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New £19m Ocean Terminal receives first passengers
SOUTHAMPTON Docks' new £19m Ocean Terminal has handled its first passengers. P&O Cruises’ ship, Oceana had the distinction of being the first vessel to use the state-of-the-art building in the Eastern Docks, opposite the site of the old
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Hants match in Ireland abandoned
Hampshire's Friends Provident Trophy hopes suffered a blow when their game against Ireland was abandoned this afternoon. It is sunny today in Eglinton, a County Londonderry town 60 miles north of Belfast, but a fortnight of rain led to Hampshire
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Labour MP defends £22,500 claims for second home in Southampton
A LABOUR MP who switched her second home allowance to a house in Southampton before spending £22,500 on doing it up today defended her expenses claims Backbencher Margaret Moran hit back at allegations she was one of the MPs who had milked the
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Rescuers save swimmer from Solent
RESCUERS had to save a man who got into difficulties while trying to swim across the Solent early today. He had been trying to make his way from the Southsea Pier, where it is understood that he had been at a party, to the Isle of Wight. A Solent Coastguard
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Plan for new waterfront arena for Southampton
A STATE-OF-THE-ART 10,000-seat arena – similar in scale to the Echo Arena Liverpool – is the centrepiece of a grand new vision to redevelop Southampton’s Royal Pier and Mayflower Park. International A-list music acts, indoor sport events and temporary
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Shame of city's binge drinkers
Significantly worse than the national average. . . ONE in five people in Southampton is drinking alcohol at “hazardous levels”, new figures reveal. Every week around a fifth of the city’s population – some 50,000 people – down more booze
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Tigers meet the Tigers
HAMPSHIRE’S soldiers, nicknamed The Tigers, met their animal counterparts after returning to the UK for the first time since their three-month tour of Afghanistan. Twenty soldiers serving with C Company, Second Battalion, The Princess of Wales’ Royal
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Pamela takes over as mayor of Eastleigh
LIBERAL Democrat councillor Pamela Holden-Brown has become Eastleigh’s first citizen, taking over the chain of office from retiring mayor Councillor Derek Pretty. Mrs Holden-Brown, aged 74, was elected to Eastleigh Council in 2006 and the following
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Two caught on CCTV during college break-ins
THIEVES have targeted a Hampshire college twice in one week. Two suspects have been caught on camera breaking into Fareham College late on Tuesday night, just six days after thieves stole several laptops from the site. Police believe that these two
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What a star! Venus was packing twins
IN a UK first, a young alpaca has given birth to twins – without her Hampshire owner even knowing she was pregnant. Two-year-old Venus had her babies, known as crias, in less than an hour when owner Nikki Hayton popped to the shops.
