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City projects well underway to greet new millennium
SOUTHAMPTON'S radical new face for the next millennium is rapidly taking shape with construction work on many of the city's landmark sites now well underway. Across the city major projects are coming on apace reflecting Southampton's importance as the
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RIB show moves to the city
Southampton is to host a third major marine exhibition next year, confirming the city as the country's capital for boating enthusiasts. The RIBEX International Boat Show, the world's only international boat show dedicated to rigid inflatable boats, is
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Main gateway for airline passengers
Southampton Airport is to become one of the country's main international gateways in the next millennium. More routes, improved services and new aircraft are all poised to catapult the airport's growing reputation even higher and bring the South's business
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Searching for stars
MODEL Search '99 ended in success for nine winners at a special fashion show in Fareham shopping centre at the weekend. Winning smiles and confident poses brought £100 shopping vouchers for the following winners: age 4-6: Aimee Yates, four, Portchester
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Pumpkin power goes on show to help trust
SMASHING pumpkins abounded at the Jubilee Sailing Trust's Pumpkin Festival at the Royal Victoria Country Park in Netley. Among the 40-plus categories to attract pumpkin-growers from across Hampshire were heaviest, largest circumference and best-matched
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Nurse flees home to escape football fans
NURSE Karin Jazosch has been driven football crazy by fans desperate to see the England and Scotland Euro 2000 qualifier. Karin's home in Marchwood has been beseiged by telephone calls from fans wanting tickets for the big game at Wembley. The calls got
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Fashion - Fantastic Fred
Fred Dinenage, the much-loved frontman of Meridian Tonight, has been broadcasting to viewers in the south for over thirty years. In that time, he's done many things - except change his image. We dragged him away from the newsdesk to jazz up his look and
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Gardening - Autumn colours
AUTUMN colours are already burning bright at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum, near Romsey. While most of the native English trees in our parks and gardens are still predominantly green, the huge collection of North American maples at the
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Pets - Gyp is front page news
I'M SURE this isn't the first time Gyp has had his face in the papers. But it's a habit that's discouraged while the five-year-old Doberman cross carries out his Southampton paper round. In fact, Gyp more than manages to keep his nose for news under control
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Armchair leisure - A major feat of triumph
WHEN a family is forced to share a bathroom with a cat burglar, a man who stabbed a policeman and a nubile girl who flaunts her underwear, life will be anything but dull. And when the same family boasts illegitimate children, illiterate grandparents,
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In Port
<In port Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Funchal, passenger liner, 0800, 38/9; Hamburg Express, container, 1100, 206; Charles Darwin, research, 1200, 27; Auckland Star, refrigerat, 2100, 102; Argyro M, general, PM, 35. Sailings: Hockenheim,
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I bought the company
SO impressed was Victor Kiam with the Remington razor, that he bought the company. Not dissimilar is the story of Paul Stewart for, having used the translation service in his local village, he too decided to buy the business. Eighteen years later, Wessex
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Websites for travellers
Travelling on business is often tedious, inconvenient and, sometimes even dangerous, says Paul Gardner, director of Fareham-based Amity World Business Travel. To those who have never travelled overseas regularly on business, that statement must seem a
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Raves spur action on beauty spot
IT'S a job country park staff near Winchester hope not to have to repeat - cleaning up after litter louts. Illicit all-night parties bringing noise pollution and damage to rare chalk downland habitat have plagued the Farley Mount area west of the city
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Phyllis to sell home to raise £50,000 reward
THE mother of murdered Southampton gold dealer Ricky Haywood today vowed to sell her home to raise a £50,000 reward to catch his killer. Phyllis Haywood confirmed she was putting her West End home on the market to ensure she had the cash ready should
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Limo marks finish of shop's sole salvation
AN ERA ended in Southampton when Dave Bonney shut up shop as the city's last independent shoe repairer. The family business came to an end after more than 50 years' trading - but at least Dave went out in style as a stretch limo took him to work in Bevois
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Evacuees meet - 60 years on
EASTLEIGH Museum played host to a special party when a group of wartime evacuees returned to the town for a 60th anniversary celebration. The evacuees were all schoolchildren from the Gosport area who were billeted in the town between 1939 and 1944. On
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MPS' mission for South's young
THIS is the letter which must bring justice to some of the South's most disadvantaged children. And today it will be delivered to health minister John Hutton by three Hampshire MPs. They have backed the Daily Echo's Make a Difference Campaign. Southampton
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Parish news sparks visitors from globe
PARISH pump news from Fair Oak is attracting a global audience thanks to the information super highway. By going online on the Net, Fair Oak and Horton Heath Parish Council blazed the technological trail for village authorities in the county. That was
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The Big Feature - Calendar Girls
THE family resemblance is striking. Sue Dimmock strolls through the door of her marketing firm in Freemantle, Southampton, and it is like looking at the star of Ground Force in 20 years. The hair, the eyes; there is something familiar about this beaming
