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Travel: A case of Miami nice...
MIAMI - a city full of sandy beaches, blessed with golden sunshine and the setting of one of the most famous police shows of the 1980s Despite Crocket, Tubbs and the Miami Vice squad being consigned to TV heaven, the sun continues to beat down on Miami
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Hunt on for source of irritating smell
AN INVESTIGATION is under way to trace the source of an irritating smell that has been drifting across the Waterside area for more than a week. The smell has been reported to the Environment Agency by Jenny Manley of Hythe, who is known on the Waterside
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PREMIERSHIP FULL-TIME SCORES
Full-time results from the Premiership for Saturday 30 December 2000 Saints 1 - Derby 0 - Beattie 73 Arsenal 2 - Sunderland 2 Ipswich 3 - Spurs 0 Man City 1 - Charlton 4 Middlesbrough 1 - Coventry 1 Newcastle 1 - Man Utd 1
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IT'S YOUR HONOUR, TED!
IT WAS worth waiting for! Ted Bates, Mr Southampton Football Club, has received an MBE in The New Year's Honours List. No man has served their football club longer than Edric Thornton Bates, who joined Saints as a player in 1937 and now, 63 years on,
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Brave mum and daughter face a cold dip
Veronica Walker, will be dressing up to the nines for a freezing New Year dip in the Solent. Veronica, 56, will be joined by her daughter Julie Binnington, who is 34, to plunge into the sea at Stokes Bay, Gosport, for the annual New Year's Day charity
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TOP TEN BOOKS: with Waterstone's of Southampton
The best selling books in Southampton for week ending 30 December 2000. PAPERBACK 1 (3) Worst Case Scenario - J Piven 2 (1) Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? - Question Masters 3 (6) Chocolat - Joanne Harris 4 (5) Man and Boy - Tony Parsons 5 (2) Between
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Book review
TRAVELS WITHOUT MY AUNT: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GRAHAM GREENE by Julia Llewellyn Smith. Published in hardback by Michael Joseph, £16.99. Graham Greene's travels took him to some of the world's most dangerous countries, providing a vivid backdrop to some
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Book review
THE 1940s HOUSE by Juliet Gardiner. Published in hardback by Channel 4 Books, £20. Take one 21st-century family, spirit them back to the 1940s to endure rationing and air raid warnings, then watch the results. These are all detailed in this book, based
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Under orders for the point to point season
POINT-TO-POINT racing in the Sandhurst area begins on Sunday January 7. As usual, Tweseldown stages the opening meeting of the national season which runs until early June. This will be the only race meeting at Tweseldown, the remaining four Sandhurst
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It's a fair cop for Banister Park trio
A TRIO of former policemen staged a mighty shock by arresting the progress of three East Dorset internationals in the English Indoor BA triples championship. Ron Wilton (lead), Ray Cartwright and skip Ken Marsh from Banister Park played the game of their
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Tariq has it all to play for in 2001
TARIQ SASSO, the 15-year-old judo phenomenon from Calmore, is preparing for a busy 2001 with an international tournament in Rotterdam and the possibility of a place at the European Youth Olympics in the summer. Having been invited to the Great Britain
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Court cost cuts may put judges in hotels
HIGH COURT judges sitting at Winchester Crown Court could be asked to use a hotel instead of their traditional lodging house as part of an on-going cost review. A ministerial study into the use of the 32 regional lodgings is being carried out by judicial
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Sales top the £71 million mark
Staff at John Lewis, including those at the new Southampton flagship store in WestQuay, are celebrating after the company announced record pre-Christmas trading figures. John Lewis, which has 25 outlets around the country, said sales for December were
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ON THE STAGE
What's on for the week ending 6 January 2000. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - The Mayflower, Southampton. Until January 21. Tel: 023 8071 1811. Treasure Island - The Nuffield, Southampton. Until January 13. Tel: 023 8067 1771. Robin Hood Babes in the
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Golden oldie Val retains the air of tranquility
SINGER Val Doonican is the very definition of "relaxed". His singing, which - if memory serves - is the closest thing to a musical tranquiliser, his Sunday afternoonish dress sense (all cardigans and comfy slacks) and the impression he gives of having
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Police to identify murdered man
POLICE are today due to formally identify a murdered man whose body was found in a shallow woodland grave. Detectives launched a murder inquiry yesterday after a post mortem on the body, found in Fareham's Forest of Bere, near Wickham, revealed he had
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New year danger of floods freezing up
AFTER the autumn deluge comes the new year freeze-up. With flood waters still receding, people heading for work between Christmas and new year faced an icy cocktail of snow flurries and freezing fog. Weathermen say there will be a respite as the weekend
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Police hunt for missing pensioner
POLICE were last night looking for a pensioner who went missing from a Hampshire care home in sub-zero temperatures. Fredrick Brown, 79, left the home in Regents Park Road in Shirley, Southampton, at 6.30pm on Thursday. Despite a search by officers and
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Mail centre posts a festive record
MORE than 23 million letters and cards passed through Southampton's mail centre during a record-breaking Christmas period. The bumper festive season saw records smashed at the centre, with five per cent more mail than last year and three per cent more
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What's on this weekend
Gigs in the Hampshire region for 30/31 December 2000: TONIGHT Ronnie and Johnny - Longs Jazz Cellar, Lymington. Finishing Touches - The Heroes, Waterlooville. Ace of Clubs: with TV21 & Tonic - The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth. Full Deaf All Dayer -
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Band beats to new sounds
THE Lymington Military Concert Band, formerly the Lymington Town Band, is reforming in the new year under a new musical director. Doreen Pullen, who is also the musical director of the New Forest Big Band, will join the group for a run of concerts in
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Hi-tech centre passes test
A NEW information centre and office complex in the centre of New Milton has taken another step forward. But members of New Forest District Council's policy and resources committee heard that there are still some hurdles to be cleared before offices for
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Bizzare road accident leaves driver critical
THE DRIVER of a car which left the road in a bizzare accident is in a critical condition after undergoing brain surgery yesterday. The accident happened on the A27, near the Segensworth roundabout, Fareham. The driver, said by police to be a civil servant
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IT'S YOUR HONOUR, TED!
