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It's a Stag party and Ben's got the tricks
BEN Thomson brought back memories of his brilliant Brockenhurst best with a stunning goal for Totton at Christchurch last night in the Jewson Wessex League Cup. In a move reminiscent of his Grigg Lane days, he picked the ball up in his own half and beat
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Tate ashamed of Newport demise
RED-FACED Newport IoW boss Steve Tate branded his side "totally gutless" after last night's shameful 7-1 surrender to Tiverton Town in the Dr Martens League Cup at St George's Park. After acquitting themselves well to hold the Premier Division side to
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Gosport quick out of traps
Gosport Borough climbed to the heady heights of third in the Jewson Wessex League last night while problems mounted for Blackfield & Langley. The second-to-bottom Watersiders went down 4-1 at Privett Park against a fast-starting Gosport side, who
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Rehabilitation orders for public sex act pair
A SHAME-FACED couple who performed a drunken sex act in Basingstoke town centre in broad daylight were given rehabilitation orders - and a good telling-off - by a crown court judge. Jeannette Keen, 38, admitted the outrage to public decency charge in
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The parents who let their son die
A COUPLE who let their baby die after he had taken a lethal dose of methadone are behind bars after being convicted of manslaughter. Jaquietta Bowyer was jailed for 44 months and her husband Luke was sentenced to 15 months after a jury found them both
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Postcards from the edge of time
The historic Hampshire town of Fordingbridge dates back more than 1,500 years. Ron Wain takes a look back in time... BY THE 13th century the rather quaint but functional name of 'Fordyngbrygge' was in widespread use. This Saxon settlement, in the north-west
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So glad to be Graham
THE BIOGRAPHY: GRAHAM NORTON LAID BARE by Alison Bowyer. Published in hardback by Andre Deutsch, £16.99. Graham Norton has a £4m contract with Channel 4, a show on the station five nights a week and has won four Bafta awards and an Emmy. Not bad for a
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Alan by the trowel load
Trowel And Error by Alan Titchmarsh, is published by Hodder & Stoughton, price £18.99. Available now. Could gardening hero, housewives favourite and so-called 'Sex God' Alan Titchmarsh be going through a mid-life crisis? In the space of a year he's
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More trouble and strife
Man And Wife by Tony Parsons, is published by HarperCollins, price £16.99, out now Tony Parsons enjoys a rant. And, judging by his chequered past of clubbing, taking drugs and sleeping with a lot of women, he also enjoys a rave. Or at least he used to
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Life imitating art
Beneath The Cassock: The Real-life Vicar of Dibley by Joy Carroll is published by HarperCollins priced £14.99 and is available now. Sitcoms tend to be associated with contrived, far-fetched and unrealistic scenarios, but anyone who thought The Vicar of
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Electric Watts on the way up
EASTLEIGH teenager David Watts has emerged as one of the shining new lights in national kart racing. The 14-year-old schoolboy is ready to step up into the British Championships after amassing an impressive collection of silverware during 2002. Highlight
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Blackfield slide
Problems mounted for Blackfield & Langley in the Jewson Wessex League last night as they went down 4-1 to Gosport Borough. Gosport raced ahead after only 76 seconds after a quick goal from Danny Sturman. Neil Scammell - fresh from his match- winning
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Last-ditch effort to save toilets foiled
A LAST-DITCH effort to block the closure of a public toilet at Calshot Beach has been foiled by New Forest District Council. The council's ruling Conservative group has stuck to a previous decision to demolish two toilet blocks and replace them with a
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Medieval twist at Christmas celebrations
RESIDENTS of a Hampshire town have been given a glimpse into Christmases past. The good children of Romsey were rewarded with a gold coin while the bad children were rounded up in sacks as part of the festive Tudor Christmas celebrations at King John's
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Technology firms star in 'Fast 50'
SOUTHAMPTON-based Bowman Power has this week been named as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the south. The supplier of power generation systems has been ranked sixth in the region in the latest Deloitte & Touche rankings after reporting
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Half-million sign for NTL service
NTL, Hampshire-based provider of residential broadband Internet services, has signed up its 500,000th broadband Internet customer at home. Barclay Knapp, chief executive of NTL said: "This is a remarkable achievement and testament to the quality of our
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Review: Lost art of festive theatre rekindled
Little Red Riding Hood ... and the Big Bad Wolf!, Theatre Royal Winchester. PANTOMIMES these days tend to be big, flashy affairs, packed like an over-stuffed turkey with cutting-edge technology and sundry Aussie soap stars. You could be forgiven, in the
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Review: It's the panto alternative
Alice, Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke CURIOUSER and curiouser - a Christmas show that doesn't ask people to shout "it's behind you" or star anyone who last appeared in Home and Away 15 years ago. The Haymarket Theatre's Alice is this year's panto alternative
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OUR SON IS DYING
AN 11-month-old baby boy died last night despite his parents' desperate attempts to get him medical help. The frantic couple dialled 999 after the youngster stopped breathing at the family home in Thornhill, Southampton. But instead of waiting for an
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Airport set for 150 new jobs
