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Tate fancies Bash challenge
FORMER Newport IoW boss Steve Tate has thrown his hat into the ring for the vacant manager's job at Bashley. The 35-year-old striker, who finished last season with an FA Vase winners' medal for Winchester City, is keen to get back into management after
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Warnie won't get to Tresco
ENGLAND opener Marcus Trescothick has hit back at criticisms of him last week by Hampshire skipper Shane Warne. The Australian leg-spinner said the Somerset man might benefit from returning to county cricket for a spell, saying his technique had been
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Veterans return to secret base
D-DAY veterans are today due to go back to a top secret Second World War military base in Hampshire to see a memorial unveiled in their honour. Forty years ago HMS Cricket on the banks of the River Hamble provided accommodation and training for the crews
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In Port
Today's Principal Arrivals: CFF Solent, roro, 0530, 25; Autoprestige, roro, 0530, 201; Autofreighter, roro, 0800, 203; Hyundai Fortune, container, 1430, 206; Fontana, roro, 1630, 202; OOCL Thailand, container, 1900, 207 Today's Principal Sailings: Continental
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Reynolds tipped for big day at Thruxton
THE RIZA Crescent Suzuki team, based in the heart of the New Forest, won't have far to come on Sunday to try to boost their lead in the Think British Superbike Championship. Britain's top road-racing series comes to Thruxton, where Suzuki number one rider
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Andy's on song
ANDY Downes from Salisbury was a popular winner in the big John Brown Trophy grass track meeting at Whaddons Farm near Winchester. Downes, pictured above, won the 500cc Upright class on his Jawa. The 500cc Open went to Lewis Denham, with Matt Etherington
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Netball: Snakes and elephants!
PLAYING netball obviously broadens the mind. Of the Leighton club members, Theresa Gear is an enthusiastic amateur opera singer, Ella Roberts loves to fly her hot air balloon, Erica Langley trains a pet snake called Tiger, while Lia Chance has a thing
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Force threatens to march out of city
HAMPSHIRE police chiefs are threatening to quit Winchester and move their headquarters elsewhere in the county if plans for a re-fit of their current HQ are again refused. The warning comes as bosses at Hampshire Constabulary announced they are to formally
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Villagers put rail cuts in reverse
VILLAGERS at Shawford are optimistic that they are winning their campaign to fight cuts to train services at their local station. South West Trains slashed the number of trains stopping at Shawford Station, pictured, by 25 per cent last winter. It prompted
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A survival battle of the sexes
PUB regulars from Winchester are hoping to raise thousands of pounds for Cancer Research UK when the women take on the men in a head-to-head survival challenge. Two teams from The St James Tavern in Romsey Road will be heading off to Wales at the start
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Donkey derby is boost for disabled
ROCK guitarist Mark Knopfler played local hero when he performed the celebrity opening for a charity donkey derby in the New Forest. Rain was forecast and it could have spelled dire straits for the organisers but hundreds of punters poured in to the Brockenhurst
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Charity footballer beaten senseless
A NEW Forest man was beaten unconscious in a double attack just hours after playing in a charity football match. The 37-year-old was targeted by a gang of up to five teenagers using a golf club in an unprovoked assault. He was then assaulted a second
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Teen's concern at unit closure
A YOUNG Asperger's sufferer, who is hopeful of leaving the Austen Pupil Referral Unit with a clutch of GCSEs, has spoken of his fears over its impending closure. Matthew Rich, 16, is currently taking exams including English, maths and science, and said
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In need of safe harbours
Prefabricated harbours built on a huge scale never previously attempted played a vital role in the D-Day landings of 1944... IT WAS one of the most daring of D-Day plans and one that was carried out in the utmost secrecy in the heart of Southampton and
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Review: Sixsmith joins the Spin cycle
Martin Sixsmith - Salisbury City Hall WHEN journalist Martin Sixsmith signed a gagging order forbidding him to write and broadcast details of his time as a civil servant working at the heart of government, he was left with no option but to create a work
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Review: Royal Ballet pupil a class act already
Gala performance by The Royal Ballet School at St Swithun's School, Winchester, in aid of St John Ambulance SHE pirouetted, teetered on her points and was flung about (gracefully of course) by her partner. Nutnaree Pipithsuksunt may be a mere teenager
