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FULL-TIME RESULTS
Full-time scores from the top clubs in the South. BRIGHTON 0 - READING 1 PORTSMOUTH 3 - WALSALL 2 BOURNEMOUTH 2 - SCUNTHORPE 1 SAINTS PLAY ON MONDAY
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Hockey: Alex's hockey hopes fade as England lose
TROJANS' teenage hockey star Alex Danson looks set to return home from Australia without a medal from the Women's World Cup. Despite scoring her first international goal in the 3-1 win over Ireland and laying on another in the 2-2 draw with South Africa
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Looking out for a hero
They were unsung heroes - until now. Some of the south's unheralded saints have had their acts of bravery and kindness recognised in a prestigious award ceremony... The south's unsung heroes stepped forward into the limelight at their own glamorous gala
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We've got a Red Goddess
THIS is the Red Goddess that has been donated to the armed forces providing emergency fire-fighting cover in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Only three of the vehicles are in use in the country and it is hoped the Red Goddesses will provide a more efficient
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A song for our Jamie
THE family of a Hampshire schoolboy who died from an asthma attack want to release a song in his memory. Colin and Sharon Stubbs, whose nine-year-old son Jamie died in May, hope that funds raised from the sale of the CD will help to save Southampton's
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I'm not really sexist!
ANYONE who brands Southampton Labour Councillor Perry McMillan sexist had better think again. In the heat of the moment, he may have shouted "stupid woman" at the minutes secretary Anne Wardle during a turbulent meeting of the city's Labour Party, as
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Saints triumph marks victory for brave Shaun, too
IT'S BEEN a long road to recovery but Shaun Lynham has finally seen his beloved Saints play live - and they beat Arsenal 3-2 to boot. Last weekend Shaun walked unaided into St Mary's to watch Southampton play, three years after suffering a brain haemorrhage
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Win VIP entry for top DJ
TOP DJ Lisa Pin-Up is coming to Southampton next weekend - and you can see her for free. Lisa is DJing at RPM at the Paradise Club in Hanover buildings on Saturday, December 7. Two lucky winners can win VIP entry for themselves and a guest at the Paradise
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More job losses at big employer
PIRELLI Cables is to axe up to 42 staff jobs and 25 hourly-paid jobs from the installation section of its High Voltage Systems operation. The news comes less than two weeks after the giant cablemakers pulled the plug on 185 posts at its Bishopstoke plant
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ANDREI: 'I'M READY FOR THE PREMIERSHIP'
ANDREI KANCHELSKIS has told Gordon Strachan he is ready for Premiership football. The Russian winger admits he was not at full fitness when he signed at the end of August, but now says he is back at his best. Kanchelskis has so far only appeared once
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Alan's golfing life is beginning at 50
ALAN MEW's nerve was put to its greatest test yesterday - and the Stoneham golfing ace came through with flying colours. The 49-year-old former Hampshire champion collected the precious top 16 slot he needed to qualify for next season's European Seniors
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Same rules apply to all good poets
The two poems I've chosen today show some of the range of poems I am sent at the Daily Echo. Poems can be personal, dealing with real-life relationships and problems as Jon Purden's touching poem 'A Simple Wish' shows. He wrote in his accompanying letter
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In Port
Today's Principal Arrivals: Jinju Maru, vehicle, 0530, 202; Aegean Breeze, ro-ro, 0630, 201; Christopher Meeder, general, 0700, 204W; Kassel, ro-ro, 0800, 43; OOCL Chicago, container, 0900, 207; Autotransporter, ro-ro, 1400, 203; MOL Performance, container
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Basketball: Stars' co-owner fears for future of the game
SOLENT Stars' co-owner and chairman Bob Paulley is putting concern for basketball's ailing national scene at the very top of his priority list. Along with two other representatives from the Conference League, Paulley has been working hard to try and halt
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St John will share its swish new HQ
WORK on a new head-quarters for St John Ambulance in Lymington is nearly complete, after a historic agreement with Hampshire Ambulance Trust (Hat). The volunteer first-aid group has signed a 21-year lease designed to share the site at Gordleton in the
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New Forest National Park inquiry - Day 16
GOVERNMENT experts have continued their battle to have three border areas included in the New Forest National Park. At the public inquiry at Lyndhurst, landscape consultant Julie Martin described the Avon Valley flood plain as "the jewel in the crown
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Ballet promises to be a real cracker
THE south has gone Nutcracker crazy this Christmas. As if the English National Ballet's radical new updating of the Tchaikovsky classic, with its cartoonish redesign courtesy of Gerald Scarfe, wasn't enough, ballet fans now have the chance to see a more
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POLE-AXED
SCORES of workers at a Hampshire electronics company are facing a bleak Christmas after being told the firm was taking off for Poland. The move comes just 19 months after APW Electronics axed 30 jobs and assured the Daily Echo that remaining jobs would
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Students must wait for TB test results
STUDENTS who have been screened for tuberculosis after the killer disease struck at Southampton University have to wait until next week to get the all-clear. About ten students have been tested for TB after the sudden death from the disease of 22-year-old
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A Simple Wish
Months I've wasted On drink and lies, I'll move on now, Those times gone by. It's time to live To share God's gifts, A wife and family Would give me a lift. I don't think these charms I will attain, But for now The hope remains, One day to find Someone
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The Final Voyage
The speeding vessel, nudged by the stealth Of an iceberg giant, looming out of the shadows Of dangerous night, and the vulnerable flank Splintered, where the Atlantic Ocean Poured its drowning fire through The punctured lung, the bridge At first lightly
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South West Trains' new fleet is gearing up to grace the track
IT WAS enough to make the now unemployed Ivor the Engine green with envy. Standing on a meticulously crafted new train set to run on Stagecoach's South West Trains (SWT) network I could see why Ivor, and all avid trainspotters from John O' Groats to Lands
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Review: Doves, Southampton Guildhall
HIGH-fliers Doves came to roost at Southampton Guildhall on the latest stop of their UK tour. The near sell-out gig opened with a bizarre five-minute video sequence - then the band waltzed on stage and assumed positions. There is something strangely comfortable
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MP raises safe standing issue in Commons
NEW FOREST MP Julian Lewis has raised the issue of safe standing in the House of Commons. The Tory MP has thrown his weight behind the Southern Daily Echo's campaign to get safe standing debate by parliament after quizzing Leader of the House Robin Cook