UP to 150 new jobs are set to be created in the region as Southampton airport moves towards budget flights to Europe. FlyBe British European was today announcing five new routes starting in the spring next year. Flights to Milan, Geneva, Dublin, Belfast
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Belinda, come home for Christmas
HAMPSHIRE dad David Gibson today issued a desperate plea to his missing wife: "Come home for Christmas". Mum-of-five Belinda Gibson has not been seen since mysteriously vanishing from her Southampton home in February. Her disappearance prompted Hampshire
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Schools ban filming by audiences at nativities
TWO HAMPSHIRE schools have banned parents from video recording their children's nativity plays - for fear of paedophiles getting hold of the images. The first the children's relatives knew of the policy at Shakespeare Infant School, Eastleigh, and Cupernham
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Police ask public to help ID this man
THIS is the man wanted in connection with a robbery at a Southampton bingo hall. Police released the CCTV still of the man who was involved, with three others, in the incident at the Mecca Bingo Hall in Portswood on Sunday night. The man shown in the
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You will drive trade away!
ANGRY Southampton shopkeepers claim plans to scrap free parking in areas of the city will damage their trade. Their reaction follows Daily Echo revelations that city finance chiefs want to charge people for using free car parks in Bitterne, Shirley and
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Popular pond set to have £30,000 facelift
SOUTHAMPTON Common's ornamental pond looks set for a £30,000 Ground Force-style makeover to rejuvenate it. The popular city spot has far too many fish in it, no plant life and is prone to blue-green algae, which can poison pets and sometimes people. At
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Nativity 2002 supplement today
TWINKLE Twinkle Little Star - And the little stars have been shining brightly around Hampshire this festive season. Hundreds of school children have been captured on camera by our team of Daily Echo photographers, who have travelled far and wide searching
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DOMINION MONARCH
One of Shaw Savill Line's principal ships for many years was Dominion Monarch, which lived up to her regal status by having only first- class accommodation for 523 passengers. Built by Swan Hunters in the late 1930s, the 26,500-ton liner was designed
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24 years for the 'queen of cocaine'
A YACHTSWOMAN nicknamed the "Cocaine Queen of the Caribbean" has been jailed for 24 years for helping smuggle a £100m drugs consignment into Britain through the Isle of Wight. Julie Paterson and her lover headed an international consortium who spent months
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STAY OUT OF TOWN
THIS is the face of the violent thug who has been banned from Fareham town centre for the next two years. Jobless Terence Miller yesterday became the first person in the borough to be made the subject of an antisocial behaviour order. It's the culmination
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NATIVITY VIDEOS BANNED
AN Eastleigh school is one of two in Hampshire that have banned parents from video recording their children's nativity plays for fear of paedophiles getting hold of the images. The first the children's relatives knew of the policy at Eastleigh's Shakespeare
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Waste not, want not, pupils
PUPILS at an Eastleigh school have been rummaging through their rubbish bins to see exactly what they throw away. The results surprised them - they found that a typical day's waste could be drastically reduced. "It is amazing to actually see what the
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FAB SHOUTS IT OUT LOUD
FABRICE FERNANDES hopes France coach Jacques Santini will be the next international boss to visit St Mary's. Sven-Goran Eriksson watched James Beattie and Wayne Bridge perform well in Saturday's 1-1 draw against Newcastle and Fernandes admits his ambition
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Gosport quick out of traps
Gosport Borough climbed to the heady heights of third in the Jewson Wessex League last night while problems mounted for Blackfield & Langley. The second-to-bottom Watersiders went down 4-1 at Privett Park against a fast-starting Gosport side, who
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Terry chuffed as 'top of my list' Katich makes switch
Hampshire Cricket manager Paul Terry helped complete the signing of Australian batsman Simon Katich and said: "Now I'm happy with our squad." Perth-based Terry has had former Western Australia star Katich as a target for months now and was delighted to
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Man is shot as he walks in the park
A BASINGSTOKE man is lucky to be alive after he was shot as he walked through a Basingstoke park with his girlfriend at the weekend. The 27-year-old victim was yesterday in a high-dependency unit at Basingstoke hospital, suffering from a punctured lung
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Washday blues
A new book looks at the life of workers in Southampton past. Keith Hamilton reports... IT WAS a daily ritual for employees in most Southampton workshops and factories in the post-war years that over the loudspeaker systems came Music While You Work and
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Dale makes a clean sweep
The question mark over Dale Winton's sexuality has always been treated with wry amusement by the genial TV host of such shows as Supermarket Sweep, Pets Win Prizes and The National Lottery. Until now, that is. He has finally come out to tell the world
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The Becks phenomenon
Beckham by Ellis Cashmore, published by Polity Press, priced £12.99, is out now. ALL over the world, the boy with decorously pale looks and an ex-Spice Girl wife is adored, venerated and even worshipped. Beckham is not just a sportsman, or a superstar
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In Port
Today's Principal Arrivals: Hyundai Liberty, container, 0030, 206; Autotransporter, ro/ro, 0630, 201 link; Connemara, container, 0900, 205W; Humboldt Rex, refrigerat, Oana, general, 1600, 36; Discovery, research, 1745, 27; Liban Car, ro/ro, 2100, 43.
