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Hampshire fear Warne might be missing more matches in 2004
Hampshire manager Paul Terry will spend this weekend trying to find out whether Shane Warne intends to play one day international cricket again. Warne's year-long ban for taking a banned diuretic before last year's World Cup expires on February 10 and
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A beef with the butcher
AN award-winning Hampshire butcher has been fined after falsely advertising meat as coming from a brand seen as BSE-free. Trading standards chiefs launched a probe after swooping on Uptons in Bassett, Southampton. They quizzed owner Simon Broadribb on
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Crunch time for 'pay to park at night'
SOUTHAMPTON City Council supremo Councillor Adrian Vinson has 48 hours to decide whether to introduce a controversial scheme to charge drivers for parking at night in the city. On Monday the ruling Liberal Democrat group will stage a crunch Cabinet meeting
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The battle is on to save leisure centre
SCORES of people are expected to turn out tomorrow night to start the battle to save a Southampton sports complex. Campaigners against proposals to shut down St Mary's Leisure Centre are holding a public meeting to debate the controversial plans. City
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Police technology helps crime battle
POLICE have netted almost 200 arrests through a hi-tech number plate-reading scheme designed to slash serious crime across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Latest figures show 189 people have been arrested through use of the police's automatic number
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Extra councillors are on the cards
A SHAKE-UP could be on the cards for voters in Hampshire in an effort to balance up the size of electoral wards. The move could see more councillors brought in to ensure each resident is fairly represented on Hampshire County Council. A review of the
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£58,000 THE WAGES OF SPIN
CIVIC bosses are planning to splash out £58,000 a year of taxpayers' cash on a new spin doctor. That will be the annual salary for the new executive needed to polish up Southampton's public relations. But the wage is the same amount of cash the council
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Forced to quit job to pay council tax
A HAMPSHIRE veterinary nurse claims she is being forced to trade her beloved job in for cleaning work because she cannot afford to pay her council tax bills. Hannah Girdwood, 21, trained for four years to qualify for her post - but she has now admitted
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OAP to start action group
A HAMPSHIRE pensioner is so incensed by his inflation-busting council tax bills that he wants to set up his own action group. Philip Harding, 72, of Marlborough Grove, Portchester, believes people are being "robbed left, right and centre" by the tax.
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Pair scored highest in charity bid
IT was a massive fundraising effort across the south coast footballing divide when two Hampshire teenagers raised more than £900 for charity. Lee Taylor, a year 11 pupil at Priestlands School in Lymington, and Lee Bailey, a 16-year-old from Horndean Technology
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Another Cunarder - Queen Victoria
WITH style and just a little flamboyance, befitting such a great liner, Queen Mary 2 set sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage this week, but plans are already well under way for the next new Cunard ship to sail into port. Fireworks soared high into
