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 HAMPSHIRE charity has provided food for pupils entitled to free lunches during the school shutdown.

AN EX-Barton Peveril student has been nominated for "Rookie of the Year" after playing football at an American college.

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

JOBS are at risk at a well-known Hampshire engineering company.

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

A NEW public artwork for Southampton is a step closer.

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.

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 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.

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.

A SOUTHAMPTON man has been charged with attempted murder.

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 SOUTHAMPTON charity has announced they are continuing their partnership with an upcoming marathon.

SAINTS have had the ninth-highest amount of VAR reviews in home matches across Europe’s five major leagues.

MARIO Lemina wants to remain at Galatasaray beyond the end of the season.

THIS week I wanted to do something a bit different by revisiting two of my most memorable games since joining Saints back in 2016.

STUART Armstrong is starting to feel like he finally belongs in the Premier League.

FORMER Saint Peter Crouch has revealed the "embarrassing" moment Theo Walcott and Nathan Dyer burst onto the scene.

RALPH Hasenhuttl admitted creating the SFC Playbook was a ‘huge project’ but it’s one that he hopes will benefit the club in the years to come.

FORMER Saints manager Ronald Koeman took to Twitter to thank everyone for their support after undergoing a heart procedure last Sunday.

FOLLOWING that win against Bournemouth, I think you all know what came a few weeks later!

SAINTS remain in support of Project Restart despite other clubs voicing their concerns.

PINK paper messages on the runners' backs said it all - the moving tributes to those whose lives have been claimed by cancer and the celebrations of those who have triumphed over the disease.

THOUSANDS of Hampshire women are preparing to take on cancer by entering Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life in Southampton in just two day’s time.

SCHOOL of Rock - The Musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash hit, award-winning West End show, will go on a major UK Tour in 2021, and will come to Southampton in August., the Daily Echo can reveal.