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Hampshire hit back to keep SE League title
Hampshire's amateur golfers defied the driving rain and a halfway 1-3 deficit to win the South East League Championship for the sixth time at dreary South Beds GC last night. They and rivals Berks, Bucks and Oxon had to share the Daily Telegraph Shield
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Dr Martens League: Mick's purring after Hawks earn a point
HAVANT & WATERLOOVILLE produced one of their best performances of the season by holding Dr Martens Premier Division high flyers Grantham Town 1-1 on their own patch on Saturday. Hawks manager Mick Jenkins said: "Grantham could have gone second if
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Ryman League: Hero Howes is red-carded
Glen Howes was both hero and villian as Basingstoke Town recorded their first Ryman League Premier Division victory in seven matches with a battling 2-1 success against Braintree Town at the Camrose Ground. It was an outstanding three points, for 'Stoke
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Football: Fareham 5 - Whitchurch 0
Whitchurch 'keeper Smalley saved two Abu Manneh penalties but still couldn't prevent the table-proppers from crashing to a 5-0 defeat at Fareham - the home club's first win in nine matches. Three goals in five first-half minutes from Gary Frankling (2
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Hampshire League: Wanderers all over the place as City grab win
Winchester City are doing the Hampshire League proud in the FA Vase after a storming 5-2 first-round victory over unbeaten Kent League side Cray Wanderers at the City Ground. Seasoned Vase campaigners Wanderers took an early lead, then Matthew Bicknell
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Soton Senior Cup: Holders kick off with seven
Holders Vosper Thornycroft sailed comfortably through their first hurdle brushing aside Durley 7-1 with a pair apiece from Mick Moffatt and Gary Male. Cup final scorer Mike Spinney was also on the mark, along with Jason Hurst and Askhan Karimzadeh. Runners-up
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Womens' Football: Saints suffer home Belles setback
SOUTHAMPTON Saints suffered a 1-0 home defeat against Doncaster Belles in their Women's National League match yesterday. The only goal came in the 41st minute when Carly Hunt took advantage of a defensive error to score. Saints went close to an equaliser
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Hampshire Cricket faces golf deal writ
HAMPSHIRE Cricket Club is being sued for £300,000 for allegedly breaching an agreement with a golfing company to build a driving range on land at the Rose Bowl. Playgolf have served High Court papers on the club and Rose Bowl plc claiming they are owed
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Bison powerless to halt Stars
Basingstoke Bison 1 Dundee Stars 5 STEVE Moria returned to the Bison line-up on Saturday but was helpless as reigning league champions Dundee maintained a 100 per cent league record. The visitors scored three goals on the powerplay as penalties once again
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Football: Eastleigh 4 - Deal 0
Eastleigh assistant manager David Hughes fired a match-winning brace after Matthew Le Tissier put pen to paper. And then he revealed that his pal is not the only Saint prepared to help out at Ten Acres this season. Hughes has been out for the last few
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Lewis excels as Trojans bow out
New Milton & District have booked their place in the third round of the Powergen Intermediate Cup with a sensational home victory over Trojans, who play a level above them in the league ladder, thanks to a virtuoso performance from their scrum-half
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England call-ups for Rees and Greenwood
TWO players from Hampshire have been included in in the 46-man England under-19 training squad for the forthcoming unofficial Six Nations Championship, which was announced this week. Basingstoke and RGS High Wycombe centre Tom Rees and former Fordingbridge
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Fordingbridge left to carry the flag for Hampshire
Eastleigh's lack of continuity with the ball in possession was their main downfall as they went down on their trip across the Solent to Ventnor, despite scoring three tries, the same as the hosts. In fact, it was a bad day all round for mainland Hampshire
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Islanders sitting pretty after Browne try double
With no cup action, the Isle of Wight took the chance to leapfrog to the head of Hampshire Division Two, maintaining their 100 per cent record in disposing of Alresford, but it took a while for the Islanders to get on top. It was not until nearly half
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Womens' Rugby: long Trojans trip is certainly worthwhile
After a two-and-a-half hour journey into Thurrock, Trojans Ladies overcame a very feisty opposition team to win by 31-0. In the first half, dominance was confirmed within ten minutes of the start through the forwards providing quality ball for the backs
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Football: Bashley 1 - Rothwell Town 1
Bashley's short reign at the head of the Dr Martens League Eastern Division table ended when Craig McIlwain's late equaliser earned unbeaten Rothwell Town a point in a 1-1 draw at the Recreation Ground. Barry Blankley's table-toppers slipped back to fourth
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School safety zone 'not doing its job'
