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Ellen leads way in battle for prestige award
REPORTS that Ellen MacArthur is seeking another home in Cowes to accommodate all the trophies she has won since her success in the Vendee Globe might be exaggerated but are not without foundation. In the past two weeks, she has won the FICO-Lacoste World
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Harrison opens Challenge base in Auckland
The new GBR Challenge base in Auckland was officially opened by syndicate boss Peter Harrison last week in the next phase of Britain's bid to win the America's Cup for the first time in the event's 150-year history. Both the training boats - GBR 44 and
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Southampton likely to lose out to Torbay
Southampton is set to miss out as a stopover port in one of the leading single-handed round the world events due to take place next year. Torbay has been proposed as the UK stopover in the Around Alone Race 2002 which will leave Newport Rhode Island and
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Historic game for Saint Kate
A LOCAL striker will make soccer history this Sunday when top flight women's action is staged at The Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium for the first time. Kate Wilding has scored two goals since breaking into the Southampton Saints first team this season
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Help provided to fight tribunal
SOUTH coast law firm Bond Pearce has just launched an innovative scheme designed to protect companies from spiralling employment tribunal cases. At a time when employment law is quickly changing, more and more companies are becoming vulnerable to claims
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Paxo spices up food campaign
STUFFING giant Paxo has got wind of the Daily Echo's Save Our Stuffing campaign and has waded in to help fight the county council's decision to take it off the dinner plate. A Paxo stuffing supremo branded the council's decision "sad", said that children
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Local punk group Harsh launch debut album
SOUTHAMPTON punk outfit Harsh launch their debut album at The Joiners, Southampton on Sunday, convinced that they have produced a masterpiece. The four-piece (Rich Maylott, Jonny Kempsey, Stu Geary and Mike Breach) spent the summer locked away in a Poole
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GIVE ME A CHANCE
Kleber Chala is desperate to get his first taste of the Premiership after marking his first appearance in a Saints shirt with a goal. The new Ecuador winger crowned a steady start with a classy steer home to round off a 4-0 win over Charlton Reserves
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Bandits (12) ****
IT'S far from perfect, but this tidy little crime comedy very nearly succeeds in its unannounced ambition to be a 21st century Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Joe (Bruce Willis) and Terry (Billy Bob Thornton) are a pair of fun-loving criminals who
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Zoolander (12) ***
FASHION models are undeservedly stereotyped as slightly dim-witted clothes horses. Not so Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller), three-time winner of Male Model Of The Year - he's completely dense. Derek is the top male fashion model of his day - a God among
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New team at the helm
SOUTHERN Water has appointed a team of people, pictured, to handle improvement projects worth around £100m over the next four years. The work involves the upgrading of sewers and treatment works across the region. In Hampshire seven schemes have been
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Stars sing their smash hits
HEAR'SAY will be performing alongside their arch-rivals and fellow Popstars contestants, Liberty, next week for the Bournemouth date of the Smash Hits Poll Winners Tour. The two groups will be joined by some other giants of the pop world, including A1
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Volvo Ocean Race hit by yet another drama
THE extraordinary series of dramas that have marked the second leg of the Volvo Ocean Race continued this week when Team SEB navigator Marcel van Triest jumped over the side of the boat with 1,800 miles of the leg still to go. The 37-year-old Dutchman
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Apocalypse Now (15) ****
EASILY one of the finest war films ever made, if not one of the finest films of any kind, Apocalypse Now just got longer. Some 22 years after the original version was released, director Francis Ford Coppola has gone back to the raw material and re-cut
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Jay and Bob's adventure is bogus!
GLITTER is a strong contender for the year's worst film, but indie film-maker Kevin Smith makes a late bid with this $20m ego trip. Fans of the writer-director's work will know Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) are drug-dealing halfwits who
