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Team Application Forms Received for 2009/10
Team Application Forms received as of 30-May-09. 1. AFC Hiltingbury 2. Alresford Town 3. Astro Blues 4. Baddesley Park 5. Bashley YFC 6. Bitterne Youth 7. Burridge Youth 8. Chamberlayne Athletic 9. City Central 10. Colden Common A 11. Earls 12. Eastleigh
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Team Application Forms Received for 2009/10
Team Application Forms received as of 30-May-09. 1. AFC Hiltingbury 2. AFC Redbridge 3. AFC Wolves 4. Alresford Town 5. Baddesley Park 6. Bashley YFC 7. Bashley YFC Blades 8. Bashley YFC Whites 9. Bitterne Youth 10. Bitterne Youth Red 11. Brendon 66
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Celebrating Hampshire's brewers
APACHE Rose Peacock, I Can’t Believe it’s not Bitter and Pots Black – those are just some of the strange-sounding varieties of Hampshire ale that will be supped by beer lovers this week at the 13th annual Southampton Beer Festival. During
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Open letter from Pinnacle to Saints fans
THE man negotiating the Pinnacle deal to takeover Saints has today written an open letter to all Saints fans. Dear All, I have been contacted by a large number of people given our entering into an exclusivity period for the purchase
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Machete rampage in Hampshire town
A MAN armed with a machete went on the rampage in a Hampshire town during the early hours of today. Police were called at 1.20am, after reports he had caused damage to a home. Although officers found the property was empty, they soon spotted the man
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Five year plan for Saints to get back to the Premier League
THE Daily Echo can today reveal that just one man will make Saints debt free and invest money in the team in a five-year plan to return the club to the Premier League. The Matt Le Tissier-backed Pinnacle group yesterday won the race to pay
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Paw-fect day for dogs
YOU would be barking mad to miss it. It is the cream of all dog shows and if you leave your pet pooch at home you will be in the doghouse for months. From brave Border collies flying through the air to dancing Dalmatians, the Daily Echo-sponsored
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Maggot attack pervert sues police
A RAPIST and paedophile who used live maggots during a sick attack on a woman is suing police for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. Evil Robin Frampton – also known as Robert Williams, above – is using legal aid
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Staff's last bid to save Hampshire radio station
STAFF of Radio Hampshire made a lastditch attempt to keep the stricken station on air before it shut down, the Daily Echo can reveal. An insider told the Daily Echo that employees offered to work for free to keep the station on air while a buyer
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Lifeboat called out to rescue yachtsman
The RNLI’s Cowes Lifeboat was called out by Solent Coastguards this morning to go to the aid of a yachtsman suffering from internal bleeding. His boat, the Atlantic Clipper, was moored up the River Medina, at Folly Reach. The lifeboat, with Simon
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Hollie's alleged killer 'had taken cocaine'
THE man accused of murdering Hollie Green told police he could not look into the face of the woman he claimed to love as he strangled her to death. Daniel Gibbons told officers who interviewed him after his arrest that he did not mean to kill
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The truth about the Super League
AS revealed in today’s Echo, the Super League WILL go ahead. Or will it? The answer lies deep in the proposals sent out by the Southampton & District Social Clubs League in April 2008. But let us first examine how the eight-team
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Fireman Sam pattern please
THROUGH your column I would like to thank these people who sent me horse and ballerina patterns for a jumper for grand-daughter Sophie. Now her brother Oliver wants his turn and all his jumper would like either Fireman Sam, a fire-engine footballers
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Does anyone recall Dr Horace King’s visit?
I READ with interest the article about the late speaker Dr Horace King. Just after the war, when I was a child I went to a few children’s parties organised by the local Labour Party at Swaythling. I can remember one at Bassett Green Junior School when
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Concern over cutting number of MPs
DAVID Cameron tells us that he would cut the number of Westminster MPs. I hope he doesn't overlook the fact that, in addition to their 59 Westminster MPs, Scottish voters have 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament to represent their interests, not
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Thanks for helping hubby
PLEASE find space in your letters page to convey my thanks to the kind and caring people who came to the aid of my husband when he sustained a nasty fall in Calmore Road on the evening of May 21. As an 80-year-old asthmatic and fitted with a pacemaker
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In praise of Sandra Gidley MP
C WESSON criticises Sandra Gidley for her 07/08 expenses (letters 20/5) but I have always thought that her very good response to constituents' letters must play a part in how much she spends on research into their problems, her clerical staff and postages
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Lotto grant withheld in row over project leader
NATIONAL lottery bosses are withholding cash for a unique project in the New Forest following a row over the choice of leader. The New Forest Trust (NFT) was awarded a £29,000 grant to compile an oral history of commoning, the system
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Zebra foal quick to find his feet
HERE’S one new arrival who has already earned his stripes. A male Chapman’s zebra foal born several weeks early at Marwell Wildlife was standing within just a few hours despite being premature. Keepers have named the new foal Zeus, and
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Newspaper delivery firm reveals huge losses
DAILY Echo distributors Dawson Holdings may quit its newspaper delivery business after disclosing heavy losses and contract losses worth £463m. Already 130 jobs at the company’s Southampton depot were under threat before regional newspaper
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North Baddesley jewellery raid
BURGLARS stole jewellery worth between £2,000 and £3,000 during a daytime raid on a home at Baddesley Road, North Baddesley. Police are appealing for witnesses to the break-in, which happened sometime between 6.45am and 9.30pm on Thursday.
