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Olympic star opens new city stadium
OLYMPIC marathon runner Liz Yelling was guest of honour after officially opening the new multi-millionpound Winchester Sports Stadium. Hundreds of sport lovers packed the facility at Bar End during the special ceremony on Saturday to see the
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Hair raising exhibition due at Eastleigh Museum
IT is real cutting edge stuff. A History of Human Hair is the title of a new exhibition set to take root at Eastleigh Museum from Saturday to August 22. It is a family friendly handson exploration of the history and science of human hair. The
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Free advertising idea halted by 'jobsworths'
IT was intended to be a goodwill gesture to help promote local businesses during the credit crunch, but ended in chaos. Newsagents Bob and Lynn Fieldsend were happy to give free advertising space on a board which has been on the wall at the side
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Transport boss Brian gets Freedom of London
HE has the power to bring central London to a standstill by driving a flock of sheep over London Bridge. Brian Botley is one of only a handful of people in the country entitled to this bizarre right, having been awarded the Freedom of the City
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Order to move mobile home will cost £20,000
A HAMPSHIRE man faces losing £20,000 after civic chiefs ordered him to move his caravan from one side of his garden to the other. Dean Burrows was initially told that he could put a mobile home in his parents’ back garden in 2007 without the need
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Bank holiday traffic clogging Hampshire roads
HEAVY Bank Holiday traffic was today causing long tailbacks for motorists on one of the main routes through the New Forest. Queues were reported on the busy A337 at both Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst as holidaymakers made their way through the National
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Ceremony for man who called Zulu king ‘friend’
UP until now the unmarked grave offered little clue to John Ross’s remarkable life. While his name may not be widely known in Southampton – his final resting place – he continues to be revered in South Africa where roads and schools have been
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Administrator denies talking to Saints legend Le Tissier
MYSTERY surrounds speculation that Saints legend Matt Le Tissier is fronting up a consortium of property developers who are in the running to buy the club. According to reports yesterday, Le Tissier had confirmed that the group had even
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Pensioner paraglides into cliff
A PENSIONER is today recovering at Southampton General Hospital after paragliding into a cliff. The man, in his 60s, was airlifted to hospital after the accident at Brook Chine, near to Atherfield Point, on the Isle of Wight. He suffered
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Man left with brain injury after birthday attack
A Southampton man was beaten unconscious and left for dead while coming home from his local pub where he had been celebrating his birthday. A gang of four men and women are believed to have attacked Kyle Donnelly from behind and battered him around
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5 family tickets to Beaulieu’s Trucks & Troops
Beaulieu is offering Echo readers the chance to win one of 5 family tickets to Trucks & Troops in this fantastic competition. From the 23rd – 25th May, the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu is playing host to Trucks & Troops -
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Flash mob show down in city centre - with video
IT was like a scene from a classic Wild West movie. But this wasn’t a Hollywood blockbuster. It was Southampton city centre yesterday lunchtime when as more than 60 people started drawing imaginary handguns on each other. The
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Ship owners call for end to subsidy of Irish lighthouses
SHIPOWNERS are calling for an end to the UK subsidy of Irish lighthouses, which is a major reason behind controversial government proposals to raise taxes at ports like Southampton. Some of the port’s biggest customers could see their tax bill
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Man rescued after car comes off Southampton road
FIREFIGHTERS rescued a man who was trapped in his car after it came off Bridge Road, Bursledon, during the early hours of this morning. Two fire crews from Hightown were called to the accident that happened shortly before 2am. Paramedics took the injured
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Eastleigh left to rue missed opportunities after play-off defeat
ON THE face of it, it was this crushing defeat that cost Eastleigh their chance of reaching the promised land of the Blue Square Premier. But, as he surveyed the wreckage after the Spitfires’ play-off bid came crashing down at The Silverlake
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Saints - where it all went wrong
SAINTS fans can't afford to miss Tuesday's Daily Echo as the inquest starts into how the club have found themselves in the third tier of English football. Starting tomorrow, we reveal the behind-the-scenes stories from the last few years
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Totton's all is not quite enough
THEY gave every ounce of energy and commitment they had, but it wasn’t quite enough as AFC Totton’s dreams of a second successive promotion were shattered six minutes into extra-time at a tense Testwood Park on Saturday. All the odds were stacked in
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Forest defeat summed up season - Wotte
Mark Wotte confessed yesterday’s final day defeat at Nottingham Forest summed up Saints’ season. Saints dominated large spells of the game and for 70 minutes looked as though they would wrap up a relatively comfortable victory at the City Ground to
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Wotte forced to play waiting game over Saints future
Mark Wotte will debrief his players at Staplewood today before taking a break and waiting for the phone to ring. The Saints head coach is in the same boat as many of the players, having to wait and see what happens with the ownership of
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Wright-Phillips 'just wants to hear some good news'
Bradley Wright-Phillips was in a philosophical mood after the final game of the season and admitted he just ‘wants to hear some good news.’ Wright-Phillips looked to have put Saints on their way to victory at Nottingham Forest but ended up on the
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Davis: I felt like blowing my top after Forest loss
SAINTS captain Kelvin Davis admitted he felt like “blowing his top” after the last day defeat at Nottingham Forest. Despite relegation already being assured, the 32-year-old keeper was still furious Saints lost a game they should have won
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Boycott over safety fears at council chamber
ONE of the organisations that uses a council building in Hampshire plans to boycott the facility after raising fears over public safety. New Forest District Council’s main debating chamber has only one exit – despite being on the first-floor
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Gambler burgled home of own sister
A GAMBLER was spared jail after bungling a burglary his sister’s house. Zillur Khan, 28, had a debt of £2,000, Winchester Crown Court heard. He was invited for dinner at his sister’s house in the West Hill area of the city when it emerged that she
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Heart charity calls for fun run support
A NATIONAL heart charity is calling on runners to set their pulses racing in a fundraising jog around Southampton Common. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) hopes its annual “Southampton Sprint” will attract more than 300 participants
