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Hants win Twenty20 opener
Hampshire 137-1 bt Sussex 133-8 by nine wickets Try telling Hamza Riazuddin that Twenty20 is a batsman’s game. Jimmy Adams, who hit a career-best 68 not out, Sean Ervine and Michael Lumb wasted no time in ensuring Hampshire got off to
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Former Saints boss quits
Gordon Strachan has quit as Celtic manager following their failure to clinch a fourth successive title. The club announced on their website that former Saints boss Strachan - who won three titles and three domestic cups in his four years
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New investment for RSYC unvieled by Mike Golding
SOLO round the world yachtsman and Royal Southampton Yacht Club member, Mike Golding took time off from a busy sailing schedule in Venice to formally open a £312,000 development project at the Club’s Ocean Village headquarters. He teamed
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Totton answer Dibden’s call
TOTTON & Eling captain Richard Dibden saluted his side’s “professional display” as they returned to winning ways with a comprehensive 170-run win over depleted St Cross Symondians at Southern Gardens. Dibden had issued a pre-match rallying call to
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OSTAR update 9
12:55 MONDAY 25TH All of the fleet have cleared the breakwater and are heading out into the Channel. Oscar Mead is around four boat lengths ahead of Katie Miller, both still in the 2nd pack. Read more at www.sailsolent.co.uk
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OSTAR update 8
12:30 MONDAY 25TH START GUN: Race off to a good start with the yachts heading off towards the Breakwater, close-hauled with 6 knots of breeze. Oscar Mead and Katie Miller are in the 2nd pack, quite near to each other. Read more
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OSTAR update 7
12:20 MONDAY 25TH The 10-minute start gun has just gone, the wind has dropped again and most of the fleet are some distance from the start line and look like the won’t be able to make the line. Read more at www.sailsolent.co.uk
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OSTAR update 6
12:05 MONDAY 25TH H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who will start the race, has been ferried out to the start vessel – the new Trinity House vessel Galatea. The wind has dropped to 3kts with the fleet moving very slowly around
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Recession brings charity for blind to brink of collapse
FOR more than one hundred years the charity has helped thousands of blind and partially sighted people across Hampshire. But now Southampton Society for the Blind is on the verge of collapse unless it can recruit more volunteers and attract more donations
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Mast passed for historic hospital
A PHONE mast will be built on the chapel tower of a listed Hampshire building despite a wealth of opposition from residents. More than 120 people objected to the plan for the Grade I listed Hospital of St Cross in Winchester, branding the proposed
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Nigel takes to the road for sailing trust
A SOUTHAMPTON man is hoping to raise £1,000 for the Jubilee Sailing Trust by running the Bupa London 10km race today. Nigel Clarke has been pounding the pavement in practice ahead of his bank holiday run to help people give disabled people the opportunity
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University’s masterplan welcomed
COUNCIL chiefs generally welcomed a multi-million pound masterplan for the University of Winchester up to the year 2017. However they stressed that its expansion should not harm residents living nearby. The university aims to build a teaching block
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EMU starts work on site expansion
MARINE research specialist Emu has started work on ambitious plans to double the size of its Durley headquarters. The firm, which has been based at its Mill Court premises since 1992, has now acquired an adjacent site, adding some 3000 square feet
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OSTAR update 5
11:45 MONDAY 25TH With just 45 minutes to go before the start all the skippers are completing their final checks as they mill around the start line. The weather has brightened but there is still little wind. Read more at www.sailsolent.co.uk
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Flats plan may save historic site
ONE of the oldest commercial buildings in Southampton is to be converted into offices and luxury flats. Grade II listed American Wharf near the bank of the River Itchen in Marine Parade has been disused for years and is the last building in Southampton
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Monday 25 May
Today’s principal Southampton arrivals: Coastal Wave, cargo, 0100, 45; X-Press Matterhorn, containers, 0330, 204E; Queen Mary 2, passenger, 0630, 38/9; Sand Weaver, dredger, 1130, Crown Wharf; APL Finland, container, 1245, 207; NYK Artemis, container
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OSTAR update 4
11:15 MONDAY 25TH Dozens of spectator boats are getting into position to watch the start. De Caffari has taken a boat out to wave off Katie Miller. Dee is ‘godmother' to Katie’s yacht. Katie is the youngest ever female entrant
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Hampshire just one step from Lord's
