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Company lives up to its name
SINCE opening its doors in Queensway, Southampton, The Best Connection employment agency has established itself as a leading supplier of quality temporary staff to the industrial, driving, and warehousing and distribution sectors in the local area. The
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Sydenhams Wessex League: Month on sidelines for crocked Bennett
ANDOVER hotshot Justin Bennett is doomed to miss the first month of the new season with a cracked leg bone. Incredibly, the 21-year-old former Pompey trialist carried on as normal for three weeks without realising he had a fractured fibula - the outer
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In Port
Today's Principal Arrivals: Delphin passenger, 0730, 101; Red Eagle, roro, 0801, rp; Arabian Breeze, roro, 0830, 201; Suurhusen, cargo, 1030, 36s; OOCL Netherlands, container, 1430, 207; MOL Promise, container, 2100, 205; Nedlloyd Africa, container, 2100
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TEENAGER IS IMPALED ON BICYCLE
A TEENAGER is today recovering in hospital after he was impaled on the handlebars of his own bicycle. The youngster needed emergency surgery following the horrific accident on a skateboard ramp. Emergency services had to perform a delicate rescue operation
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Pedestrian killed in lorry collision
A MAN was killed when he was hit by a lorry on the A3090 between Ower and Romsey. The pedestrian, who has not yet been named, was in collision with the Iveco truck travelling towards Romsey near to the Garden Lane turning. Police arrested the truck driver
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The returning hero
HE'S been named the saviour of a French town and is returning there this weekend for a special liberation celebration - but for Major George Warren, it was all in a day's work. The 89-year-old veteran will tomorrow step out on parade in Lisieux, a Normandy
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£1m road scheme - but no cars, thanks!
A ROMSEY councillor has launched a campaign to ban cars from the town centre during the day - just as workers put the finishing touches to a £1m road improvement scheme. Councillor Mark Cooper wants The Hundred to be pedestrianised between the Cornmarket
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Police link indecent exposures to same man
POLICE have released an e-fit of a man who they think might have vital information about a series of indecent exposures which have taken place in Andover since the beginning of the year. In the most recent incident, which took place around 3pm on Thursday
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TV show leaves Becky with £3,000 phone bill
AN Andover woman became so obsessed with a quiz TV channel she ran-up a phone bill of £3000.95p. Becky Murphy, who lives at Camelot Close, was shocked when her phone company called her to warn her of the impending bill. "My last bill came to £152 so I
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Andover, the movie star
A GROUP of aspiring filmmakers from Andover are taking the town's cultural crisis into their own hands by making a movie. Despite no signs of a cinema coming to Andover, Sinister Dexter Productions (SDP) hope the town can have a starring role in the flicks
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Voteline gets 1,076 calls
'GIVE Us A Complex' said the people of Andover after more than 1,000 callers bombarded the Andover Advertiser's voteline this week. The phone line was set up after Test Valley Borough Council's corporate director Claire Chidley said the council needed
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It's all Greek to them!
YOUNGSTERS at Tidworth Leisure Centre were given the opportunity to get messy and go Greek at the same time in an Olympics inspired workshop led by Marlborough artist James Aldridge. The children were encouraged to use ancient Olympia as the inspiration
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Warning after three lorries stolen
BRAZEN thieves have stolen three lorries from industrial estates after seizing sets of keys from locked offices. Police are still looking for the HGV hijackers who made off with a £30,000 Mercedes lorry from Boarhunt garage at West Portway, Andover and
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Pub flats plan comments leave residents puzzled
ANDOVER residents living near to the Anton Arms Pub in Salisbury Road were left confused after receiving letters saying planning permission for eight flats in the car park might result in the pub's closure. The comments were printed on the back of a standard
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Results to take pride in
NERVES were frayed at Fareham College yesterday as students waited anxiously to collect their A-level results. As they arrived at the college from 9.30am onwards, their hands were shaking as they collected the envelopes which contained the keys to their
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Island festival acts disclosed
THE line-up for the final festival of the summer has been announced - and it includes a rare UK appearance from reggae legend Lee "Scratch" Perry. The three-day event on the Isle of Wight is Radio 1 DJ Rob Da Bank's own personal take on what festivals
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Way ahead for recruiters
A new personnel recruitment agency was launched in Hampshire earlier this month. While there is nothing new about this - since the agency boom in the mid-1990s it seemed that a recruitment agency is launched every other week - there is something different
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Drive into a new career
If choosing your own hours and being your own boss appeal, then becoming a driving instructor with The Instructor College could be your ticket to freedom. There is no typical trainee - men and women of all ages, backgrounds and careers apply to become
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Jan gains the ear of the lawmakers
JAN Ward, the director for international trade and membership at Southampton and Fareham Chamber of Commerce, has a new feather in her cap. Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt has appointed her to an influential sounding board which has the ears of and ability
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Ryman League: Old boy Goss may rue Bashley snub
GEOFF Butler says he's surprised by defender Dave Goss's decision to reject a return to Bashley in favour of sticking with FA Vase winners Winchester City. After losing Mark Jones to Winchester and Andy Darnton to Fleet during the summer, Bash boss Butler
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GOLDEN SHIRL!
