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Inquiry launched after woman raped near park
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a 40-year-old woman was raped by two men in Southampton. The men got talking to the woman who had been in the Walkabout pub in the High Street in the early hours of today. At about 2.15am she started walking
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Major route shut after serious accident
MOTORISTS were facing major disruptions this afternoon after police closed a busy Hampshire road following a serious accident. The A36 was closed from the Ower roundabout exit at around 11.15 this morning because of the crash further up the road near
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QPR 0 Saints 3
WHEN a manager says after a game their team could have hit double figures, you normally have to take it with a pinch of salt. When George Burley said it after the win over QPR, he couldn't have been more right. On another day Saints could have racked
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Chandler's Ford: Residents fear for their lives after a spate of arson attacks
ARSONISTS in a Hampshire community have been striking fear into residents in the area following a spate of deliberately set fires. Now Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service have put Chandler's Ford residents on alert after a series of blazes which destroyed
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Cult of Burping Man Ron growing in the Internet
AN eccentric Winchester resident famous for burping has attracted more than 2,000 "friends" on an Internet site in the months since he died. Ron "The Burping Man" Purse, pictured, has collected the friends on social networking site Facebook after a special
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Terry - Jones is a possibility
Hampshire manager Paul Terry has refused to rule out a move for former England bowler Simon Jones. Injury-plagued Jones' ECB contract expires at the end of the season and Hampshire have been given permission to speak to the 28-year-old by his county
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World star Kelly may quit heptathlon
KELLY SOTHERTON may quit heptathlon after next year's Olympic Games as she considers a fresh challenge to extend her sporting career. The 30-year-old, from the Isle of Wight, finally added a World Championship medal to the Olympic bronze she won in
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Electricity supplies knocked out by falling tree
POWER supplies to a Hampshire village were disrupted today after a falling tree brought down a power cable. Southern Electric said the incident happened outside a rectory in Exbury, near Beaulieu. A spokesman said only two properties were thought to
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Seventy firefighters tackle thatched cottage blaze
MORE than 70 Hampshire firefighters have extinguished a blaze which tore through the roof of a thatched cottage. Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service mobilised appliances from across the county when the alarm was raised shortly after 1pm yesterday. First
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A fare deal?
IT'S a secretive - and sometimes lucrative - world where vast sums of cash change hands and individuals are too frightened to speak out. So it is all the more surprising that a deep fracture running through Southampton's taxi trade over the new proposed
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Lucrative hackney carriage plates fetch up to £35k
THE national consumer watchdog has called for the end of restrictions on the number of taxis in Southampton. The Daily Echo can reveal the limit has led to a lucrative trade of taxi "plates" - worth up to £35,000 - which earn "Mr Bigs" thousands, even
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Rugby club is hit by blaze
A SPORTS club fears vandals may be behind a blaze that bruned a hole in the roof of its clubhouse and caused thousands of pounds of damage. A kerosene oil tank on the roof the building on Test playing fields in Millbrook, home of Southampton Rugby Club
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Dave Wellman charity night raises £27,250 as his widow turns another chapter in her life
IT was a special evening held in memory of a very special man. More than 300 guests gathered at the Botleigh Grange Hotel in Hedge End for the fifth and final ball organised by the widow of Hampshire haulage boss Dave Wellman. Mr Wellman was only 48
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Real fear of classroom violence against hard working teachers
BEING sworn at, spat on, punched, kicked or having items of furniture thrown at them is not what most teachers expect when they sign up for a career in education. However, previously unseen figures from Southampton City Council reveal that dealing with
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So few workmen
THE gas works on the A27 at Oak Hill will be completed in March 2008. No wonder this will take so long when there are only four men working on the job five days a week and no weekend work. Thank God we are not on an earthquake faultline, otherwise we
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UKIP have a long haul
UKIP's Ryan Newell (Letters, August 21) says his party will do all sorts of things with the tax system. Actually, it won't. This is because UKIP has no MPs and only five councillors in the entire country. One had to ask, therefore, just how many paid-up
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Lesson learned
WHY should Michelle Teague go to prison when on the same page (Daily Echo, August 18) a woman was spared jail for stabbing her partner? Benefit fraud is wrong but I think she has learned her lesson. F CHEER, Southampton.
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What an idiotic way to mourn someone
I AM dismayed at the buffoons who not only sprayed the bonnet of my car with Totton boy' but also sprayed a house with RIP DL'. The friends and relations of DL must be so proud that this person's passing has been honoured in this way. How can these
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Free bus funding rejected
I WRITE in response to Lee Whitbread's letter about Conservative policy on free bus passes for seniors (August 28). In May Southampton Conservatives fought the city council elections on our policy of free bus travel across Hampshire for Southampton seniors
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Dreadful bus service
WHAT a bus service! The No 14 runs every hour in the mornings, every two hours in the afternoons. One morning recently a lot of OAPs, like myself, stood in Portswood. The bus never came so it was two-hour wait. On August 23 again a lot of OAPs stood
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No longer a member
I WOULD remind Councillor Sue Jackson (Letters, August 25) that if she has further intentions of casting aspersions in the direction of the United Kingdom Independence Party she gets her facts right or tells the whole story. The MEP she refers to may
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Apologise for travellers' site decision
IS Councillor Adrian Vinson living in some sort of parallel universe? I watched with incredulity the debacle that was the failing Liberal Democrats' attempts to foist a gypsy site on the people of Mansbridge. How dare they call themselves democratic?
