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Terry Paine, cakes and the Busby Babes
WHILE watching his championship winning cribbage side slump to a seventh defeat in nine, Reg Tulett’s mind wandered to Terry Paine, cakes and the Busby Babes. The 75-year-old captain of Woolston Trades & Labour Club’s cribbage team, who
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Christmas gifts for those who really need them
THEY spend all year collecting presents for children and work around the clock to get brightly-wrapped parcels shipped out in time for Christmas. Teams of Hampshire volunteers have been collecting and preparing thousands of donated shoeboxes
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Failed Lapland attraction website shut down
Thousands of customers hopes for a refund for tickets bought for the controversial New Forest Lapland have today been dealt a blow. The company yesterday shut down the attraction and encouraged those who had prepaid for tickets to contact their
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Explosion on Hampshire industrial estate
FIRE crews have this afternoon been called to a Hampshire industrial park amid reports of a "deafening" explosion. A number of teams were dispatched to Pyros Environmental Ltd, on the Charleston Industrial Estate in Hardley after a loud bang
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Failed Lapland attraction website shut down
Thousands of customers hopes for a refund for tickets bought for the controversial New Forest Lapland have today been dealt a blow. The company yesterday shut down the attraction and encouraged those who had prepaid for tickets to contact
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Day five of festive Crime fighting
TODAY’S suspect to be revealed on the Daily Echo’s Crack A Crime For Christmas is that of Paul Roche. The teenager is wanted for allegedly breaching a court order. Roche, who is 19, is from Southampton and was last known to be in the Portsmouth
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Fifty years in the fast lane
THE quickest way from A to B, or an infuriating part-time car park? Love it or hate it, the motorway has cause for celebration. Today marks the 50th birthday of the UK motorway – and an unprecedented growth since it’s humble eight-and-a-half-mile
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Wii are keeping fit and healthy, say pensioners
SKIING down Alpine mountains, walking a tightrope over a ravine and going ten rounds in a boxing ring. These are just some of the daredevil activities that a group of Southampton pensioners have turned to in a bid to keep fit – and they enjoy
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Club mourns for ‘loveable chap’
TRIBUTES have been paid to a Hampshire rugby player who has been found dead at his home. David Stone, pictured, was a popular member of New Milton Rugby Club and was regarded as a player with a bright future. Mr Stone, 27, was found
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Cost of dying to soar
THE cost of dying across the Test Valley is expected to soar with a proposed sharp rise in funeral costs. Next year burial plots could cost as high as £460 - an increase of £60. With double graves rising £74 to £569. Prices for scattering
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Get your Christopher Biggins MP3 ringtone!
HE has one of the most distinctive laughs in show business - and now you can get it on your phone. Panto star Christopher Biggins is performing in as Buttons as Cinderella at The Mayflower Theatre this Christmas. The King of the Jungle
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Tories to rethink £150 increase in cremation costs
OPPOSITION councillors last night forced Southampton’s environment boss to rethink his controversial decision to make the city one of the most expensive places in Britain to die. Councillor Matt Dean was grilled about a 33 per cent rise in
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Company behind city hotel goes into administration
THE company behind Southampton’s Highfield House hotel has gone into administration because of cash-flow problems. Folio Hotels, which runs 36 hotels in the UK and has an annual turnover of approximately £70m, said high rents and expensive refurbishments
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Baddesley have fun as Hillcrest come unstuck!!!
After all the rain the pitch was very heavy under foot as both teams lined up after good wins last week. Baddesley had the better of the start and took the lead after 10 minutes when some nice one touch football saw Ben slide the ball home. Soon
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University gets £15m funding for three new science centres
THE UNIVERSITY of Southampton has been awarded in the region of £15m to fund three new centres to train the scientists of the future. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is funding the three new centres for postgraduate PhD
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32 illegal workers arrested in early morning factory raid
IMMIGRATION officials arrested a group of 32 illegal workers at a Southampton plastics factory during an early morning raid. The immigration officers and police officers wearing stab vests surrounded the Siva Plastics factory following intelligence
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Powerless politicians?
