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Last chance for Le Mes to shine
Martin Le Mesurier has one last chance to salvage his European Tour playing rights in Spain this week. But the 26-year-old from Southampton knows deep down he's facing mission impossible as only a top three finish in the Madrid Open, starting on Thursday
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We're so sorry!
ITCHEN COLLEGE principal Barry Hicks has promised swift disciplinary action after THREE of his students were sent off in a stormy Hampshire Colleges match. Mark Williams and Mitchell Goldring were both sent off for two bookable offences by referee Sandy
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In Port
Today's Principal Arrivals: Fuji, roro, 0030, 43; Tolosa, roro, 0530, 30; Montlhery, roro, 0600, 201; Saga Rose, roro, 0600, 101; Titus, vehicle, 0630, 34/35; OOCL Shenzen, container, 0900, 205; Palma, vehicle, am, 202; Ville de Virgo, container, 2359
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Nice work, if you can get it
IF YOU think the life of a commercial photographer could be described as lacking in excitement and glamour, you haven't met Hampshire's Peter Dawes. He has just spent three days on a £4m Sunseeker yacht in the south of France photographing models wearing
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Holistic treatments for top salon
HOLISTIC therapist Anne Taylor has joined a hair and beauty salon that featured in Channel Four's fly-on-the-wall series Risking It All. The 29-year-old is working on Thursdays and Saturdays from No More Blue at Portland Street in Southampton, offering
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One million up for fledgling text firm
AN INNOVATIVE Southampton text message company has reached a milestone by selling its one millionth message since launching nine months ago. Called Text-Alert.co.uk, the fast-growing service promises to revolutionise the way estate agents communicate
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Council warns of service cuts
WINCHESTER civic chiefs are warning services may have to be cut to head off a projected budget deficit. The authority will know the extent of the problem by Christmas, when the government announces how much financial support it will give local authorities
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A case of rising damp
DEFENCE measures being checked but no panic after flood risk report FLOOD warnings have spar-ked a raft of safety reviews across the New Forest, the Daily Echo can reveal. Business and civic leaders are investigating their flood defences in response to
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Elderly urged to be on guard over conmen
PENSIONERS in the New Forest are being warned to be on their guard against a lottery scam that could hit them in the pocket. Elderly residents are being targeted by smooth-talking conmen who ring up and claim they have landed a prize in a Canadian lottery
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Review: Genius that still brings us sunshine
The Play What I Wrote, The Mayflower, Southampton A LITTLE, grey-haired man with an inflated sense of his own importance and a taller, dark-haired man who excels at playing the fool. Sound familiar? Not, in fact, Morecambe and Wise, as we are tempted
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Fly-tipping misery on school open day
THEY had planned to showcase the school to dozens of prospective parents today. But instead teachers and pupils at a Southampton comprehensive were met with tonnes of rubbish after it was dumped in the entrance to the school by fly-tippers. Teachers were
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POST STAFF IN STRIKE THREAT
POSTAL workers at a Hampshire sorting office are set to walk out in a pay dispute. Thousands of homes would be affected by the planned strike over payments to postmen and women for the new single deliveries About 95 per cent of the 100-strong delivery
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Red light still being jumped
TRAINS are still jumping a red light near Southampton - five years after it was dubbed one of the most notorious danger spots on the country's railways. The signal between Millbrook and Southampton Central station remains a source of potential danger,
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Soaring ambition
PENSIONER Ken McCall is heading for the top of the world. Inspired by his five-year-old nephew, the superfit 73-year-old will attempt to climb more than half-way up Mount Everest. Mr McCall aims to complete the gruelling challenge in aid of Hearing Dogs
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Public vote will decide future of £1m park plans
BUILD on open space for a top-of-the-range park, or save the land but leave little money for improvements? That is the question being put to thousands of residents on a Southampton estate as they decide the future of one of the city's biggest open spaces
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Heart campaign gathers strength
MORE than 1,000 people have thrown their weight behind the fight to save vital treatment received by heart patients across Hampshire. A petition to save the rehabilitation classes which help patients recover from cardiac disease has already been signed
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It's a drag for smokers
HAMPSHIRE County Council is planning to stub out smoking throughout all its buildings. Although it has officially been banned from its offices and vehicles since 1991, the council now wants to toughen up the policy. The move would see designated staff
