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Skandia backing Hampshire Open
Hampshire's Open Golf Championship, which attracts the best professional and amateur players in the county, has secured a major sponsor for the next three years. The Southampton-based Skandia Group have agreed a deal to back the tournament until 2003.
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SAINTS FEAR A POMPEY 'PLOT'
Saints have vowed to weed out any rogue elements in the vote for their new home strip following suspicions that Pompey fans are trying to sabotage the poll. The Monaco-style shirt, loudly booed at The Dell on Saturday, has received a sudden surge of support
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It's the end of an era
A PIECE of shopping history will come to an end in Basingstoke this week as staff at C&A close the doors on the town shop for good. The 30 staff members will be coming in for the very last time on Wednesday wearing "end of an era" T-shirts before
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Quality play is lost in heavy ground
Thatcham 2, Whitchurch 0 THIS was not a game for the purists as the heavy ground, uneven pitch and an intense rivalry meant that the game was not allowed to flow with good quality football. The first 30 minutes disappeared with hardly any meaningful shot
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A SHEAR WASTE OF CASH?
Would you want it next to your home? This is the controversial sculpture that is set to soar 30 feet into the Southampton skyline. And today city planners are poised to splash out £80,000 of public money by giving the scheme the go-ahead. Many local residents
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Sam gets fizz-ical as soccer hotshot
SOCCER fanatic Sam Prentki has found a lucrative way to pay his way through university - by being a body double for a famous footballer. The 21-year-old Hampshire man raked in £3,000 for just six days work standing in for Manchester United hero Ole Gunnar
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Bold plan for arts capital of South
SOUTHAMPTON'S arts community is buzzing over plans to create a cultural quarter in the city, anchored by a new £16.3m centre in Guild-hall Square. Either the Tyrrell & Green or the C & A building could be demolished for the arts centre, which
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Crack squad called up to tackle refuse
A SPECIAL clean-up squad to tackle forgotten rubbish is being brought in by council bosses after complaints from angry residents. Waste chiefs in Southampton have promised to do something about the growing numbers of bin bags that have been left to pile
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Police wait to interview man hurt in chin horror
DETECTIVES are waiting to speak to an attack victim who had to have his chin rebuilt after a gruesome biting incident in Southampton. The 38-year-old man discharged himself after an emergency operation at Southampton General Hospital at the weekend. Police
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Cut-price FA Cup tickets
Saints are again cutting prices for the fourth round of the AXA-sponsored FA Cup. Their clash with Sheffield Wednesday at The Dell on Saturday, January 27 will cost the same as their third round tie against the red half of Sheffield. Children will pay
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Berg's second try for Saints
SAINTS are giving a week's trial to Norwegian midfielder Runar Berg, 18 months after he turned them down. Berg pitched up at the club's Staplewood training ground yesterday, saying: "I am hoping for a new start here." The 30-year-old Norwegian international
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Town's police are back on the base at revamped HQ
BASINGSTOKE police officers have moved lock, stock and barrel into their rebuilt headquarters close to the town centre. Their two-year stay on three floors of City Wall House in Basing View came to an end with the completion of the £3.5 million project
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Long trip may pay off
JAMES ADAM has never been afraid to send his horses on the long journey south from his Gordon base in Berwickshire and Chevalier Errant can pay the expenses with interest at Kempton tomorrow. The in-form eight-year-old had been pencilled in for a race
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MONK GOES OUT IN FIRST ROUND
BASINGSTOKE'S Colin Monk suffered heartbreak at the Embassy World Darts Championships as he lost in the first round after a tense fifth set tie-break with Finland's Marko Pusa. The ice-cool qualifier, making his debut at the Lakeside Country Club, showed
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Eager town pushing up with another late win
A 90TH minute winner for the third time in four home games saw Basingstoke Town's promotion push gather even more momentum. Town were made to work hard for the three points by a struggling Slough side who had lost seven in a row and failed to find the
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Bid for third title
HOCKEY: BASINGSTOKE Ladies are aiming to step up a gear after the mid-season break in a bid to take the Hampshire League title for the third successive year. The team were unbeaten in the first half of the league season but dropped points after drawing
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England call for Megan
THE CRICKETING talents of Megan Pearcey have been rewarded with a place in the England women's development squad. The 14-year-old Cranbourne schoolgirl, who lives in Wootton St Lawrence, was one of three girls selected after ECB regional training at Guildford
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Manson debut goal a blue line rocket
JAMES MANSON scored his first ever league goal for the Basingstoke Bison, which turned out to be the game winner as the visitors beat Milton Keynes 2-1 on Saturday. The Wella-backed side were trailing 1-0 going into the final period, but two goals in
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Builders try forced entry
BUNGLING builders working on Southam-pton's £12 million regeneration scheme have started on site - by smashing their way into the wrong home. St Mary Street resident Richard Hazelton is refusing to leave his home to make way for the redevelopment of the
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No plans to arm Hampshire bobbies
HAMPSHIRE'S chief constable today said there were no plans to arm his officers with guns. Paul Kernaghan spoke out after three more forces revealed they were considering using armed officers on routine foot patrols. The move comes after Nottinghamshire
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Aids jab threat by masked robbers
A SOUTHAMPTON businessman has spoken of his "hatred" for two masked robbers who threatened to inject his wife with the deadly Aids virus. Lesley Foreman, who suffers from asthma, was bound and gagged during a terrifying ordeal in which she feared for
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Helping hand with bringing up teens
AN innovative project to help parents with teenagers is launched in Southampton this month. The city is just one of three areas in the country which will run the pilot Parent's Support Group scheme. This will give parents the chance to meet and discuss
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Study will reveal gay hatred truth
NEW research into the extent of homophobic attacks in Southampton is set to take place over the next three months after an anti-gay attack outside a city pub. Adrian Risdon, 52, of Freemantle, Southampton, was attacked by two men after he left a pub in
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A website with a grandstand view
Maintaining an independent Saints website takes a hyper effort - and that's exactly what Mark Fouet puts into his site about the new St Mary's stadium. The 40-year-old systems development manager from Totton, pictured below, started up his own dot com