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Underwater anniversary
A CENTURY below the waves is being celebrated by the Royal Navy's Submarine Service next year - and the milestone is being marked in style at Gosport, the spiritual home of submariners. The town's Royal Navy Submarine Museum is trying to contact more
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Cowshed to homes bid turned down
PLANS to convert a cowshed near Fawley into residential accommodation have been rejected for a second time. The Manor of Cadland applied to New Forest District Council for permission to convert the shed, which it claimed would cover the cost of repairs
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Members fear dry move will hit clubs
FEARS have been expressed that the loss of a full-time bar at a community centre could sound the death knell for clubs using the premises. Totton and Eling Town Council has decided that the bar at Calmore Community Association should open only on special
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Taking the plunge for worthy causes
MORE than 60 hardy souls braved the chilly waters of the Solent to the encouragement of hundreds of spectators. Teams from Hampshire fire service were among those plunging into the sea at Gosport's Stokes Bay for the annual New Year's Day dip. The event
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JOHN'S 106-PINT DONATION
A GRANDAD from Basingstoke has been given a special award - after donating a staggering 106 pints of blood! John Coleman - a retired microbiologist for beer company Guinness - was among the blood donors who were given special awards at a National Blood
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Town away in FMC
BASINGSTOKE Town have been drawn away in the third round of the Full Members Cup. Manager Ernie Howe and team will travel to either Dulwich Hamlet or Walton and Hersham as they attempt to make it through to the quarter-finals. Dulwich currently lie at
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Controversial flats plan may go-ahead
PLANS for desperately-needed new flats in the centre of Winchester could get the go-ahead despite fierce opposition from neighbours. Chalkband Estates Limited wants to build a block of eight flats on the site of an old 1930s property, recently used as
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Art and craft showcase
FAIR Oak Art and Craft Society has been marking its 21st anniversary with a special exhibition at Eastleigh Museum. The showcase of members' work, called A Splash of Colour, which opened in the middle of November, runs until January 6.
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Meeting promotes benefits of new incubator unit
INNOVATION and invention - two key concepts for knowledge-based businesses and the subject of the first external meeting held at the new incubator unit at Chilworth Science Park, Southampton. The joint Hampshire Economic Partnership and Business Link
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Mines analyst moves to Twigg
MINING analyst and corporate finance specialist Euan Worthington is now a non-executive director of Hampshire mining company Twigg. His 18-year experience in the City of London as mining analyst and corporate finance specialist, will bring a strong financial
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Raising awareness of back pain
RIK GOODALL has a skeleton in his cupboard... or rather a skeletal model of the human spine. For he is touring Southern Water with it, helping staff avoid the greatest cause of time off work - back pain. A former professional cyclist Rik, now based at
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TV castaway ends extraordinary year
A HAMPSHIRE woman is set to return to the South after spending a year marooned on a remote Scottish island. Sandy Colbeck, 58, was living in Stubbington and working as a microbiologist lab technician before she took up the challenge of taking part in
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Emergencies at sea reach record level
THE NUMBER of emergencies dealt with by Solent Coastguard reached a record high last year, new figures have revealed. Rescue chiefs reported a ten per cent increase in marine emergencies dealt with by crews in 2000. The rescue centre headquarters at Lee-on-Solent
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Teenager escapesn in new year attack
POLICE have arrested a man after a teenager was allegedly assaulted in Southampton on New Year's Eve. They swooped after a 19-year-old said she was assaulted in Sholing on Sunday evening. The teenager said the attack took place between 7.30pm and 8pm
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Fishery chief baits rubble input plea
A HAMPSHIRE fishery owner is determined to battle on with a little help from some dirt and rubble after floodwater caused a dam to collapse and almost emptied his four-acre lake. Millions of gallons of water went gushing out of Leominstead Trout Lake
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DESPICABLE RAID
ROBBERS who targeted an elderly couple and left the 77-year-old woman with a broken hip have been branded "callous and despicable" by police. Raiders struck at the Lymington home of the woman and her 91-year old brother on New Year's Eve. They escaped
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Cold snap brings in roads of worry
ROADS in the New Forest could be among the worst-hit if a plague of potholes builds up in Hamp-shire over the next few weeks. After battling with the floods and then snow and ice, highways bosses in the west of the county are bracing themselves for yet
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Rapid transport engineer speaks out
THE CONCEPT and progress of a planned light train service between Fareham, Gosport and Portsmouth is to be the subject of a public lecture. The Portsmouth liaison group of the Institute of Incorporated Engineers is holding a lecture evening on Wednesday
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Weekly market proposals come under fire
PLANS by New Forest District Council to take over the management of the weekly market at Hythe have come under fire. Since 1988 Hythe and Dibden Parish Council has liaised with the operators of the popular Tuesday market and the event has been running
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Pledge to fight new homes plan
TOTTON councillors are fighting plans to build four new homes behind existing properties at Hammonds Green. Members of the planning and transport advisory committee expressed concern over proposals to create a new access on to Blackwater Drive. They said
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hospital criticised over death
THE SISTER of a man who died in hospital after being beaten claims he might still be alive if he had been treated with more urgency. Paula Gouge has lodged a complaint with the NHS watchdog about her claims of inadequate care at a Hampshire hospital.