A £50,000 safety zone outside a New Forest school is failing to do its job, local residents claim. Parents and children at Brockenhurst Primary School have waited more than three years for traffic-calming measures to be installed in Sway Road, which runs
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Horses 'attacked with baseball bats'
HORSE owners on the Waterside are on their guard after a number of ponies were attacked and chased by youngsters wielding baseball bats. Julie Brown from Fawley was alerted to the plight of her ponies, and another owned by a friend, after they were terrorised
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Merger creates a recruitment giant
THE merger of two Hampshire-based recruitment agencies has led to the creation of the Matchtech Group. It is one of the UK's largest recruitment consultancies in the engineering, manufacturing, construction, scientific and IT sectors. The amalgamation
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Transformed hall is back in business
MARCHWOOD village hall has been transformed by a major improvement scheme that cost more than the original building. Grants from the Community Fund and other organisations have enabled villagers to give the hall its biggest facelift since it opened in
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Boat firm builds on Greek links
SPECIALIST boatbuilder VT Halmatic is extending its links with Greece by supplying three rigid inflatable boats to be operated from the three fast attack craft being built for the Hellenic Navy. The high speed RIBs, a smaller version of boats in operation
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BABY DEATH: FATHER CHARGED
A HAMPSHIRE man has been charged with beating his three-month-old baby daughter to death. Scott Cunningham, 27, of Anson Grove, Portchester, appeared before town magistrates in Fareham this morning following the death of Shannon Cunningham. Charged with
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No looking back as play gets overhaul
THE classic British play Look Back in Anger is given a radical overhaul at Havant Arts Centre this week. The down to earth play, which sparked a revolution in the British theatre when it was first staged in the 1950s, has been set in a homeless community
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Raising standards
HAMPSHIRE pupils have recorded their best GCSE exam results, posting statistics well above the national standard. Results published by Hampshire County Council show that 57 per cent of 16-year- olds achieved five or more A*-C grades in this year's exams
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Vandals left OAPs terrified
A GROUP of pensioners have told how they lay panic-stricken in their beds listening to vandals destroy property at their home. A prize-winning garden was devastated and windows smashed in the latest of a string of mindless attacks on Latham Court in Shirley
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Searching out local heroes
TV presenter Esther Rantzen is on the lookout for the region's unsung heroes - ordinary people who go beyond the call of duty to help their local communities. "Meeting the Community Champions over the last couple ofyears has been a humbling experience
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Review: Beth fails to shine
Beth Orton, Southampton Guildhall THERE'S no denying that Beth Orton is a talented singer/songwriter, blessed with a stunning voice. But background music is background music and however beautiful her songs are they're not the kind of thing you want to
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Kevin Ayres at the Brook
CULT musician Kevin Ayers will make a rare UK appearance when he plays The Brook in Southampton on October 26. Once a member of the improvisational underground rock band The Soft Machine, Ayers quit in 1968. In 1970 he formed The Whole World, releasing
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HAMBLE ASSC 0 - ALTON TOWN 2
Two more late goals - plus another red card and missed penalty - helped give Alton Town something of a surprise 2-0 victory at in-form Hamble ASSC. Alton's John Edwards was the man who had his second-minute penalty saved by ASSC 'keeper Paul Miles before
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TEACHER ON INDECENCY CHARGES
A RESPECTED Hampshire teacher has been charged with a string of sex attacks against young girls allegedly committed over 20 years ago. Roger Scott, head of business and economics at Thornden Secondary School in Chandler's Ford, is accused of indecently
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Council subsidies to increase for centre
EASTLEIGH'S dance and arts centre The Point is set to cost taxpayers around three-quarters of a million pounds over the next three years. Civic chiefs have committed the cash - rising from £238,000 this financial year to £252,000 in 2004/05 - to keep
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Residents urged to watch their waste
EASTLEIGH police are warning householders to make sure they are not contributing to the clean-up bill caused by travellers. It comes at a time when huge piles of Tarmac, mattresses, old fridges and cookers have built up at an encampment on a playing field
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England Wallpaper
To commemorate the visit of the England team to the Friends Provident St Mary's stadium www.thisisthesaints.co.uk have put together a montage of images which can be downloaded and used as a souvenir 'wallpaper' on your computer's desktop. Just follow
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As Victoria leaves for the last time, Oceana prepares to take her place.
