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Belfast fixture offers chance to extend run
THE Basingstoke Bison travel to Belfast tonight with confidence high in the camp after last weekend's maximum points haul. Tomorrow (6.30pm) the Bison return home to face the British National League's Dundee Stars in the first meeting between these sides
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Ex-Tottenham star is lined up to help out Hawks
Havant & Waterlooville have used their vast network of professional contacts to line up the signing of former Spurs and Reading midfielder Darren Caskey. The 30-year-old is joining the Hawks on a short-term basis before jetting off to take up a professional
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Brock players are cheating says boss
BROCKENHURST boss Graham Kemp wants his inconsistent Foresters to prove they are not "cheats" at Cowes Sports tomorrow. Last Saturday's dismal 2-0 surrender at Christchurch was put into frightening perspective on Tuesday when Christchurch were pummelled
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I could go deaf, admits ace Lua Lua
Lomana Lua Lua will unveil a new goal celebration if he scores his seventh Pompey goal against Blackburn tomorrow - after doctors ordered him to STOP somersaulting. Striker Lua Lua is set to play his first game since Christmas after recovering from the
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Bash to plug squad hole with double loan
BASHLEY are working on a double loan deal with Eastleigh to offset the departures of skipper Mat Jones and midfielder Graeme Gee to FA Vase holders Winchester City. All being well, the Foresters will have striker James Stokoe and full-back Sam Wyeth on
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Million Dollar Baby (12a)
CLINT Eastwood directs Hilary Swank in this gritty story of a hardened fighter-cum-trainer who works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer. With support from Morgan Freeman and five-star reviews, this looks to be knock-out
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In Port
Today's Principal Arrivals: Grande Europa, vehicle carrier, 0015, 202; CMA CGM Bizet, container, 0330, 207; Lembitu, ro/ro, container, 0530, 30; OOCL Netherlands, container, 0630, 206; Trinity, cargo, 1230, Marchwood Quay Today's Principal Sailings: Autofreighter
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Raising charity cash is common goal
BUSINESS professionals in and around Southampton swapped their business suits for a football strip to take part in the inaugural Numerica five-a-side charity shield. Twenty teams of local businesses, predominantly from the banking, law and accounting
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Tough at the top in Hants League
Trojans will have company at the top of Hampshire Division One if their main challengers, Sandown & Shanklin, win their re-arranged league clash with struggling Nomads tomorrow. The Islanders will only trail the Stoneham Lane men on points difference
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BOXING - Quartet make regional finals
Four young Golden Ring boxers have progressed to the regional finals of the national Golden Gloves championships. And they also scored an early blow for Southampton over Portsmouth in the lead-up to the eagerly awaited FA Cup fourth round clash at the
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Borough's future debated
A MAJOR inquiry into the future shape of the borough of Basingstoke and Deane began this week. The outcome will decide where thousands of homes are to be built up until 2016 and which, if any, new land is used for business. Government-appointed planning
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Flashing warning lights approved for bashed bridge
THE flashing lights which could halt the succession of lorries crashing into Romsey's Greatbridge Road railway bridge are set to be installed in the next few weeks. Approval for the lights, which will contain sensors detecting lorries higher than the
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Unholy row over church grants
SUPPORTERS of North Baddesley's All Saints Church have received some good and bad news in their fight to build a £1million replacement place of worship. Parish council chief Alan Dowden handed over £5,000 to the church's vicar Peter Salisbury this week
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Fitness fans put sport in the shop window!
