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Bashley sign up young guns
BASHLEY boss Barry Blankley has dealt one in the eye to his critics by pinning down talented youngsters Craig Davis and Richard Gillespie on two-year contracts. Southampton-based midfielder Davis, 21, has become one of the most consistent performers in
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Islanders urged to rally round 'Port
TONY Mount has spoken of his extreme sadness about the demise of Newport Football Club, which could go out existence unless a buyer is found. With chairman and majority shareholder Bill Manuel pulling out, the club is now in the hands of receivers from
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Leader: Linnets in with a chance
LYMINGTON & New Milton will push league leaders Eastleigh all the way for the Jewson Wessex title. Who says so? None other than BAT boss Andy Leader whose side were steamrollered 6-0 by the irresistible Linnets at Fawcett's Field last Saturday. Leader
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Confident Golding - 'I can still win it'
The battle of the Brits will be concluded tonight as Mike Golding and Ellen MacArthur approach the finishing line of the Route du Rhum with just a few miles separating them. After racing more than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic, MacArthur's Open 60 Kingfisher
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In Port
Today's Principal Arrivals: Mignon, vehicle carrier, 0330, 34/35; Saudi Abha, ro/ro, 0430, 43; Christopher Meeder, container, 0630, Con Term; Elvita, general, 0830, 47; Nedlloyd Europa, container, 1100, 205; MOL Integrity, container, 1400, 207; Platinum
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Car park could become homes
One of Winchester's city centre car parks could soon be sold for housing. A Winchester City Council transport meeting heard this week that St Peter's car park, off Gordon Road, will be reviewed as a development site. The decision is part of a move to
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Old bones found
Police have confirmed that the human remains found at Warsash beach last Saturday are those of a young woman, aged 17 to 20. However, forensic tests indicate that the bones are over a century old. The coroner has been informed as a matter of procedure
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Three sought after bungled raid
Three hooded men bungled a raid on Twyford post office this week, injuring a shop worker who tried to stop them. They burst into the PO at about 7pm on Tuesday. An off-duty staff member tried to tackle one of them, but was hit over the head with a weapon
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Cost of firefighters' claim
Hampshire's Fire Brigades Union said this week that the battle with the Government had moved on from the 40% pay claim. Wayne Parsons, an Eastleigh firefighter, said: "The claim is almost secondary now to the fact that we have been forced to defend the
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Bridge closure is killing our trade
A village shop that only re-opened when the community rallied round four years ago is under threat once again. Cheriton Post Office and Stores, in the centre of Cheriton, near Alresford, may be forced out of business because a bridge closure in the village
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Castle can follow in McGuigan's footsteps
TO compare a young featherweight boxer to Barry McGuigan is rather like telling an artist he paints like Picasso. But a growing number in the fight-game believe Romsey's Henry Castle might just have what it takes to follow in the Irishman's world championship
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Dean shows his class in reaching semi-finals
BOXING prospect James Dean has marched into the semi-finals of the national championships with another classy display. The Waterside boxer showed all his silky skills to completely outbox the Western Counties Champion in the quarter-finals at Frome in
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Crackdown on under age drinking
Under-age drinkers will be the target of a new police crackdown in the run-up to Christmas. Inspector Chris May, from Winchester's North Walls station, announced this week that officers would be carrying out random spot checks on city centre off-licences
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Challenging beliefs
Nicky Gumbel, described as one of the most dynamic Christian speakers in the country, is to preach at Winchester Cathedral this Christmas. A C of E minister, he is the man behind the Alpha course, a 10-week introduction to faith, which now runs in 131
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Turning history into news
THE American Declaration of Independence, the French Revolution, the sinking of the Titanic...all these events and more have been reported in the Hampshire Chronicle over the last 230 years. But now the reports of these events have been reprinted in one
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Changing rooms challenge
Forty members of staff from King Alfred's College are taking on the challenge of painting and refurbishing All Saints School and Community Hall in Winchester, in 24 hours this Friday. The 'challenge Anneka'-style event is being seen by the departments
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MP backs right to die campaign
Winchester MP, Mark Oaten, is calling for a parliamentary debate on the right to die with dignity issue. He says he has been inundated with messages from constituents calling for a change in the law to allow terminally-ill patients to die without unnecessary
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Delivery costs hit newsagents