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Five burned
TWO people were treated for facial burns and three others for burns after a gas heater cylinder exploded at a Hampshire country house. Police, fire and ambulance crews attended the accident at Cruckwell House, Park Lane, Upper Swanmore, between Bishop's
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Honours for local heroes
FIVE people from across the Basingstoke area have been rewarded for their hard work and community spirit in the Queen's New Year's Honours list. Among them is senior project design engineer John Gardner, who works at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at
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Motorway maintenance will be accompanied by major delays
MOTORISTS using the M3 face major disruption as the Highways Agency shut down lanes over the coming months for routine maintenance. The agency has unveiled its repairs schedule until March and roadworks look set to envelop the region. Top of the list
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Sheffield steal a march on Bees
Sheffield Steelers 2, Bracknell Bees 1 BRACKNELL Bees were unable to stop the runaway leaders of the Superleague Sheffield Steelers extending their lead to 13 points on Thursday, December 28. However, they did run their Yorkshire rivals close as they
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BISON'S BLAZE OF BRILLIANCE
Coventry Blaze 2, Basingstoke Bison 4 PIC- peter nyman A BRILLIANT win in Coventry over the league leaders kept the Basingstoke Bison well and truly in the hunt for league honours. The West Midlands side had not lost at home in the league since the opening
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HOMES FLOODED
RESIDENTS in Alresford had a terrible start to the new year when a burst pipe left their houses flooded with sewage. Three homes had to be evacuated in The Dean yesterday morning after a Southern Water main fractured. A fourth affected home was unoccupied
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Short cut ends in full-scale rescue
TWO New Year revellers sparked off a full-scale search and rescue operation after deciding to take a short cut home through a huge Hampshire wood. One of the young men tripped and fell as they made their way through Stoke Park Woods between Bishopstoke
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Haskins expand with a third centre
SOUTH Coast-based garden centre group Haskins has been on the expansion trail - with the £7million acquisition of a West Sussex company. The deal to buy Roundstone Garden Centre at Angmering, which was completed with the help of advisors from Blake Lapthorn
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Award-winning airport has a great year
2000 was a hectic year for Southampton Airport as it consolidated its position as one of Europe's fastest growing international and domestic gateways... SOUTHAMTON'S award winning airport repeatedly received the highest scores within BAA for its customer
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VOSPER LIFELINE?
TRADE unionists today welcomed a possible lifeline contract to build a huge floating hotel that could help save hundreds of jobs at the troubled Vosper Thornycroft shipyard in Southampton. The potential job-saving work is still at the negotiation stage
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New flooding threat alert
HERE we go again - thousands of families face a grim start to the New Year with warnings of further flooding across Hampshire over the coming week. Last week's snow, followed by the big thaw and heavy rain has sent river levels soaring, with fears that
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Hello 2001 - an odyssey of ice and rain
WHEN Southampton welcomed the new millennium in last year it was in a blaze of glory, colour - and controversy. The £135,000 the city council splashed out on a fireworks fantasia on the waterfront left many condemning it as an extravagant waste of taxpayer's
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Police search home of murder victim
DETECTIVES have searched the home of a man found murdered and buried at a Hampshire woodland picnic site. Police trying to solve the killing of Lee Horrell, 24, still want to hear from anyone who saw anything suspicious when walking in the Forest of Bere
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Good companions sent to abattoirs
A TEAM of police officers in Hampshire is battling to break a horse scam which has caused heartbreak for horse and pony owners all over England. The officers, based at Alton Police Station, are trying to end the activities of a gang of thieves who use