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Linnets on the 'crest of a wave'
Goal-loving Lymington & New Milton took their tally to an incredible 17 in two games with a 9-0 Wessex League demolition job on Downton last night. Just three days after despatching Clevedon United 8-2 in the FA Cup, the Linnets again hit irresistible
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School set for Cup windfall?
HAT-TRICK hero Paddy James knows exactly where to send his prize if he wins the 'Player of the round' award for his FA Cup scoring exploits. The dynamic, little Lymington & New Milton striker is on a short-list of three players nominated for the nationwide
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Now Tony quits Hurn
Tony Brown has quit Christchurch after the bombshell news that the club had appointed former Poole, Bashley and Brockenhurst boss Pete Moore as their new first-team manager. Having jointly managed the club for nearly three seasons, Brown assumed he would
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I'm not cricket's Roman Abramovich
Rod Bransgrove has insisted that he is not county cricket's answer to Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich. Hampshire are ready to make Sussex seamer Billy Taylor their first post summer signing of 2003 and another three players are expected to arrive before
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Campaigners' efforts to save Manydown go on
SAVE Manydown campaigners have pledged to fight on even though Basingstoke council has voted to include the site in the Local Plan for development post-2011. Campaign spokesman Ted Blackmore-Squires told The Basingstoke Extra: "The Save Manydown group
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Report builds on strong foundations
WHEN it comes to building things to last there is much to be learnt from the Victorians who built the brick sewers which still serve our towns and cities more than 100 years on. Southern Water has published its Sustainability Report for 2002-2003, which
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Barnes is back on the podium at Brands Hatch
Southampton racer Jon Barnes sped to another podium finish in the Powertrain Caterham R400 Challenge at Brands Hatch on Sunday. The 20-year-old from West End was contesting the 11th round of the championship and was in contention for victory throughout
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It's Daniel's day
Hampshire's Daniel Welch took the driver of the day award in the final Formula Renault Championship event of the season at Oulton Park. After putting his car 18th on the grid in a rain-affected qualifying session, the 21-year-old Fleet driver made up
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School set for Cup windfall?
HAT-TRICK hero Paddy James knows exactly where to send his prize if he wins the 'Player of the round' award for his FA Cup scoring exploits. The dynamic, little Lymington & New Milton striker is on a short-list of three players nominated for the nationwide
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Linnets on the 'crest of a wave'
Goal-loving Lymington & New Milton took their tally to an incredible 17 in two games with a 9-0 Wessex League demolition job on Downton last night. Just three days after despatching Clevedon United 8-2 in the FA Cup, the Linnets again hit irresistible
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Netball: Totton College need a coach
Wanted: A netball coach for Totton College to take the team and umpire. Training is on a Tuesday 12-1pm. Matches on Wednesday afternoons. Hourly rate of pay. If interested please contact Kevin Cleary on 023 8087 4874 or e-mail: kcleary@totton.ac.uk
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Netball: David Lloyd given a tough friendly test
The David Lloyd netball team faced a tough challenge as they took on Embley Park School's upper sixth squad. Embley Park have been training for just two weeks having had had the whole summer off. Both teams showed some lovely play from the start with
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Cycling: Seniors show how it's done
VETERANS showed few signs of the long cycling season by filling the top five places in the Sotonia CC 50-mile time trial at Andover. The event was held in conjunction for the first time with the Chandler's Ford based club's autumn 25, and that also ended
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Hockey: Double win tops for women
Southampton sit proudly at the top of the South Women's League after consecutive wins over Rover Oxford and near neighbours Havant. They followed up an opening day 5-2 win over Oxford with a Jo Knight inspired 3-2 win at Havant. Southampton, who host
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FIREBALL
TEAMS of firefighters from across the city were today tackling a massive blaze at a Southampton pallet depot. Flames were soaring more than 50ft and thick black smoke was billowing from the warehouse on an industrial estate near Empress Road, Bevois Valley
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One dead and two hurt in road smash
ONE person died and two others were seriously injured in a collision between a lorry and a New Forest Council vehicle early today. The accident happened at 5.50am just to the west of the Ashurst camp site on the A35. The road was closed and police launched
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ROBBED!
A SECURITY guard was left temporarily blinded after being attacked by bungling thieves who escaped with little more than two bags of cheese and onion crisps. Kevin Knott had just completed his 13-hour nightshift guarding a construction site in Hedge End
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How could they?
