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Burley: we deserved QPR win
GEORGE Burley felt his side deserved their important three points at QPR. Grzegorz Rasiak's 19th goal of the season 11 minutes from time and an injury-time strike from Bradley Wright-Phillips sealed the 2-0 victory against a dogged QPR side at Loftus
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Romsey sack Banger
ROMSEY Town have sensationally sacked former Saints striker Nicky Banger - just 17 days into his role as commercial manager for the Sydenhams Wessex League Division 1 club. Banger started his new post at the By-Pass Ground on January 1 and only last
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Get serious about recycling or pay more council tax
Householders are being urged to get serious about recycling to avoid rises in council tax. Hampshire Euro MP Richard Ashworth is warning that the government is likely to pass on hefty fines to local councils if they fail to help it meet tough EU targets
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Why Esther Rantzen would like to see alcopops banned
MENTION alcopops and you are guaranteed to inflame TV presenter and Childline founder Esther Rantzen. Just mention them and she is at her passionate, hard-hitting best. "There is a lot of peer pressure and personally I would ban alcopops," she said
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Asperger evening
ON Tuesday, January 23, the Southampton Asperger Support Group (for both adults and children with AS, and their families) will be having their post-Christmas party. We would like to invite all past members and their families, and any interested potential
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Red Movement has inspired me
The Daily Echo's profile of Bridget Riley and her work (January 13) certainly helped me understand Red Movement a little better and I will make a point of going to see it. Now that I understand the artwork, I suspect that newsprint doesn't do it justice
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Big Brother's a big bore to me
IT does amaze me that so much TV and national press coverage is given to Channel 4's Big Brother. Even Labour MP Keith Vaz said it was his favourite programme and yet he has complained about racist abuse by some of the housemates. I confess to not having
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In the same league after all
I HAD always admired fellow citizens whose origins are in the Indian sub-continent, as industrious and intelligent people. Now I see from recent demonstrations too many of them watch Big Brother and conclude that they are no better than the rest of us
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Wogan prepares for a Forest feast
BROADCASTING legend Terry Wogan is in for a special sizzling treat all the way from the New Forest on Monday. Live on air on his breakfast radio show, Wogan, pictured, will be sampling some of the Forest's finest morning fayre. He will be trying The
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Red Movement reminds me of a blouse!
SINCE the pictures of the Red Movement were first published, I have been puzzling as to where I have seen this mixture of shapes and colours before and the answer suddenly came to me this morning and it certainly wasn't of a picture or a duvet. It was
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Banger sacked after just 17 days
ROMSEY Town have sensationally sacked former Saints striker Nicky Banger - just 17 days into his role as commercial manager for the Sydenhams Wessex League Division 1 club. Banger started his new post at the By-Pass Ground on January 1 and only last
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Shops ban teenagers from buying eggs
TEENAGERS living in a Hampshire village are set to be hit with an egg-buying ban as part of a police clampdown on yobbish behaviour. Shops are being urged to sign up to an agreement that would prevent them from selling eggs to youngsters. The idea is
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Parents of stabbed teenager decide to become foster carers
THE parents of a Southampton teenager who was stabbed to death have revealed their wish to help other youngsters who have had a difficult start in life. Patsy and Paul Loader lost their 17-year-old son Daniel after he was brutally stabbed twice in the
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Blackstock targets double
Dexter Blackstock is backing Saints to return to the Premiership this season - but is determined to help QPR complete a rare league double against his former club. Blackstock has scored eight goals in 25 appearances since completing his £500,000 move
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Fight breaks out during pole dancers' night out
POLICE were called to an exclusive hotel in the New Forest when a a fight broke out involving partying women. It happened when an argument broke out at Careys Manor Hotel in Lyndhurst Road, Brockenhurst. According to police, one of the partygoers
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It's Strictly Ballroom on the south coast
THE sensational dance spectacular Simply Ballroom is toe-tapping its way around the UK in 2007 and stops off at Salisbury City Hall on February 23, for one night only. Hosted by dance legend Lionel Blair, inset, and choreographed by TV's dancing dtars
