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One down - five races to go!
DURNESS really is the back of beyond. It lies at the most north-westerly point of mainland UK. Step straight off the cliffs, walk in a straight line north, and you probably hit Iceland. But the remoteness of the area is its beauty. Here is a place where
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Southern Electric Premier League results
ECB PREMIER 1 Bashley (Rydal) 182 (7)(Manning 50, Friedman 25, Ingram 3-33) Havant 190-8 (20) (Ransley 32, Hundley 28). Havant won by eight runs. Bournemouth 253-8 (22) (Cowley 64, Scott 60, Lawes 40, Mather 30, Dibden 4-47) Totton & Eling 207 (
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AFC Totton v Truro City
Jamie Austen with his friends and family after the game
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Totton celebrate Danny potter goal
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Singing in the rain
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Totton fans before the game
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Totton fans
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A young Totton fan flys the flag
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An stags fan
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Totton fans supporting the team
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Before the kick-off
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Some of the young Totton fans
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Totton's young supporters
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The team line up
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The team line up with the mascots
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Stuart Ritchie comforts Mike Gosney after the game
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Totton keeper under attack
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Fans arrive at Wembley
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On their way to Wembley
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Faces in the crowd
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waving the flag for Totton
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Totton's pink and blue army
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Celebrate
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Fans celebrate
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GOAL Truro score their third
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A fans salute
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Just some of the thousands of Totton fans at Wembley
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GOAL Totton players mob scorer Danny Potter after his opener.
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Making a noise at Wembley
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Totton fans enjoying their day
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Totton's support
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Roden brings down Truro's Br
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Fans show their support
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Stevenson loses the ball and Totton score
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Gordon Brown's cheap housing pledge in the city
Chancellor Gordon Brown today visited a new social housing development in Southampton and pledged to build more houses across the country. The Labour leader hopeful visited the home of mother-of-four Sally Hatcher in Glebe Terrace. The new block
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We’ve grasped our roles in Truly Scrumptious production
THEY sing, they dance and they get to ride in a flying car. Young musical stars of the future are getting ready for the theatre spotlight in Southampton as they begin rehearsals for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Looking forward to treading the floorboards
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Clean-up crew set their sights on the mudflats
A CLEAN-UP of Saltmead Mudflats in Southampton will take place this week as part of the city's latest Crime Reduction and Environment Week (CREW). The city council's cleansing teams will be putting on their wet-suits and bringing in special equipment
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Superyacht sails into Solent today
A WEALTHY businessman whose identity is shrouded in mystery has just taken possession of his Hampshire designed floating palace estimated to cost at least £70m. Bosses at New Forest super yacht visionaries Michael Leach Design are to see their latest
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Home information pack sparks jobs stampede
A HAMPSHIRE training centre has been deluged with more than 2,000 people hoping to land plum £40,000 jobs as home energy assessors. The stampede comes ahead of the controversial introduction of mandatory home information packs on June 1, which must include
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Dock Movements
Today's principal Southampton arrivals: MOL Progress, container, 0730, 205; APL India, container, 1130, 207; Nordsee, cargo, 1200, 203; Rebecca, cargo, 2230, 202 Sailing: Arnold Maersk, container, 0900, 207; Autotransporter, roro, 1400, 201; Nordsee
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I'm fed-up with so much snooker
HOW much longer must TV licence fee payers have to endure BBC2's endless trash? By all means screen some snooker but not week after week, from early morning until late at night. Before anyone tells me to change channel or turn off my TV, my licence
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Get tough with bully cyclists
WHY is life made so difficult for pedestrians? I would like to be able to walk in to Southampton but all the time I encounter bullies on bikes who think it is fun to scare pedestrians. Why are cyclists allowed to get away with this behaviour? The parks
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Why does Dairy Crest have to deliver at 2am?
WE, too, suffer sleep deprivation thanks to Dairy Crest delivering to our neighbours between 2am and 3am, three times a week. Initially, the driver would park right outside our house, with the diesel engine running and the headlights blinding. Anyone
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EU constitution
PART of the cunning plan to smuggle through the EU constitution involves dropping its provocative references to the more obvious "trappings of statehood". Yet despite the rejection of the constitution, this year May 9 was still designated as Europe Day
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Postal service was once first class
THE Post Office has suffered a lot of criticism in the press lately and rightly so. I feel sad for some of the very nice young postmen and women who have delivered my mail. I have met a lot because we never seem to have the same one for long. I wish
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Give parents the right to use discipline
WHAT has happened to this green and pleasant land fit for heroes? In less than two weeks after detectives described an attack on a man as "unusual'', four people aged between 26 and 43 were "unusually'' attacked in one night in Thornhill. It is all too
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Irony of English parliament call
SCOTTISH economist Adam Smith has recently replaced English composer Sir Edward Elgar on the £20 note. Smith was born in Kirkaldy, Fife, part of Gordon Brown's constituency. How ironic that the renowned Adam Smith Institute has recently called for an
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Start a non-believers political party
I WISH someone would start a political party for atheists. I suspect if they did, it would gather together many millions of members, including me. Religion is for weak people who are unable to think for themselves and are easily lead, even into wars!