TWO Winchester residents are set to take part in a public fitness test later this month as part of a competition set up by River Park Leisure Centre and Win FM. The two contestants, Sarah Weatherhead and Caroline Gordon, will be competing in a head-to-head
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Scratchcards to soften blow
A SCRATCHCARD-STYLE parking scheme could be extended in Winchester to help soften the blow of a parking charge hike for residents in the city. Plans announced late last year by Winchester City Council will see the cost of parking outside homes rocket
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Flat rejection for store plans
PLANS to turn a former Waterside shop into seven flats have been thrown out. Proposals to convert the old Langley Stores in Lepe Road, Langley, into homes were rejected by the district council's planning committee. Planning officers said the proposed
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Pygmalion
IT'S the dream of chorus girls and understudies the world over - the chance to step into the limelight and take on a leading role. For Karen Bridle of Fair Oak, that dream has become a reality. Karen, 31, who works as a communications officer with Hampshire
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Lucky Days notch up second major win in five years
IT WAS a winning start to the New Year for two Find the Ball experts, who scooped this week's £2,000 runner-up prize. Pensioners Roy and Maureen Day came closest to finding the ball in the Daily Echo competition - and it was the second time in a decade
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I did it for you, Dai
HE has travelled from the other side of the world to give his brother an emotional final send-off. Bill Brook has made the 10,500-mile journey from Australia back to the family home town of Eastleigh so he could scatter the ashes of his brother David
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Firefighters aim for £20,000
FIRE and rescue workers in Eastleigh have been overwhelmed with the donations for the tsunami appeal. With collection points at the Asda superstore in Chandler's Ford, members of Eastleigh's Blue Watch have raised more than £18,000 so far. Blue Watch
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Sorrow after balloon festival is axed
COMMUNITY groups across Southampton have expressed their sorrow and dismay that the city's balloon festival is being axed. Yesterday, the Daily Echo exclusively revealed that the 60-year history of Southampton's festival had come to an end because of
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Making big splash with spacecraft
TODAY Southampton scientists could be the first to measure waves on another planet. Their space probe successfully broke away from its mother ship, the US Cassini spacecraft, on Christmas Day and is due to land on Titan, a moon of Saturn, this afternoon
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Coach warns over poor discipline
JIM DIXON has praised his Basingstoke side for their determined spirit in securing a last-minute win over Thanet, but warned them that poor discipline almost cost a vital victory. Despite playing with the wind in the first half, 'Stoke only led 5-0 after
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'Lor love a duck!
SPRING has arrived early in Rooksbury Road, Andover with 10 mallard ducklings braving January's frost. "I was very surprised when I saw them in my parent's garden as they're a few months early," said Kathryn Brackstone. Usually drakes attract the ducks
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Playing the green card
PLAYING cards produced by the US military in the hunt for former members of the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq have sparked a more peaceful version designed especially for Salisbury Plain. The new cards, funded by the military and the EU Life programme
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Uncertain future for pension shock couple
AN Andover couple are facing an uncertain future as their retirement plans are shattered by the collapse of the Lionheart Pension Scheme at Croydex. About 600 employees and former employees of the company on Walworth Industrial Estate face having their
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Alexander O'Neil
ONE of America's greatest contemporary soul singers, Alexander O'Neil, performs live at the Southampton Guildhall next month. The recent release of his greatest hits album catapulted the 80's legend back into the top ten of the UK album charts. At his
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Community centre after nine-year wait
THE debate on the proposal to build a new community centre in Whitchurch can now come to an end after councillors granted it permission. For nine years the community has been trying to get a centre and the decision at Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council's
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CRAIG David
CRAIG David will perform at a Live Aid style concert at Cardiff's Millennium on January 22 to help the victims of the tsunami disaster. The Southampton pop star will join the likes of The Manic Street Preachers, Embrace, Jools Holland, and guitar legend
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Not Katies and The Fight
TWO of the UK's hottest subterranean bands, Not Katies and The Fight, play The Joiners on Sunday. Formally known as the facetiously titled Lassie Come Home, Not Katies are one of Southampton's biggest hopes for rock stardom. The band have already supported
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New Found
ROCK perfectionists New Found open their seven-date UK tour at Southampton's Guildhall on January 26. The Florida quintet have sold close to a million albums since first exploding on to the scene at the turn of the century with their Gold-selling, self-titled
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Town show support
