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Rose Road Association changes youngsters' lives
FOR 57 years The Road Rose Association has worked tirelessly to provide education and respite care for thousands of disabled youngsters across Hampshire. But this week the Southampton-based charity reached a milestone in its history by raising
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Banks for nothing
IMAGINE you’re a banker. Not pleasant, I know, but bear with me. You’ve ruined the global economy through your greed and incompetence and now you need to recoup some of the trillions you’ve lost. As you pour over your ailing lending book, deciding
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Flybe to stick by Saints
SAINTS sponsor Flybe’s relationship with the club is “back on track” and the airline has vowed to remain as shirt sponsor next season. Reports of an “irretrievable breakdown” in relations triggered speculation that Flybe could invoke a break
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City scientists make swine flu breakthrough
A TEAM of scientists in Southampton is on the verge of a world-first breakthrough that could help stop a full-blown global flu pandemic. Four genetic experts in Millbrook are working round the clock to create a new test that will confirm if
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Ex-Transit worker takes battle to EU
HE spent three decades putting together iconic Transit vans and is now fighting for the political power to safeguard their future at the Southampton plant. On the day he walked out the factory, with 550 fellow workers who have been made redundant
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Man released without charge after fatal road accident
A MAN was last night released with no further action following a crash that claimed the life of a much-loved Hampshire teenager. Hundreds of people packed Romsey Abbey earlier this week to pay tribute to Thomas Bruce-Burgess, who died after
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£1 million cocaine gang jailed
Five gang members were jailed for a total of 72 years yesterday after smuggling cocaine worth £1 million into Hamsphire. Customs officials stopped single mother Louise Brindle as she arrived from Bilbao in Spain at Portsmouth ferry port on
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Cars damaged in parking flare-up
ANGER over commuters parking their cars on a Hampshire estate looks to have boiled over into vandalism. Sixteen cars parked in Hillier Way in the Abbotts Barton area of Winchester have received damage to bonnets and wings estimated at thousands
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North makes ODI debut
Hampshire batsman Marcus North made his one-day international debut for Australia against Pakistan yesterday. North, who played the first day of last week's LV County Championship match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston before being controversially
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A 'booming great' teaparty for Marie Curie Cancer Care
TEA and coffee will be downed across the region during the summer as organisers stage fundraising tea parties for a cancer charity. Marie Curie Cancer Care launched the “Blooming Great Tea Party” fundraising drive in Hampshire at Annie’s tea rooms in
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High School stars in Southampton
STARS of the hit theatre production High School Musical dropped in to Southampton yesterday to meet fans and sign autographs. Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay and Taylor were all on hand to meet young fans of the show and members of Jade Millington
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Parks: Pothas can still play for England
Former Hampshire wicketkeeper Bobby Parks has backed Nic Pothas's England credentials. Parks won three one-day trophies during a 12-year career with Hampshire - and still holds the county’s record for most dismissals (1,003 in all cricket).
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Vultures circle over Saints' talent
MARK Wotte has admitted that the vultures are already circling above Saints hoping to pick off some of their top young talent at a bargain price. And partly for that reason the Saints head coach is desperate for the club’s off-field problems to be
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Sad season for keeper Kelvin
SAINTS keeper Kelvin Davis admitted this season has been the hardest of his career. Davis picked up his Daily Echo player of the season award yesterday, after winning the fans’ vote in a landslide, with Lloyd James second and David McGoldrick
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Marek's not keen on League One football
MAREK Saganowski has paved the way for a move from Saints this summer after telling Mark Wotte he does not want to play in League One next season. Wotte is going to sit down individually with each member of his squad on Monday and ask whether
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‘Never again’ father weds second time
THE founder of Fathers 4 Justice will wed his partner of four years today after vowing “never again” to get married. Matt O’Connor, from Winchester, will marry Nadine Taylor, pictured, from Romsey, at Romsey Abbey. They will wear handcuffs as a
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Angler reels in a golden catch
AN angler had more of a catch than he realised when a fish he reeled in contained a gold ring. The ring turned up inside the belly of a fish caught off Fort Victoria, near Yarmouth, on the Isle of Wight. Jamie Bowley, of Gold Rush gold
