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Hants beat Twenty20 champions
Sean Ervine blitzed his highest score in the Twenty20 Cup as Hampshire cruised to a second win in ten days against Shaun Udal’s Middlesex last night. The Zimbabwean all-rounder crashed four sixes around Uxbridge during his rampant 53 as Hampshire
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Council gives green light to care home closures
DOZENS of elderly residents could be forced to give up their accommodation within weeks after councillors gave the go-ahead to close two council- run care homes. Occupants of Whitehaven Lodge and Birch Lawn homes will now be moved into new
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10cc, Pavillion Theatre, Bournemouth
BEFORE helping to form 10cc in 1972, Manchester’s Graham Gouldman was already a successful songwriter. The first set of this excellent touring show features gorgeous acoustic versions of numbers he wrote for Manchester’s ’60s bands – The Hollies
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Ex-Saints boss Redknapp questioned by police
Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp was questioned by police as ''a mere formality'' as part of the investigation into alleged corruption in English football, the club said today. It is understood the 62-year-old was questioned by City
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The perils of casual texts
FROM the day the first caveman hit a prehistoric hottie over the head and dragged her back to his place, romance has been an aspiration fraught with difficulties. As time passed, mankind thought up increasingly complicated ways to woo lovelies
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After a battering is property likely to return?
Well who would have thought it? My first article on the potential for loss in property was back in 2003 as a warning, followed by a series of ‘get out’ signals from 2005. The key issue with property was liquidity. Unlike a share which has numerous
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Could a romp every day keep divorce at bay?
STAYING intimate with a partner by showing affection and enjoying a satisfying sex life can be the essential glue that helps to keep a relationship together. But all too often, sex slips to the bottom of the list, relegated like a chore, and
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Dyer deal goes through
WINGER Nathan Dyer has this afternoon completed his £400,000 transfer from Saints to Championship side Swansea. The transfer was agreed by the two clubs early last week, but Saints were waiting for the Welsh side to return the paperwork and
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Arena is something to sing about
Let’s be clear. I am not about to “do a Baroness Vadera” and proclaim green shoots. Neither am I buying chancellor Darling’s line about things turning by the end of the year. Nor am I saying the grim tide of insolvency, redundancy and
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Driver critical after car overturns
A MAN has been rushed to hospital after the car he was driving overturned. The accident happened on the B3079 near Lyndhurst, sometime between 12.30am and 5.30am this morning. The crashed vehicle was reported to police at 5.30am, but
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Home secretary Jacqui Smith to resign from cabinet
Jacqui Smith is to resign from the Cabinet in a forthcoming reshuffle, a source close to the Home Secretary said today. The source said she had been ''hurt'' by revelations about her expenses claims and spoke to Prime Minister Gordon Brown
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Pietersen knocks schoolboy for six in cricket accident
A schoolboy cricketer was recovering in hospital today after being floored by a drive from Hampshire and England batsman Kevin Pietersen. Reece Topley, 15, was bowling at the star as part of a practice session at Loughborough University, Leicestershire
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Two men found guilty of £36m drug smuggling attempt
TWO men have been found guilty of attempting to smuggle £36m of drugs into Southampton Docks. Serbian nationals Dusan Mileusnic, 49, and Negovan Jovanovic, 58, were convicted by a jury on a ten to two majority verdict this afternoon at Winchester
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Get fit for Race for Life
WITH just six weeks to go until the Southampton Race for Life, it’s time to start training. Download your Training Planner - click here On July 12 up to 12,000 women of all ages, shapes and sizes will walk, jog or run the 5k Race for Life course
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Wotte's future on the agenda at Saints
SAINTS head coach Mark Wotte is set to discuss his future at the club over the next few days. Wotte flew back from Holland yesterday and is scheduled to meet members of the Pinnacle group today and tomorrow. The Dutchman’s position
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'Humiliation' led lecturer to commit suicide
A SENIOR fashion lecturer at Southampton Solent University took his own life after suffering “ritualised humiliation” at work, an inquest heard. Carl Baybut was found hanging in New Forest woodland, just days after attending a staff meeting
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Woman arrested after man falls to his death
A 27-year-old woman was arrested for murder today after a man fell from the roof of a four-storey building. The 24-year-old man, from Gosport, Hants, died after he fell from the building in Waverley Road, Portsmouth, at about 3am today.
