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All smiles for Aaron
HE will walk and smile again – and his friends will be there to see it. Brave teenager Aaron Brown has undergone a dangerous 11-hour operation which could have left him facially paralysed and possibly unable to walk. Without it, though, Aaron was
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Man drowned in scalding bath
A MAN who had been drinking heavily fell asleep in a scalding hot bath and drowned, an inquest has been told. Mitchel Whittingham, who was 28 when he died in November 2007, had a history of alcohol misuse and depression, the inquest at Portsmouth Guildhall
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Lethal drugs stolen in vet burglary
LETHAL drugs have been stolen from a vets surgery overnight, the Daily Echo can reveal. Police have issued an urgent public safety warning advising anyone who finds the 100ml bottle of Pentobarbitone to contact them immediately. Hampshire
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‘Give us the facts’ on closure of Ford Ward
RESIDENTS who waited 15 months for the outcome of an investigation into a Hampshire hospital have told health chiefs: Give us the facts. NHS bosses are refusing to release a 90-page report written by consultants who investigated complaints
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Fred Dinenage the great survivor
HE is a television stalwart, a legendary figure in television in the south. Fred Dinenage was taken on with a seven-week contract by Southern Television back in 1964 – and some 45 years later he is still going strong, having survived the latest
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Theatre subsidy will have to be increased
WINCHESTER residents are about to be asked to pay more to subsidise the Theatre Royal. The town forum has agreed that householders in the six city wards should pay more for the popular theatre in historic Jewry Street. The forum, made up of councillors
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Kaka bid is just Gaga
THERE were those who shook their heads sadly 30 years ago next month when Brian Clough made Trevor Francis British football’s first £1m signing. The fact Nottingham Forest were prepared to pay such a sum of money during the 1978-9 Winter of
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Seven new hotels – but who will sleep in them?
IF you build it, they will come. Or so the saying goes. The famous words of US President Theodore Roosevelt in 1910 couldn’t have been more appropriate this week, with news that two more towering hotels are to be built in Southampton. While the city