Basingstoke Town 1, Brentford XI 0 THIS specially-arranged friendly at the Camrose on Wednesday helped to raise £1,475 for the tsunami appeal to help those in south-east Asia whose lives were devastated by the Boxing Day disaster. Despite Chelsea taking
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Friends ensure that Virginia's poetry lives on
A WRITING group from Chandler's Ford is to publish a book of poems by one of its members who died last year. Librarian Virginia Warbey, of Romsey, died in a car accident in North Baddesley last summer just weeks before her 36th birthday. Now friends and
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MP attacks firm over pensions problem
AN MP has accused the company at the centre of one of Hampshire's bleakest pensions scandals of "blackmailing" workers. Julian Lewis told the Commons that APW Electronics had threatened to close its Chandler's Ford factory and make employees redundant
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Leisure centre sell-off row
A ROW has broken out over whether Whiteley's Meadowside Leisure centre should be sold off because too many "outsiders" are using it. Conservative George Hollingberry, prospective parliamentary candidate for Winchester, wants owners of the venue, Winchester
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Southampton not affected by weakened team
WITH many athletes having run 24 hours earlier in the Hampshire Cross-Country Championships, Team Southampton sent a weakened team to the Wessex Cross-Country League fixture at Devizes. But Sasha Mucci showed no ill-effects of her fourth-placed finish
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Craig David planning new album and tour
CRAIG David has revealed plans for a new album and tour this year. Details of the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2002's charttopping Slicker Than Your Average are still in their infancy, but speaking to fans in his website Christmas message, the Southampton
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Snooker stars set for Anvil contest
SNOOKER fans in Basingstoke are in for a real treat next month when four of the best players in the world play at The Anvil as part of the Betfred.com Premier League Snooker tournament. The star quartet of Ronnie O'Sullivan, Stephen Hendry, Paul Hunter
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Closer (15)
RELATIONSHIPS are a messy business, painfully so in Mike Nichols's elegant and eloquent film version of Patrick Marbers' award-winning stage play, adapted for the screen by the writer himself. Love affairs, forged in the white heat of lust, are extinguished
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Vanity Fair (PG)
Vanity Fair, is a film based on William Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel of shameless social climbing in the early 19th century. Born to a starving English artist and a French chorus girl, Becky is orphaned at a young age and learns to rely on her
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Firm nets contract to provide service
A CONTRACT from the UK's biggest general union for a new network solution has got the new year off to a good start for a Basingstoke-headquartered company. Fibernet, a bespoke network provider, based on The Viables, has won a contract for an undisclosed
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Call for views on South East Plan
BUSINESSES in Basingstoke are being urged to give their views on the South East Plan. Basingstoke council has asked the North Hampshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry to put forward its opinions on the plan on behalf of businesses. Now the chamber is
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AA plans return
PROPOSED changes at the AA could see the company's headquarters on the road back to its landmark building in Basingstoke. Although the AA has always maintained a presence at Fanum House, in Basing View, since being bought by Centrica in 1999, many of
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Migration tale uses different mediums
A VERY unusual theatrical experience comes to The Anvil this month. Writer Timothy O'Grady (pictured) narrates from I Could Read the Sky, a book he co-produced with photographer Steve Pyke. And it will be accompanied by music and projected images. US
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Cardiff stadium date
CRAIG David will perform at a Live Aid style concert at Cardiff's Millennium on January 22 to help the victims of the tsunami disaster. The Southampton pop star will join the likes of The Manic Street Preachers, Embrace, Jools Holland, and guitar legend
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FOOTBALL: Font dumped out ofthe cup
UNBELIEVABLE! That's the only description one can use to summarise Mottisfont's exit from the Intermediate Cup. While the scoreline is the only thing that counts, anyone playing in or watching their encounter with Southampton Premier side Locksley Sports
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RUGBY: Romsey throw away lead
ROMSEY allowed a sizable half time lead to evaporate and lost the chance to pull off a shock result last Saturday, writes Bob Broomhall. Leading 19-3 at half time, Romsey's tails were up against a team that had run rings round them in the away fixture
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Ellie takes another step
ELLIE Osmond, the 14 year old rider from Whiteparish, took part in the World Class Start and Potential viewing day at Addington Equestian Centre last weekend. Ellie travelled with her pony Wild Thyme and her new horse Nanette for the three day event,
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Top dogs City call in the reinforcements
WESSEX pacemakers Winchester City have three new players on their books for tomorrow's title showdown against Gosport Borough at the Denplan City Ground. The FA holders have swooped for experienced Bashley duo Mat Jones and Graeme Gee hot on the heels
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Building firm folds with £370,000 debts