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Old soldiers cheer as group is saved
A LIFELINE has been thrown to an organisation that helps ex-servicemen and women in their hour of need. A dozen people have come forward with offers to help the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association after an appeal for volunteers was made
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Sculptures will help shape area's future
ARTISTIC residents in a Southampton district can help shape the future of their neighbourhood this weekend. Workshops take place in Northam on Sunday to design sculptures and street art. They will form part of the Homezone scheme, which will see new road
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The outdoors proves great at top event
VISITORS to the Hampshire Country Show enjoyed a real taste of the great outdoors. Organisers from Living Heritage pulled out all the stops with entertaining show- jumping events, horseball - a cross between rugby and basketball for horseriders, puppet
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Topless dancing at an end
TOPLESS dancing events can no longer be held in Basingstoke after bosses at a town centre bar failed to renew its licence. Drake's, in London Street, had been staging the x-rated entertainment since February after Basingstoke council agreed to change
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Charlie's darlin' of Whiteley
GARDENING guru Charlie Dimmock was the guest of honour at the annual Whiteley Village Garden Market. The BBC GroundForce expert declared the event open as more than 30 stallholders displayed their wares for three days over the bank holiday weekend. Plants
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Olympic star boosts Kelly
OLYMPIC hopeful Kelly Sotherton has soared to a personal best in the heptathlon - with a little help from Olympic champion Denise Lewis. According to Sotherton's coach, Charles Van Commenee, Lewis's golden touch has been rubbing off on the 27-year-old
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Yew were wrong!
A FAIR Oak vicar who stirred up a storm in his village after he chopped down a 142-year-old yew tree without permission has received a slap on the wrist from his bosses. The Rev David Snuggs angered Fair Oak villagers when he felled the much-loved tree
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School launches group for action
AN EASTLEIGH school hit by waves of vandalism is laun-ching a community action group to prevent antisocial behaviour from spiralling out of control. Crestwood Community School, on the Boyatt Wood Estate, was the Easter Holiday target for vandals who went
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Wartime secrets of Marwell Hall
AS all eyes turn towards Normandy this week for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings, there will be another, less celebrated, anniversary happening much closer to home. It is 60 years since Marwell, the now famous zoological park, was used as a
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Owls close in on goal ace Forbes
WINCHESTER City's FA Vase final hero Andy Forbes could be on the verge of a dream move to former Premiership outfit Sheffield Wednesday. The Second Division club are interested in signing the man who plundered 76 goals during an incredible 2003/04 campaign
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BAT boss sitting on £10.7m pension pot
THE BOSS of cigarette giant British American Tobacco can look forward to comfortable twilight years after new figures revealed he has one of the top ten biggest pensions in the UK. High-flying chairman Martin Broughton, who wings his way over to British
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Rosebys press on with shop closures
UNCERTAINTY surrounds the future of Hampshire branches of curtains-to-bedding retailer Rosebys after the company's new bosses announced about 60 out of 400 stores nationwide are to close. The news followed hard on the heels of a £51m management buyout
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Fleetwood produces a record run
ADAM Fleetwood continued his domination of the British Hillclimb Championship with another spectacular win and a new outright hill record at Gurston Down. The reigning champion wiped over a third of a second off his own Gurston record with a very rapid
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Force threatens to march out of city
HAMPSHIRE police chiefs are threatening to quit Winchester and move their headquarters elsewhere in the county if plans for a re-fit of their current HQ are again refused. The warning comes as bosses at Hampshire Constabulary announced they are to formally
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Maternal instinct saved an orphan foal
MOTHER-love comes naturally to one New Forest horse - even when the baby is not really hers. The ten year-old mare, who lives at Longdown near Ashurst, has adopted orphaned foal Hooch. The little colt was only a few days old when his New Forest pony mother
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The great D-Day send-off begins
