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Congratulations
Congratulations: Winners of the league Winsor United Sports and Runners up Wyvern Dragons well to both teams.
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Four men rescued from blazing yacht off Hampshire coast
FIRE and coastguard crews were involved in the rescue of four men after their motorboat caught fire off the Hampshire coast. The men in their 50s and 60s were helped to safety by the crew of another passing boat as the yacht caught fire of North Hayling
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Congratulations
Congratulations to Bitterne Youth for Runners Up in the league.
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Find our clock and drive our train
TRACK down our missing clock and get a once in a lifetime chance to drive a train. That's the offer from volunteers at the Mid Hants Railway after thieves broke into the Alresford Railway Station and stole a John Walker Southern Railway clock. It is
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Detectives hunt sex attacker
DETECTIVES are hunting a sex attacker who attacked a 44-year-old woman after dragging her down an alleyway in the Fratton area of Portsmouth. The terrifying incident happened in the early hours of yesterday morning as the woman was walking alone along
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Keeping a steak in their village
MIKE Barrett is determined his village will make the cut as the recession begins to bite. Mike, who runs Mike’s New Forest Butchers, has signed up for the Daily Echo Buy Local, Shop Local campaign – and a whole host of independent retailers in
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Time called on historic Southampton local
IT IS a much-loved pub and it’s in one of the most historic buildings in Southampton. But the Ferryman and Firkin is the latest city pub to fall foul of the credit crunch and now bosses have said it must close its doors. Owners, Spirit Group, called
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Cirrhosis - The silent killer
New figures this week revealed that more women than men were admitted to hospitals in the south with alcohol poisoning. CLARE KENNEDY looks at the long-term health damage caused by excessive boozing This is the stark image of the silent
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Thanks a lot Mr Brown
WHEN Gordon Brown brought his Cabinet to Southampton, a wave of optimism swept across the city. He spoke in glowing terms of a region well-placed to weather the recession, and heaped praise on a city he described as “the gateway to the world”.
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I was drinking myself to death
SUSAN was just 16 when she started drinking Babycham, gin and tonic and rum and black. A shy and introverted teenager, the drinks made her feel part of the crowd when she went out with friends. “When I did drink I’d get very drunk,” recalls the 65
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Bungling burglars in Fair Oak
Bungling burglars BURGLARS stole £1,200 of broken garden machinery from a Hampshire business. They climbed fences into an industrial estate and broke into containers on the site using a disc cutter before taking chainsaws, strimmers and hedge-cutters
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Organ fund tribute night
EXACTLY 250 years after the composer Handel died a Hampshire church is staging a musical spectacular. Holy Trinity Church at Gosport, will on Tuesday, April 14, be playing host to a 16- piece orchestra – the size of orchestra that Handel intended
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Bigger penalties for letting the dog out
FAREHAM dog owners who fall foul of the council by letting their animals stray will be hit in the pocket. Charges are to go up from Wednesday to cover the soaring costs of dealing with the problem. The £25 statutory charge for the return of a