WHAT struck me as odd, was the fact that a civil servant was able to call in the police to carry out an investigation, without prior approval from his political master. How come? Is this standard procedure for any Government? If so, one wonders why
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Hospital care was just the right tonic for me
I WAS a NHS day care patient admission at the Royal South Hants hospital section 19 for a hernia operation. I cannot give enough praise for the professionalism displayed by the hospital staff who showed commitment and pride in their work. Mr Chiverton
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'Fluoride 2,000' poll outlined
IN response to the letter from a concerned Southampton resident (November 26) I would like to set out how the poll of 2,000 people will be conducted. The poll will be carried out independently by ICM Research during December and will involve a representative
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FORD LATEST: Show us some respect
I WAS completely disgusted by Royston Smith’s latest In My View, in which he defended his decision to cancel a meeting with the Ford unions. His reasons were that the council did not want to be associated with a damaging political protest happening
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We all grow old, you know
IN Hamble we have no nursing homes etc. and very few bungalows for the elderly, the few we do have are shared by Eastleigh residents. Eastleigh council is not very outgoing to Hamble. It is not the same place it used to be. Houses everywhere even in
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FORD LATEST: A 'rather silly reason' to cancel such an important meeting
I READ with interest Councillor Royston Smith’s explanation of why he cancelled a meeting with Ford unions (In My View December 2). It appears that Councillor Smith, pictured, was upset by the presence outside the building of a small demonstration
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Saints top of the shots...but not of the goals
SAINTS are officially top of the table for having the most shots at goal so far this season of all the teams in the Championship. The Echo can reveal that Jan Poortvliet's side have had 271 shots on goal in 20 games this term, more than any
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Poortvliet: Time to end poor home form
SAINTS will tomorrow be aiming to halt the club’s worst ever start to a home league campaign. The 0-0 draw with Plymouth at St Mary’s recently ensured that Saints have taken only seven points from their first 10 home league games of 2008/09
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Firefighters rescue seven trapped in lift
THE fire service today pleaded with pranksters not to mess about in lifts after having to free seven youths at a tower block in Southampton last night. Two fire appliances from the St Mary's Station were involved in a 45 minute drama at Castle
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Nuclear submarine HMS Trafalgar sails into a storm
NUCLEAR submarine HMS Trafalgar was due to sail into Southampton today – and straight into a storm of controversy. The 280ft Royal Navy sub was expected to be greeted by angry protesters as it berthed at the docks’ risk area – Z Berth – at
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Robertson hopes to extend Wednesday's away-day woes
JORDAN Robertson believes Sheffield Wednesday are almost the exact opposite of Saints. While the Owls are excellent at home, they have been dreadful away, winning just two of ten and shipping 25 goals – seven more than anyone else in the Championship
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Council chiefs refuse plans for gypsy site
SOUTHAMPTON: Tories accused of discrimination TORY council leaders in Southampton have been branded “discriminatory” after rejecting outright a series of proposals for new gypsy caravan pitches in the city. Conservatives have told regional
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New ferries are given go-ahead
CONTROVERSIAL new ferries have been given the go-ahead to start operating on a busy cross-Solent route next month. However, the 1,496-ton craft, which will replace three existing vessels on the Lymington to Yarmouth service, will face restrictions unless
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Speed cut on A31 ruled out
HIGHWAY chiefs have rejected calls to cut the speed limit on a busy commuter route following more than 60 accidents in three years. New Forest councillors met to discuss the safety record of the A31 agreed to press for the 70mph limit to be reduced to
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Morgan the only doubt for Sheffield Wednesday clash
SAINTS head coach Jan Poortvliet is sweating on the fitness of Morgan Schneiderlin ahead of Sheffield Wednesday’s visit to St Mary’s. The French midfielder came off in the closing stages of last weeks 0-0 draw at Charlton suffering with a hamstring
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Lowe: We don't want to sell - but we can't stop players wanting to leave
SAINTS chairman Rupert Lowe has insisted the club does NOT want to sell its star players in the January transfer window. But Lowe admits the lure of Premiership football, and the top-flight wages that go along with it, is often too much for
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Banner theft hits pub panto
A CHARITY could suffer after a giant banner advertising a pub pantomime fundraiser was stolen. The annual event at the Bent Brief pub in Lodge Road, Southampton, raises about £2,000 for the Hampshire Autistic Society. However, an intricate banner put
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Headless pony found on Forest road
A NEW Forest pony has been decapitated in one of the worst accidents in the area for many years. The two-year-old filly was hit by a car on a narrow country road between Burley and Picket Post. The carcass was removed by the local hunt but the animal
