents from
-
Date
Purrfect ending
Four tiny kittens found abandoned in a cardboard box next to a dustbin in Winchester have been given names - Southern, Daily, Echo and News! Animal welfare officers named the three dark tabbies and one black kitten after the newspaper, as a thank you
-
Date
Drunken youths go on rampage at play area
THIS is the trail of destruction left by a mob of vandals who went on a drink-fuelled rampage at a Southampton play area. Residents watched in horror as the group of up to 30 youngsters slammed their bodies into the fencing and ripped up posts. The damage
-
Date
Ladies' night at Walkabout
A NIGHT of fun and fashion for ladies in aid of Hampshire Autistic Society is back on track. The charity faced losing hundreds of pounds when a ladies' event had to be cancelled when Southampton nightspot Brannigans closed. The society was inundated with
-
Date
Aid workers return from Kosovo mission
AID convoys from a Hampshire organisation have returned home after delivering more vital supplies to impoverished families in Kosovo. Scores of Daily Echo readers gave donations to Hope and Aid Direct during the summer ahead of their journey. Of the 60
-
Date
£100,000 TO FIND MY SON'S KILLER
A REWARD of £100,000 was offered today to catch the gunman who killed Southampton gold dealer Ricky Haywood 15 years ago. The huge sum was pledged by Ricky's elderly mother, who said she would sell her West End home to finance the reward. Phyllis Haywood
-
Date
Mayor: I will do all I can to help
SOUTHAMPTON'S mayor, councillor Dennis Harryman, has promised to do everything in his power to provide better facilities for the city's newest athletics club. Hosting a reception to launch Team Southampton at the Civic Centre, councillor Harryman acknowledged
-
Date
Arrogant? It takes one to know one, Robbie ...
Player power, an expression used occasionally over the years, is now very much a part of football vocabulary. I suppose with the sort of riches players have nowadays there comes a feeling of 'blow you, Jack'. The obvious example is the Welsh midfield
-
Date
A danger of the academy systems
A number of top managers are questioning the academy system which was brought in about seven years ago. Like most managers, I felt at the time it was a step forward from when clubs had to wait until a boy was 14 to sign him on what was called a schoolboy
-
Date
OSMAN STUNS SAINTS
Injury-ravaged Saints were denied a battling draw by a last-ditch winner from Leon Osman at high-flying Everton. It looked like Saints would earn a 0-0 draw but the young Evertonian spun and neatly finished in the bottom corner with less than two minutes
-
Date
Fabrice aims for French call-up
Fabrice Fernandes has put his off-field troubles behind him and is looking to claim a place in the French national team. The 24-year-old midfielder last week escaped a jail term for dangerous driving and is relieved he can concentrate on his football
-
Date
St Mary's silence over cash
SAINTS are staying tight-lipped over which charity is set to benefit after Fabrice Fernandes was fined by the club following his conviction for drink-driving. Staff at the club refused to disclose where the fine money - which could be worth up to £30,000
