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Winchester fume at 'away' game row
WINCHESTER City will fly the Wessex flag in the FA Cup at Chippenham Town tomorrow, but they are not best pleased with the league they represent. Director of football David Malone believes the club have been unfairly treated over the rescheduling of fixtures
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Saints' Wembley hero gets hands on the FA Cup again
BACK in 1976 Nick Holmes was lucky enough to get his hands on the FA Cup for real when Southampton famously triumphed over Manchester United at Wembley. Twenty-seven years later his second flirtation with the Cup was more from the land of make believe
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Tate's chance to measure progress
NEWPORT IOW have come a long way since their Eastern Division struggles of last season. By tomorrow, team boss Steve Tate should know exactly how far as he attempts to right the wrongs of his most embarrassing ever episode as a manager. It was on a dark
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I just wish Hants could do things the easy way
It has been a tough first year as Hampshire's football-style manager for Paul Terry. "I knew there would be a lot of challenges, but I've enjoyed it - I don't think I look too much older or greyer," he said after Hampshire managed to win promotion to
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Romsey chosen to host market town conference
ROMSEY has been chosen by Action for Market Towns to host its national conference next year. Town Centre manager Christine Cole, who has just returned from the organisation's conference in Caernarfon, said she was pleased because of the benefit it will
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WHY WERE WE NOT TOLD?
A TWELVE-year-old girl was today recovering in hospital after contracting the deadly meningitis bug. The youngster who is a pupil at Noadswood School was diagnosed with the brain disease several days ago and was admitted to Southampton General Hospital
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Rock festival £5 fee upset
BUDDING young performers will be charged up to £5 to enter the popular Global Rock Challenge festival as organisers battle to plug a financial gap. The foundation behind the annual festival that showcases some of the county's best young talent was predicting
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A treat in store as Matt pays a visit
IT was a return to an old stamping ground for Saints legend Matt Le Tissier when he officially launched a revamped newsagents and convenience store in Eastleigh. Matt's mum's best friend from her schooldays, Jan Phillips, is a regular customer of the
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Heritage firm to be named
THE COMPANY appointed to investigate plans for a new heritage centre in Southampton will be revealed today. City leisure bosses have committed £60,000 to a study into ways of delivering a visitor attraction and education centre that would celebrate Southampton's
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Cheeky boys raise smile
FIRST it was the Women's Institute in Yorkshire. Then it was British Gas workers in Southampton. Now male maintenance staff at a hospital in Winchester are trading uniforms for birthday suits - all in a good cause. The lads from the Royal Hampshire County
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Brownies send SOS
A PACK of Hampshire Brownies is desperately appealing for new leaders before its group is forced to disband. The North Baddesley Rainbow group for five to seven-year-olds has already folded because the shortage of adult leaders is so severe. Now the area's
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Back in the game
BARNSLEY-BORN folk singer Kate Rusby's career was only slightly slowed down by her decision to take six months off earlier this year. "I was so busy I got really run down and tired," admits Kate. "I just had to take six months off - I'm fine now though
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Cosmic Rough Riders
THE Riders have spent most of their summer on tour, promoting the release of their new album Too Close To See Far. Wholly written and produced by the band, it has been lauded across the board by the press. Their music has been described as "undeniably
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Ned Kelly (15)
THIS IS a fairly decent attempt at producing a biopic of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly and his gang. But it does make you think that it might have been better for all concerned if they hadn't bothered trying. The film could have gone one of two ways - either
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Young Adam (18)
JOE Taylor (Ewan McGregor) is an aimless drifter who works on a canal barge, owned by Les Gault (Peter Mullan) and his wife Ella (Tilda Swinton). En route from Edinburgh to Glasgow, Joe and Les make the grisly discovery of a woman's body floating in the
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico (15)
THE saga of the mythical gun-slinging hero El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas), reaches its dramatic conclusion in the blood-soaked finale of Robert Rodriguez's action-packed trilogy, Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Evil drug cartel king Barrillo (Willem Dafoe
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Colin Jackson opens new school track
WORLD record-breaking hurdler Colin Jackson was right on target when he opened a new athletics track recently at West Tytherley's Norman Court School, writes Andy Simmonds. Colin proved such a hit with pupils and staff at the school that he's been invited
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FOOTBALL: Stockbridge still searching for a win