Newsagents in Winchester say spiralling delivery costs could push them out of business. Norman Roberts, of Hyde PO, in Hyde Street, says the company that delivers national and local newspapers to his shop is pushing up costs and he is unable to meet them
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Music makes the world go round
Five hundred youngsters from villages surrounding Winchester descended on the city's Theatre Royal last week for a day of music and drama which had an international flavour. The children from schools in Curdridge, Droxford, Durley, Meonstoke, Newtown,
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Difficult decisions for funding
County Council members in Hampshire are lobbying Westminster to prevent the county being stung for a possible 15% council tax rise next April. The Government plans to redistribute £500m from local authorities in Southern England to deprived areas in the
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Plaudits for litter pickers
Sixty members of the Winchester Litter Pickers attended the annual party to thank them for their work over the past year. Dean of Winchester, the Very Revd Michael Till and his wife, Tessa, were guests of honour, the dean using the opportunity to thank
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Reid all about it!
Newly-published children's writer, Kate Reid, is looking forward to Christmas rather more than usual this year. Winchester born and bred, Kate (42) hopes her first effort, Operation Timewarp, will make the perfect stocking-filler for youngsters aged nine
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John forges a winning year
A 71-YEAR-OLD blacksmith who has only started entering competitions in recent years has emerged as the reserve national champion at his first attempt. John Gould has been a blacksmith for well over half a century and has been a steward at the blacksmiths
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Bonhomie cash is under threat
CROSS-CHANNEL bonhomie took another beating at Brockenhurst when councillors kicked up once again at overtures from their local twinning association. Brockenhurst has had links with Pont St Martin in the Loire Atlantique for ten years, but last month
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Benson goes back to college
SOUTH coast construction firm Benson continues to forge ahead in the education world with a new contract for work at Reading's Prospect Technology College. Representatives from the firm, which has its regional base at Hedge End, recently attended the
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Low-cost airline creates a buzz
The south's travellers have been snapping up seats on flights to be operated by the region's new low-cost, no-frills airline, buzz. In the first week more than four thousand seats have been sold on routes from Bournemouth Airport to Amsterdam, Belfast
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Hitting the right spot
THIS year's Christmas show at the Nuffield promises to knock spots off all the others. The theatre will be keeping the whole family entertained with its version of the classic children's book The 101 Dalmatians. Already an established favourite with generations
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Tropical bug hatches out from Kevin's back
MOST people bring back souvenirs from their holidays. But what Kevin Gilvary picked up on his trek through a South American jungle would not grace anyone's mantlepiece. Three months after the Hampshire schoolteacher returned from tropical Peru he was
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Neighbours fight to save cottage
MORE than 100 Southampton neighbours have joined forces to save a building they say is one of the city's most beautiful. The cottage on Highfield Road in Southampton is affectionately nicknamed the Gingerbread House because of its fairytale appearance
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Echo reporter wins national award
SOUTHERN Daily Echo naval correspondent Ali Kefford, pictured, has won a major national award for her coverage of the Royal Navy's war against terror in the Arabian Gulf. She was presented with the Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award at a London dinner
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Column: From the sidelines
TARIBO WEST could be a Portsmouth player in time to make his debut in next weekend's match against Walsall at Fratton Park. The 28-year-old Nigerian international central defender has been back in training with Pompey this week and may be offered a short-term
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Football: City march on
East Cowes Vics 0, Winchester City 5 WINCHESTER City staked their strong claims to lifting the league title this season with this crushing win over one of their main rivals on Tuesday night, writes Ian Henderson. The comfortable way in which they disposed
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Rugby Union: Important clash awaits
WINCHESTER get back into league action tomorrow with a vital game against fellow strugglers Harlow at Nuns Road. Last weekend's scheduled match at Haywards Heath was called off because of a waterlogged ground, while Harlow gained a surprise home win over
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Billy Bragg and The Blokes
ENCROACHING middle age has done little to mellow Billy Bragg. The singer-songwriter with a social conscience is currently supporting his first album in seven years, England, Half English - one of the singles from which, Take Down The Union Jack, he even
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June is hailed the ideal neighbour
NOTHING is too much trouble for pensioner June Smith. She has been awarded the title Neighbour From Heaven in a national competition. Every week the Fareham grandmother shops for her 73-year-old sister and an elderly couple living next door. She also
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YOU ARE A MENACE!
