Bournemouth have been fined £35,000 after accepting a charge from the Football Association for a breach of anti-doping rules.

STEVE Pomery and Dave Pool took an early lead in The Eastleigh Pairs Carp and Silvers League on Witherington Topmoor.

ECHO fishing correspondent Mark Simmonds landed his fifth Amazon Red Tail over 100 lb when taking Black Spot at 110 lb from Teak Trees, Chang Mai in Thailand.

A FORMER world champion angler from Hampshire has won a national award after inspiring hundreds of youngsters to aim for glory.

A 9lb bull huss bagged by Adrian Moody from the Waterside was the highlight when the Lymington club staged a shallow boat competition, writes Chris Clark.

DAVE Malone is standing down as Winchester City’s director of football at the end of 2018.

ONLY one game was played in the Wessex League on October 24, 1998 – the appalling weather made sure of that.

Hundreds of budding young footballers took part in Oakwood Youth FC's annual, six-a-side tournament at Test Park in Southampton.

Gabi Taylor pushed defending champion Donna Vekic all the way before losing her first-round match at the Nottingham Open.

BRITISH No 2 Heather Watson believes rising star Gabi Taylor deserves a Wimbledon wildcard.

Totton & Eling Tennis Centre has celebrated its 15th birthday by winning a national award at Wimbledon.

EASTLEIGH students trade College football team for England Stardom, as they help their nation qualify for Europe.

INTERVIEW: By Hilary Porter

JAMES Vince will interrupt his wedding weekend to find out who the rest of his Southern Brave teammates are.

Southern Brave will have the chance to add a wildcard signing before the inaugural edition of The Hundred.

HAMPSHIRE fast bowler Chris Wood has opened up about his long-running gambling addiction.

THEY raced over obstacle courses, juggled about on drum races, strenuously made stakes, mended punctures and rode a furious musical chairs on motorcycles.

A LADIES’ night of food and fashion raised £700 for a cancer charity.

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

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.

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.

Updates and chat as England take on Costa Rica in their final game of this year's World Cup

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.

New Liverpool signing Adam Lallana believes England's World Cup failure will make him mentally tougher.

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

POLICE are appealing for witnesses following a serious incident.

A POPULAR Hampshire town market has began to make steps towards opening more stalls following their closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

A car carrier which was stranded next to a busy shipping lane could be towed back to port as early as Wednesday, according to the Marine and Coastguard Agency (MCA).

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.

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.