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Review: Music exudes energy and class
Gary Wilmot, My Kind of Music, The Mayflower, Southampton. AS GARY Wilmot promised it would be, his show - Gary Wilmot, My Kind of Music - was a wonderful night out. The evening was full of energy, class and musical extravaganza. Singing songs from some
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RANGER IS KILLED IN TRACTOR TRAGEDY
A GRIEVING family today paid tribute to a Hampshire countryside ranger killed when he was crushed by a tractor. Peter Butler suffered fatal injuries when he lost control of the open-topped tractor he was driving, which was towing a trailer, as he drove
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Matthew's battle pulls in thousands
A MASSIVE £22,705 has been raised to boost the coffers of two hospital wards that have been treating a brave nine-year-old cancer patient from Fareham. Matthew Donnelly has endured several courses of chemotherapy and had a tumour removed from his leg
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Concert celebrates 20th anniversary
TO MARK the 20th year of the local arts charity The Rodges Trust, a celebration concert is being held in All Saints Church in Southern Road, Basingstoke, this Saturday, at 7.30pm. The Rodges Trust was founded in 1985 by the late Geoffrey Rodges, from
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Town's operatic namecheck
IT'S always nice to find out something new about my adopted town of Basingstoke - and thanks to soloist David Wilson-Johnson, I now know about it being mentioned in Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Ruddigore. "Yes, the last time I uttered 'Basingstoke'
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It's good to talk
HALF of young teenagers have a friend who is suffering some sort of harm, yet many keep it a secret rather than tell their parents. Many teenagers who know another youngster who is experiencing problems such as bullying, ill treatment at home, drug and
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Taylor made for another year
Former Hampshire golf champion Kirsty Taylor has comfortably qualified to keep her place on the European Ladies Tour for 2005. The young lady from the Sandford Springs Club, Basingstoke, finished 50th in the final order of merit after the last of the
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4Com prove top threesome
Salisbury-based telecommunications company 4Com, with Richard Long, Simon Langford and Ryan Ellis, won a charity golf day at Hamptworth in aid of the Mayor of Salisbury's Appeal for the Trussell Trust. 4Com accumulated 79 stableford points but finished
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Bowers off the list
Eastleigh have taken Tyronne Bowers off the transfer list ahead of tomorrow's FA Cup third qualifying round replay at home to Tiverton Town (7.45). It was the little midfield magician who sparked the dramatic 3-3 fightback at Ladysmead on Saturday, scoring
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Riva seals Amtrak deal
A FORMER Hampshire window cleaner is celebrating becoming one of the head of the region's largest courier company after winning the Amtrak contract for the area. Started in his mum's spare room in 1989, Gary Richards' firm Riva today employs 50 people
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Olympic heroes honoured
THE south coast's Olympic stars were finally treated to an open-top bus ride in central London - almost two months after the tournament finished in Athens. Lymington's Ben Ainslie and Cowes star Shirley Robertson both showed off their gold medals - won
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AT LAST!
BELATED safety measures will be introduced at a dangerous Winchester junction less than a year after a pensioner was killed. A city residents' group has accused Hampshire County Council for ignoring the threat before the fatality despite warnings by the
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The silent phone menace
Today the Daily Echo joins force with Radio Solent to help end the misery caused by computer-generated silent telephone calls... SILENT, anonymous and mysterious. The telephone calls can come at any time of the day or night sometimes once, sometimes twice
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Hundreds hope to be top dancer
YOUNGSTERS from across Hampshire have launched their bid to become the region's Dance Idol 2004. More than 240 youngsters, aged five to 16, took part in three heats at leisure centres across Southampton in the Daily Echo and Southampton City Council competition
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Matthew's battle pulls in thousands
A MASSIVE £22,705 has been raised to boost the coffers of two hospital wards that have been treating a brave nine-year-old cancer patient from Fareham. Matthew Donnelly has endured several courses of chemotherapy and had a tumour removed from his leg
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Ormerod in race to answer SOS
BRETT ORMEROD looks likely to miss Leeds' game against Reading tonight through injury - and he faces a race against time in order to help out injury-decimated Saints against Birmingham on Sunday. The £1.75m striker will return from his month-long loan
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Brave Marion's a true Saint
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Marion Smith has her own personal reason to promote it. Kate Thompson reports... IT WAS the run up to Christmas last year and Marion Smith had just resigned from her job running the Saints supporters club.
