Equally serious is that the bypass will intrude on and then cross the River Itchen, which enjoys the EU’s highest level of protection as a Special Area of Conservation. The Itchen is world famous as a ...

An inquest has opened into the death of a young man who fell from the Itchen Bridge in Southampton. Idryck Relius Wilkinson, 22, of Morland Road, Croydon, south London, died on January 31.