SHE'S our golden girl - twice over. Isle of Wight sailor Shirley Robertson has struck Britain's first gold of the Athens Olympics. The Cowes based yachtswoman, 36, claimed the top medal in the Yngling class with a race to spare alongside fellow crew members
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A-ce results open door to the future. . .
THE waiting was finally over for hundreds of students in Southampton who yesterday found out their A-level results. They congregated nervously outside Itchen College and Tauntons College before queuing to collect the plain brown envelopes at 11am. There
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Gill's a saint the elderly of St Denys
DOZENS of things are raffled to raise money for charity. Bottles of whisky, cakes and the occasional star prize of a family saloon car. However none can match the unbeatable offer made by Southampton neighbourhood warden Gill Marsh to city pensioners.
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Agonising wait for bereaved
THE family of a young man who drowned in an accident off the coast of Greece has had to postpone his funeral arrangements indefinitely. Laurence Hallmann, of Colden Common, died more than a fortnight ago but his body has still not been formally identified
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Brave Denise gives something back
A BRAVE Hampshire grandmother, who has spent the past seven years battling lymphoma, has raised more than £3,000 to help fellow cancer patients. Denise Mason recruited her friends and family to join her in Macmillan Cancer Relief's Miles Challenge in
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Headstones toppled on church orders
CHURCH authorities took down 16 gravestones - only to reinstate them hours later after the public made their anger clear. The churchwardens at Holy Trinity Church, Tidworth, were acting on a directive from the Church of England. It requires church authorities
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Olympic hopes dashed
ANDOVER'S Kate Howey was cheered on by millions of Britons around the world as she proudly carried the Union Jack into the stadium at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on Friday. Britain most famous female judo star had been selected for the honour
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14 Visits and still wrong shower tray
DISABLED pensioner Mrs Doreen Galvin is not very happy with Sarsen Housing Assoc-iation because so far it has failed to find a suitable replacement for an old shower tray. Mother-of-four Doreen, who is 65 and suffers from a number of disabling ailments
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Top blooms and veg win the day
ANDOVER Horticultural Society's summer show at Rookwood School hall drew competitors from far and wide again this year. The society has a membership of around 90 people, is open to all and would like to attract new members who may be keen to learn skills
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End of the line as model rail protesters hit buffers
THE genteel pursuit of miniature railway engineering has sparked a major row among Stoke residents. Villagers have been steaming about the prospect of the Andover and District Model Engineering Society using a Stoke field for their mechanical hobby. The
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Delphin pays a visit to port
The 16,214 ton German cruise ship, Delphin was due to make one of her occasional calls to the port of Southampton today. With accommodation for up to 556 passengers, the Finnish built Delphin originally entered service in January 1975 and was previously
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THE VILLAGE (12A)
I SEE dead people." With those four words, whispered so beautifully by little Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, Indian-born writer-director M Night Shyamalan forged his reputation as a film-maker of daring and audacity. His two subsequent features
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A CINDERELLA STORY (PG)
SINCE making her debut as plucky high school misfit Lizzie McGuire on television in January 2001, life has been one long fairy tale for Hilary Duff. Her subsequent film projects - Agent Cody Banks, The Lizzie McGuire Movie and Cheaper By The Dozen - have
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ANYTHING ELSE (15)
IN HIS latest staging of the battle of the sexes, Woody Allen returns to the streets of post-9/11 New York where aspiring comedy writer Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs) struggles to keep a relationship afloat with his actress girlfriend Amanda (Christina Ricci
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CINEMA LISTINGS
Films showing in the Hampshire region until 26th August. 13 GOING ON 30 (12A): A 13-year-old girl desperate to grow up is catapulted into the body of her 30-year-old future self in the year 2004. Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo star. THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