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Have you got diabetes?
Almost one million people in the UK don't realise they have the disease... DIABETES affects nearly two million people in the UK - but almost one million don't even know they've got it. The rise in obesity in recent years has been accompanied by a huge
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Linnets might lose star pair
LYMINGTON & New Milton face a fight to hold on to two of their most gifted players ahead of their big FA Cup clash at home to Glenn Cockerill's Woking on Saturday week (October 30). Although the joy of the weekend's 1-0 giant-killing at Merthyr Tydfil
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Westfield fined £4,700 for asbestos breach
A COMPANY in Hampshire has been fined £4,700 with £1,200 costs for illegally dumping dangerous asbestos amongst general building waste. Westfield Asbestos (UK), of Latimer Street, Romsey, had pleaded guilty at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court to the disposal
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PR guru named woman of year
THE Wessex Business Woman of the Year award has become one of the highlights of the year for the regional business community. More than 220 people, many from large employers in and around Southampton, looked on as inspirational Gill Craig was crowned
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FISHING - Pestering pays off as Scott, 11, stuns his dad
ELEVEN-year-old Sam Scott caught a 5lb 4oz beauty on his first mullet sortie - to leave dad Bill speechless. The Dibden Purlieu youngster, who attends Noadswood senior school, found pestering for a trip paid off when his father took him to a mark along
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Review: Cole's tales from Westminster
An Evening with John Cole, Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke. THE IRONY of the evening was when John Cole spoke about the growing lack of interest people have in politics. However, having glanced around the theatre, I could only see an audience - admittedly
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Review: Haunting sounds from the Celloman
Celloman, Forest Arts, New Milton A STANDING ovation was the normally sedate Forest Arts audience's reaction to an extraordinary concert. Playing an electric cello with bow, fingers and a lot of soul, Ivan Hussey (the Celloman) delighted the packed crowd
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Water firm pours cash into trust
A PROGRAMME that helps young people back into work has won backing from Southern Water. The Hampshire company is to sponsor the Prince's Trust, which runs 12-week personal development courses for people aged 16 to 24. The 15 volunteers who have just completed
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School overhaul for £700,000
MORE than £700,000 is to be spent on a Meon Valley school to create more pupil places. The huge sum will be used to create 22 extra places at Droxford Junior School as well as a new hall and kitchen. If the funding gets approval from education bosses
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Geoff's boxes of delight
MAKING a difference to people's lives is something that has always been close to Geoff O'Flanagan's heart. Later this month he will be making a flying visit to bring joy to African orphans. The 33-year-old civil servant will be taking about 200 shoeboxes
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Young vandals caught in act
YOU'VE been framed! That was the message sent out from Fair Oak and Horton Heath Parish Council last night to yobs who smashed bottles in the goalmouths of football pitches at the weekend. Council chairman Helen Douglas said the offenders had been caught
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Sing with the king
THE event Elvis fans have been waiting for comes to The Anvil in Basingstoke next month - Sing-a-long-a-Elvis! The latest smash-hit live show, from the producers of Sing-a-long-a-Abba, celebrates the songs of the one and only king of rock 'n' roll. Shake
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Alan creates characters to remember
"THE other night, at about 11.30pm, I was in a local kebab shop and a couple of lads came in, pointed at me, and said 'You were the horse!'" Actor Alan Blyton is now in his sixth play at Basingstoke's Haymarket Theatre, and although he created quite a