Like all final farewells, the departure from Southampton next Tuesday is going to be a sad occasion as the city says bon voyage for the last time to one of the port's most enduring ships. For decades the 27,670-ton cruise ship Victoria has been a familiar
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Royal Southampton Yacht Club - Winter Series Race 2
The second race of the Royal Southampton Yacht Club's Winter series on Sunday 20 October saw an easterly breeze of around 15 to 20 knots. The Race Management Team of Kirsteen Donaldson, David Giddings, Geoff Lynch, Andrew Paterson, Sue Lamb and John Greenway
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Titanic medals go under the hammer
BIDDERS from around the world were today due to vie for a rare set of medals that once belonged to a man reputed to be the last person to have stepped off Titanic before the liner's ill-fated maiden voyage. The medals, which could fetch up to £40,000,
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PORTSMOUTH 1 - COVENTRY 1
After Pompey had dropped their first points at Fratton Park in a 1-1 draw with Coventry, manager Harry Redknapp didn't appear too disappointed. He said: "Coventry are a quality side. They were only playing in the Premiership two years ago so we have to
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FA Vase: Matt ready for Wessex debut
Eastleigh assistant manager David Hughes fired a match-winning brace after Matthew Le Tissier put pen to paper. And then he revealed that his pal is not the only Saint prepared to help out at Ten Acres this season. Hughes has been out for the last few
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FA Vase: Lethal Leigh hits the 20-goal mark
Lethal Linnet Leigh Phillips plundered yet another hat-trick as Lymington & New Milton powered into today's second round FA Vase draw at the expense of Walton Casuals. Phillips's treble-shooting exploits hoisted his season's personal goal tally to
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Dr Martens League Eastern Division: Boss blasts free-kick award
Jamie O'Rourke made one goal and scored another on his debut but could not stop Newport IoW losing 3-2 against Ashford in Kent. Island boy O'Rourke returned to his roots from Havant & Waterlooville last week and Danny Rofe converted a cross from the
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Emma moves up in yacht race
HAMPSHIRE yachtswoman Emma Richards today moved into second place in the Around Alone race after battling overnight storms. The 27-year-old spent a sleepless night navigating through 70mph winds and waves of up to 50ft on her 60ft yacht, Pindar. She said
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In Port
Today's Principal Arrivals: APL Cyprine, container, 1100, 206; Heinrich Behrmann, container, AM, 204W; Isolde, ro/ro, AM, 34/35; Aleksandrov, military, 1400, 33; BG Rotterdam, container, 1800, Con Term. Today's Principal Sailings: P&O Nedlloyd Marseille
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FA Vase: Lethal Leigh hits the 20-goal mark
Lethal Linnet Leigh Phillips plundered yet another hat-trick as Lymington & New Milton powered into today's second round FA Vase draw at the expense of Walton Casuals. Phillips's treble-shooting exploits hoisted his season's personal goal tally to
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Football: Blackfield fall to a late, late show - for the seond time
Don't try telling beleaguered Blackfield & Langley boss Terry Smith that lightning doesn't strike twice! Earlier in the season, the Watersiders were denied a famous FA Cup victory over Dr Martens League Newport IoW by an equaliser some eight minutes
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POWER PLANT JOBS BOOST
WORK on two major power station projects could bring hundreds of jobs to the shores of Southampton Water over the next four years. Marchwood Power has unveiled more of its plans for a new £350 million gas-fired power plant on the site of the old Marchwood
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Last year at Earls Court
Earls Court is gearing up to play host to the world's best known boat show for the final time from 2-12 January 2003(the show is moving to ExCeL in January 2004). The 49th London Boat Show promises to be the best ever and hopes to attract over 170,000
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Wherefore art thou, Macbeth?
