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Art Asia
HAVING celebrated a bumper year last year Art Asia has organised a number of great shows to kickstart 2007. Now in its 26th year the Southampton based arts organisation continues to provide the best in south Asian arts and entertainment. For the first
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Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry has announced a spring tour including a date in Bournemouth. He will be performing unheard tracks from his new album, his first in five years. Having captivated audiences with Roxy Music, Ferry now prepares to demonstrate his solo credentials
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Blyth and Case in sponsors' Cup XI
The power firm which is sponsoring this year's FA Cup today drew up a team of former electricians and plumbers who switched careers to become professional footballers. Included in the team were two men with strong Saints connections - Wembley hero
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Miss Potter (PG)
With worldwide sales in excess of 100 million books, Beatrix Potter remains one of the most popular children's authors of all time with her enchanting tales of Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-Duck and chums. The writer's extraordinary life
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APOCALYPTO (18)
Shot in the Yucatec language, with a cast of largely unknown, indigenous peoples from the Americas, Mel Gibson's film boldly recreates the collapse of an ancient empire through the eyes of a man embroiled in the bloodshed. Apocalypto is a tour-de-force
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Pompey deny Gaydamak 'to sell' speculation
Portsmouth have hit back at ''inaccurate speculation'' that new owner Alexandre Gaydamak is thinking about selling the Premiership club. The speculation followed the resignation this week of Gaydamak's vice-chairman and director David Chissick -
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Wraps come off first catamaran
A PRESTIGE Hampshire boatbuilder is to unveil a new model today in a move that will create up to ten new jobs and see the building of a new factory. Marchwood-based Discovery Yachts is taking the wraps off only its second ever model - a 50ft luxury catamaran
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Business South event is set for renewed success
MORE than three-quarters of the space at this year's Business South event has already been booked, organisers have revealed. More than 100 of the 130 spaces at the business to business exhibition have been snapped up already, months ahead of the actual
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Dock Movements
Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Autoprogress, roro, 0530, 203; Black Watch, passenger, 0630, 38/9; OOCL Faith, container, am, 206 Today's principal Southampton sailings: Aglaia, container, 0700, 206; OCL Malaysia, container, 0800, 207
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England pay for living in the past
Myles Hodgson, PA Sport Cricket Correspondent, England's campaign to retain the Ashes began with the selectors gambling on previous glories and ended with cricket's equivalent of bankruptcy with a humiliating whitewash. The whole basis of their
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Aussies name one-day squad
Matthew Hayden and Cameron White are included in Australia's one-day squad for the Commonwealth Bank series against England and New Zealand. Hayden, who has been in and out of the one-day side since 2004, gets the nod because of Damien Martyn's retirement
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Former Saint teams up with Pardew
Charlton have appointed former Hull manager Phil Parkinson as assistant to Alan Pardew. The 39-year-old former Dell trainee worked with Pardew when they were at Reading before going on to take over at Colchester and guide the Essex club into the Coca-Cola
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Ex-Saint joins West Ham
West Ham boss Alan Curbishley has made Luis Boa Morte his first signing at Upton Park in the club's bid to avoid relegation from the Barclays Premiership this season. Boa Morte, the 29-year-old Portugal winger who had been valued at around £5million
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Saints fans don't have much to be stressed about!
