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Dimi stars as England square Twenty20 series
Dimitri Mascarenhas helped England level the two-match Twenty20 series against the West Indies in another thriller at The Brit Oval. The Hampshire all rounder hit an unbeaten 18 from 16 balls as he and Owais Shah put on 69 in just six overs to secure
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Rose Bowl suffers Twenty20 Cup abandonment
The Hampshire Hawks have to win their next Twenty20 match against the Essex Eagles on Sunday afternoon to keep alive their interest in the competition, following a wash out at the Rose Bowl tonight. Hampshire's South Group match against the Middlesex
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Gold Roman Bowl winner
Sanders Sails have won the Gold Roman Bowl in the Round the Island Race for an astonishing fifth time in 6 years. The overall winner for 2007 was Edward Donald's Nordic folkboat, Madelaine', which is converted to the IRC rule specifically for this annual
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Attempted abduction of boy, 10, from school
A TEN-year-old boy playing in his Southampton school grounds was grabbed round the neck and pulled through the gates in an attempted abduction. Police have now stepped up patrols and are warning parents to be vigilant after the incident at Thornhill
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University chief lands top anti-terror job.
THE Chancellor of Southampton Solent University has been appointed by new Prime Minister Gordon Brown to head up the UK's home security, it was announced today. In a surprise move by Mr Brown, Admiral Sir Alan West has been made the Home Office Minister
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Dog and teen owner thwart house break-in
A TEENAGER managed to scare two burglars from her Eastleigh home after she heard the pair breaking in through a back door. The 15-year-old told police she had been in her bedroom when she heard the doorbell ring several times at her Cranbury Road house
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My pledge to help city workers...John Denham MP
JOHN Denham today vowed to use his new position at the heart of Government to help boost the skills of Southampton workers. The Labour MP for Southamp-ton Itchen, speaking to the Daily Echo shortly after his dramatic elevation to Gordon Brown's first
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Support grows for Spitfire WOW factor
IT'S an idea that has received the full backing of Southampton's aviation museum, business community and the majority of the public. Now the long overdue move to honour the Spitfire, the iconic Second World War fighter plane which was designed and built
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Burley: 'Very important' to bring Saga back
Saints boss George Burley insisted he was always confident Marek Saganowski would be plying his trade at St Mary's next season. After the Polish striker starred on loan at Saints from French Division Two side Troyes in the second half of last season
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Could killer floods come to the south?
SCENES like this piece of Daily Echo trickery showing a waterlogged Winch-ester Cathedral could become a reality if Met Office predictions of more severe weather prove accurate. This weekend, as we move into high summer, parts of Britain are still in
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Prams raced in memory of Ron
WINCHESTER residents honoured one of their best-known former characters yesterday with a series of pram races through a city park. Around 30 racers - including Charley Ebdon, pictured - took part in the Ron Purse Memorial Pram Race in Abbey Gardens in
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New homeless centre
AFTER some 20 years, a Winchester charity that helps the poor and homeless is set to get a purpose-built base. Work is starting on a new multi-million pound base for the Trinity Centre. Durngate Place, the former Red Cross building, will be demolished
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Brewing up for a planning battle
A PLANNING battle is brewing over the outside seating area at a new coffee shop in the New Forest. Cafe chain Costa Coffee has set up a new restaurant in Lymington High Street - but has opened without planning permission for a change of use. Costa has
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Charity picnic is a washout
FEARS over wet weather this weekend have led to Romsey Mayor's picnic being cancelled for the first time in 16 years. Mayor Mark Cooper said he had reluctantly taken the decision to call off the charity fundraiser after receiving reports from the Met
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Top Forest posts
THE chairman and deputy chairman of New Forest National Park Authority have been unanimously re-elected until next year. Clive Chatters remains chairman and Barry Rick-man his deputy until the authority's annual meeting in 2008. The park authority has
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Father jailed for shaking baby to death
A SOUTHAMPTON man was today jailed for 15 months for shaking his baby son to death. Richard Skinner, 34, lost control when his 11-week-old son Johnathon would not stop crying, Winchester Crown Court heard today. Skinner, a computer aided designer, of
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Tell us your Race for Life story
ARE you taking part in this year's Race for Life in Southampton? Would you or your team like to feature in the Daily Echo in the run-up to the event? Race for Life takes place in Southampton on Sunday, July 15, and 10,000 women have signed up for
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Race For Life
TODAY, the Daily Echo launches its Do it for Anne c a m p a i g n . Every year, 10,000 women line up on Southampton Common to take part in the hugely popular Race for Life event. I've been there for the past five years or so and each time I
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Race For A Place
PLACES on this year's Race for Life in Winchester and Southampton are filling fast. So far Winchester has 1,589 women signed up and Southampton a staggering 7,409 with three months still to go. Race organiser Hannah Davies, said: "I'm astounded
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Law On Run
RINGWOOD law firm Ellis Jones will be fielding a record number of staff in this month's Race for Life in Bournemouth. A 20-strong contingent - a fifth of the firm's female staff - is taking part in the women-only run on June 24. Among them will
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Prepare to be razzle-dazzled at the school prom
ARRIVING in style to celebrate their schooldays, pupils from Cantell Secondary School in Southampton dazzled at their end of school prom. Bright pink stretch limousines and a classic Rolls-Royce were just a few of the carriages bringing the pupils to
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In The Running To Raise £25,000
WINCHESTER Race for Life gets under way on Sunday with more than 2,200 women are set to take part in the 5km challenge. They will be helping to raise more than £250,000 for Cancer Research UK. Supernurse Anne Croudass, who is fronting the Daily
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We're all ready to Tees-go!
