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Burley: Scoring first was key
George Burley felt scoring the first goal of the game was the key to Saints' FA Cup third round win at Torquay. Grzegorz Rasiak took his tally for the season to 18 with a double either side of half-time to ease Saints past the Football League's bottom
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Man dies after car overturns
A MAN was killed after a car went out of control near the Hampshire town of Fordingbridge. Two men were thrown out of the green Volkswagen Golf after it crashed into trees on one side of the road and then bounced back across the road before finally stopping
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2007 New Year, New Beginnings!
On Christmas Eve we delivered wrapped presents to every patient unfortunate enough to be in Southampton General Hospital over Christmas. Volunteers come in at teatime and go to every ward and personally hand the patient a present. Paients in the Geriatric
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2007 New Year, New Beginnings!
On Christmas Eve we delivered wrapped presents to every patient unfortunate enough to be in Southampton General Hospital over Christmas. Volunteers come in at teatime and go to every ward and personally hand the patient a present. Paients in the Geriatric
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Footballer demands referee is punished over 'oi ginger' slur
WHETHER ridiculed or revered, they often find themselves the butt of jokes because of nothing more than their hair colour. For generations, ginger is the colour that makes it often impossible for people to fade into the background. Now the taunts more
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Why I believe referee should be reprimanded over "ginger" slur
BURRIDGE AFC defender Paul Dyke is angry over comments made by a referee towards him during a parks football manager. The referee, Mark Rayment, is alleged to have shouted to Dyke "oi ginger, shut-up" during a game, which Dyke believes is a racist slur
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Ken faces life without Donny in Celebrity Big Brother household
HAMPSHIRE film director Ken Russell is getting used to life without Donny in the Celebrity Big Brother household. Bad boy rocker Donny Tourette scaled the Celebrity Big Brother fence to freedom after refusing to act as Jade Goody's servant. He will
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Nuffield in need of big funding push
THE Nuffield Theatre is calling on organisations to chip in with cash as their appeal gathers momentum. The Appeal aims to raise £400,000 to go towards new talent, its youth and community projects and building improvements. Recently Garfield Weston,
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Baby's post-mortem inconclusive
A POST-mortem conducted on a baby who died at her Isle of Wight home has proved inconclusive. Ten-month-old Jodie Sullivan-Kearns was found unconscious at a property in Hazel Close, Ventnor, by an ambulance crew who were called to the property at 1am
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Shooting the past is a work of love for history boys
THE rich history of Southampton has many threads that have been woven together over the decades to produce a modern 21st century city. Local stories and tales have been told and retold down the generations - but now modern technology has been used to
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Oh buoy, it's Sarah and Jo
AFTER five years of trouncing her opposition on the other side of the pond, the world's top female powerboat racer is back home in Hampshire - and aiming to take on the boys with her new all-girl racing team. Former European offshore and American national
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We need an ice rink
WE have wanted an ice rink for the last 18 years. The city council has broken its promise to build one. We need it now, not in years to come. What about the Royal Pier? We need that restored. The council is supposed to work for Southampton people, but
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Struggling to cope with immigration
The present economics of EU immigration policy creates an un-level playing field where certain countries such as the United Kingdom take the brunt of acute socio-economic pressures over a relatively short period of time. This national shock creates unacceptable
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Hope from afar
I hope that the latest European space agency mission sent just before Christmas to find other worlds like ours is successful. Maybe if we found out we are not alone in the universe, it might make us realise that there are more important things to do
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The Ken I know
HE'S the talk of the nation. The outlandish, aged, film director who went into the Big Brother house flamboyantly dressed in a vivid outfit of red shirt and trousers and a green and gold embroidered waistcoat, singing loudly to the waiting crowd. He
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Bin Laden is still free
George Bush and Tony Blair have succeeded in killing Saddam Hussein, but the person they were supposed to have caught, Bin Laden, is still at large. ALAN BRIDGENS, Bishopstoke.
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What has your MPs done for you?
They get well paid when you add on all the perks they receive, they influence our lives and our futures. Ask yourself the question, what has your MP achieved to improve your lives? Then ask why do you (if you are one that bothers) vote them into power
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Ignore the 'doomsayers'
THE man behind plans to fire lasers into the night sky from Southampton's Civic Centre has described critics of the project as "doomsayers". Engineer and artist Peter Fink - designer of the £249,000 Southampton Laser Gateway scheme - told the Daily Echo
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Burglar almost got caught in the lavatory!
A BURGLAR may have locked himself in a bathroom for two hours before fleeing from a house in Hedge End. The bizarre incident happened when the owner of the house in Billington Gardens returned home and was indoors for about two hours before hearing noises
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Shane warns England - the Aussies will roll on!
SHANE Warne is backing Australia to continue their relentless domination of world cricket even after more than a third of their star-studded line-up has retired. Australia's 10-wicket triumph over England in the final Test at the SCG wrapped up the
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United doing Lawrie proud
SOME things ARE predictable in football. When Lawrie McMenemy was asked last summer who would win the Premiership title, he answered: Manchester United. Now Lawrie is feeling pretty pleased with himself. Big Mac's views on football are always fresh
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Saints board under pressure over investment
FORMER Saints boss Dave Merrington believes Michael Wilde and his directors will be "judged quite harshly" if they fail to bring in new investment. The Wilde camp strongly hinted at the possibility of new investment prior to taking over as they staged