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The carnival is over now at Titchfield
IT was a sad day for Titchfield as a 125-year-old tradition ended with the news that one of Hampshire's oldest and most popular carnivals has been axed. Spiralling costs and bad weather has forced organisers to cancel this year's Titchfield Carnival,
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Hannah killing: extradition decision due
A DECISION to extradite the prime suspect in the killing of Hampshire student Hannah Foster could be made today. Magistrates at a court in India were due to announce whether Maninder Pal Singh Kohli should be deported back to Britain to face questioning
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Tubbs thumper wins Whites promotion
Salisbury's Nationwide Conference play-off final with Braintree yesterday was always going to be a tough encounter - and totally different from the exciting and football-filled semi-finals against Bishops Stortford. In truth, Salisbury had to grind
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Conference "whole new ball game" - Holmes
SALISBURY City are just one step away from the Football League after claiming a second successive promotion yesterday. An 83rd-minute winner from top scorer Matt Tubbs gave Nick Holmes' men a Conference South play-off final success against Braintree
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Warne hopes to extend Clark's stay
Hampshire are hoping to extend Stuart Clark's stay at the Rose Bowl. Clark took 7-82, the best figures by a Hampshire bowler for six years, during the rain-affected draw against Lancashire last week. They were the 31-year-old's best figures in the
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Saints fans wound me up, says Oakley
Former Saints midfielder Matt Oakley praised the "fantastic" home support after Derby's victory. But he said the taunts from sections of the home crowd helped him drive his team onto victory. St Mary's was a cauldron of noise as the two teams ran
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Totton boss: We didn't deserve to lose
AFC Totton manager Stuart Ritchie believes the 3-1 scoreline flattered Truro City. Ritchie saw Floyd Hamodu and Mike Gosney efforts cleared off the line but pinpointed the failure to award a first-half penalty against Truro skipper Tom Smith as the
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Burley injury headache
George Burley is sweating on more injury doubts for tomorrow's return leg play-off semi-final with Derby. Captain Claus Lundekvam will still be missing with ruptured ankle ligaments. Another centre half, Darren Powell, is still almost certain to
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Disabled sailor's record bid
A HAMPSHIRE yachtsman was due to launch his bid to become the first disabled person to sail singlehanded round Great Britain. Followed by a flotilla of boats carrying friends, family and supporters, Geoff Holt will leave the dockside at Hamble and embark
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Woman tells of bedroom fire fear
A SOUTHAMPTON woman has spoken of waking up to find her bedroom was on fire. Sharon Pearce, 41, from Portswood woke up to find an electric fan had burst into flames and thick black smoke had filled the air of her upstairs bedroom. "I was so scared,"
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Driver dies in motorway pile up
A WOMAN was killed last night following a multi-car pile up on a slip road of the M27. At least three cars were involved in the crash at junction seven at Hedge End which happened around 6.30pm. Paramedics were called to the scene to help treat up to
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Vandalised memorial may have to be replaced
A MEMORIAL stone vandalised on the day it was laid might have to be completely replaced. Eastleigh council hopes to be able to have the Wells Place stone ground down to remove the graffitti scratched into it. But if that process leaves too much of a
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Rat run misery for householders
FURIOUS residents say their narrow terraced street has been besieged by traffic ever since roadworks resulted in the closure of a town centre route. Hundreds of motorists are driving along Waterloo Road, Lymington, because they are no longer able to
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Baroness Thatcher helps town remember conflict
Baronness Thatcher was welcomed with cheers and applause from the hundreds of people who lined the streets to see her as Fareham marked 25 years since the Falklands War. The former Prime Minister, who led the country during the conflict in the South
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Detectives step up hunt for gunman
DETECTIVES were today stepping up the hunt for a pair of armed robbers who used a gun to hold up a New Forest bookies. Two men burst into the Ladbrokes betting shop in New Milton where one then threatened to use the firearm on a member of staff if they