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Prosecution process is one of high quality
THERE is no question of persons suspected of committing criminal offences being held unlawfully in police cells while CPS prosecutors make a decision as to whether charges should be brought (Letters, August 28). The amount of time that a suspect can
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Lead connection?
THE connection between two recent stories causes me great discomfort. Firstly there has been a massive rise in the amount of lead (and brass) being stolen from buildings - especially churches. Hundreds and hundreds of churches have been stripped of lead
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PM is taking away our liberty
PM GORDON BROWN has been reported in the press as saying "It is in the British national interest that the relationship with the US is our single most important bilateral relationship. "It is a relationship that is founded on our common values of liberty
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Precious bike is stolen days before marathon charity ride
BOUGHT with cash left by his late father, Gus McKechnie's bike was his pride and joy. It was on that bike that he had covered thousands of miles for charity - all in the name of his late father and his brother who died aged just 36 in 2003. After months
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Brave cashier defies knife carrying youth who demanded cash
A PETROL station cashier was left seriously shaken after being confronted by a teenager armed with a kitchen knife. The attempted robbery took place at the Alverstoke Total service station in Privett Road, Gosport, just after 2.30pm on Friday. Police
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Councillors in line for pay rise of up to 325%
COUNCILLORS in Southampton are considering awarding themselves huge pay rises of up to 325 per cent - 130 times that being offered to its main workforce. Allowances for the council leader, Cabinet members and others with special responsibilities would
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Rasiak targeting Euro glory
Grzegorz Rasiak is hoping to take his blistering start to the season at club level on to the international stage. The Polish hitman scored two goals at QPR on Saturday to take his tally to the season to four. He is now away with his country who
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Hunt for suspect in £1,000 pensioner con
POLICE have released an e-fit of a van driver who conned £1,000 out of an elderly Hampshire woman. The woman, 80, was walking along Princes Road in Romsey at 10.10am on August 22 when she approached by a blue transit van. The driver of the van told
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It's Christmas time - in Southampton!
SUMMER'S out, autumn has not quite arrived and the children are enjoying their last few days off school. Hallowe'en and Bonfire Night are still two months away and there's another half-term holiday before the countdown to Christmas really begins. But
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Couple speak about gun hold-up
A FAMILY has spoken of the terrifying moment a gang armed with a gun burst into their Hampshire home. Sean Wylie and Tara Jack could only stand and watch as three men - one of whom was carrying a gun - forced their way in and got away with several hundred
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Forbes will come good - Dossie
Football manager Paul Doswell is backing top gun Andy Forbes to get back in the scoring groove for Eastleigh. For a man who has netted 70 times for the Spitfires in the past three years, the 27-year-old has been unusually slow off the mark this
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Ex-Saint the FA Cup hero - on September 1
FORMER Saint Ryan Ashford netted with the last kick of the game to earn VT FC a replay against Hellenic Leaguers North Leigh. That will take place at the Boatmen's Southampton Road home tomorrow (7.45) "It was literally the last kick of the game
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Burley delighted with Rangers romp
George Burley said he'd never seen a side create so many chances away from home after Saints romped to a 3-0 win over QPR. The Saints boss was delighted with the efforts of his team who made it back-to-back wins with a victory at Loftus Road which
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Warne could return after Hants are thrashed
Paul Terry is hopeful that Shane Warne will be back to face Worcestershire tomorrow to lead Hampshire's bid to stay in the County Championship title mix. Warne has missed Hampshire's last three games and it was at first feared that he would miss the
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Jail for man who knocked teenager unconscious
A MAN who punched a teenager to the ground weeks after receiving a suspended prison sentence for common assault has been jailed. Ben Marsh, 22, pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm after knocking out Alex Linsdale, 18, with a single punch. Southampton
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Smoking stubbed out in pubs
PUBS and clubs across Southampton have proved they have stubbed out smoking for good - with none caught flouting the law since the introduction of the national ban. City council chiefs have carried out more than 1,600 spot checks on businesses during
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Hotel to be turned into care home
A LANDMARK hotel in Fordingbridge looks likely to become a substantial care home for the elderly. Al Donnelly, proprietor of Fritham House nursing home at Fritham in the New Forest, is buying the Ashburn Hotel in Station Road, Fordingbridge from Garry