THIS is the face of the teenager who has made the lives of people living in West Wight a misery. Steven Thurman, 15, has been named and shamed as the first person on the Island to be made the subject of an antisocial behaviour order (Asbo). Thurman, of
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Jubilee exhibition
THE JULIA Margaret Cameron Trust at Dimbola Lodge in Terrace Lane, Freshwater, is staging an exhibition of photos which record events on the Isle of Wight which took place at the Queen's Golden Jubilee. The exhibition is being run in conjunction with
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Hat-trick horse reins supreme
HIGH-stepping hackney horse Brookfield Sheeza Lady has written herself into the record books by clinching a hat-trick of Hackney Horse of the Year titles for a Fair Oak father and daughter team. Owned, bred and driven by 64-year-old Joey Peters, of Brookfield
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BEST OF THE LOT BUT I'M NOT SCARED!
Antti Niemi can't wait to face Arsenal tomorrow - even though he says they're the best in the league. The Finnish goalkeeper, who has been in good form since his £2m move from Hearts earlier this season, has already faced Manchester United and Liverpool
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Royal Southampton Yacht Club - Winter series very competitive
Fickle winds and testing tides, combined with last- minute problems with a crucial committee boat, added to the sense of competition in the sixth race of the Royal Southampton Winter Series. The race officer team could not get the committee vessel to
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Hamble River Sailing Club -Smallwood out on his own at the finishing line
Gales in the Solent subsided last weekend to give the competitive fleet of the Hamble Winter Series one of their best races of the season so far with the Ker 11.3m El Gringo taking honours in the IRM class. After four weeks of strong to gale force winds
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Die Another Day (12A)
DURING the GoldenEye mission, Pierce Brosnan's first assignment as James Bond, M (Dame Judi Dench) famously told the suave and debonair secret agent: "I think you are a sexist misogynist dinosaur, a relic from the Cold War." On the evidence of this new
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Freaks/The Devil-Doll (12A)
THE TITLE of Freaks is a less-than-subtle pointer to how un-PC this 1932 movie is. Banned in the UK until the Sixties, and blighting its director Tod Browning's career, this is still a shocking, unapologetic movie. Set in a circus, the actors are genuine
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Justin leaves Tiger trailing
Justin Rose was showing the likes of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia a clean pair of heels after the first round of the Dunlop Phoenix Tournament in Japan. Bolstered by last week's fourth place in the Mitsui Masters, the 22-year-old Hampshire golfer got
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Harrison plans another America's cup bid
Peter Harrison has confirmed he will be continuing his bid to bring the America's Cup back to Britain despite the disappointing end to the GBR Challenge campaign in Auckland earlier this week. In the quarter-finals against the American crew Team Dennis
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'Physio saved my life'
BASINGSTOKE Town midfielder Alex Ewin has paid tribute to club physio Mark Randall for saving his life. The 21-year-old fell to the pitch unconscious and stopped breathing for a full minute after swallowing his tongue in a sickening clash of heads during
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Saints give fringe players chance
With the pressures of league rugby off for the week, Southampton takes the chance to look at some promising fringe players when they receive Salisbury II. Martin Davis is called up to hooker as are flankers Rob Greenaway and Matt Inder, while Mark Roderick
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Zoo boss tries to allay manure fears
A plan by Marwell Zoo to dispose of animal waste the green way has got up residents' noses. The zoo wants to build a composting plant and worm farm on a field next to Hurst Farm in Thompson Lane. But the scheme has caused a bit of a stink among people
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City set to switch on lights
Shoppers in Winchester will be treated to a festival of light with community carol singing tomorrow (Saturday). Winchester Singers will lead the community singing in the High Street. The event will be launched with the Win FM roadshow in town from 3pm
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Taxis checked out for safety
Winchester police and vehicle examiners have carried out spot checks on taxi cabs. As a result of the safety inspections two cabs were immediately taken off the road. In total 25 vehicles were examined between 5.30pm and 9.30pm last Friday. Police and