We make every apology for publishing this disturbing picture. However, we haven't done it to be sensationalist . . . but in the hope it will prompt someone to name the callous killers who threw this pregnant King Charles Spaniel into a river with a 10kg
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Green light for cardiac centre
WORK can now begin on a £53m cardiac centre in Southampton after it today received the green light from Health Secretary John Reid. The project, which has already been approved by the Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust board and city council planning
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Bicycle squad success story
BOBBIES on bikes are proving a huge success at cracking crime in Southampton city centre. The newly-launched tactical cycle team has already notched up a series of impressive arrests within two months of its launch in July. Achievements to date include
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Young duo making music
TWO talented young musicians are featured in the next presentation by Lyndhurst Music Society. Cellist Jamie Walton and pianist Daniel Grimwood will perform music from Beethoven, Falla, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich in a recital at Pine Hall, Lyndhurst
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Barrelhouse Blues
WITH 22 members, Barrelhouse Blues Orchestra don't do anything by halves. You can see the Dorset-based group, which incorporates a five-piece string section from Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, at the Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton on Saturday
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Hamble ASSC 5 - Totton 3
Barry Blankley's first match in charge of table-topping AFC Totton ended with a shock 5-3 defeat by Hamble ASSC at Follands Park. The only disappointment for Planemakers' manager Larry Clay was that he wasn't there to see it. He was kept away by a works
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Sighting reports raise hope for missing hiker
THE mother of missing Portchester hiker Jeffery Moore said her spirits had been lifted after a reported double sighting of her son. Marion Moore said she had felt a glimmer of hope that her son could still be alive after he was spotted by two different
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Museum plan for water mill
PLANS to turn one of Wickham's most historic landmarks into a museum and heritage centre were yesterday submitted to county council chiefs. An international delegation of academics and museum workers calling themselves the Chesapeake Action Group have
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It's a tight finish for Southampton
Southampton Running Club's senior men have just about squeezed into the Nike AAA Road Relay Championships at Sutton Coldfield on October 25. Needing a top-20 finish to qualify, their team came 22nd overall in the weekend's Southern Championships at Aldershot
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Bailey back with a bang
KATHY BAILEY has marked her return to the top end of British athletics just in time for the Great South Run in Portsmouth on Sunday, October 12. The Havant AC runner, pictured, who hails from the New Forest, finished tenth woman and fourth British finisher
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Pointer is a star performer
HAYLEY Pointer was the star performer for the New Forest Juniors in their first ever sortie into the South of England Road Relays at Aldershot. The youngster recorded the day's fourth fastest individual run of ten minutes and 53 seconds to place third
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Our Fame Academy for new Pop Idols
TV AUDIENCES have been left hanging on the edge of their armchairs as pop wannabes are given that famous Simon Cowell treatment. But Hampshire youngsters dreaming of stardom will not have to endure such a nail-biting time when they step into a Fair Oak
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Hampshire lining up double seamer swoop?
HAMPSHIRE CRICKET are set to sign Southampton-born Billy Taylor - and are also keen on ex-England bowler Ryan Sidebottom. Seam bowler Taylor has left Sussex after failing to agree terms with the county champions. And Rose Bowl manager Paul Terry is ready
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Coffee morning success
BASINGSTOKE residents have helped raised valuable funds for cancer care as part of The World's Biggest Coffee Morning. The day is Macmillan's largest fundraising event of the year and has raised more than £20million across the country for people living
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In Port
Today's Principal Arrivals: Trianon, vehicle carrier, 0230, 34/35; Queen Elizabeth 2, cruise liner, 0630, 39/9; Autofreighter, ro/ro, 0800, 201 Link; Vans Princess, ro/ro, 0900, 102; Northsea Trader, container carrier, 1200, 204; Hyundai Freedom, container
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Minimum wage rise
THOUSANDS of workers in the south will today benefit from an increase of 30p an hour in the national minimum wage. Employers must pay a mimimum £4.50 an hour for adults and £3.80 for people aged between 18 and 21. As previously reported by Business South
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Dean starts well
Southampton kart racer Dean Stoneman made the long trip to Ulster for a round of the British Junior Championship and was rewarded with a superb second place in one of the early heats at the Nutts Corner track. It gave Stoneman a high placing on the grid
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Swimming: Carol's great medal haul
