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Bonding with Jennie
AT THE start she was viewed as being the posh bird who hung out with royalty and wore perma-make-up. But by the end of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, we were all admiring her British stiff upper lip as she gobbled down a witchetty grub as if it
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Straight from the horse's mouth
Ali Kefford meest horse dentist Greg Wood... WE'RE at the stables, where Maggie is having the equine equivalent of a floss 'n' polish. She's been led from happily tugging on a pile of straw and now has her jaw in a mighty metal brace so Greg can have
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Clarke lives up to 'wonder boy' label
Not since 1992 have Hampshire started a championship season with a win. But Shane Warne and Michael Clarke inspired a dream opening day to the 2004 season at the Rose Bowl yesterday. Warne took his first wicket as Hampshire captain with his 17th ball
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STAYING ALIVE POETRY COMPETITION
There's still time to enter the Staying Alive Poetry Competition. The theme is Growing Up and Growing Old and poems can be in any style and on any subject. The closing date is April 26. The authors of the three best poems will win a copy of the poetry
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Remember Me, by Trezza Azzopardi
Trezza Azzopardi's grim but acclaimed debut, The Hiding Place, charted the disintegration of an immigrant family in 1960s Cardiff. Here the scene shifts to Norwich but the content remains austere. Secrets and lies, physical and mental abuse, dominant
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TOP TEN HARDBACKS
This week's best-selling hardbacks supplied by Waterstone's for week ending 17th April. 1 (2) Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation - Lynne Truss 2 (3) The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time (Adult edition) - Mark
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TOP TEN PAPERBACKS
This week's best-selling paperbacks supplied by Waterstone's for week ending 17th April. 1 (2) Notes On A Scandal - Zoe Heller 2 (1) Artemis Fowl: The Seventh Dwarf - Eoin Colfer 3 (3) The Star Of The Sea - Joseph O'Connor 4 (4) If I Was Boss - Kes Gray
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In Port
Today's Principal Arrivals: CAP Finisterre, container, 0300, 204; Autosun, roro , 0530, 201; CFF Seine, roro, 0530, 25; Caronia, passenger, 0630, 38/9; City of Lutece, roro, 0830, 203; NYK Lyra, container, 1030, 207; Grande Scandinavia, roro, 1230, 202
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Badminton: Hants hope their luck will change
THE Hampshire under-21 badminton team has made it to the national finals, taking place today. Having beaten Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire home and away in the preliminary stages, the county representatives are now down to the final four. The eight-strong
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I want Tolly back!
LITTLE Genevieve Cooper was today heartbroken after thieves stole her beloved pet tortoise. Tolly was grabbed from the garden of a Southampton home while his owners were shopping. Believed to be about 50 years old, he had lived at the property in Nightingale
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Let's not forget our own golden history
Feats in the Premiership dominate TV footage and newspaper columns so much that younger followers of the game are under the impression that not much happened before. When I read that our own manager Paul Sturrock was using Charlton Athletic as a yardstick
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What a start to Warney's reign!
SHANE WARNE needed just 17 balls to take his first wicket as Hampshire captain as the county's season got off to a flier at the Rose Bowl, writes Simon Walter. Warne took 2-27 and THREE catches at second slip as Hampshire bowled Durham out for 128. And
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Hants shine as a slimline Warne slips back into the old routine
After leading Hampshire off the field for his first lunch as the county's captain, Shane Warne stepped aside and applauded his teammates before sending each one into the pavilion with a pat on the back. A wicket and two slip catches was a more than satisfactory
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Richard Ford Tour
WHEN was the last time you went to a really good literature event? Later this year I will be taking part in a unique project with Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Richard Ford in events which will include venues in Fareham and Winchester. Often
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Against All Enemies by Richard A Clarke
Few books command days of banner headlines on publication. But then few authors have been quite so intimately involved with current events as Richard Clarke, until last year one of President Bush's most important advisers on counterterrorism. While Clarke's
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Darts: Top star Andy backing Open
HAMPSHIRE darts marksman Andy Jenkins has moved up into the top ten in the world rankings - and promised his support for the forthcoming Hampshire Open. The Cosham bricklayer was pipped at the post in a star-studded battle on the oche last week by Wayne
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Cycling: Ball has the the edge at Bournemouth
CHRIS Ball (53-12 Multisports) gained nearly ten seconds per mile on Ian Ayliffe (Salisbury RC) to win the Bournemouth Arrow Fircroft Hotel 10 at Poole. But the pair will have to be better matched when they team up for Primera Bournemouth's 25-mile time
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Swimming: City's five get along famously
Five City of Southampton swimmers attended the Portsmouth Northsea Easter Swim Festival and achieved no less than 29 Southern Counties qualifying times, and nine national qualifying times in 30 events over the three days of the competition. A total of
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POMPEY FOLK ARE RICHER THAN US!
THE people of Portsmouth are richer than their Southampton counterparts - and that's official. Pompey has pulled ahead of us in the wealth stakes for the first time. In just three years Portsmouth residents have turned around a deficit of more than £1,000
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What a send-off
IT WAS the most traditional of send-offs, a band played on the dockside, coloured streamers cascaded down the side of the ship and tugs sprayed fountains of water high into the air, as the world's largest passenger liner, Southampton's Queen Mary 2, left
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Thugs broke my jaw in three places
A MAN had his jaw broken in three places when he was struck during a vicious attack in a Southampton park. Graham Licence, an office administrator at the Norwich Union Building Society in Chandler's Ford, was with his girlfriend when he was smashed in
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The lie detective
IF only everyone was as easy to spot telling a fib as Pinocchio - the Disney children's favourite whose nose grew when he lied. Scientists already know that when people are untruthful their heart rate increases and they sweat more. Now one Southampton
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Race hate crime charges double
THE number of people charged with race hate crimes in Hampshire has DOUBLED, new figures reveal. An official investigation showed 115 defendants in the county faced charges for racist crimes in 2002-03. This compared to just 57 a year earlier - a 100
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A big thank you to readers who helped
"DAILY ECHO readers never fail to deliver the goods." That is the message from delighted SCRATCH teams who are thrilled with the overwhelming response they have received from Southampton people willing to line the cupboards of the most needy in the city
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It's fun, fun, fun, all the way at centre
YOUNGSTERS have been enjoying a whole host of exciting activities at Winchester's River Park Leisure Centre. During the Easter break the centre has been a haven of fun for children aged between five and 12, who have spent their days making Easter cards
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Bridge now a Chelsea hero for that goal
SOMEONE once famously said that a week is a long time in politics. Well, the next four weeks will be vital in the world of football. Who would have guessed that of all our top teams in Britain it would only be Chelsea left waving the flag in the European
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Sad to see old Dell boys on the brink
It's sad to see four former Dell boys fighting for their Premiership lives. I spoke to one of them, Kevin Keegan, just before he returned to the City of Manchester ground after problems with his back. He has suffered for a few years now, but it got so
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Can Geordies do a Saints?
Newcastle United UEFA Cup semi-final draw with Marseilles brings back memories of when we played the French club in the European Cup-Winners' Cup and beat them 4-0 at The Dell. It was not so clever out there, though, where we had to lie on the floor of