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Stop roadworks agony
A Winchester City councillor this week accused contractors of prolonging the agony for Winchester motorists by not meeting their end of the bargain with roadworks. Barry Lipscomb told a council transport and access committee that contractors "did not
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Bishops mark historic Mass
A historic Mass took place in Winchester College on Sunday when for the first time since the Reformation, a Catholic bishop celebrated the service in Chapel. The Rt Revd Crispian Hollis, Bishop of Portsmouth, was joined in the celebration by the Bishop
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Victory (of sorts) for protesters
People campaigning to save a wildflower meadow are claiming victory in the latest round of their battle with the county council. The county wants to tarmac over the meadow at Bar End in Winchester for a 420-space extension of the city's park and ride
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City renews land quest
Winchester City Council is to spend a further £110,000 developing land for affordable housing. It has already spent £75,000 on a consultation exercise in Stanmore and Highcliffe. Members hope to identify suitable council land and make it available for
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City to keep ballot box
It will be business as usual at the May local elections after Winchester City Council decided not to alter how residents cast their votes. The traditional ballot box got a reprieve as members rejected government suggestions for all-out postal voting,
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Beware of flyer
Residents in Winchester and Colden Common have been urged to beware of flyers from a company claiming to collect for the needy in Eastern Europe. Homes have been inundated with leaflets through their doors from a company known as Brittex Ltd, or Brittex
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Arsonists cause thousands of pounds of damage
A farmer has spoken of his fears after arsonists destroyed straw worth £35,000 on his land. Fire-raisers lit three huge stacks of straw, together about 800 tonnes, at Weston Down Lane, just before midnight on Saturday. The heat was so intense that it
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Book fair opens
Some of Britain's leading children's authors are in Winchester for the ninth Wessex Children's Book Fair. The event, at the Winchester Guildhall, is one of the biggest fairs of its kind in the country and, last time round, attracted thousands of visitors
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End of road for dangerous lorries
Spot checks on lorries using one of Hampshire's busiest routes have revealed revealed that many were being driven with dangerous defects. In fact, out of 23 goods vehicles stopped, only six were without defects. Three vehicles were immediately prohibited
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Help yourself, horseowners told
Fears that a specialised gang is stealing from tack rooms around Winchester have prompted a radical suggestion from the detective behind Hampshire Horsewatch. DI David Collings believes the only way to tackle rural crime is for bands of villagers to patrol
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With a little help from Friends
A new leaflet featuring the work of Friends of Winchester Cathedral has been published with the help of retirement property specialist, English Courtyard. The full-colour leaflet, A Little Piece of England, focuses on the work of the Cathedral's 3,900
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Launch for light project
The interactive light sculpture created by Peter Freeman for Year Three of the Winchester Light Art Project will be launched on Thursday (Nov 28th) at 6.30pm in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral. Peter Freeman has created an interactive light column
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New foundation
The charity-support organisation Community Action Hampshire is creating a foundation to assist in its work. The community foundation will elicit donations from companies and individuals to redistribute the money to local organisations helping the disadvantaged
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Retiring NHS boss calls for more cash
The National Health Service has to attract a substantial increase in funds if it is going to achieve the standards of care everyone wants, said David Livermore, who has just retired as chairman of Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust. "I believe
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Hamper help needed
