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Reid bags a cracking double figure cod at Hurst
Despite of the recent stormy weather, some cracking fish have still been recorded. Jason Reid beached a double-figure cod which tipped the scales down to 13lb 12oz from the deep water section at Hurst Castle during a flooding tide at night. Reid, a 38
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OIL BUGGED!
OIL-EATING bacteria could be used in a clean-up operation after thousands of tonnes of fuel leaked from a massive tank at Fawley refinery. The 50,000-tonne tank sprang a leak on Friday and an estimated 15,000 tonnes came pouring out. Most of it was pumped
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Record-breaker at helm of county golf
Clive Cole has been breaking county golfing records for six decades - but he'll enjoy his proudest moment on Thursday when he becomes president of the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands Union. "Everything I have done in golf, I've done off my
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Pierpoint quits at cash crisis club Portsmouth
POMPEY were today looking to get back on track after the sudden resignation of chief executive Barrie Pierpoint. Director Paul Mitchell will take over Pierpoint's role for 45 days as part of an investigation into club finances. The former Leicester City
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Star turns taken
TO ENSURE everyone got a fair chance to shine in the Christmas play, the children of Gosport's Newtown Primary School Nativity took turns to be the stars. Pupils of years one and two staged the adaptation for children of the Nativity called It Is A Party
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Pupils beat own charity record
A MAMMOTH effort by children at a Hampshire school has broken their own high record total for charity. Pupils at Swanmore Secondary School collected about £5,500 this year for the NSPCC, Southampton General Hospital children's wards, Whizz Kids, Animal
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Write inspiration
BOOK week has become a hardy annual at Hiltingbury Junior School in Chandler's Ford, where children's author Jean Ure was invited to talk to pupils and to pass on some expert tips to budding young wordsmiths during a writing workshop. Book Week, typical
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Disciplined Solent defeat unbeaten Westminster
THE 'Rising Stars' youth basketball programme is only three years old but is already proving to be one of the best youth production schemes in the country. Going into the Christmas break Solent Stars' teams top their divisions at under-20, under-16, under
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Busy burglars strike
BURGLARS have been busy recently in the Winchester area. Jewellery worth hundreds of pounds was stolen from a house in Abbotts Close, Abbotts Barton, yesterday. The haul included cufflinks, a pocket watch, a gold ring, and various silver plates. Public
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Mission to save village shop
Ropley villagers have taken the first steps to forming an association to save their shop and post office. They fear Pondside Stores may fall victim to housing development. Following a meeting in the village hall last week, a committee has put in place
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Denis mows how to succeed
VOSPER Thornycroft laminator Denis Cantell has been helping staff make light work of their jobs with an innovation which has earned him a £500 bonus. Denis devised a new idea which means that his workmates no longer have to get down on their hands and
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Distributors Meachers turn to BKL Weeks Green
Chartered Accountants BKL Weeks Green has grasped the opportunity to demonstrate the firm's expertise in the small to medium-sized business market with its appointment as auditors and business advisers to Meachers Group. Meachers managing director Bob
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YOUTH SUED
A HAMPSHIRE schoolboy faces being sued by a legal giant - for failing to stop his brother being hit by a car. Gareth Minchin, was just 15 when he watched in horror as his seven-year-old younger brother was knocked down on the way home from school. Matthew
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Community service for trapping family in blaze
AN ARSONIST trapped a terrified family in their first-floor flat by setting fire to their only way out, a court heard. The fire started by Terence Miller was so fierce it melted the telephone line preventing Michelle Wassell, her two young daughters Lucy
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Chemical scare as train is derailed
TRAIN chaos is set to hit the South again today after a freight service transporting dangerous goods was derailed outside Eastleigh. A Freightliner wagon overturned just outside the town's station as it made its way towards Southampton at around 11pm
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Mop-up squad is mobilised after downpours
A NEW Forest town hit by flooding was being visited by a special clean-up squad today. A team assembled by New Forest District Council was touring Fordingbridge to help residents who were swamped after the River Avon burst its banks. About 40 homes and
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Help pledge to halt crime at flats
TROUBLED flat-tenants who pleaded for help in stopping vandalism and violence at a block of flats have been promised improvements. Residents are desperate to move out of the Arrass House block of flats, off Hillson Drive, Fareham, because of harassment
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Worried staff fear for mothers-to-be
OUTRAGED staff claim delays in opening a maternity unit could put babies' lives at risk. Blackbrook Maternity Unit was due to reopen on January 7, but staff were told yesterday that the new start had been put on hold indefinitely. Now, the furious workers
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Parishes chip in to fight health threat
PARISH councils across Eastleigh have backed the fight against plans to shake-up the borough's frontline health services. Eastleigh District Association of Parish Councils has formed its own think-tank to urge health bosses to put on ice the proposal
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The food must go on at show centre
EMERGENCY measures are being taken to make sure that refreshments are kept on the menu for visitors at Eastleigh's prestigious arts and dance centre. The council has had to move fast after caterer Corporate Cuisine, who had been running the restaurant
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Oakley can give injury the boot
