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Chris: two out of three will do
CHRIS TREMLETT reckons the Hampshire Hawks need two more wins to stay in the totesport National League's first division. Fast bowler Tremlett returns to the Hampshire side for the first time in a month against champions-elect Glamorgan Dragons tomorrow
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ASTON VILLA 2 - SAINTS 0
SAINTS' FIRST league game of the season ended in bitter disappointment as they fell to a 2-0 defeat in a poor display at Aston Villa. Paul Sturrock's men hardly managed to get a foothold in the game as Villa, who could tie up the signing of James Beattie
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TOP TEN HARDBACK
Best selling hardback books for the week ending August 14 1 (1) Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation - Lynne Truss 2 (3) Birds Without Wings - Louis De Bernieres 3 (2) My Life - Bill Clinton 4 (5) Shopaholic And Sister -
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TOP TEN PAPERBACKS
Best selling paperback books for the week ending August 14 1 (1) You Are What You Eat - Gillian McKeith 2 (2) A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson 3 (3) The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time (Adult Edition) - Mark Haddon 4 (4
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999 ADDICT
A FANTASIST with a fixation for emergency services who staged burglaries and arson attacks on the home he shared with his grandmother has been jailed for four years. Terry Waymark set off fireworks in the hallway of the flat in Southampton and on one
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Union leader sacked after barbecue brawl
THE Southampton-based leader of the train drivers' union has been sacked for "gross misconduct" in the wake of an infamous barbecue brawl. Shaun Brady was given the news in a letter delivered by courier to his home in Bitterne and he now has six weeks
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Convoy rolls again to give Hope in Kosovo
EMERGENCY aid appeals come and go. Immediate crises are eased, new troubles flare up elsewhere and the spotlight moves to a new part of the world. But in a country that five years ago was ravaged by war and atrocities, one charity refuses to stop plugging
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Nineteen wins maintain hopes
A HEALTHY haul of 162 points has boosted Team Solent's chances of survival in the Southern Women's League Division 1. But for their usual frailty at junior level, the club might even have won their penultimate fixture at Crawley. They were dominant in
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Discus is Dunn and dusted!
IT WAS a case of 'the girl Dunn good' for Southampton City in their last National Young Athletes' League fixture of the season at Southampton Sports Centre. Tackling her favourite event, the discus, Lizzie Dunn excelled herself with a career best throw
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Premier winners? - just ask Jose!
WITH ALL due respect to the 72 Coca-Cola League teams who have already played two games each and the Community Shield combatants, the real action starts this weekend. Our 20 Premiership clubs get to play their first games today and my theory for the last
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Thin ice under the FA
EURO 2004 seems a distant memory now which, I suppose, sums up England's results in Portugal. While everyone agrees that we were unlucky to lose out on penalties, now that the dust has settled the squad which had promised so much in the World Cup should
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Keeping up traditions
They're used to the odd titter but Morris Men feel they're keeping an important part of tradition alive... I've always suspected that the English morris man - Homo Janglum - takes himself quite seriously. He may well have jolly-sounding bells on his legs
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Sail of a lifetime
Vicki Green-Steel meets Abby Shoebridge, a profoundly deaf sailor who is taking part in the world's toughest yacht race... WITH conditions ranging from the unpredictable calms of the doldrums to the gale force winds and icebergs of the southern oceans
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Dimi clocks up another five wickets
DIMITRI MASCARENHAS has recorded his fourth five-wicket haul of the season on a rain-affected day at the Rose Bowl. All-rounder Mascarenhas's 5 for 64 took his tally in the county championship to 44 at 17.48 and helped bowl Glamorgan out for 342 as Hampshire
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Review: Rock Hudson by David Bret
This revealing biography of film star Rock Hudson, who died very publicly of Aids in 1985 when he was 59, focuses heavily on his promiscuous gay private life. It says a lot for the efficiency of the old Hollywood studios' publicity machines that this
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Review: The Collins Discovery World Atlas
THE Collins Discovery World Atlas doesn't just map the world in exquisite detail but it brings the planet and its inhabitants to life. Maps and atlases are often thought to be dry and dusty, charting contours, continents and seas, but telling us nothing