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Third of voters expected to shun European polls
HAMPSHIRE voters will be voting to choose who they want to represent them in the 736-seat European Parliament on Thursday. A total of ten MEPS will be elected across the south-east region – including Hampshire. It is the largest of the 12 European
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Investigation into social club blaze
AN investigation has been launched into a blaze which damaged property near a sports and social club at Eastleigh last night. Fire crews were called to the area near the Stoneham Park Sports and Social Club in Stoneham Lane just after 7.30pm
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Road safety tops agenda for voters
ROAD safety issues in the New Forest will be at the forefront of many voters’ minds when they go to the polls on Thursday. The Forest has an unusually high number of fatal accidents, most of which occur on the two main roads either side
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School gets trainers on to help charity
Teachers, staff, parents and 320 pupils at St Mark’s Junior School in Southampton pulled on their trainers to run, walk, skip and jump their way around the school field. They took part in the 100-mile challenge to help boost funds for the Here
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Hundreds to run
MORE than 200 people are expected to flock to Bishop’s Waltham to take part in the Rotary Club’s Fun Run and Road Race on Sunday. Both races start from the Fire Station in Lower Lane, at 11am, with fun runners following a twisting two-mile course through
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Banks torpedo £1m pool facelift plans
A POPULAR family swimming pool is facing a bleak future after banks pulled funding offers for a much needed £1m rebuild. Shirley Pool in Southampton was due for a major refurbishment this summer that would have created a larger two-storey building
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Elite boatbuilder to double production
A BOATBUILDER from Hampshire is defying the recession by planning to more than double production and expand overseas. Renowned Lymington Rigid Inflatable Boats (RIBs) specialist Scorpion is breaking with its built-to-order tradition to make, smaller
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Tuesday 2 June
Today’s principal Southampton arrivals: Coastal Wave, cargo, 0130, 45; World Swan, bulk, 0900, 107; NYK Artemis, container, 1430, 205; Madame Butterfly, vehicle, 1730, 35/6; T6, yacht, 2200, 104w; MOL Competence, container, pm, 207; X-Press Monte Bianco
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TV’s Declan to host business awards ’09
DECLAN Curry, the familiar face from a range of BBC television finance programmes, is the host of 2009’s Daily Echo-backed Hampshire Business Awards. The annual hunt for the cream of the county’s business crop, which is sponsored by law firm Bond Pearce
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County first as Waitrose plants its own vineyard
WAITROSE has become the first retailer to plant its own vineyard, with a special ceremony at its Leckford Farm Estate in Hampshire. Estate chairman Sir Don Curry and Waitrose managing director Mark Price took part in an official vine-planting to mark
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Hopes for tribute to Millvina Dean in Titanic museum
A TRIBUTE to Millvina Dean could take pride of place in Southampton’s proposed Titanic museum. Southampton City Council’s leisure and heritage boss made the pledge as he paid tribute to the city’s last link to the disaster. Councillor
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Team GB sailing manager to meet the Queen today
A Hampshire member of Great Britain’s successful Olympic sailing team will today be honoured for his services to sport. Team GB’s Olympic sailing manager Stephen ‘Sparky’ Park will made an OBE by the Queen at a special service at Buckingham
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You can sign outr anti-fluoride petition
THIS letter is for the people that are anti-fluoride and are not sure where to go to if they want to sign the petition against this toxic waste going into our water supply. If some of you don't know much about the fluoride that they propose to add it
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Column should not be used as political platform
I DO not think that the 'In my view' column should be used as a political platform for a prospective Conservative candidate to disseminate his political propaganda. It was, in my view, the usual negative Tory party rhetoric. As usual it did not say
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Caught with their ‘fingers in the till'
WHAT is Ian Creasor (letters May 22) trying to say? That we call off the Euro elections and await a later date when the scandal and dishonesty of politicians expense claims die down? And then I suppose he expects us all to go to the booths and vote for
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Udal out to heap more awayday woe on Hampshire