EVERYONE'S familiar with Hamlet's "To be or not to be..." and Juliet's "Romeo, Romeo..." speeches. But what if Hamlet was pondering his existence while preparing to seduce Lady Macbeth, or Juliet and Romeo's romance would be fine if it wasn't for that
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My prayers have been answered
IT WAS a sight Teresa Young feared she would never see again. Her five-year-old son Jordan was playing happily with brothers Aarron, 14, and Kyler, seven, at their Southampton home. It would be nothing unusual in most families, but this was Jordan's first
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Eye-catching opening to surrealist art exhibition
WORLD-renowned author and psychologist Desmond Morris has opened one of the Southampton's strangest exhibitions. Curiouser & Curiouser: A Surrealist Sensation features some of the best surrealist art around - including several works by Morris himself
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Give 'em a real British welcome
WELCOMING Hampshire homes are wanted to help host the thousands of foreign students that come to the county every year. Of the 250,000 adult students who visit the UK each year, fewer than one in 50 will have been inside a British home, new statistics
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TIME NOW TO DECIDE HIS FATE
THE fate of disgraced Fareham councillor Hugh Pritchard will be decided at a meeting behind closed doors this week. Liberal Democrats in the town are set to decide whether the Fareham South councillor should stay or go after he admitted defrauding the
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Taxpayers foot the bill for travellers
TRAVELLERS setting up temporary home in Fareham over the summer months have left taxpayers with a £9,000 clean-up bill. The money was spent clearing away litter, bottles and even human excrement. Hundreds of hours of council officers' time were taken
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Stewart's defence of the oldies
ALEC Stewart emerged as the champion of the ageing sporting star yesterday by delivering a determined defence of his veteran contemporaries currently under pressure on either side of the world. The 39-year-old England wicketkeeper has long insisted that
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FA Vase : Five-goal Totton go through
Totton marched into the FA Vase second round draw with a storming 5-1 success at Kent League VCD Athletic. "I'm well pleased," purred Totton boss Ian Robinson. "The lads have shown good character after spending three hours stuck on a coach and then falling
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Jewson Wessex League: Blackfield fall to a late, late show - for the seond time
Don't try telling beleaguered Blackfield & Langley boss Terry Smith that lightning doesn't strike twice! Earlier in the season, the Watersiders were denied a famous FA Cup victory over Dr Martens League Newport IoW by an equaliser some eight minutes
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Emma moves up in yacht race
HAMPSHIRE yachtswoman Emma Richards today moved into second place in the Around Alone race after battling overnight storms. The 27-year-old spent a sleepless night navigating through 70mph winds and waves of up to 50ft on her 60ft yacht, Pindar. She said
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Town secure win after seeing red
Basingstoke Town 2 Braintree Town 1 GOALS from Glenn Howes and Craig McAllister helped secure the first three points for Town in more than a month. A mature performance by the Camrose Blues on Saturday saw them frustrate their Essex counterparts in a
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Just who's the greatest Brit?