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Scouting for a party!
One hundred youngsters from Hampshire are heading to Thailand this Christmas as they take part in the 20th World Scout Jamboree. Duncan Eaton reports... Lying beneath the stars on a golden sandy beach is not the traditional start to Christmas for many
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It's a Stag party and Ben's got the tricks
BEN Thomson brought back memories of his brilliant Brockenhurst best with a stunning goal for Totton at Christchurch last night in the Jewson Wessex League Cup. In a move reminiscent of his Grigg Lane days, he picked the ball up in his own half and beat
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DERBY RES 1 - SAINTS RES 1
Saints reserves drew 1-1 at Derby last night but both sides were left fuming at the performance of the referee who sent-off Chris Baird seven minutes before half-time. Both Derby and Saints fielded young sides and the men from St Mary's got off to the
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Boxing: Weston nabs national title
JAMIE WESTON comes from a boxing family - his great grandfather Charlie Harding once fought middleweight legend Randolph Turpin - and this week he was crowned national champion. Amazingly it was only his tenth ever bout, but the 16-year-old scrapped to
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Hockey: Trojans insistant: We will be back!
Trojans need to spend the Christmas break rebuilding their Hampshire/Surrey Regional League title challenge after slipping out of the promotion frame for the first time this season. The Stoneham club, who have won only once in the past four weeks, dropped
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Netball: Weston battle to stay in Division 1
WESTON PARK consolidated their position in the National Netball League with a narrow win over Hucclecote. Two places above their opponents in the league, Weston knew victory could be vital. The game was an extremely fast and physical contest early on,
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Cycling: Dunford in dominant mood at Newbury
Mid-December lived up to its reputation of constant drizzle, but Hargroves Cycles RT riders Tim Dunford and Stuart Bowers emerged from the half-light of another wet day with their cyclo-cross skills unaffected by the dismal weather. Dunford returned to
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NATIVITY VIDEOS BANNED
PARENTS have been banned from filming their children's Christmas nativity play in Romsey - for fear of paedophiles getting hold of the images. The first the children's relatives knew of the policy at Cupernham Infant School was when they arrived to see
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ROBBED OF XMAS BONUSES
A SOUTHAMPTON woman will spend Christmas behind bars after her stealing meant fellow workers lost a much-needed £1,000 bonus. Financial controller Beverley Ford stole more than £60,000 using her knowledge of the computer system and PIN number to transfer
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What children want is to be consoled
EVERY child in Southampton who asks Santa for a games console this Christmas will get one, according to new research by credit card company Visa. A questionnaire of parents in the city revealed that the most popular items on the list this year are clothes
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Personality disorder killer jailed for life
A HAMPSHIRE man with an anti-social personality disorder through cannabis misuse was today jailed for life for the murder of his partner. Philip Caswell, 32, strangled and battered Stephanie Hancock, 22, in the bedroom of their home in Pegasus Close,
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Budget flights bring airport jobs boost
UP to 150 jobs are set to be created in the region as Eastleigh's airport moves towards budget flights to Europe. FlyBE British European was today announcing five new routes starting in the spring next year. Flights to Milan, Geneva, Dublin, Belfast and