Southampton City, England News

Plans to introduce a community transfer asset strategy were due to be decided on by the city council Cabinet today.

As revealed in Thursday's Daily Echo, the plans sparked anger among the community and the late licence application was due to be heard by Southampton City Council .

Thousands of street lights in Hampshire and Southampton will be fitted with new energy-efficient bulbs as part of a drive from county and city authorities to reduce carbon emissions.

Steve Plumridge said he was brought to tears at the state of Hollybrook Cemetery in Tremona Road as he and his partner Noreen Ockleford visited the grave of her late father.

THOUSANDS of people across Southampton are to get free health checks from GPs after it was revealed that the city had a "shocking" number of early deaths due to bad living.

In the summer of 1967, Richard Long, then only 22, took a train from Waterloo Station and found an empty field outside London.

"DON'T panic." That's the message to Southampton residents from the deputy mayor of a town which has had its lights dimmed.

THE HEALTH Secretary today condemned the "shocking" number of early deaths caused by bad living in Southampton - compared to the rest of Hampshire.

Those are just some of the suggestions the public have put forward to replace the former boating lake at Southampton Sports Centre.

ITCHEN College bosses have received the go-ahead from Southampton City Council to create a new base for students training towards emergency services and military careers.

CELEBRATING Camp Bestival 2013's Around The World theme, the team are presenting the ultimate in kids discos - the Camp Bestival Around The World Tour! The inaugural kids disco tour, which comes to Southampton City Art Gallery tomorrow between 10.30am and 1.30pm, will feature cool music for cool kids, a supersized ghettoblaster, a dance instructor ... (more)

That was the warning from council chiefs ahead of launching a new scheme empowering residents to challenge potentially harmful and contentious developments being built at Southampton Docks.

FANS of a crisis-hit Hampshire football club have been urged to get behind their club to save it from extinction.

A FORMER council leisure centre boss secretly gathered confidential computer records with personal and medical details of nearly 2,500 clients for his own use, a court heard.

A TOP boss at a multimillion pound global firm will today defend plans to install a controversial sulphur plant in Southampton .

SOUTHAMPTON is one of the worst places in the country for booze-fuelled youths ending up in hospital because they are so drunk, the Daily Echo can reveal.

Linda Norris told Southampton Coroner's Court how her mother Gladys May Weeks had been living with her since the previous August after a deterioration in her health.

SOME of Hampshire's biggest tourist attractions are hosting a LEGO trail this half term with large scale replicas of landmarks.

Sally Stickland, 72, is accused of trying to kill John Stickland, 73, who was found with serious head injuries on a grass verge in West Common, Langley, by members of the public at around 12.45pm on Saturday.

THERE'S a chance to find out more about Southampton 's art deco buildings with a tour of the Civic Centre and a talk on stylish cinemas, industrial buildings and houses.