Hampshire captain Nic Pothas believes there is more to come from Michael Lumb. The Hawks opener’s blistering century set the tone for the fourth highest one-day score at the Rose Bowl on Saturday – and moved Hampshire one step from Lord’s after
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OSTAR update 3
10:45 MONDAY 25TH The competitors have said their goodbyes and the 36 yachts of the OSTAR fleet have left the marina. The weather is fine but overcast with light winds from the north and good visibility. Prince Philip will start
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OSTAR update 2
09:00 MONDAY 25TH There is an air of nervous tension in Queen Anne’s Battery this morning as the 36 OSTAR competitors carried out final checks before the start at 12.30pm today in Plymouth Sound. The marina is a hive of activity with
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OSTAR update 1
15:00 SUNDAY 24TH ROPES have been checked, food stowed away and liferafts packed, writes Will Carson from Plymouth. All that was left for the 36 skippers in the Original Singlehanded Trans-Atlantic Race to do was to try to get some last
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Firefighters tackle bedroom blaze
FIREFIGHTERS tackled a blaze which swept through a first floor bedroom of a home in Eastleigh early today. Emergency services were called to the scene in Steele Close, which is close to the fire station, at three minutes past midnight. The
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Sailing into the record books
THEY will face mountainous seas, gale force winds and three weeks alone at sea – and all just days after sitting end of term exams. Two Hampshire students will today sail into the record books as the youngest ever man and woman to compete in
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Sailing into the record books
THEY will face mountainous seas, gale force winds and three weeks alone at sea – and all just days after sitting end of term exams. Two Hampshire students will today sail into the record books as the youngest ever man and woman to compete in the
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Ashamed MP Viggers says sorry for claim
HAMPSHIRE MP Sir Peter Viggers has spoken of his shame and humiliation over his expenses claim for an island for the ducks in his pond. He said that including the island in his taxpayer-funded second home claims was a “ridiculous and grave
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Building your own floating duck pond
The Daily Echo has created its very own duck island to rival that of Sir Peter Viggers – but it’s all on a shoestring. It may have cost Sir Peter more than £1,600, but the Daily Echo’s DIY effort cost just £21. It is a more modest version
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Death on tracks at New Milton
TRAINS around New Milton were severely disrupted this morning after a fatality on the line. British Transport Police were called to the station at 8.10am today after a report that a person had died on the tracks. Investigations are currently
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Making Jenna’s dream a reality
HAMPSHIRE residents are pulling out all the stops to raise money in memory of a teenage cancer victim who became the face of the charity. As part of Wave 105’s Jenna’s Dream campaign, people are climbing mountains, arranging beer sales and
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Buying a village? Swede dreams are made of this...
A SWEDISH billionaire has set his sights on buying an entire Hampshire village. Stefan Persson, owner of the high street fashion giant H&M, is poised to buy the Linkenholt estate, near Andover. The second richest man in Sweden is snapping up the 2,000
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Call to disabled dancers to join the Mighty Dance
THIS dance troupe will take to the stage for an evening of entertainment to raise money for a Southampton charity. Mighty Dance members, who all have some form of disability, learn everything from street style to Latin steps. Now one of the Eastleigh-based
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Just the day for pigging out on ice-cream
THIS little porker knew how to keep his cool yesterday on what proved to be the hottest day of the year so far in Hampshire. Licking away at his ice-cream, the piglet was enjoying the sunshine down at Manor Farm Country Park in Bursledon as temperatures
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Bands turn out for Saints Aid
ORGANISERS of a fundraising day for Southampton Football Club say that the event is set to make a profit despite a disappointing turnout. The Saints Aid concert and fun day was supposed to raise cash for the crisis-hit club, but while the car park
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Morrissey gig cancelled tonight
MORRISSEY has cancelled his gig at Salisbury tonight because of ill health. People with tickets are being advised to keep hold of them while event organisers reschedule the event. A spokesman said: “Regrettably Morrissey's show at Salisbury
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New Forest councillor and his family hurt in crash
A COUNCILLOR and his teenage daughter are being treated in hospital after an accident on a Hampshire country road. Cllr Jeremy Heron and his children were travelling in his Land Rover Defender when it overturned. Reports suggested that
