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Solid start to Hants' championship campaign
Homegrown pair Jimmy Adams (86) and Chris Benham (76) starred as Hampshire closed the first day of their championship season on 352-6 against Surrey. Opener Adams laid the foundations after Shane Warne had won the toss, and then Benham blasted 76
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Hain gives local campaign a lift
LABOUR'S local election campaign in Southampton received a lift with a visit by a Cabinet minister yesterday. Peter Hain, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Wales, mingled with shoppers in Shirley, right, before knocking on doors in Millbrook
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Prime Minister and Prince William pay tribute to Alan Ball
THE Prime Minister and Prince William today gave their tributes to England and Saints legend, Alan Ball. And the Football Association has confirmed that England's players will wear black armbands as a mark of respect to Ball during their first game at
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Pompey unveil plans for new stadium
Portsmouth are set to end their 108-year stay at Fratton Park after unveiling plans for a new 36,000-seater stadium. The new ground, which the club want to build on a 13-acre site adjacent to the city's naval dockyards, will be part of a £600million
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FA overturn Thompson's red card at St Mary's
Leeds midfielder Alan Thompson has won his appeal for wrongful dismissal and will be available for the remainder of the season. The former England international was facing a three-match ban after being dismissed for violent conduct in Saturday's
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Police chief's personal appeal over Somali death
THE man in charge of an investigation into how a man died in Southampton after being seen by police officers and paramedics has made a personal appeal for witnesses. Ian Bynoe, the region's Independent Police Complaints Commissioner, came to the city
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Seven years on, my son's still missing
A HAMPSHIRE mother will today make an emotional appeal for her son to get in touch - seven years after he vanished without a trace. The story of Paul Balmforth's disappearance will be featured on the BBC 1 programme Missing in the continuing bid to track
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Woman hurt after collision with bus
A WOMAN was rushed to hospital this morning after being knocked down by a bus in Southampton city centre. The woman, thought to be in her 60's, was in collision with the single-decker First Bus in the area of Vincents Walk and Hanover Buildings. Police
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Son tells of Alan Ball tragedy
ALAN Ball's tearful son Jimmy today told how he was "proud" of his dad and hoped he would now be reunited with his mother who he "missed terribly". Speaking at the family home, Jimmy said he had heard the devastating news by telephone during the night
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Litter picking
IN response to Tim Ponsford (Letters, April 13). Due to people discarding their rubbish indiscriminately every day of the year, litter pickers are a neccessity. Rather than expecting them to clean up litter around your fence, take the initiative yourself
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Waste of good school
Waste of good school I WONDER if all those involved with the plans for new secondary schools are aware of the splendid site of Millbrook School with its vast playing fields, beautiful arboretum, vastly expensive sports facilities and, of course, the
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Reinstate our old values
TWO months ago my 83- year-old brother told me about his experiences in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, the first time he has discussed it with anyone, and only because I wanted the information for the family history. We come from what was
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Our soldiers uphold the liberty of free expression
I'M surprised that Anver Jeevanjee (In My View, April 17) with his ethnic heritage can suffer in such an uncivilised country as this. Does he not feel threatened when walking our streets? Wouldn't he feel more at home in a country such as Iran, where
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I still fear for safety over changes to road
I THANK Duncan McVey, the head of engineering at Eastleigh Council, for his reply to my concerns about the safety in Leigh Road, Eastleigh (Letters, April 6), albeit virtually word for word the conversation we had some months previously. My concerns
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Weston Shore parking
I AGREE with L Turner (Letters, April 18) regarding the poor new layout of the car park at Weston Shore. Not enough spaces overlooking Southampton Water so I park nearly where the old Seaweed Hut was. One day recently there were four cars and two others
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Painful lessons sunk in hard
PROSECUTING the parents of young tearaways (Letters, April 13) is a great idea and the sooner it is made law the better, but it's not going to work, like so many other good ideas, It is the parents who are at fault, not the children. If young mothers
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Eastleigh safe from drop
Eastleigh ended their relegation fears with a 1-1 draw with play-off hopefuls Bishop's Stortford at The Silverlake Stadium last night. Jason Dodd's Spitfires had to do it the hard way by coming from a goal behind against the Conference South's fifth-placed
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Pike's joy of six
Gosport Borough manager Alex Pike called on his players to repeat their 6-0 thrashing of Downton ahead of last night's visit to Horndean. And they did exactly that at Horndean's Five Heads Park to leapfrog AFC Totton and go three points clear at the
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Saints can hack the pressure!
Saints are going to make the play-offs - if you believe journalists. With the countdown on to see which three clubs claim those final three play-off spots still up for grabs, we went in search of some answers in order of current league positions from
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Bale in line for shock return
GARETH Bale could make a shock return to aid Saints' promotion play-off chances. George Burley last night told the Daily Echo that the Welsh international starlet is in line to be added to the squad for the trip to Norwich this weekend. And Saints
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Find out about schools plans
THE first of six public meetings will take place today for people to find out more about the different organisations that want to run Southampton's proposed two new secondary schools. It will take place at Oaklands Community School in Fairisle Road,
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Cameron brands ASBOs a "gimmick"
HELPING Hampshire families stay together will do more to tackle yobs and gangs than dishing out ASBOs, Tory leader David Cameron has told the Daily Echo. Mr Cameron branded Antisocial Behaviour Orders "gimmicks" because they failed to encourage people
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Tributes to a legend
Tributes have poured in from across the football world for Alan Ball. The Prime Minister led the tributes to the World Cup winner. Tony Blair's official spokesman said: ''The Prime Minister is saddened by Alan Ball's death, and hugely admired him.''
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£12m contract for construction group
CONSTRUCTION group Trant has won a £12m design-and-build contract to provide the intake and outfall pipework for a new power station due to be built in Hampshire in four years' time. The main civil works for the new cooling water system will take 12
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Peace at last for train horn insomniacs
ALL they wanted was a good night's sleep - and now they will, thanks to big changes in the sounding of train horns at night. Fed-up residents have been left bleary-eyed because of noisy trains passing their homes in the dead of night and rudely interrupting
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Victory over plans for sheltered flats
CONSERVATIONISTS are celebrating a major victory in their campaign to preserve the character of Lymington. A government-appointed planning inspector has rejected an application by McCarthy & Stone to build more than 50 old people's flats on a site at
