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Marwell zoo offer is now even better
GENEROUS bosses at Marwell Zoo have extended a cut-price entry offer to mark its 35th birthday following an overwhelming response. And staff have urged as many people as possible wanting to visit the popular attraction to avoid this Sunday. The promotion
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Haven for homeless pets open
PET lovers will this weekend be converging on what has become a Hampshire haven for homeless animals. St Francis Animal Welfare will be holding its summer open day on Sunday between 2pm and 5pm at its Mortimer's Lane shelter in Fair Oak. Visitors will
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Gas alert hotel back to normal
A LUXURY Hampshire hotel had returned to normal today after a chemical emergency that saw dozens of guests evacuated. Ten firefighters donned chemical protection suits to tackle the spill in a plant room in the leisure club of Norton Park Hotel, near
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Boy taken to hospital after collision with car in Southampton
A 12-year-old boy has been rushed to hospital after he was hit by a car while crossing a Southampton street. The youngster is understood to have been crossing Thornhill Park Road near the junction with Thornhill Avenue when he was struck by a Renault
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Colin or Iwan? Vote without prejudice!
Click HERE to nominate your choice VOTES have been flooding into the Daily Echo in our search to find Hampshire's Top 100. A dazzling array of music legends, stars of the stage and screen, historical figures and sporting heroes have all attracted
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Brave Svensson vows to recover
Defiant Michael Svensson is laid up in Sweden with his knee in a brace following his latest operation - but he vowed: "It won't beat me." The Swedish centre half is recovering from a major operation on his injured knee which involved having cartilage
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Mum and child escape after M-way crash
A woman and child had a lucky escape when their car collided today with a motorway crash barrier, near Hedge End, and flipped onto its roof. The drama happened at about 12.30pm on the westbound lane of the M27 between Eastleigh and Hedge End. Emergency
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Hants fight back against Warwickshire
CLOSE: HAMPSHIRE 37-1 (BROWN 21* CRAWLEY 5*) & 169 WARWICKSHIRE 262 Jimmy Adams was out in the fourth over as Hampshire attempted to set Warwickshire a testing target to chase on the last day. The left-hander edged a loose drive outside off stump
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Isle of Wight Festival ticket comp
Have you managed to get hold of some tickets yet? We are giving away a pair of tickets, courtesy of Virgin Radio so make sure you pick up a copy of Saturday's Daily Echo. Tickets have sold out faster than ever before with 50,000 tickets being snapped
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You CAN still drink outside
FEARS that people enjoying a quiet drink outside pubs in Fareham will be targeted by police following the introduction of new anti-drinking legislation have been rubbished by civic chiefs. From today the whole of the Fareham district will be covered
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Baird next one out the door?
Saints are said to be fighting off mounting interest in their player-of-the-season Chris Baird. According to reports in London, new Fulham boss Lawrie Sanchez has launched a £2.5m bid for the highly-rated centre-back. Sanchez knows Baird well from
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OAP disturbs burglar duo
POLICE are hunting two thieves who broke into the warden-controlled flat of an 85-year-old Hampshire man. The pensioner discovered the intruders in his North Baddesley home at about 4pm last Friday, but officers have only now released details of the
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Meg flying to States for life-saving brain op
A HAMPSHIRE student is flying to the US for a life-saving operation on her brain. Meg Jones, 21, from Kings Somborne will jet off to a hospital in Boston for pioneering surgery to remove a brain tumour. The Warwick University student was diagnosed with
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Teachers armed with new powers
Teachers will be able to search pupils for knives and other offensive weapons, such as ball bearing guns, without consent when the school term resumes next week. They will even be encouraged to search randomly selected groups of pupils, such as an entire
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Why a safe school is the right of every child
Announcing the new search powers for teachers, education and skills secretary Alan Johnson said: "Every child has the right to learn in a secure and safe environment. Fortunately knife incidents in schools are extremely rare and the majority of schools
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A Mini marvel
THE Mini is gaining a renewed reputation as a wonder car, cleaning up without hybrid technology. Mini hatch models are to receive technological revisions later this year, resulting in jaw-dropping performance and efficiency figures. Already BMW Group's
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Echo lets your taste buds do the talking
THEIR image puts them at opposite ends of the supermarket food chain. But when it comes to the quality of food could you taste the difference? That was the test we set shoppers in Winchester after the Daily Echo revealed how the historic city had become
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Coming out parade
A RECORD number of important new cars will be making their world, European or UK public debuts at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed - to be held in the grounds of Goodwood House near Chichester from June 22-24. Formula 1's shooting star Lewis Hamilton
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Golf’s sporty new number
VOLKSWAGEN is to replace the existing Golf Sport and GT trim levels with a single all-new model - the Golf GT Sport. The Golf GT Sport debuts a purposeful new look as well as additional equipment over the models it replaces to deliver greater value.