TEN people have lost their jobs after a building company in Hampshire collapsed with debts of £370,000. Rice Building Ltd, based at Whitefield Road, New Milton, officially went bankrupt last month after work dried up. Southampton based insolvency specialist
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Millbrook step into unknown
Millbrook step into the unknown for the third successive season when they start their defence of the trophy against visitors from 'abroad' in the Hampshire Gales Plate. Jersey United Banks, winners of the Channel Islands preliminary rounds having seen
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Borough's future debated
A MAJOR inquiry into the future shape of the borough of Basingstoke and Deane began this week. The outcome will decide where thousands of homes are to be built up until 2016 and which, if any, new land is used for business. Government-appointed planning
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Rotary collect £5,000 tsunami
ROTARY Club volunteers were left rejoicing at the generosity of people from Romsey and its surrounding area after a highly successful tsunami disaster collection day. Volunteers were out in force with the collecting buckets in the town centre on Saturday
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Dean Dump land could be sold back to original owners
SOME of the land on the former Naval arms store at Dean Hill is being sold back to its original owners, while some of its industrial buildings could go on the open market in the Spring. The Defence Munitions Centre, Dean Hill, formerly known as the Royal
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Pubs bitter over power cut
PUBLICANS are counting the cost of a major power cut which blacked out watering holes and 900 mid-Test Valley homes on Tuesday evening. A tree-damaged power line at Kimbridge caused the widespread disruption including delays to train services on the Salisbury
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Donations rain in for cats and dogs
HOMELESS cats and dogs across the region will benefit from the generosity of staff and clients at a Romsey veterinary practice. A bumper haul of pet food, toys and bedding collected over the festive holidays by Mainstone Vets is now being distributed
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Readers' total nears £10,000
DONATIONS from Gazette readers are already on their way to help victims of the Boxing Day tsunami - but the appeal for money remains urgent. Since Gazette Newspapers teamed up with UNICEF last week to launch a joint tsunami appeal, readers have donated
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School's joy at ofsted honour
STAFF and pupils at a Basingstoke school are celebrating after it received a national accolade. Winklebury Infant School, in Willoughby Way, has won itself a second mention on Ofsted's list of England's most successful schools and colleges. It is one
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Dial M for murder
AN evening of suspense, drama and intrigue is the order of the day at the Lighthouse arts centre in Poole later this month as an all-star cast stars in the deliciously gruesome Dial M for Murder. Tony Wendice, played by former Brookside star Steven Pinder
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Smack in the mouth
THE extent of Hampshire's dental crisis is revealed today. New figures show that only one in three adults in the county have treatment with NHS dentists. Just seven dentists remain who are willing to take on new NHS patients, with some areas of the county
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Back from the tsunami dead
SHE RAN for her life. Her family believed she had perished in the giant tsunami wave. Jo Dixie survived, just, but lost everything. Now back home in Hampshire, she is using her miraculous escape from the Indian Ocean disaster to help others affected by
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Never mind the world - enjoy our city sights!
EVERY one is the perfect holiday destination. The sub-tropical temperatures of Madeira, the pretty coral reefs off St Vincent in the Cape Verde Islands and the white-sanded, palm tree-lined beaches of Recife in Brazil. But a voyage around the Isle of
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Pong cause may remain a mystery
THE cause of the nasty niff that brought disruption to parts of Southampton yesterday is likely to remain a mystery. More than 300 worried people bombarded gas firm Transco with calls after noticing a strong smell of gas in the city centre. The crown
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Curry houses aid tsunami appeal
EVERY curry restaurant in Southampton is set to get involved in a massive fundraising effort for the victims of the tsunami disaster. Members of Southampton's Bangladeshi community have pledged to organise a one-off Asian fundraiser in aid of the disaster
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Police chief heads review team
WHITCHURCH Chief Superintendent Dan Clacher has been appointed to review the structure of the police force in order to meet all the policing challenges ahead. Chief Constable Paul Kernaghan has commissioned the review and will work with a group of senior
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Anger over speeding traffic
TOLLGATE Road residents lobbied Andover Councillors' Forum on Monday to vent their fury about speeding cars in the road. One said: "When I'm in bed and there are cars speeding down the road at 50 or 60 miles an hour it's hard to get to sleep." Another
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The big time is beckoning for Athlete
TWO years ago, amid over-flowing champagne flutes and a cloud of Benson & Hedges, a quiet mumble was beginning to spread among the good and all-powerful of the music industry. The Mercury Prize nominations for 2003 had just been revealed at a lavish
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They're fit 4 anything!
