TODAY marks the 104th anniversary of the Titanic leaving Southampton on its ill-fated maiden voyage.

A small, corroded key for a locker on the Titanic has sold for £85,000 at auction.

THE WINNING design for a stained glass window to the Titanic crew who perish in the disaster has been revealed this weekend.

Handheld gamers are treated to an enjoyable on-track romp around the Sega world, in an effort to catch up with the race-leader Mario Kart.

At almost 32 years-old Donkey Kong is still a regular star in many video-games, and a firm favourite amongst gamers

The Odeon cinema in Southampton is set to become a hive of entertainment for Final Fantasy fans.

Whether it's at home, at work, on the bus, in the pub or on social media, everybody is raving about Kodi and what it can do.

Square Enix have confirmed that Dragon Quest XI is still in development for the Nintendo Switch but it may be a long way off.

A COUPLE from Arizona, USA, have been ordered to pay Nintendo £9.5m in damages for operating two websites which hosted pirated ROMs.

While testing a web application on the Steam developer site, Artem Moskowsky came across a bug that yielded strange results.

HAMPSHIRE racing starlet Brody Crockford has followed in his father’s tyre marks after completing his debut MiniGP50 Motorcycle British Championship in spectacular style.

British Touring Car Championship drivers have been meeting fans and signing autographs at Westquay shopping centre, Southampton, ahead of this weekend's races at Thruxton.

Brody Crockford has made his mark on the junior motorcycle road racing scene by finishing the 2017 season as runner-up in the Cool FAB Racing MiniGP70 British Championship.

MOTORCYCLE racing starlet Brody Crockford has already made his mark within the British SuperBike paddock with impressive performances in the Dickies British Junior Supersport championship.

YOUNG motorcycle racing starlet Brody Crockford made a dramatic return to the British Junior Supersport series.

Although Primal is essentially new skin on old bones, the mechanics at heart are probably better suited to this new style

Hitman developers IO Interactive have made it clear that they intend for all seven episodes of their new stealth assassin game to be available "by the end of summer."

According to a Gematsu report, Final Fantasy XV will see a worldwide release on September 30, 2016.

It's been a long time coming, but Heavy Spectrum has finally announced the release date for Shadow of the Beast.

The colourful, cutesy aesthetics are enough to make a gamer vomit, whilst the complexity of the combat system could keep the most hardcore of role-players happily entertained for dozens of hours.

I love the idea of being able to influence or create melodic beats with simple play.

At first, Surviving Mars will be familiar to any gamer with experience of base building, resource gathering and exploring uncharted territory.

HAMPSHIRE civic chiefs are swinging their no-deal Brexit plans into action next week in case the UK crashes out of the EU on October 31.

HAMPSHIRE civic chiefs have postponed their no-deal Brexit traffic plan after the UK was granted an extension.

CITY bosses have reversed their decision to ban doormats from all council-owned properties in Southampton.

THE Liberal Democrats came close today to snatching Winchester and Chandler's Ford in what would have been a stunning victory.

CITY bosses are to crack down on lazy litterbugs by hitting them in the pocket.

MPs have called for urgent clarity and a plan to safeguard Hampshire jobs following the collapse of Southampton Airport's largest airline operator.

A new app to show users if they've come into contact with someone with Covid-19 is being trialled this week.

PEOPLE in Wales are being asked to act responsibly and to avoid unnecessary travel until coronavirus restrictions have been lifted by the Welsh Government.

ENVIRONMENT Secretary, George Eustice, says fast-food restaurants like KFC, McDonald's and Burger King can re-open for deliveries and take-aways, but stressed the need for safety and social distancing.

A second win in three matches has given Romsey hope of avoiding the drop into the Hampshire League.

Lacklustre Fareham slipped to a third England Hockey West Conference defeat in four matches when Bristol-based Clifton Robinson lifted themselves off the league basement with a 2-1 win, their first of the campaign.

Window cleaner George Davey mopped up with four goals – all penalty corners - as Fareham seconds thrashed Hampshire/Surrey Regional Division 1 rivals Chichester 6-2 at Henry Cort.

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FORMER Trojans hockey star Alex Danson has reached a half-century of goals for Great Britain.

HOT shot Amy Sheehan has returned to her old Stoneham haunts to lead Trojans’ attack in the Investec England Hockey Western Conference.

TWO goals each by Craig Jeffrey and Micah Smithart, alongside a Ben Hibberd penalty stroke, swept Winchester to a 5-2 opening day win over ten-man Indian Gymkhana at Osterley in hockey's South Premier 1.

FAREHAM wiped out a 2-0 Oxford Hawks first-half lead only to be beaten 5-2 by last season’s South Premier League champions, who scored three times in the last five minutes to seal a flattering win.

ENGLAND hockey star Alex Danson has revealed she is on the road to recovery after suffering a brain injury.

WICKHAM Festival chiefs have promised to top their best ever event next year.

THE biggest music festival in Hampshire is now under way.

TWO major festivals will bring tens of thousands of music lovers to Southampton on one day this weekend.

SOUTHAMPTON'S biggest and best free music festival is back.

TICKETS go on sale this morning for an all star Isle of Wight Festival 2020.

IT was a personal journey for each and every one of them.

THE continued success of the Allied forces was being acknowledged on the pages of the Daily Echo 100 years ago this week following the latest communications from the various theatres of conflict across Europe.

AS the war in Europe continued apace, the daily reports of the Allies’ progress on the battlefronts were being forced to share the column inches of the newspaper with the reports and portraits of lost sons, whose lives had been claimed by the fighting, and were appearing with painful regularity.

A ROYAL is saddling up for the unveiling a hampshrie 's tribute to horses that died on the battlefield in the Great War.

THE unveiling of the war horse statue by Princess Anne in Romsey today has special family significance for Vera Blundell, from Ashurst, in the New Forest.