ENTHUSIASTIC staff at a Southampton supermarket will be putting their best foot forward in a bid to help the city raise £1m for Race for Life. Sixty staff from the Tesco store in Tebourba Way will be taking part in the sell-out event on July
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Friends need your support on charity bra walk
TWO friends brought together by breast cancer make up part of a team aiming to walk 26 miles in their bras - and raise thousands of pounds to try to beat the disease. Amanda Galloway, Jenni Jones and seven members of their family and friends are
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Race Places All Taken
RACE for Life in Southampton is full and once again 10,000 women will take part in the 5km charity challenge. With a month to go until the big day, organisers had to close entries for the race on Southampton Common, but if you missed out on a
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Foal fights for life after being savaged by a dog
A FIVE-day-old donkey foal is fighting for her life after being attacked by a dog. The tiny animal, pictured, from a farm in Bramshaw was discovered with teeth marks in its neck and needed emergency treatment from a vet following the attack. Donkey
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QE2 voyage sold in half an hour
The final voyage on QE2 was sold out in just 36 minutes. In little over half an hour, passengers spent more than £3m to ensure a place on the historic trip. Telephones at owner Cunard's Southampton headquarters were red hot as hundreds of customers
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Gun drama on a city high street
THIS was the scene when police swooped on a suspect in a busy Hampshire high street. A major armed operation was launched after drinkers raised the alarm to say there was a man waving a gun around in their Southampton pub. Police immediately deployed
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London bomb was packed with petrol, gas and nails
A car bomb defused in central London today was packed with petrol, nails and gas canisters, police said. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command, said: ''It is obvious that if the device had detonated
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Troubled Holy Land
We call Palestine the Holy Land but in reality it is probably the most violent region on earth. Now Muslim fight Muslim for this piece of desert that is awash with bitter tears shed by the families of the people killed in the anarchy and war that never
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is unfair to children
CHITTY Chitty Bang Bang (a children's show) is currently playing at The Mayflower. However, The Mayflower has done little to help with the cost of taking children to see the show. I tried to book tickets online for an evening performance, as on a previous
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Boycott holiday resorts who are soft on immigrants
ON the subject of immigration by both EU member and non-EU member citizens into Britain (and Europe in general), how many of you watched on television the coastguard patrol boat meet up with the overcrowded inflatable full of Africans heading for Italy
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Condemn wrongful advice on Aids
SAMARITAN'S Purse International UK (SPI) administers a ticking off to British churches for not doing enough about the world-wide plight of millions who are caught up in the Aids pandemic (Focus on Faith, June 23). After its carping remarks about people
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Let Diana rest in peace
SINCE I wrote about what I consider to be Channel 4's inconsiderate and distasteful attempt to improve their viewing ratings by showing a programme about the untimely death of Diana, Princess of Wales, two readers have written to comment. The first said
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Tanker drivers ballot over action
TANKER drivers at a Hampshire oil terminal could strike over plans to transfer work to parcel delivery giant DHL. Hamble based Drivers for oil firm Total are fuming over moves to break up a national distribution network and are to vote on a strike.
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Dock Movements
Today's principal Southampton arrivals: Arklow Spirit, cargo, 0330, 101; Maersk Santana, container, 0400, 205; mer, ca rgo, 0630, 36s; Arabian Breeze, roro, 0730, 202; Autoline, roro, 0730, 201; Colombo Express, container, 1400, 207; Philipp, container
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Coping with those who need help
I WAS reading about the girl who lost her legs on the railway line and the girl who jumped off the motorway bridge. It seems to me they are crying out for help, but no one seems to hear or care. I was in the same position in May with my middle son,
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I'm not a coin con-merchant!