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Take the Scenic route
RENAULT has confirmed pricing and specification for the first two models in the new Scenic Conquest range, unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, priced £17,945 for the 2.0 VVT 136 and £19,135 for the 1.9 dCi 130. A further two engines will be added in September
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From the boardroom to the garden
INSURANCE workers swapped the boardroom for the garden when they spent the day weeding, planting and painting at a Hampshire school. The board of directors at Norwich Union Healthcare, pictured, managed to transform a courtyard at Hiltingbury School
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Hopeless Afghan exercise
ME thinks a strange malady has overcome the corridors of power. Don't I remember the headlines during the Cold War when America and Russia were jostling for strategic advantage by invading Afghanistan with dismal success? The poverty of the country and
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Rethink advice to diabetics
Rethink advice to diabetics WILL Gordon Brown, our future Prime Minister, be reminded of his declaration that health is such an important issue for him he wants a fresh start? Could he begin with looking at the latest NHS cost cutting exercise, disguised
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Favour local people for council housing
THE proposed points system to allocate council houses is an old idea going back about 40 or 50 years in my area, if I remember correctly. Council houses were only allowed to go to married couples with children, not couples living together or to unmarried
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Tattoos are a turn-off
WHILE shopping in Southampton during the recent good weather, I noticed how many women are covering themselves in tattoos. Do they think they are making themselves more attractive to us men? If they do, they are sadly mistaken. Tattoos are always
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Royal Pier is an eyesore
C. Jordan has come up with an excellent suggestion regarding the Royal Pier ((Letters, May 11). By combining a life-size model of a Spitfire on the end with viewing areas, ballroom, concert hall, sports venue, etc. I am sure that many residents and people
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Why waste £23m on a new school?
I WAS amazed to learn that Taunton's College, Southampton, has secured £23m to improve facilities, ie build a new school and then demolish the old one. Surely, when repairs and new facilities become necessary it is prudent to repair, adapt and extend
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We're plagued by yobs
AS a resident of 30 years whose property overlooks Fernyhurst Lake, Rownhams, my neighbours and I have endured a host of illegal activities, from alcohol and drug abuse to foul language and the violation of bylaws. I have lost count of the times I have
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Soccer pundits grossly over-use their fantastics
IS it possible that between now and August when the 2007/2008 soccer season begins that the football pundits on the BBC's Match of the Day can study the English dictionary and learn more descriptive words other than the much over-used "fantastic''? The
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Yobs force cafe closure – for now
A CAFE built to serve two tourist attractions in the New Forest has been driven to closure by yobs. The waterfront facility catered for visitors to Totton and Eling Heritage Centre and Eling Tide Mill but was also used by people living in the area.
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Pictures of filthy flat focused minds
POLICE have launched an investigation into whether a child was allowed to live in conditions of utter squalor without the youngster's plight having ever been reported to the authorities. Officers started an inquiry after the Daily Echo revealed on Wednesday
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More council workers vote for strike action
MORE Southampton council workers have voted in favour of industrial action over plans to privatise services and transfer employees to a private company. About 800 members of the newly formed Unite union, a merger between the T&G and Amicus, were balloted
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Saints still number one for Marek
Marek Saganowski's agent has confirmed that Saints are still the striker's number one choice this summer. The Polish hitman will be sold by French club Troyes and Saints will be keen to tie up a deal to bring him to St Mary's permanently. When Saganowski
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Pietersen returns for Hants
Kevin Pietersen returns to Hampshire's one-day side this weekend. The 26-year-old will play his second Friends Provident Trophy match of the season for the Hampshire Hawks against Glamorgan at Swansea. The Hawks have to win the South Conference
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Dock Movements
Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Maersk Stralsund, container, 0230, 207; Grande Anversa, roro/container, 0330, 104; MOL Paramount, container, 0500, 205; Aurora, passenger, 0700, 106; Hoegh Trader, roro, 0730, 40; Arabian Breeze, roro, 0930, 202
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50 building firm jobs under threat
ABOUT 50 jobs are under threat after a Hampshire construction firm went into administration because of a cash flow crisis. Turnover at Southampton-based ground work specialist Hillboulder more than halved despite some big contract wins. Now administrators
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Find the Ball joy for grandfather Ivor
A RETIRED Hampshire mechanic is celebrating after winning the runners-up prize in our Find the Ball competition. Ivor Phelps, from Romsey, has been playing the competition for more than 20 years and has scooped £2,500 for coming closest to marking the
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Luke prepares for vital operation
THE youngest of four Romsey brothers to go through lifesaving treatment to cure him of a genetic condition is acclimatising to weeks of isolation. Luke Hartley, pictured, seven, began a course of chemotherapy last Saturday and yesterday went into a small
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Rare donkey foals go for sale
TWO Poitou donkey foals reared in Hampshire are up for sale to try to save the breed from extinction. Tarka and Thomas, recently born along with others at Woodford Farm in Lymington, could cost thousands of pounds because they are so rare. Retired veterinary
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A Father's Day treat at the Saints
FATHERS in Southampton are being offered a personal tour of St Mary's stadium, the Saints' football ground while their kids are kept busy tackling a nearby climbing wall. The free event has been organised by Hampshire-based charity Parentline Plus to
