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Conference use will help cinema
CONTROVERSIAL cinema Harbour Lights will be used as a conference centre as well as a film theatre when it re-opens in the autumn. Leisure officers in Southampton have confirmed that it will be written into any new agreement that a "small fraction" of
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Chalking up green crusade
HAMPSHIRE Wildlife Trust is to embark on a programme to improve the habitat at one of its most visited sites. The trust is to cut down dozens of trees in the woods which dot the unspoiled chalk grassland at St Catherine's Hill. It is concerned that the
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Blaze prompts court evacutation
SOUTHAMPTON Combined Court Centre had to be evacuated when fire broke out in the bailiffs' room. The cause is being investigated, but it is believed to have been an electrical fault. Court customer services manager David Putley spotted smoke inside the
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Saints V the Bishop
THE Bishop of Winchester has stepped into the row over Saints plans for a new stadium in the heart of Southampton. It has been revealed that a secret Church of England covenant on the site in St Mary's could throw a spanner into the works in the multi-million
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Twins make their mark - and join generation X
TWINS Carrie and Jo Dobson are sure to be casting their vote early today as the South goes to the polls in the local government elections. The Southampton duo have just turned 18 and are excited at the prospect of voting for the first time. The Lordswood
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Tory Rule makes a comeback
ST LUKES WARD: Conor Burns storms to victory. THE TORY revival took a major step forward today when they seized power in three Hampshire councils. But Labour held on to Southampton City Council although the race is on for a new leader after John Arnold
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Cleaning survey labelled rubbish
FUMING Eastleigh council chiefs have lashed out after being labelled Britain's dirtiest borough. A national newspaper placed Eastleigh top of a shame list for the amount of cash spent on street cleaning. It claimed the Hampshire authority spent just 21p
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Step back in time
IN THE PAST: A scene from one of Sarah Siddons Fan Club's previous shows HISTORY has never been so interesting, thanks to the Southampton-based Sarah Siddons Fan Club. The group has been creating its own idiosyn-cratic form of theatre, bringing Southampton's
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Jimmy sends opponents on a White-knuckle ride
Typhoons are terrorising America at the moment but there was a Whirlwind making its own presence felt at Eastleigh's Fleming Park Leisure Centre last night. Whirlwind "Jimmy" not only had amateur Andy Kane running for cover but also proved too strong
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Around the lakes
LORD Romsey's day ticket fishery Longbridge Lakes has been in tremendous form with another string of 100lb plus hauls over the week. Broadlands River keeper Simon Hambridge took 130lb of carp including ghosts of 18lb 8oz, 13lb 4oz, and 10lb 2oz plus mirrors
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ROMSEY'S Catherine Gunn was rewarded for reach-ing the semi-finals of the Samsung Junior Clay Court
Gunn missed out on a final place when she lost 6-4 6-3 to Sarah Wright from Nottingham. But, in the previous rounds, she had beaten Camilla Hsu (Middlesex) 6-3 6-2 and Majen Immink (Kent) 6-2 7-6 (6). And reaching the last four of the tournament qualified
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WHATS ON - Stage
WHATS ON - Stage Basingstoke A QUIET NIGHT OUT WITH STILGOE AND SKELLERN: An evening of entertainment, music and wit with Richard Stillgoe and Peter Skellern, The Anvil, Wednesday, 7.45pm. SMALL CHANGE: Moving drama of everyday life starring Kate Dove
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WHATS ON - The Big Screen
WHATS ON - The Big Screen AMERICAN HISTORY X (18): Edward Norton turns neo-Nazi when his father is murdered - Odeon, Southampton. AN IDEAL HUSBAND (PG): Cate Blanchett and Minnie Driver in Oliver Parker's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's master-piece - Odeon
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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
NIGHTMARE: The cast dig up the past again in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. CHANCES are you'll know what's going to happen in this sorry excuse for a sequel - especially as the teen slasher follows the same path as the first film. Guess what -
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Swing out sister
HIT IT BOYS: Lisa Stansfield and Hugo Speer in Swing WHEN Hugo Speer of Full Monty Fame is released from prison he discovers that not only has his girl-friend Lisa Stansfield met someone else - but she's actually married the copper who put him behind
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Students cash in on deal
City slickers: The team form Chandlers Ford FORGET the playground, these Hampshire whiz-kids have just run riot on the world's money markets, picking up a tidy £22,000 profit. The five high-rollers scooped first prize in the finals of a national share-dealing
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Chance to share in book bonanza
THE Daily Echo today gives schools across the South the opportunity to share in a book bonanza. Your school could win a huge stock of new books in the Daily Echo's £5,000 Books for Schools Challenge sponsored by Posh Windows and Conservatories. Starting
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Neighbourhood News
CHEQUING IN: Sylvia Moulton (second from right), patron of South Hampshire Nurses Appeal and chairman of Macmillan Cancer Relief (Southampton area) receives cheques from Julie Harding, Matthew Alford, Ted Grubb and Teresa McCartney who all walked the
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Mark sleeps on for bomb scare
BOMB ALERT: PC Dave Tozer with resident Sue Simpson. AN EASTLEIGH man slept through a major alert after a fake mortar in his front garden sparked a bomb scare. Neighbours were evacuated and a street sealed off after police were taken in by a device they
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FUMING Eastleigh council chiefs have lashed out after being labelled Britain's dirtiest borough.
