ALTHOUGH the city of Southampton emerged as winners of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight games on July 8, 1979, it was the district of the New Forest East who took the glory.

HE may have made his first on-screen appearance more than ninety years ago, but in 1989 he showed his happy face at Marks and Spencer, Southampton.

THE annual event was one which saw local residents flock to the streets to catch a glimpse of the colourful and humerous floats as they trundled down the road.

SAINTS cannot afford many more missed opportunities if they are to survive this season.

THIS game was a stark reminder that ultimately no matter what the fans or administrators do off the pitch, it is the players on it who will decide the team’s fate this season.

IF EVER there was a game that typified Saints’ season and underlined just why they are where there are in the table, this was it.

PRESSURE or no pressure, relegation battle or title tilt, there are certain basics you need to achieve to win games of football.

WHATEVER the long term future may hold for Saints, they have given themselves short term hope.

FOOTBALLING miracles do sometimes happen, but the chances of Saints getting one to keep them up looks very slim indeed.

SOMEHOW the pitch invasion at the end of Saints’ 2-2 draw with Burnley rather summed up not only a woeful season but a miserable few years.

IT SEEMS very un- Saintslike, almost unnatural, to go into the last day of the season with nothing to play for.

A NUMBER of schools are closing across Hampshire amid the coronavirus outbreak.

A COUNCIL has announced schools across Hampshire will continue to support children throughout the Easter holidays in a bid to tackle the coronavirus crisis.

A COLLEGE in Eastleigh has ranked as the best in Hampshire and tenth nationally for student achievement rates.

ONE of Hampshire's top independent preparatory schools has appointed a new headteacher.

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

A SOUTHAMPTON school has been using its specialist equipment to produce Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the NHS.

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

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

A FURTHER four people who have tested positive for coronavirus have died in Hampshire in the last 24 hours.

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

A MAN used homophobic slurs and threatened to "spread coronavirus" towards two Southampton police officers after he broke a window.

NO further deaths from coronavirus have been reported in Hampshire hospitals in the past 24 hours.

SOUTHAMPTON'S buzzing live music scene has always been criminally underrated in my humble opinion.

A NEW digital publication will allow Hampshire Cultural Trust to keep its doors open online.

A NEW public artwork for Southampton is a step closer.

Poignant, creepy and incredibly compelling Little Nightmares is one of this generations most unnerving and intelligent horror titles.

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

St Mary's Stadium, Championship, Saturday September 17, 2011.

St Mary's Stadium, Carling Cup third round, Wednesday September 21, 2011.

Turf Moor, Championship, Saturday September 24, 2011.

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

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

St. Mary's Stadium, Championship, Friday April 13, 2012.

London Road Stadium, Championship, Tuesday April 17, 2012.

Riverside, Championship, Saturday April 21, 2012

St. Mary's Stadium, Championship, Saturday April 28, 2012.

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

THE operation to pump water from the stricken Hoegh Osaka has begun.

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.

SHE has been at the centre of one of the biggest and most dramatic rescue operations ever launched in the Solent.

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.

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.

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 SOUTHAMPTON nurse who wrote a book to help tackle anxiety in children amid the coronavirus outbreak has been awarded the Prime Minister’s daily Point of Light.