SIX games into the new campaign, Stockbridge are still without a league win. But, if Saturday's game was anything to go by, that first victory must be just around the corner. Stocks and Horndean served up a decent match on an unseasonally warm afternoon
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Barry back in business
NON-LEAGUE football's managerial merry-go-round has turned full circle with Barry Blankley today named as John Robson's successor at AFC Totton. It means the pair have effectively job-swopped. This time last week Robson was unveiled as new boss of Bashley
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Officer pays homage to citizens who cared
A POLICE officer who was kicked in the eye as he tried to arrest a criminal has thanked a group of men for saving him from an even worse beating. Pc Dave Mills, whose bruised face was featured in The Monday Gazette after the violent attack, attended the
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Offering thanks to community heroes
A BRAVE Popley dad who was hospitalised for six days after he was injured stopping a shoplifter in his tracks was one of the civilians honoured by the police for their service to the community this week. Father-of-eight John Hope, of Shakespeare Road,
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In Port
Today's Principal Arrivals: Hual Trader, ro/ro, 0030, 40; Tokyo Highway, ro/ro, 0600, 43; Talisman, vehicle carrier, 0630, 34/35; Black Prince, cruise liner, 0700, 101; CMA CGM Ravel, container carrier, 1130, 206; Autoroute, ro/ro, 1200, 201 Link; Autofreighter
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Cost warning on minimum wage
THOUSANDS of businesses in the south will see their operating costs rise from next week on the back of an increase in the national minimum wage. Pubs, hotels and restaurants, as well as other companies that rely heavily upon shop floor or other 'blue
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New Milton out to avenge defeat
New Milton & District will be opening their recently completed clubhouse extension at the Ashley Sports Ground ahead of their Hampshire Division One meeting with Guernsey. But they will be hoping the Channel Islanders do inflict similar pain to that
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Romsey ready for big home debut day
A bumper crowd is expected to welcome London Division rugby to Romsey for the first time but they will be hoping their home debut will not be quite as traumatic as their opening day problems at Old Emanuel a fortnight ago. They welcome relegated Dorking
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Beattie's television kick-off
HE'S one of football's hottest properties. Now Saints hotshot James Beattie is taking the first steps to becoming a TV star too. The sharp shooter has begun filming his own television show alongside sexy Hollyoaks actress Terri Dwyer. Beattie and Dwyer
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Asbestos discovery shuts school
CHILDREN at a Southampton secondary school have been sent home until Monday after asbestos was discovered on site. The discovery followed an incident on Wednesday where a burst water main caused a flood, forcing the head teacher of St George Catholic
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Age is no barrier to finding lurve
THEY say you are never too old to find love - and two members of a Southampton Age Concern day centre have proved just that. When 74-year-old Jimmy Etherington moved to the city last year he joined the Padwell Road day centre to enjoy the social activities
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New PowerHouse owners will honour all deliveries
DELIVERIES of goods bought by PowerHouse customers in Hampshire before the electrical chain's collapse will be honoured by its new owners. New Zealand-based Pacific Retail Group, which acquired the company from administrators earlier this month, has taken
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Council in talks over cinema proposals
DETAILS of a revolution in Eastleigh town centre's leisure facilities that would see a multiplex cinema developed alongside the showpiece Swan shopping centre could be unveiled by the end of the year. The Daily Echo can exclusively reveal that civic chiefs
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Starsailor
IF YOU didn't catch Starsailor at this year's Isle of Wight festival, here's your second chance. The Chorley boys have just released their second album, Silence Is Easy, and are riding high on a wave of publicity. In the past they have been labelled '
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Dmitri Alexeev
ONE of Russia's foremost pianists, Dmitri Alexeev, launches a series of six concerts at the Turner Sims commemorating the 50th anniversary of composer Sergei Prokofiev's death. The series at the Turner Sims will be based around the composer's nine completed
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Gigli (15)
GIVEN recent events, Gigli may be the last opportunity you'll have to see Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck together, going gooey eyed over each other. However, voyeuristic curiosity alone will not be enough to save Martin Brest's unconventional romantic
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REVIEW: Matchstick Men (12A)
ROY (Nicholas Cage) is a most unlikely con man: an obsessive compulsive, chain-smoking agoraphobe with various nervous tics, who cannot leave his house without opening and closing each door three times. Together with his charismatic right-hand man Frank
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Film Guide
CALENDAR GIRLS (12A): Uplifting true story about a Women's Institute group who decide to strip off for their charity calendar to raise funds for their local hospital. Stars a great British cast, including Helen Mirren. THE HARD WORD (18): Australian heist