Wartime prime minister Winston Churchill had been planning D-Day ever since he came to power in 1940 . . . and when it came it was a total surprise to Germany... THE soldiers marched down to Southampton's docks through a sea of faces showing disparate
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The D-Day diary of a 19-year-old navy officer
AN historic and nostalgic week of commemorations is under way to remember the momentous events in Normandy 60 years ago. This week the Daily Echo speaks to those involved in the greatest seaborne invasion, troops who embarked from Southampton and the
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Review: Wordless stream of consciousness
Islands in the Stream, Salisbury Playhouse THIS is wordless physical theatre at its best. Four delicately strong Russian Derovo dancers explore the theme of the sea in creative movement, sound and light. Often surreal, dreamy and haunting, sailors and
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RAF helicopter emergency at airport
A FULL scale emergency alert was declared at Southampton International Airport today after a Chinook helicopter from RAF Odiham reported it was having problems. Emergency services including Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service, the police, ambulance and
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I WENT DEAF AND NO ONE KNOWS WHY
AT 21, Hampshire woman Emma Hassell had everything to look forward to. Her boyfriend had just asked her to marry him and the couple were making plans to save up to buy a home of their own. She was preparing to step into the shower to get ready to celebrate
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Oil blockades could put lives at risk
FUEL protesters were today urged not to put people's lives at risk by blockading Hampshire's oil terminals. Fears are growing of a wave of dissent to mirror the protests of September 2000 if the government refuses to scrap plans to increase petrol prices
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Caterpillar ordeal
THEY'RE hairy, they make people itch and they're back. Caterpillars which have plagued Hampshire, leaving trails of irritated victims in their wake have been spotted again. Experts are now warning residents to steer clear of the creatures, so poisonous
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City set to follow six-term year plans
SOUTHAMPTON school bosses are expected to follow Hampshire's lead and introduce a six-term year from September 2005. The city council's executive member for education Councillor Calvin Horner will make a final decision next Monday. He is widely expected
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Precious memento
THE BIBLE sits, nestling in pink tissue paper and cocooned in a wooden box. Occasionally Linda Wolfe will lovingly touch it. For on the book's leather cover is inscribed the name of her American father, Boyd Klingerman. And this is the first time, since
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'I'm staying on' says Town boss
ERNIE Howe last week spoke the words that loyal Basingstoke Town FC supporters have been desperate to hear: "I'm staying on as manager." The 51-year-old admitted he was ready to quit this summer. However, he is now poised to sign a brand-new, one-year
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Police costs threaten to be a show-stopper
A HAMPSHIRE music festival organised to raise cash for cancer research could be scrapped because of spiralling policing costs. Organisers may have to pull the plug on the open-air Bigtop 2004 event planned for Tapnage Farm in Wickham this summer after
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Free bus service for D-Day
A FREE D-Day anniversary bus service will ferry people from a symbolic crossing to a service of remembrance on Sunday. First Bus is supplying transport from the Falkland Gardens, Gosport from where a flotilla of boats can be viewed from 8.45am re-enacting
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In-form Purkiss wants to turn back the clock
MELANIE Purkiss hopes to recapture the form of 2002 when she turns out for Team Solent at Hendon on Saturday in the UK Women's League. The 25-year-old from Otterbourne announced her arrival on the British 400 metres scene in the same competition two years
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Howard rallies the party faithful
TORY leader Michael Howard breezed into Hampshire to make a keynote speech about his party's European policy to about 250 of the party faithful at Hedge End's Botleigh Grange Hotel. Cheered and applauded as he arrived on the party's battle bus, Mr Howard
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Wallace boost
A LIVE on-air auction raised a staggering £4,725 for The Danny Wallace Testimonial Fund which benefits the former Saint who has been struck down by multiple sclerosis. Power FM's Rick and Rachel invited bids for a Saints shirt on their breakfast show.
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Interviewing... Ben Hamlin
FEW people can say they have stood on Wimbledon's centre court with Tim Henman - but Basingstoke's Ben Hamlin can. He was a ball boy in 2002 as Britain's Henman did battle in the quarter-final against Brazilian Andre Sa. The current British number one