While the debate rages as to who is Britain's greatest, the Daily Echo's Fiona Griffiths reporter looks at the contenders and asks locals who would get their vote . . . FROM Viscount Horatio Nelson to Winston Churchill, Florence Nightingale and David
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Winchester 37 - US Portsmouth 7
Winchester can be suitably pleased to have moved through to the third round of the Powergen Intermediate Cup, defeating a tenacious challenge from US Portsmouth, who, although not realistically scenting a scalp, gave the home side 'a game'. There is always
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Football: Five-goal Totton go through
Totton marched into the FA Vase second round draw with a storming 5-1 success at Kent League VCD Athletic. "I'm well pleased," purred Totton boss Ian Robinson. "The lads have shown good character after spending three hours stuck on a coach and then falling
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Hockey: Alex is called up for World Cup
Alex Danson, Trojans' outstanding teenage goalscoring forward, has been selected to play for England Women in next month's World Hockey Cup in Australia. The gifted 17-year-old is among a party of 18 who will pit their skills against the world's top women
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Basketball: Butterworth's haul is in vain
David Butterworth produced a superb performance, scoring 29 points, as the Solent Stars came within inches of recording their first win of the season against the Worthing Thunder last night. In a Jekyll and Hyde weekend, he put behind him the previous
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Tennis: Arvidsson plays it cool for net gain
Eighth seed Sofia Arvidsson emerged victorious in the LTA Ladies $25,000 event in Southampton in a see-saw encounter. The Swede overcame Olga Barabanschikova in three sets, despite crumbling in the second by a 6-1 margin. Arvidsson, 18, held her nerve
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Futuristic home has villagers up in arms
IT'S hardly the sort of house you expect to find in an area famous for its ancient customs and old-fashioned ways. Deep in the heart of the New Forest, a futuristic dwelling is being built beside a disused railway line that ran from Brockenhurst to Ringwood
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Vandalism problems blamed on teenage drinking
HUNDREDS of angry residents have come face to face with police over teenage vandalism and anti-social behaviour plaguing their Hampshire village. People used a public meeting to call for an action plan to solve the catalogue of nuisance offences in North
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TEACHER ON INDECENCY CHARGES
A RESPECTED Hampshire teacher has been charged with a string of sex attacks against young girls allegedly committed over 20 years ago. Roger Scott, head of business and economics at Thornden Secondary School in Chandler's Ford, is accused of indecently
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Police action to curb estate's rampaging teenagers
POLICE bosses are treating calls from a troubled Southampton housing estate as a priority in a bid to curb out-of-control youths plaguing the area. The move to ease the concerns of residents in and around Millbrook Towers in Windermere Avenue, Millbrook
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Hampshire Cricket faces golf deal writ
HAMPSHIRE Cricket Club is being sued for £300,000 for allegedly breaching an agreement with a golfing company to build a driving range on land at the Rose Bowl. Playgolf have served High Court papers on the club and Rose Bowl plc claiming they are owed
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Drop-in centre joins Be Safe campaign
THE Daily Echo's Be Safe, Be Sensible campaign has inspired one group of youngsters to create their own posters to get the message across. An array of colourful designs stands alongside the Daily Echo's posters in the front window of the No Limits drop-in
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Aiming to kick racism out of soccer
PUPILS from six Southampton schools did their bit to stamp out racism in a five-a-side tournament. The competition was organised as part of the national Let's Kick Racism Out of Football campaign by Southampton's Racism Just Ain't Saintly group. Bitterne
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Blast off to the stars with Sixties rockers
IF QUALITY American rock music is your thing, The Brook is the place to be these days. Cult Sixties psychedelic rockers Jefferson Starship are the next outfit to land at the Southampton venue on Saturday, November 2, following recent visits by The Electric
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Teenager arrested
A TEENAGER who threw a brick through a police car window and then punched an officer has been arrested on the Isle of Wight. Ryde Police were astonished to hear the sound of glass breaking in the car park of the town's police station just after midnight
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Murder charge
A MAN was due in court this morning charged with murdering a three-month-old baby girl. Scott Cunningham, 27, of Anson Grove, Portchester, was expected to appear before town magistrates in Fareham this morning following the death of Shannon Cunningham
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Discussions start on school places crisis
THE SCHOOL places crisis in Whiteley was under the spotlight today as Hampshire's education chiefs were coming face-to-face with council leaders. Top of the agenda was the possibility of a new primary school going up in the grounds of Whiteley's new church
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CARRY ON THE GOOD WORK, GORDON
RUPERT LOWE today looked back on Gordon Strachan's first year as Southampton manager and admitted: "You can't argue with what he's achieved." Tonight's Sky-televised Premiership trip to Aston Villa marks the eve of the anniversary of the ex-Scotland international's