SHAUN Udal has challenged his Middlesex team to ensure Hampshire’s poor Twenty20 away form continues at Uxbridge tonight (5.30pm start). Hampshire’s record at Uxbridge is appalling. They have lost every game they have played there since their first
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Cost of new county council HQ is only an estimate
REPLYING to the letter in the Daily Echo, which appeared on the May 28 under the heading Setting spending record straight', the £40million that is being spent on the new Hampshire County Council headquarters is only a conservative estimate. On top of
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Evolutionary theory is flawed
D SMITH is certainly well convinced about evolution as though it had no flaws whatsoever to its theory. How does DNA prove conclusively that everything came from a common source gradually? I thought DNA proved that kind produces kind. There is a lot
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Rival consortium was 'close' to taking over Saints
THE south coast businessman who fronted a rival consortium that failed in its attempt to buy Saints has revealed the group was “extremely close” to taking control. Marc Jackson claimed the consortium was on the verge of signing exclusivity
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Investigate ‘exes’ back to their inception
TERESA Rumsey, Soapbox May 27, is right about the need for a thorough investigation into MPs expenses, but surely it should commence at the time of its inception by Margaret Thatcher in 1979 as a means of avoiding giving MPs a pay rise, not nearly 20
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Delays as car rolls down embankment
Check the latest local traffic reports TRAFFIC was delayed around Cadnam this morning after a car came off the carriageway and rolled down an embankment. Motorists were queuing around junction one of the M27 and into the New
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Pub on the river is looking for landlord
A TRADITIONAL Hampshire pub is looking to pull in new landlords. The Prince of Wales in Bishopstoke is in the market for some new faces behind the bar to boost trade. The large Victorian inn that stands alongside the River Itchen
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MP claimed expenses for Christmas wrapping paper
ONE of the South's Tory MPs used office expenses to pay for £6 wrapping paper and to fund life coaching classes for an employee, it has been revealed. The girlfriend of Andrew Turner, Isle of Wight MP, who was employed as his assistant also
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Vintage cars in the firing line of resident bats
EVERY evening, staff at a Hampshire tourist attraction take part in a bizarre guessing game. Employees at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, try to work out which of the historic cars are likely to be damaged during the night by bats living in the
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Arson attack on six classic cars
THEY were his pride and joy that would get any car enthusiast’s heart racing. Over 30 years Dennis Kirby spent endless hours lovingly restoring his treasured and extremely rare classic cars to their original condition. But all that has
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Three charged after drugs bust at homes in south
THREE Hampshire men have been charged after a police drugs bust on three cannabis factories. Officers from the police drugs squad raided three homes in Court Road and Queens Road in Lee-on-the-Solent and Church Road in Gosport, making six arrests. Three
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'Hide and seek' leaves security guard with broken arm
A SECURITY guard had his arm broken and was left with permanent skin damage when he had a door thrown at him at a house in Southampton, a court heard. Nicholas Porter, from the firm G4S, had called to fix a tagging device to Matthew Garrett
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Verdict of suicide
A NEW Forest man found dead at his home committed suicide, an inquest has heard. Craig Heath, 28, of Forest Walk, New Milton, was discovered after taking an overdose, Southampton Coroner’s Court was told. The inquest heard he had previously suffered
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Future of doctors’ surgery is secured
A HAMPSHIRE GP practice, threatened with closure last year, has been taken under the wing of a new provider. The future of Solent Surgery had been in doubt after health bosses declared the Hythe facility was no longer viable and that it
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Job application fraud
A WOMAN falsified an application form for a job at a betting shop by not disclosing all her previous convictions, Southampton Crown Court heard. Jayne Smith, 23, of Carnation Road, Bassett, Southampton, admitted fraud and had bail extended pending
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Fake driving licence
AN illegal immigrant who smuggled his way into the UK in the back of a lorry was jailed for 18 months and recommended for deportation. Kamaljit Singh, 29, who had proceedings translated into his native Punjabi, was arrested after using fake driving
