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It just Asda b Lineker
BRITAIN'S favourite crisp-snatcher brought a Hampshire super-store to a standstill. Former England footballer Gary Lineker visited the Asda supermarket in Maynard Road, Totton. Gary, 38, stars in a series of commercials in which he pinches crisps from
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Support flows in for TV girl Sally
SALLY Taylor, the BBC TV presenter fighting the onset of breast cancer, has been buoyed by public support following the Daily Echo story. Expressions of goodwill have flowed into the BBC including 100 cards and letters, several bouquets of flowers and
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Splitting up of sisters brings condemnation
HAMPSHIRE Social Services have been condemned for ignoring a cancer victim's dying plea and splitting up her heart-broken children. Emma Bursey and her two younger sisters were sent to different homes after their widowed mother Maureen died at Oakhaven
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Kiwis home in on super sixes
NEW ZEALAND captain Steven Fleming reckons Twose company can prove there's no place like home, even if it is 13,000 miles away from the Land of the Long White Cloud. Fleming feels the Kiwis can clinch their place in the Super Six stage of the World Cup
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Traditional clubs face uncertain future
FAREHAM Nomads pro-duced a stunning perfor-mance in the Southern Counties championships at Crystal Palace. But coach Stewart Crowe warned that the trend towards multi-club squads poses a real threat to the future of traditional clubs. "With an increasing
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Getting in a jam
Who better to test the 1999 line-up of National Trust jams than sweet-toothed school children We enlisted the help of six jam-starved pupils from Lockerley Primary School, near Romsey. Eight plates of toast and scones and a year's supply of wet-wipes
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Out on the town
Our weekly look at what you're wearing out and about on the streets in Southampton. Despite standing out in the crowd in her fantastic metallic jacket, little Levi Bevan, four, is more interested in crisps than what's happening on the fashion scene. Levi's
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gARDEN OF SURPRISE
WHEN Sheila and Ashley Powell moved into their Titchfield home 35 years ago the garden was a wilderness of humps and bumps of grass and rubbish. Their first task was to clear the ground that was laid out with grass and borders while the children were
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Eating Out
Toby Carvery Hinton, Chrischurch WHEN a restaurant closes down for four months, then reopens with a new name and image it has to be investigated. The last time I was at the then-named Roeshot it had an old-fashioned traditional feel. This time as I approached
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Cycling
THIS week's ride, based in Alton, has plenty to offer anyone with an inquisitive mind, and, indeed, some may have difficulty in leaving the actual town. Situated on the route of the Pilgrims' Way linking Winchester with Canterbury, the town contains several
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Pet of the week
LAUREN Bagley's eight pets can all fit in the palm of her tiny hand. This eleven-year-old from New Alresford has a fondness for stick insects, and most of them are about the size of a blade of grass. Lauren has owned the insects since they were no bigger
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Investing in an old favourite
THIS WEEKEND you'll see count-less advertisements for different types of investment. Offers of stock market growth, guarantees, minimum returns, high income and so forth, are common place. But, in truth, there are only a set number of areas for investment
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Pop best take to stage in city gig
SOME of Britain's brightest young pop hopefuls will be bursting onto the Southampton stage at a massive free gig. The biggest free pop concert in the South gets under way next month - but the build-up to the event is already gathering pace, as Power FM
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HARD-pressed train bosses in the South are set to introduce double-decker trains to meet a massive i
South West Trains is considering the trains, already in use in Europe and the USA, for the busy Southampton to Waterloo line. A major joint feasibility study between SWT and Railtrack is now under-way to look into the proposals, which are backed by passenger
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Fox saved from extinction
JUST a few months ago it looked as though Fox was an endangered species. With the future of ITV's smash hit television show Gladiators looking doubtful, Southampton's very own foxy lady - Gladiator Fox, aka Tammy-Marie Baker - was contemplating hanging
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Summer game is already hotting up
HAMPSHIRE Men's Summer Super League season has opened up with an evening of superb darts. Bob Crawley's 30.06 was a class act but he just missed out on top average of the week as Steve Perren hit a rich vein of form. Perren was involved in a brilliant
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Hampshire pair Lord it
A DEFIANT last-wicket stand by Derek Kenway and Peter Hartley transformed the County Championship clash between Middlesex and Hampshire at Lord's. Hampshire started the third day just 29 runs ahead on first-innings total. But the 99 put on by Kenway and
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Why Surrogacy is the only option we have left
From the age of ten I have aspired to become a wife and a mother. It is all I have ever wanted. When I married David in June 1993 I took it for granted that within a year I would have a baby. This was not to be the case. In September 1995 I was -diagnosed
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AFTER the Second World War it became a wilder-ness of weeds as the blitzed bomb sites of Southampton
When the post-war redevelopment came the area emerged as a rather anonymous part of Southampton compared to the riches that once stood there in past times. London Road is part of what is probably the oldest route through the city, from the High Street