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In Port
Today's Principal Arrivals: OOCL Malaysia, container, 0215, 207; Nedlloyd America, container, 0300, 204; Mosel Ace, roro, 0330, 202; Oriana, passenger, 0445, 105; CFF Seine, roro, 0530, 30; QE2, passenger, 0630, 38/9; Aurora, passenger, 0745, 106; Le
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Olympics: Hockey can be big again, says Moore
AS GREAT Britain's hockey team makes its final preparations ready to challenge for Olympic glory, Hampshire's very own GB representative Rob Moore has spoken of the need to develop the game in schools. Tomorrow GB open their Athens Olympic campaign against
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Cycling: Yates is the man to beat in Antelope's ten-mile trial
TOUR DE FRANCE legend Sean Yates is the star in a maximum entry of 120 listed for Antelope Racing Team's open ten-mile time trial tomorrow. As a former British champion over the distance, he will be the one to beat. Like the early season 'ten' organised
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Darts: County poised for oche action
THERE are just three weeks to go before Hampshire arrows are flying again in the Inter County Premier Championship. And this time there is an official sponsor for the championship. Kaliber, who produce non-alcoholic lager, will be backing the league for
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Rowing: Second place is good enough to give young Foad the junior title
SECOND place is good enough to give young Foad the junior title Second place was enough to secure the Junior Sculling Championship title for Itchen Imperial's James Foad at Bournemouth last weekend. He finished comfortably in second place to race leader
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Brothel shame of Thai woman and her husband
A THAI masseuse and her landlord have been fined hundreds of pounds for running a Hampshire brothel. Thumma Peacock admitted running the premises in Millbrook Road, Southampton, after police carried out a raid on the massage parlour and found condoms,
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While the stallion's away, the donkeys will play
EVERY donkey has its day - especially when there are no stallions around. It is a case of when the horses are away the asses will play - and the evidence is cropping up across the New Forest. Close encounters of the breeding kind between mares and the
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Female wisdom welcome in lads' fitting room area
IT is the first rule of shopping for wives and girlfriends. If you don't want your husband or boyfriend to be a fashion disaster then you definitely don't let him loose when he is picking a new suit. But have the women been muscling in too far? Nervous
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Sculpture vandalised
THIEVES ripped a potentially lethal six-inch metal spike from a sculpture on display at a Southampton art gallery. Raiders stole the item from a piece by artist Sarah Misselbrook whose work was being showcased at the new free exhibition. The solid steel
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Roll up, roll up - Zippos Circus is returning to the city
IT will be laughter all the way in Southampton this weekend as Zippos Circus returns to the city. Performers from across the world will be entertaining the crowds at Hoglands Park, St Mary's Place. Introduced by Norman Barrett - acknowledged as the world's
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Solent sprinters are off the pace
A RARE off-day for the sprinters cost Team Solent dear as they narrowly missed the promotion boat from the British Men's Athletics League Division 4. Having scored prolifically in previous matches, Solent's speed merchants were well below par in the fourth
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Golfing day
AFTER A summer watching the football in Portugal and soccer in America, I returned home to a heatwave at Canford Magna where I thrashed around the golf course in aid of the Wessex Heartbeat appeal. The highlight of the day was a golf clinic by the wonderful
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Funds needed for cancer centre
I SPENT a day taking part in the launch of the Harbour Cancer Support Centre in Gosport - a wonderful organisation set up to enable people who have lost loved ones to this terrible disease to have expert counselling and attend group gatherings socially
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Floating target
In the wake of an alert over a plot to blow up the most famous ship in the world, full details emerged of QE2's dramatic security scare of 1973... SHE IS an icon of her time, a name instantly recognised around the globe. From the day, 35 years ago, the
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On the verge of self-destruction
Last week's ballot for industrial action at Southampton port rekindled memories of the militant spirit which crippled the docks two decades earlier... It was the year that the docks came to a standstill. A year when the port stared at oblivion. In 1984