ON June 26 I found that the trolley I was pulling out of the row at Sainsbury's, Shirley, was splattered with what looked like and almost certainly was, pigeon droppings. A man was waiting behind me to push his trolley back into the pile, so I asked
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City needs an original idea
I FEEL that it is just as well the idea of laser lights from the Civic Centre has been scrapped. This is not a new idea at all. I can remember such things while on holiday in Lloret-de-Mar Spain years ago. The idea of the tethered balloon again, apart
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Laser turkey chopped
CONGRAULATIONS to Royston Smith and the new Conservative team running Southampton City Council for pulling the plug on the laser project, which would have spread light pollution right across the New Forest and elsewhere. This was a turkey if ever there
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Race For Life
THEY came from all parts and from all ages, backgrounds and walks of life. Some had been directly affected by cancer, losing parents, siblings and friends; others were motivated by doing something to help combat the disease that can affect anyone
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It’s decision time for city’s schools
PARENTS and pupils in Southampton will soon learn the fate of the city's secondary schools. After 18 months of public consultations, recommendations, meetings, protests and petitions, nine men will decide next week whether to close four schools, create
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Run For Olivia
WHEN Olivia Gallienne walks over the finish line at Race for Life in Southampton it will be an emotional moment for her proud family. The courageous two-year-old has been through more in her short life than many will experience in a lifetime.
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Star performer
HOT on the heels of the Corsa VXR, Vauxhall has revealed that its legendary SRi badge is to return on another performance version of the new Corsa. Set to reach showrooms in September as either a three-door or a five-door, the Corsa SRi is designed to
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Record numbers attend Fareham property seminar
More than 160 people attended a property seminar in Fareham organised by Spofforths, one of the largest regional firms of chartered accountants. The event attracted record numbers for a buy-to-let event and shows the growing interest in this attractive
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Saints fans 'still being held at arm's length'
SAINTS fanzine editor Daren Wheeler has called on the board to live up to Michael Wilde's manifesto promise on transparency. Twelve months on from the boardroom reshuffle, fans are having to rely on Chinese whispers' according to Wheeler. "We were
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Fourth arrest over motorbike hit and run
A FOURTH youth has been arrested following a hit-and-run collision involving two youths on a trials motorbike in Southampton. The crash happened on June 20, in Windemere Avenue, Millbrook, close to the junction of Evenlode Road. Christopher Baddams,
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How much has changed in year since Lowe quit?
IT was a year ago tomorrow that a new era started at St Mary's. After a drawn-out power struggle, chairman Rupert Lowe and his boardroom allies resigned en masse on Friday, June 30, 2006. They left just three days before an EGM called by Michael
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Saga: I'm targeting the Premiership
Marek Saganowski completed his permanent move to Saints yesterday and hopes his goals will help fire the club into the Premiership. Saints fought off interest from a host of clubs to tie up the signing of the Polish striker on a three-year deal for
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Saga: It's lovely to feel wanted again
Marek Saganowski thanked Saints boss George Burley for making him feel wanted at St Mary's. The Polish striker found himself frozen out of the first team picture at former club Troyes after the French second division club changed manager. Despite
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Motorists' lose speed camera challenge
A HAMPSHIRE motorist today lost his right-to-silence appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg over his speed camera convictions. Judges in Strasbourg decided by 15 to two that Idris Francis and another motorist did not have their human
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£50,000 Find the Ball jackpot up for grabs
A MASSIVE £50,000 is up for grabs tomorrow in the Daily Echo Find the Ball competition. No one won last week's contest so the top prize total once again reaches its maximum this weekend. If no one scoops the top slot, three runners-up will scoop three
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Dimi impresses as England lose
Paul Collingwood led from the front in his maiden appearance as one-day captain but could not prevent England slipping to a 15-run defeat to West Indies in the opening Twenty20 international last night. The Durham all-rounder's side seemed set for
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Under fire Orienteering
HERE'S a first. The first time I've ever competed in a race to be greeted by heavily armed soldiers at the gate, and then during the run itself to be accompanied by the sound of gunfire. No, it wasn't the Baghdad Half Marathon but the Longmoor Training
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Brewing up for a planning battle over a coffee shop
A PLANNING battle is brewing over the outside seating area at a new coffee shop in the New Forest. Cafe chain Costa Coffee has set up a new restaurant in Lymington High Street - but has opened without planning permission for a change of use. Costa has
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Hampshire hunks bid for Mr England title
TONIGHT'S the night for two Hampshire hunks who are battling it out for the title of Mr England. Mr Southampton James Barton and Mr ModelUK Alex Wilcox are in Leicester for the competition to find a man to represent the country for 2007. The handsome