The staff of P&D Employment are not only filling jobs - they're filling hampers with provisions and gifts for the Winchester Churches Night Shelter. Members of staff at the recruitment agency, in City Road, are collecting donations for the second
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Youngsters pull out all the stops
People from across the Winchester district played their part in raising cash for Children in Need last week with a variety of events. Four pupils from St Faith's school in Winchester decided to hold a variety show to raise cash. Francesca Cronin, Hattie
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Candles galore for cathedral concert
Five hundred candles will illuminate Winchester Cathedral for the annual candlelight concert tomorrow (Saturday). Music will be performed by the Choir and Orchestra of St John's, from London, under John Lubbock. The programme celebrates St Cecilia's Day
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Hugh lands role in Potter movie
"I just thought I fitted the description of the character in the book - a bit small and mad," says Hugh Mitchell. His inkling triggered a magical story, because director, Chris Columbus, agreed and chose Hugh (13) to play little Colin Creevey, amateur
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Award for man who saved submarine
Proving that conservation is not just for fine art or historic buildings, a Winchester man has scooped a major award for saving a submarine. Freelance conservator, Ian Clark, of Itchen Abbas, together with the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, has
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Lifeboat crew buoyed by gift
A SOLENT lifeboat crew has new safety equipment thanks to a donation from Fawley refinery. The 20 volunteers belonging to the Solent Rescue Team, based in Lepe, also have new wetsuits paid for by ExxonMobil's £1,500 contribution. Senior coxwain Warren
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Road
THERE'S an added local interest in the latest production to be staged at Salisbury Playhouse. Pilot Theatre Company's production of Road, the Jim Cartwright play that takes a peep through the keyhole into the lives of the diverse residents of an unspecified
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Dan Nolan - Missing
THE mystery surrounding the disappearance of Hamble schoolboy Dan Nolan, who has been missing since January, forms the basis for a new play by Oaklands Youth Theatre. Dan Nolan - Missing has been written by Oaklands school teacher Mark Wheeler, who comments
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Fire strike goes ahead
A STRIKE by firefighters began as planned at 9am today after last-ditch talks broke up just 90 minutes before. Union leaders and employers met throughout the night to try and resolve the pay dispute that has already seen crews walk out for 48 hours last
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Brian takes right tack for £2,000
RETIRED businessman, Brian Lawrence, is £2,000 richer this week after winning The Daily Echo's "Find the Ball" competition. Mr Lawrence retired 15-years ago and has spent most of his time since sailing his 24ft yacht Llewellyn from its berth at Hythe
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Early advantage for anti park-and-riders
CAMPAIGNERS have been celebrating their first small victory in the four-year struggle against park-and-ride in Winchester. A High Court judge in London yesterday ruled in favour of a legal challenge by campaigner Elspeth Murray over the issue of compensation
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We're after the best
A PANEL of judges has begun the difficult task of sifting through dozens of nominations for this year's Local Heroes Award. Nothing has been decided yet but they have revealed that the standard of nominees for the Daily Echo-backed competition is higher
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Dutch sailors will be out on the town
UP TO 700 Dutch sailors were due in Southampton for a weekend of shore leave with the arrival of four warships in the city's docks today. The vessels, HNLMS Abraham Van Der Hulst, HNLMS Jakob Van Heemskerck, HNLMS Karel Doorman and HNLMS Zuider-kruis
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Motor sport: Thrills and spills
HAMPSHIRE's two drivers had contrasting fortunes in the recent Network Q Rally of Great Britain. Co-driver Alyson Marlow, from Fareham, finished 36th - eighth in class N4. The 36-year-old map-reader was partnering Canadian Patrick Richard in a Subaru
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Boxing: Title fight in sight
The 23-year-old from Sherfield English, near Romsey, will take on London-based Ugandan John Mackay at the Derby Storm Arena knowing that another win will almost certainly earn him a shot at the British title. Mackay, who has always fought at the superbantam
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Folk rock rules!