CITY OF SOUTHAMPTON swimmer Carol Baker has scooped TEN gold medals in one day. Baker was competing in the 2003 Basingstoke Meet, which incorporated this yar's Hampshire County Masters Championships. Baker won four golds in the county event and six more
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Equestrian: Panizzon just misses out
A HAMPSHIRE woman came agonisingly close to winning one of the most prestigious events in the equestrian calendar last weekend. Vittoria Panizzon, 20, won the silver medal in the European Young Rider Three Day Event Championship in Poland. She led after
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HOUSING PLEDGE
WINCHESTER housing chiefs have revealed there are no more plans to build supported housing on two city estates. City council planners have already earmarked one site for homes for ex-offenders in Fivefields Road in Highcliffe. But they have vowed not
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Bennett's Run 2003 zooms in to the city
A MOTORIST roared into Winchester in a family heirloom to retrace his grandfather's century-old tyre tracks. Julian Bennett, from Oxfordshire, re-created the magic of a motoring legend by driving from Crystal Palace to Brighton via Margate, Folkestone
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Rush hour chaos after A35 crash
ONE person died and two others were seriously injured in a collision between a lorry and a New Forest Council vehicle early today. The accident happened at 5.50am just to the west of the Ashurst camp site on the A35. The road was closed and police launched
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Probe continues into double deaths
DETECTIVES are still trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the deaths of an elderly couple whose bodies were found at their Totton home. A post-mortem examination yesterday showed that William White and his wife June died of natural causes, but failed
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Potential for an evening of laughs
ALAN Ayckbourn's futuristic comedy Comic Potential is the next production by Raods amateur theatre group, at the Plaza Theatre, Romsey from next Tuesday. Set in the not too distant future where TV soaps are cast with docile robots performing programmed
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PM tells Holly's story to nation
A YOUNG single mum from Southampton had her name broadcast to millions of people around the world during Tony Blair's keynote speech to the Labour Party conference. Mother of two Holly Vincent, 19, from Canberra Towers in Weston, was cited by Mr Blair
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When thank you is just not enough
A HAMPSHIRE mum has praised the actions of her quick thinking neighbour who she says saved her little girl's life. Michelle Preston believes two-year-old toddler Demi would have died without the level-headed actions of Clare Craske, who turned a crisis
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Vandals force us to sleep in our car
A FAMILY claim they are being forced to sleep in their car after being driven out of their home by vandals. So far Jacqui Alden, two of her five children, her friend Gary Kilford and the family dog Ikea have spent two nights in their red Volkswagen Polo
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James goes 'home' to Bevois Town pupils
YOUNGSTERS at Southampton started a special football training session with Saints striker James Beattie at the launch of a nationwide scheme designed to boost the future of football. England international Beattie returned to the Bevois Town Primary School
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Hits remain as Dexy's ditch the dungarees
THEY made some of the most original music of the early 1980s, including number one smash Come On Eileen - and, with their "punk gypsy" look, boasted an equally memorable image. Swapping their dungarees for 40s-style flannels, Dexy's Midnight Runners showcase
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Jane sails in for double date
SINGER Jane McDonald plays a brace of dates in the south next month as part of her UK tour. Accompanied by a five-piece band, the cruise ship singer turned TV star will be dropping anchor at Bournemouth International Centre on October 17 and The Anvil
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Name of the game is jobs
WHAT'S in a name? mused Shakespeare. The unromantic answer is the future of 600 jobs losses at Abbey National in Whiteley and £11m the bank has just spent on changing its moniker to plain old Abbey. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," said
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Fast Fraser sets pace
TRAILBLAZER Fraser Dexter-Smith set the fastest time of the day in leading his team to success in the inaugural New Forest Primary Schools' Cross-Country Relays. The event, which took place at Brockenhurst College, saw ten schools battle it out for team
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Race rider's death shock
TRIBUTES have been paid to a respected former teacher at an Eastleigh college who died on his bike while warming up for a race against Tour de France riders. Father of three Bob Redrup, 55,of Longfield Avenue, Fareham, was cycling in Marigny, France,
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STRACHAN: I'M SORRY, MARS
SAINTS manager Gordon Strachan has apologised to Chris Marsden for substituting him so early into the Premiership defeat by Middlesbrough. Strachan hauled Marsden off six minutes before half-time, just after the midfielder had been cautioned. But the
