On the sculpture trail at Beaulieu

Cheetah by Carol Orwin

6:00am Saturday 25th May 2013

Beaulieu’s Summer Sculpture Trail is well worth a visit, writes Aimee Taylor

Beaulieu is named best attraction

Win a family ticket to Beaulieu!

11:44am Friday 24th May 2013

A HAMPSHIRE tourist attraction visited by more than 400,000 people a year is celebrating today after winning one of the industry’s biggest awards.

Glamour comes to city for fashion week

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1:59pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

IT had glitz, glamour, fabulous outfits and even a spot of opera, ballet and streetdance.

City’s getting ready to strut its stuff

City’s getting ready to strut its stuff

1:33pm Friday 17th May 2013

PARIS, London, New York and Milan are just a few of the names that roll off the tongue when it comes to fashion.

Party in the Park postponed

Rapper Chip to take stage for Abergavenny festival

1:11pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

ORGANISERS have pulled the plug on the Party in the Park DJ event, due to take place on Friday night.

Cinema displays Enterprising spirit

Staff at Harbour Lights Picturehouse in Star Trek gear

10:49am Monday 13th May 2013

RESISTANCE is futile!

New guide to Southampton published - with a difference

Southampton

10:00am Sunday 12th May 2013

A new guide book has been published which gives a new slant on Southampton life.

Is this Southampton's spookiest pub?

The Talking Heads

9:56am Sunday 12th May 2013

IT’S ONE of the most historic pubs in Southampton with a history dating back more than 130 years.

Festival organisers ready to avoid repeat of chaos

Isle of wight Festival 2012

6:00am Friday 10th May 2013

CAR parks submerged in mud, roads gridlocked and ferries stranded in the Solent – it was the start to the annual Isle of Wight Festival that everyone would rather forget.

Garage invaded by 14,000 Doctor Who books

Andrew Ledger with some of the 14,000 Doctor Who books he’s  giving away to schools.

12:10pm Thursday 9th May 2013

WHAT do you do when you end up with 14,000 Doctor Who books in your garage?

Artist's delight at New York exhibition offer

A piece of Josephine Chisholm's art

9:08am Thursday 9th May 2013

WINCHESTER artist Josephine Chisholm was astounded and delighted when a top New York gallery asked to display some of her work.

Winchester theatre group perform in Parliament

Blue Apple actors with Steve Brine (left), speaker of the Commons John Bercow and Jane Jessop (right)

10:02am Tuesday 7th May 2013

A WINCHESTER theatre group put on a special performance in Parliament last week.

Mela in the Park

The Southampton Mela is organised by Art Asia

9:24am Tuesday 7th May 2013

THE Southampton Mela Festival returns for its 11th year of festival fun at Hoglands Park, Southampton, on Saturday July 13.

Britain's Got Talent star chooses new dance partner

Kai Widdrington and Michelle Mutuleasa

10:57am Friday 3rd May 2013

After hundreds of applications and months of auditions, Southampton’s ballroom dancing star has found his perfect partner.

Maritime Festival to celebrate nautical heritage

Steam tug Challenge will be putting in an appearance.

1:00pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

Southampton’s history on sea, land and air will be under the spotlight during the city’s first ever two-day festival of nostalgia.

Radio One DJ launches City of Culture bid

Rob da Bank

1:40pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

RADIO One DJ Rob Da Bank today fired the starting gun on Southampton and Portsmouth's bid to become the 2017 UK City of Culture.

Morris dancers celebrate May Day

Morris dancers celebrate May Day outside the Bargate in Southampton

11:39am Wednesday 1st May 2013

THE sound of jangling bells could be heard across Southampton this morning.

Coronation Street star arrested in sexual assault investigation

Bill Roache

10:42am Wednesday 1st May 2013

CORONATION STREET actor Bill Roache has been arrested on suspicion of an historic allegation of a sexual assault, sources said today.

Be A Part of Art and Culture

An artist's imperssion of Southampton's new Cultural Quarter

9:34am Monday 29th April 2013

Launching today in the Daily Echo, CultureSouthampton Friends is a new scheme encouraging everyone to sign up and boost the city’s burgeoning status as the arts capital of the south coast. LORELEI REDDIN reports

Village's first music festival a big hit

9:29am Friday 26th April 2013

ORGANISERS have declared Whiteparish’s first music festival a huge hit.  

Marking 12 years at Orange Rooms

Making 12 years at Orange Rooms

7:26pm Thursday 25th April 2013

GROOVE Armada, Russell Brand, Grandmaster Flash, Mixmaster Mike, Annie Mac and TEED are just a few of the standout highlights of 12 years at Southampton’s Orange Rooms.

Ultimate A-Z of the Isle of Wight Festival

Jon Bon Jovi

9:48am Thursday 25th April 2013

WITH less than two months to go before Isle of Wight kicks off the summer festival season, Your Entertainment guides you through the alphabet of what to expect in 2013… A is for the best Artists appearing across all the awesome stages, at the first major festival of the season!

Vision for controversial Cineworld complex

The vision for Cineworld in Whiteley

1:17pm Monday 22nd April 2013

THIS is how a controversial cinema proposed for Whiteley would look.

Mini Chitty Chitty Bang Bang revs up birthday

Indiya Tasker in her mini Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

5:14pm Friday 19th April 2013

THREE-YEAR-OLD Indiya Tasker drives her miniature Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car – a special birthday present built by her grandparents.

Hampshire secretary is Internet dancing sensation - VIDEO

Ellie Cole, bus stop dancing internet sensation.