IT WAS worth waiting for! Ted Bates, Mr Southampton Football Club, has received an MBE in The New Year's Honours List. No man has served their football club longer than Edric Thornton Bates, who joined Saints as a player in 1937 and now, 63 years on,
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Fifth arson attack hits yuletide crib
A HAMPSHIRE village is coming to terms with yet another arson attack - the fifth in three months. This time the firebugs struck at the Christmas Crib scene in Lyndhurst's High Street, destroying the wooden figures and causing damage estimated at £500.
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Memory of a town's heroes will live on
THEY were the dauntless dozen from a giant Eastleigh printing works and they all made the ultimate sacrifice for king and country during the Second World War. For years the names of those who never returned to work at the Sir Joseph Causton factory in
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James leaves on a high
David James bade his Winchester KS farewells with a two-wicket return against Winchester & District Indoor Cricket League rivals Swanmore at River Park. James, playing his last match before jetting off to Australia for nine months, took 2-17 in a
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Full of ideas
IF YOU are looking for a multitude of ideas for a great day out then the answer should lie in an exhibition being held in Hampshire. The Great Days Out Fair is being held at the Botleigh Grange Hotel, Hedge End, on Sunday, January 7, from 1pm-4pm. And
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Historic year ends with huge festival
A TORCHLIT procession through the centre of Southampton ends the first year of the new millennium tomorrow evening from 11pm. It culminates in a spectacular celebration of the city's heritage featuring a sound and light show and the lighting of one of
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GBH charge as brother dies
A MAN found in a Southampton house with serious head injuries after a Boxing Day incident died yesterday in hospital. Gunar Soldors, 34, from Latvia, died 30 minutes after his life support machine was turned off about 2.30pm. Yesterday, his brother Ivais
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Arctic snap is a real hoot for Rosie
THE recent cold snap may have posed problems for some birds, but not for Rosie, the great horned owl at the New Forest Owl Sanctuary at Crow, near Ringwood. Rosie's ancestors have their homes in the arctic wastes of northern Russia and can quite comfortably
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Horror for boy as toy car blows up
SEVEN-year-old Thomas Newman was expecting an explosive Christmas - but to his horror, his high-powered remote control car did just that. After playing with his £50 Shotgun and Skidzo toy on Boxing Day, Thomas, from Lordswood in Southampton, was shocked
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Abbey is toast of Mayflower panto
SCHOOLGIRL Abbey Penny had a VIP day to remember after winning a Daily Echo competition to meet the cast of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Mayflower Theatre. The eleven-year-old from Chandler's Ford spent the day on a guided tour and mingling
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Verderer vacancy
THE government-backed group working on plans to turn the New Forest into a National Park is looking for a new man or woman to take on key role in the area. People are being invited by the Countryside Agency for the post of amenity Verderer to serve on
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Sights are set on Southern League
AMBITIOUS Eastleigh Football Club is aiming to succeed where Premier League Saints failed - by developing in the strategic gap between Eastleigh and Southampton. Saints spent years and hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to build a new Dell at Stoneham
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TEN OUT OF TEN FOR BEATTIE!
The striker with the country's hottest scoring streak broke the ice on a frozen Dell pitch to continue Saints climb up the table. James Beattie continued his amazing trot with a powerful header that broke Derby's stubborn resistance. The Rams had come
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Saints unlikely to lose their stripes
Saints look set to be stars in stripes again next season, judging by the early response to the vote on the new kit. The club have been overwhelmed by the reaction to the five shirt designs which were highlighted on Sky when they were unveiled at Wednesday's
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Raiders strip car's interior
POLICE are hunting for thieves who abandoned a Vauxhall Cavalier they had stolen from West End's High Street. They made off with a pair of gold-rim spectacles worth £120, a car seat also worth £120, a car seat raincover worth £20, three cassette tapes