A national newspaper placed Eastleigh top of a shame list for the amount of cash spent on street cleaning. It claimed the Hampshire authority spent just 21p per head of population on keeping streets spic and span - a whack-ing 70p lower than the next
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Test story dont' forget to delete
THis is a test story for the features section. Blah blah blah. Converted for the new archive on 25 January 2001. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.
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Impressive Pressey lands unseasonal haul
MARKS just off the Needles continue to provide some superb action with a number on unseasonal specimens being landed. Peter Pressey from New Milton sampled some typical action when he fished from the Keyhaven-based boat Sea Quest skippered by Tim Doswell
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Catherine great on clay surface
ROMSEY'S Catherine Gunn was rewarded for reaching the semi-finals of the Samsung Junior Clay Court Challenge at Hemel Hempstead at the weekend. Gunn missed out on a final place when she lost 6-4 6-3 to Sarah Wright from Nottingham. But, in the previous
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Last-gasp Abbott is the Shots' hero
ALDERSHOT goal machine Gary Abbott scored with the last flick of the game to cap a Hampshire Senior Cup final sickener for Basingstoke Town at The Dell last night. Abbott's 90th-minute flicked header sealed Stoke's 1-0 demise but Camrose chief Ernie Howe's
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Fez fever as fans Kach on
HAT HAPPY: Hassan Kachloul with some of the internet Saints. LET'S DO IT for the fans! Saints are determined to give their army of travelling supporters a party to remember at Wimbledon tomorrow. Around 10,000 will be making the short trip from the south
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Dellhurst park
WIMBLEDON today issued a blunt Stay Away warning to ticketless Saints fans preparing to head for Dellhurst Park. It is going to be more like a Southampton home game with over 9,000 supporters making the short journey from the south coast. Saints had sold
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Kemp and Sutton get England call
Pat Sutton ATHERLEY duo Marlene Kemp and Pat Sutton have been called up to play in the England trials at Leamington Spa. Mrs Kemp was lead and Mrs Sutton was skip in the Atherley rink that won the national fours title at Leamington last year and they
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Daire falls for Flatley's spell
DANCER Daire Nolan would probably have jumped off a cliff if Michael Flatley had built that into his plans for Lord of the Dance. Not that Daire - who plays the Evil Dark Lord in the show - is a weak-willed follower, it is just Michael has an almost unique
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A gem of a musical
SET sail for St Mary's College in Bitterne Park when the stage will be filled with a cast of 80 students - and a parrot - for a swashbuckling adventure. Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is brought to the stage in a large-scale production showing
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French flavours and fine value
THE name has changed but the concept remains the same at this former Pierre Victoire restaurant. The menu, which changes daily, only offers a limited choice but what there is is imaginative, well presented and rea-sonably priced. At the time of writing
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Eating Out - Snack Shot
PIZZA TO GO: Saeid Esfandiari serves up Rocco's finest. No time for a long lunch or an evening meal Each week we will be dropping in to chippies, kebab houses, takeaways and burger vans to find out what's hot and what's not on the fast food scene. This
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Want in on a secret
Little Forest Lodge, Ringwood SECRETS are sacred, but sometimes we stumble across one that simply has to be spilt. Tucked away off the beaten track, this gem has remained too secret, too long. As I approached I wondered if this could really be a hotel
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A Montagu makeover
Master PIECE: Mary Montagu in a beautifuly refurbished room. INTERIOR designer Mary Montagu has been working literally at the double since her memorable marriage on the shores of the Beaulieu River last June. In addition to working out designs for the
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Teenager's Pole venture
INTREPID: Teenager Richard Burgess ASK most teenagers what they have been up to over the last month and they might say I've been out, watched TV, been to school or played sport. But ask 16-year-old Richard Burgess what he's been up to and you will get
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City enjoys a film first
ONLY days earlier it had been the battle of the dresses as Julia Roberts and Hampshire's Liz Hurley had turned out in London for the premiere of the new British movie Notting Hill. But last night it was Southampton's turn as the Odeon hosted the first