7:21am Thursday 18th April 2013

A Hampshire secretary has become an internet dancing hit after being unwittingly caught on video camera strutting her stuff while waiting on a bus.

Tributes to Plonkers’ drummer

Ray Clamp

6:00am Thursday 18th April 2013

TRIBUTES have been paid to a Hampshire musician who has died aged 84 – just two months after the death of his wife.

A big step for Sammy Sunshine

Children's entertainer Sammy Rowe.

10:20am Wednesday 17th April 2013

A CLOWN and children’s entertainer who has worked in the trade for more than 50 years has opened a small museum dedicated to his career.

City gears up for first fashion fest

Uberluv fashions feature at the event

10:20am Wednesday 17th April 2013

SOUTHAMPTON’s first fashion festival will be showcasing a whole host of emerging clothing brands, live DJs and acoustic sets, live art, makeovers and competitions in a two-day event at The Marlands this weekend.

Look out Bond - Jaws is back!

Richard Kiel as Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me.

10:21am Tuesday 16th April 2013

AFTER 17 years in showbiz, it was a role he could really get his teeth into.

A catalan flavour for festival

TV presenter Kate Humble.

11:17am Monday 15th April 2013

AGEAS Salisbury International Arts Festival has revealed the full details of its 2013 programme.

Is this the Hampshire ring that inspired Lord of the Rings?

The ring believed to have inspired Tolkien

7:00am Sunday 14th April 2013

DID incantations and spells fill the air as the curse was evoked and brought down on the gold ring, which lies at the centre of a centuries’ old Hampshire mystery.

Starsky and Hutch star coming to The Mayflower in Fiddler on the Roof

Paul Michael Glaser

7:00am Saturday 13th April 2013

STARSKY and Hutch’s Paul Michael Glaser will star in the brand new production of Fiddler on the Roof, which is set to open at The Mayflower this autumn.

IOW Festival adds luxury to line-up

11:01am Wednesday 3rd April 2013

ISLE of Wight Festival is this year going one step further to make the experience more luxurious for those attending.

Girls have a night in with three literary ladies

10:40am Tuesday 2nd April 2013

BOOKWORMS will love Girls Night In, an author event which comes to Winchester Discovery Centre on April 11.

Cabbie's Saturday Night surprise with Ant and Dec

TAKEN IN: Mark Smith with wife Anna.

10:33am Monday 25th March 2013

TAXI driver Mark Smith thought he was dropping off “Sophie”, a TV make-up artist, and then carrying her box into a studio in London.

Michael Ball tells how women have influenced his new album

Michael Ball tells how woman have influenced his new album

1:16pm Sunday 24th March 2013

Singing star Michael Ball is heading to Southampton and tells the Daily Echo what fans can expect.

Dame Edna announces Mayflower date

Dame Edna announces Mayflower date

4:14pm Saturday 23rd March 2013

Dame Edna Everage has announced a date at Southampton's Mayflower Theatre.

Your work could be the star attraction at city art gallery

Artists Phil Duckworth, third from left, and Ben Sadler with project manager Val

9:38am Monday 18th March 2013

Local people are being invited to display their creative work at a new exhibition in Southampton

Young director shoots first film in Winchester

Green website logo for Hampshire Chronicle

9:00am Sunday 17th March 2013

GREAT filmmakers like Spielberg, Coppola and Scorsese all had to start somewhere small.

Unusual venues at Winchester Film Festival

Marlene Dietrich, star of Stage Fright

10:17am Tuesday 12th March 2013

FILM fans in Hampshire are gearing up for the Winchester Film Festival next month.

Top comics line-up for Mayflower dates

Jack Dee is heading for Bradford

2:48pm Saturday 2nd March 2013

IT’S laughs aplenty at The Mayflower this season with a series of comical one nighters.

Great Gilbert: Requiem for a Village - Harbour Lights

12:55pm Friday 1st March 2013

BEING in a successful band isn’t enough for Greg Gilbert, frontman of Southampton’s Delays.

Southampton musician Greg Gilbert turns his hand to art

Greg on stage with Delays - photo by Mark Holloway

1:55pm Thursday 28th February 2013

BEING in a successful band isn’t enough for Greg Gilbert, frontman of Southampton’s Delays.

Rolling Stones' guitarist's artwork on show

Big Bang Blue by Ronnie Wood

11:21am Thursday 21st February 2013

When he's not performing in packed stadiums with the Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood can often be found behind the easel.

Rizzle Kicks and Little Mix added to Isle of Wight Festival line up

Little MIx

8:31am Monday 18th February 2013

THE COMPLETED line-up for the Isle of Wight Festival has been announced with even more of music’s finest taking to the stage.

Chinese New Year brings taste of the orient to Winchester

The celebrations featured a traditional lion dance in the High Street.

3:33pm Friday 15th February 2013

IT may be the year of the Snake in 2013, but it was a lion that was turning heads around the city.

Reunion to rekindle Top Rank memories

Reunion to rekindle Top Rank memories

12:35pm Monday 11th February 2013

GO back to the heady days of Southampton’s Top Rank.

A duo of dates at The Mayflower

Dirty Dancing fans set for the time of their lives

10:28am Friday 8th February 2013

THEATRE bosses have just signed up two more exciting shows for The Mayflower.

Search for a Superstar

Ed Sheeran

10:20am Friday 1st February 2013

YOUTH Music Theatre has launched a nationwide search for the best actors, singers, dancers, musicians and back stage crew – and they’re in Southampton looking for youngsters to join their company this weekend.




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