IT TAKES a certain type of band to make folk rock cool - but the Levellers have managed it perfectly. The maverick travellers of rock, they regularly play more than 200 gigs a year from Glastonbury Festival to the more obscure likes of Estonia and Japan
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X marks the spot
BATH foursome X Is Loaded are doing everything right. The band are signed to Boss Music Records and had their first single, Massive Misguidance featured heavily on MTV2 and XFM where they even recorded a live set. The boys are hoping for more of the same
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Joining forces to tackle youth crime
THE Shadow Home Secretary visited one of Hampshire's most deprived estates yesterday to look at ways to tackle youth crime. Oliver Letwin had a tour of the Rowner estate in Gosport to see the challenges police face. He chose to visit the troubled estate
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Musgroves ordered to remove animals
SIR Christopher Musgrave and his wife Lady Carole have been ordered by planners to clear a site they were preparing to run as a working farm. Herds of goats, sheep, Shetland ponies, chickens and geese - some adopted from the RSPCA - now face an uncertain
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Foreign nurses fill ward gaps
HEALTH bosses are aiming to reopen a Fareham stroke rehabilitation ward in the New Year after it was closed because of staff shortages. The Rosewood ward at St Christopher's Hospital has remained closed to admissions for three weeks. But now health chiefs
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Keep our Island special
THE Isle of Wight has been my passion ever since I came to live here 30 years ago at the age of 20. All my friends are Islanders and I feel 100 per cent included. Maybe it is because I believe in the saying "when in Rome..." Nevertheless, I can see many
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Vow to ThWART the turbines
CAMPAIGNERS have vowed that controversial plans to site three giant wind turbines at an Island beauty spot will be taken to a judicial review. Members of a group calling itself ThWART say that an environmental impact assessment should be made at the site
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Green project in final for top planning award
A FACILITY for moving wind turbine blades from a proposed Newport factory to a barge in the River Medina has been short-listed for a national award. Bournemouth planning consultancy Terence O'Rourke, supported by the Isle of Wight Council, English Nature
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Lynda and Cathy are market forces
TWO new managers to oversee a "healthcheck" of the Island's market towns have begun their work. Lynda Smith and Cathy Mills are set to help people in Brading and Wootton Bridge identify the strengths and weaknesses of the two towns by completing an economic
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Babies born as addicts
BABIES addicted to heroin have been born on the Isle of Wight. Fourteen-year-olds are also smoking the deadly drug. The shocking picture of drug use among young people on the Island emerged at a meeting of the council's Fire and Public Safety Committee
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Scrooge on stage
TINY TIM will sing for his supper in a musical adaptation of Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. Scrooge will show at the Apollo Theatre on the Isle of Wight this December. John English will direct the Apollo Players' performance of the Christmas musical
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THANKS FOR SAVING PUB
A TEAM of full-time firefighters has been praised for working through the start of today's strike to save a Botley pub. Working with retained firefighters from the village, crews from Hightown, Southampton, were called to The Dolphin Hungry Horse about
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Here comes the Christmas fun
A SPECTACULAR touch of summer will be coming to Eastleigh on Saturday to launch the town centre's Christmas celebrations. More than 40 Notting Hill carnival entertainers in full costume will form the centrepiece of this year's Santa Parade through the
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Dennis fit to be right menace at St Mary's
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger's injury crisis seems to be easing ahead of his side's trip to St Mary's tomorrow with the news that Dennis Bergkamp should be fit. Bergkamp injured his ribs in the Gunners 3-0 win over Spurs last weekend but has been given
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Toad at the Park
THIS vibrant new bar has been a real hit since it opened in August and every Saturday night it is packed to capacity. The design downstairs is trendy and sophisticated with deep red and light purple dcor. It is quite spacious with plenty of room at the
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Anita and Me (12A)
BIRMINGHAM in 1972 is the decidedly unglamorous setting for Meera Syal's screenplay of her own, bestselling novel. Much along the lines of East Is East and Billy Elliot, Anita and Me is a low-key but warm-hearted human drama packed with well-drawn characters
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Indian Palace
The first thing that struck me when I stepped inside the Indian Palace was, unfortunately, not the bright, refreshingly modern dcor but the smoke. Several diners were puffing away on cigarettes, so I asked hopefully if there was a non-smoking area. The
