PARENTS in Southampton were slapped with nearly 2,000 fines after their children missed school last year, new figures reveal.

IT is the biggest game that England have played in years.

MOST of us will be watching the game from the comfort of our settees – but one young Hampshire boy will lead the Three Lions out in Brazil.

FOOTBALL fans across Hampshire were left in utter misery after England lost 2-1 to Uruguay tonight.

COME on the Azzurri! That is the rallying cry from England fans across Hampshire.

SUBBUTEO-style kits are a top seller at a Hampshire fancy dress shop despite England's World Cup exit.

Luis Suarez is set to learn his fate today as his lawyer claimed calls for the Uruguay striker to face a lengthy ban for biting Giorgio Chiellini were part of an Anglo-Italian conspiracy.

A BRAZILIAN restaurant is set to bring the carnival atmosphere from the streets of Rio to the heart of Southampton as Brazil face Colombia in the quarter-finals of the World Cup tonight.

HE has found the purr-fect home thanks to some help from the Daily Echo.

A POLICE probe continues as part of efforts to catch a masked flasher.

POLICE are appealing for witnesses following a serious incident.

SAFETY will come first in all plans for recovery in Hampshire, it has been revealed.

AFTER more than a quarter of a century of record-breaking arena and stadium tours, Take That have now turned their attention to staging a musical phenomenon.

THE Eighties has never left our house.

Well, that's it, my career has reached a pinnacle and I can now retire.

X FACTOR and Strictly Come Dancing have come to mean it's nearly time for Father Christmas to fall down the chimney of TV addicts.

HE'S a snooker legend, get him in there!

AN AWARD-winning folk singer is bringing music fans from across the world into her little Hampshire cottage with her weekly Facebook live concerts.

A NEW public artwork for Southampton is a step closer.

WICKHAM Festival organisers are still hoping to go ahead with the 2020 event amid a host of other coronavirus cancellations to Hampshire events this summer.

HAMPSHIRE's own Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls have announced the release of a new album, Live In Newcastle.

LIVE Art Local are set to ease Covid-19 isolation boredom with a series of free online creative workshops later this month.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a cool package that Switch owners and fans of the original WiiU release will not want to miss.

Packing all the content from previous releases the Switch version of Hyrule Warriors certainly is the definitive edition of the game.

Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido is one of those games that is far more fun than it has any right to be.

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection is a love letter to the venerable franchise that both fans and newcomers alike will not want to miss.

St Mary's Stadium, Championship, Saturday September 10, 2011.

Cardiff City Stadium, Championship, Wednesday September 28, 2011.

St Mary's Stadium, Championship, Saturday October 1, 2011.

PILOTS monitoring the stricken Hoegh Osaka in the Solent have been sent back to land as 75mph gales threaten to bear down on the region.

RESCUE crews are today weighing up whether to return to the stranded Hoegh Osaka before 75mph gales are set to hit the region.

Pumping of water from a car carrier stranded close to a busy shipping lane has completed as salvors prepare to tow the ship back to port.

VEHICLES stuck on a stricken ship after it ran aground in the Solent three weeks ago could finally start being moved from today .

THE Hoegh Osaka could be fully repaired by next week.

THE Hoegh Osaka will return to Southampton's port today for the first time since becoming stranded in the Solent for 19 days.

YOUNG sports fans in Southampton were shown the ropes by double-record breaking yachtswoman Dee Caffari.

THOUSANDS of children in Hampshire are at risk of contracting life-threatening illnesses from breathing in second-hand smoke, health chiefs have warned.

A NEW drive to urge people to stack their shopping trollies with healthier foods could help tackle Southampton’s shocking premature death rates, an academic has said.

IT was a landmark lifestyle change which transformed his life for the better at the dawn of the new millennium.

Active Nation fitness coaches at Chamberlayne Leisure Centre are supporting the Daily Echo’s Staying Alive campaign, urging Sotonians to burn off those extra calories in a bid to battle killer diseases and illnesses.

HEALTH chiefs in Southampton have thrown their weight behind a national campaign to tackle lung cancer.

AN UNDER-FIRE health trust has admitted it missed chances to intervene when a mentally ill Southampton man was in “crisis”.

A MAN who fell from a cruise ship and gouged his leg open on a propeller has been airlifted to hospital.

A POPULAR Southampton tea rooms will not reopen following the coronavirus crisis after becoming the latest victim of the pandemic.

A WOMAN has been banned from the road for drug driving.

A HAMPSHIRE woman is set to run 12 half marathons in the space of a year after losing her grandson to stillbirth.

IT'S only rock n roll, but I like it.

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