The worst football teams to follow have been named and shamed today in the first list of clubs that give their fans the most grief. Perennially struggling Notts County, the oldest club in the Football League, tops the list of teams having the most
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Ikea's Southampton plan back on track
FURNITURE giant Ikea is on the verge of launching a bid to open a superstore on the former Pirelli cable works in Southampton, the Daily Echo can today reveal. The Swedish firm is putting the finishing touches to its plans even though a government planning
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Derogatory to atheists
KAVANAGH'S comments on atheists (Pause for Thought, Daily Echo, December 30) were ill-informed, derogatory and patronising; vituperative is no substitute for well-reasoned argument in the debate about the existence or otherwise of a god. Kavanagh has
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Atheists at a loss for an answer
DURING the Christmas holiday Kavanagh should not have felt sorry for atheists because of his faith and Christian teaching. Whenever I meet an atheist I ask them who created the world and it cancels out all other questions. I am 85 and through my life
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So many cared for one person
ON December 7, some time after 12.20am I was at home upstairs and on my own when I suffered a heart attack and collapsed on the floor. Regaining consciousness for a time, I managed to get a phone out of my shirt pocket and call for help. So I would like
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A real voice for Coxford
COUNCILLOR Alec Samuels (Letters, December 29) claims I knows all the answers that no one else has thought of. He knows and I do that's not quite true. What is true is that my area deserves better than what it has at the moment, and if elected I will
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Urinal pinched from pub toilets
A THIEF has stolen a urinal from the toilets of a Southampton pub. Landlord Alan Dreja has expected to find the odd missing ashtray or bar mat but he was shocked to discover someone had gone into the gents' loos and removed the item from the wall. The
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Pietersen: We are better for playing Australia
Kevin Pietersen believes England will benefit from the experience of playing Australia. The Hampshire batsman failed to add to his overnight 29 before he was dismissed by the third ball of the final day of the fifth Test in Sydney. But he still finished
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Flood and fire hits family home from holiday
A HAMPSHIRE family arrived back from a dream holiday to encounter double trouble at home - a flood and a fire on consecutive days. Mike and Carmen Rice and their daughter, Kate, returned to their house in Cloughs Road, Ringwood, after spending a three-week
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Powell ready to come out of the wilderness
Darren Powell is ready for a massive test if he's thrown in at Torquay tomorrow. The centre half has not even played a reserve game this season, having been sidelined with posterior knee ligament damage since April. Powell was injured against Millwall
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Mothball threat to HMS Southampton
SOUTHAMPTON'S namesake warship is under threat of being mothballed. HMS Southampton is understood to be on a shortlist of ships which are likely to be downgraded to a state of "reduced readiness". It would mean that the Type 42 destroyer, which visited
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Burley's injury crisis ahead of Torquay trip
George Burley could be without 11 first-team players for tomorrow's trip to Torquay. He has eight players ruled out through injury, one through suspension and has doubts over another two. Definitely missing the FA Cup third round trip to Plainmoor
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Teenage girl attacked in woods
A TEENAGER was attacked as she walked along a path in Hampshire woodland. The 15-year-old was alone on a woodland track at Dibden Purlieu near Hythe when she was apparently grabbed by a man who is then thought to have indecently assaulted her. The youngster
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Bale agent: Gareth happy at Saints
The agent looking after Gareth Bale has insisted the Welsh international will not leave during the transfer window. But David Manasseh, the managing director of the Stellar Group, refused to comment on the offer of a new 12-month contract for the 17
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Aussies complete 5-0 Ashes whitewash
England became the first side for 86 years to suffer a 5-0 Ashes whitewash after slipping to a comprehensive ten-wicket defeat in the final Test. Australia became the first side since 1920-21 to complete a 5-0 series triumph. They dismissed England
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Southampton's laser plan dubbed 'imaginative' by Eastleigh council chief
EASTLEIGH'S civic chiefs have thrown their weight behind plans to blast the skies of Southampton with laser light. Eastleigh Borough Council has backed the plans to bring the so-called "wow" factor to the city by projecting laser beams from the civic
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Dancing to a latin beat and crowned British champions
THEIR cucarachas wowed judges and their voltas are some of the best in the country - just some of the spectacular dance moves that helped one Hampshire couple win a national dance competition. Elaine and Martyn Long put on their sequins and danced the
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Men chase off burglars from family home
A SOUTHAMPTON man chased after thieves who broke into his family home in the middle of the night. The 50-year-old man chased three men out of his home in Leaside Way, Swaythling and into the neighbourhood. A younger member of the family joined the man
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Burley: I'm not interested in Rangers job
SAINTS boss George Burley last night distanced himself from speculation linking him with the vacant Glasgow Rangers job. The Scottish giants are searching for a new manager after Paul Le Guen left after just seven months at Ibrox. Burley is highly-rated
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Our war loans
IT was announced recently that the Thas repaid paid our debt to the USA for the Second World War. It conveniently left out the 4.3 billion we still owe the US for our First World War loans. When the depression hit in the 30s, Britain could not meet its