TEST Valley parking attendants who pound the streets day after day have been awarded a special golden trainer as part of a fitness campaign by the borough council. The Fit4work Group looks at ways of giving staff access and opportunities to a healthy
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The Anvil
THERE'S a distinct classical feel to The Anvil in Basingstoke this weekend as some of music's most celebrated classical musicians descend upon the theatre for two very special evenings of music. On Friday the prestigious Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
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Mixed results in GCSE tables
AN Andover school shared top place in the private sector in provisional GCSE performance tables for secondary schools in England. Rookwood School topped the Hampshire league table with three other independent schools where 100 per cent of GCSE pupils
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Fundraisers in a class of their own
THE 197 pupils at Wallop Primary School decided to collect as many pennies and tuppenny pieces as they could and soon managed to raise an impressive £550 for the tsunami appeal. On Tuesday morning the school piled the money into a wheelbarrow and turned
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The Others
HOTLY tipped indie band The Others support the release of their self-titled debut album, out later this month, with a nine-date UK tour that includes a gig at the Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms on January 26. Since releasing their first single, This is For
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The Asian Quake Appeal
SATURDAY Night Beaver, The Mustangs, Arlen, Obviously Five Believers and The Low Country are just a few of the bands' headlining The Asian Quake Appeal concert at the Portsmouth Wedgerooms on January 19. Tickets are £10 and all money raised goes to the
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New PO opens for business
AT a time when so many post offices are closing, Ludgershall is bucking the trend with a new facility open for business. Ludgershall Post Office in the village high street opened on Monday and was immediately busy as the old facility in Andover Road had
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Rooster's
ROCK young guns Rooster's gig at the Wedgewood Rooms on January 24 has sold out. The band got their farmyard name after winning £250 on a racehorse called Rooster Booster. And the cheeky West Londoners look like being dead certs themselves for success
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Chantry Centre rethink
A MAJOR planning application to extend Andover's Chantry Centre has been withdrawn - for more information. Kailash Estates Limited had submitted a planning application to Test Valley Borough Council for a mixed scheme, which would link directly into the
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David Kitt
ACCLAIMED Irish singer-songwriter David Kitt brings his guitar and spiritual melodies to the Portsmouth Wedgerooms on January 27 as part of a nine-date jig around the UK. The tour coincides with the release of his new covers album The Black and Red Notebook
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Carnival under threat
THE future of Andover's Festival Weekend is hanging by a thread as the organisers consider dropping the event this year. Andover Lions Club is struggling to meet the cost of the two weekend events and to muster the organisational power to stage them.
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Physio helps players get rub of the green
BASINGSTOKE Town's chartered physiotherapist Mark Randall has been over-seeing a six-week project involving trials of different hamstring stretching exercises and their effects. Randall and the Basingstoke Town players have been helping Josephine Palmer
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Nursery and music room delight
CHILDREN at Lee-on-the-Solent Infant School are celebrating the completion of a £293,000 nursery and music room. Pupils and staff at the school, 200 yards from the seafront in Elmore Road, are enjoying learning and play in the glass-fronted modern extension
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Saints close in on Quashie
HARRY REDKNAPP is poised to make a £2m swoop for Portsmouth midfielder Nigel Quashie. The St Mary's boss wants to recruit his former Fratton Park captain to boost Saints' relegation fight and Quashie is apparently keen to follow Redknapp across the south-coast
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Jim: I had it so much harder at St James'
Jim Smith is hoping to add some happier memories to his Newcastle experiences tomorrow. The Saints assistant manager was boss of the Magpies in the 1980s but endured a tough time on the Tyne before eventually resigning with the team in the second division
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Rotary RX-8 will fit in like clockwork
WHAT'S Britain's most common New Year resolution for 2005? Get fit? Stop drinking? Buy a sports car? Although the last option might seem like a selfish purchase for any mother or father, there is now a sports car that fits the requirements of family motorists
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Hyundai updates Coup
HYUNDAI has given its popular Coup a new look for 2005, with styling changes inside and out. The revised Coup features a redesigned front, including new headlamps, front air intake, front bumper and fog lamps, new side vents, new rear light clusters and
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Team America: World Police (15)
TREY Parker and Matt Stone, the anarchic geniuses responsible for South Park, put their politically incorrect, foul-mouthed spin on Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet et al with this adults-only puppet romp. Team America: World Police is an international police
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Million Dollar Baby (12A)
LIKE a good wine, Clint Eastwood gets better with age. The veteran filmmaker's 25th feature behind the camera, and his follow-up to the Oscar-winning Mystic River, is quite possibly his most assured and accomplished work to date. More thrillingly, at
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STILL SHOWING
THE AVIATOR (12A): Martin Scorsese's biopic of reclusive industrialist Howard Hughes, paints a vivid and sumptuous portrait of the Hollywood golden age. Leonardo DiCaprio is incredibly assured as the tormented mogul with strong support from Cate Blanchett
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Oxoid starts new year with a special award
A BASINGSTOKE company has started the new year in top form after winning special honours in the 2004 Best Factory Awards. Oxoid, a world leader in specialist diagnostic products, is based in Wade Road, where about 400 employees are involved in the manufacture
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Settled forecast for borough's market
ESTATE agents' diaries are filling with valuation appointments from potential sellers - and the first sales of the new year have already been logged. But what do Basingstoke agents expect the residential market to do in 2005? The answer is not to expect
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Move quickly to secure Stillness
THE hamlet of Heckfield is the location for a modern home built in the 1990s by Swallow Developments. The house (pictured), named Stillness, stands on a no-through road and its front garden has views over fields. Stillness is selling through Lane Fox