MATTHEW OAKLEY is hoping a special insole will cure his back problems after it was discovered he has one leg shorter than the other. The Saints midfielder limped out of Saturday's 3-1 defeat at Ipswich with a tight hamstring, which was actually caused
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Why Le Tissier was running in New York
Running a marathon requires many special attributes - dedication, fitness and the patience of a Saint - and that's exactly what Michael Smith has. The 38-year-old welder from Weymouth is an avid Saints fan and, as our picture shows, has spread the gospel
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Incinerator on fire
HAMPSHIRE firefighters tackled one of their most unusual jobs of the year - a fire in an incinerator. The blaze broke out in pipes surrounding a burner at Eling Wharf, Totton, shortly after 3am today. Firefighters from Totton and Redbridge spent two hours
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Oakley can give injury the boot
MATTHEW OAKLEY is hoping a special insole will cure his back problems after it was discovered he has one leg shorter than the other. The Saints midfielder limped out of Saturday's 3-1 defeat at Ipswich with a tight hamstring, which was actually caused
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MULLALLY GETS ENGLAND RECALL
ALAN MULLALLY has his feet on the bottom rung of a ladder that could lead to a place in next summer's Ashes battle. But it could mean that Hampshire will be stripped of their front-line attack of last summer. Mullally, who last played for England in the
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More pupils get new school places
COUNTY education bosses have headed off an admissions crisis at Hampshire's newest primary school by relenting over the number of new school pupils that can enrol next September. Now, a county councillor has thanked the Daily Echo for highlighting the
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Campaign to catch arsonists
POLICE hunting the arsonists who caused more than £1 million damage by torching Basingstoke's Beech Down Primary School are mounting a major poster campaign. Officers are putting up posters around the Brighton Hill area to encourage people to give information
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Hampshire pushing for a change to Liberty format
HAMPSHIRE will be backing a return to the round-robin format for the Liberty Trophy in a questionnaire circulated to counties by the English Indoor Bowling Association over the future of the national indoor championship. At present the Liberty Trophy
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Bellamy blasts park and ride extension
Britain's best-known environmentalist excused himself for his strong language in condemning the planned extension of park and ride at Bar End, Winchester. Noting that land off the old bypass had been traded for land nearby so the motorway could be built
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ON THE BEAT
WINCHESTER police are to reduce opening hours at their North Walls station in a bid to keep more officers on the beat. From January 8, the station will be open to callers from 8am to 8pm from Monday to Saturday and until 6pm on Sundays. Currently the
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Spotlight on team for a dream
A DREAM will come true for two budding songwriters when their music is featured in a live show at Winchester Guildhall in the new year. Lifelong friends Robin Martin, of Kings Worthy, and Richard Ball, of Southampton, who are both in their fifties, love
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Wife had history of depression
A businessman who returned home to West Wellow from France got no answer from his wife when he called out: "I'm home." "I looked in the kitchen and realised something was very wrong," Michael Bush told the mid-Hampshire coroner, Grahame Short. "There
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Wife "withheld facts" about husband's fatal fall
A coroner suggested a Romsey widow was failing to tell the whole story about the night her husband died. Sandra Hollins, whose husband, Patrick, fell downstairs at their home, told a Winchester inquest she did not recall rowing with him before the accident
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Man's jaw fractured in flood rage row
HAMPSHIRE police dealt with the first case of flood rage when a pedestrian was thumped by a driver and suffered a fractured jaw. The incident happened in Sutton Scotney, near Winchester, at about 1.30pm on Saturday. A 56-year-old man was tackling the
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Madonna's man failed to make the grade
IT'S A marriage that's surely vying for the title of Wedding of the Year. When Madonna and Guy Ritchie plight their troth in Scotland at the end of the week, the American singer will, in a sense, become "one of us". The media frenzy surrounding the sumptuous
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House prices begin to level out
LATEST research from estate agency Strutt & Parker points to a levelling off of house prices in Hampshire after a strong period of growth. Philip Blanchard from Strutt & Parker in Winchester said the market turned in August. "Since then the market
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Santa's clamped as he spreads cheer!
SANTA Claus was all clamped out for an hour in Southampton - before the season of goodwill triumphed and he was released. Wheelclampers immobilised a car belonging to Father Christmas, alias pensioner Stan Fitzgerald, who was handing out lollipops to
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Floods bring mink menace to birds
FEARS that flooding rivers could have carried mink into new areas of Hampshire have been expressed following the deaths of two rare birds at the New Forest Owl Sanctuary. A mink forced its way through wire mesh at a cage and mauled two tawny frog-mouth
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Park job fear 'not justified'
LABOUR party workers in the New Forest have hit back at suggestions that a National Park for the area could cost jobs. New Forest Council leader Simon Hayes expressed his concerns that controls brought in by National Park status could prevent land at
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ARSON FURY
AN ARSONIST who trapped a terrified family in their first-floor flat has avoided prison. The fire started by Terence Miller was so fierce it melted the telephone line so Michelle Wassell, her two young daughters, Lucy and Katie, and her partner, Kevin
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Rail Chaos
TRAIN chaos hit the South again today after a freight service transporting dangerous goods was derailed outside Eastleigh. A Freightliner wagon overturned just outside the town's station as it made its way towards Southampton at around 11pm last night