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Police find house where woman was tortured
SCENES of crime officers were this afternoon scouring a house where it's believed a woman was held against her will and tortured. Detectives swooped on the Southampton property this morning where they arrested a man suspected of being involved
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£700,000 fund to save coastline
MORE than £700,000 is to be spent over the next year on protecting the Hampshire coastline from the threat of flooding. The environment Agency (EA) announced funding for more than a dozen new flood defence schemes in the region, including
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It Astra to be tried
HARTWELL Southampton is anticipating a surge of interest in the new Vauxhall Astra following the announcement of its 24-Hour Test Drive campaign, intended to lure customers behind the wheel of the smart new hatchback which goes on display in Southampton
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Fire at oil refinery
FIREFIGHTERS have been called to a blaze at one of Hampshire's biggest industrial sites. Crews were sent to Fawley oil refinery shortly after 3.15pm after a device known as a feed drum caught fire. A Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service
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Alfa Romeo boom
MERIDIEN Milano in Portsmouth has helped Alfa Romeo UK to achieve its highest sales figures since 2003, with total sales for 2009 up by a massive 52 per cent on 2008. According to the latest statistics from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders
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Volvo S80 is Big and Green
BIG cars can be green – and now you can get an executive saloon or big estate with annual road tax of just £35. Volvo has revealed 119g/km DRIVe versions of its S80 executive saloon and V70 premium estate, the fourth and fifth body styles it
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Pasion De Buena Vista
A MUSIC and dance experience that is taking Europe by storm comes to the South this weekend. “Pasion De Buena Vista” is filled with hot rhythms, delicate dances, and beautiful melodies which will take you on a tour through exciting Cuban nights. Audiences
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Theatre celebrates 60th birthday
WATERSIDE Theatre Company celebrates its 60th birthday with Lights, Camera, Entertainment. For this special occasion, producers Julia Allen and Claire Ferguson wanted to look towards the future. The show contains an array of familiar faces swing music
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Andersen’s English at the Nuffield
ACCLAIMED production company Out of Joint return to open The Nuffield’s 2010 season with a fascinating glimpse into the private lives of two great literary giants in Andersen’s English, from Tuesday. Celebrated children’s writer Hans Christian Andersen
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Local Bands with Xan Phillips from Amazing Radio
IF you want a group with attitude try Melting Pot.They're a collective of acoustic musicians from many genres who share a passion for songs and the pleasure they bring. Fiddle player Cath Watkins is the principle leader and regulars to the Fo'c'sle folk
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Oklahoma coming to Bournemouth
A BRAND new revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical Oklahoma is coming to Bournemouth in March and Southampton in August. Set on America’s Western Frontier, against a background of conflict between farmers and cattlemen, Oklahoma tells the
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Band of Skulls
CURRENTLY making major waves on the British music scene, Southampton threesome Band of Skulls return to The Talking Heads for a homecoming gig this weekend. The alternative rockers, consisting of Russell Marsden (guitar, vocals), Emma Richardson (bass
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Massive Attack – Heligoland
Massive Attack are one of Britain’s largest dance acts of the past couple of decades and some of their hits have become immortal in the annals of musical achievement. Despite a turbulent time during the noughties involving fights and solo projects
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Looking for somewhere to take the children... Simples
TRYING to decide where to take your children this half term? It’s simples! Garsons Garden Centre in Titchfield is welcoming three very special guests to its store on Monday. Meet meerkats, Flower and Timon, who will be joined by Pepe the skunk, at
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Children are singing out to save lives in Haiti
WHO needs Simon Cowell? Certainly not youngsters at one Hampshire school who stepped in front of the microphone to help save lives. Following in the footsteps of their pop heroes, these talented pupils at Hook with Warsash Primary School have recorded
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Road closed for bridge survey
Check the latest local traffic reports A BUSY Hampshire road will be closed next week to enable engineers to carry out safety checks on a Victorian railway bridge. Hampshire County Council and Network Rail are worried about the condition
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Win! The Prince & Me 4 – An Elephant Adventure.
Get set for AN ELEPHANT ADVENTURE as Icon Home Entertainment follows up the hugely successful first three movies In THE PRINCE & ME series. Released to buy and rent on DVD for the first time on 15 February 2010 this is the perfect half-term
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Funerals price war
IT’S the great crematorium price war. Grieving families are choosing to take their departed loved ones out of Southampton to save hundreds of pounds in cremation fees, the Daily Echo can reveal. One funeral director has told how two-thirds of his customers
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Bioshock 2 (PS3)
Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PlayStation 3 Publisher: 2K Games Classification: 18 (PEGI) BOTTLES of Coca-Cola were first produced in 1899 and have since become widespread to the point that people can picture them
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Death by Cube (360) (XBLA)
Genre: Action Platform: PlayStation 3 Publisher: Square Enix IT’S another one of those top-down, two-stick shooters that requires the use of the left stick for movement and the right stick to aim the 360-degrees rotating gun. It's
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Tokyo Sonata at The Phoenix
THE offering from Southampton University’s The Phoenix on Wednesday is Japanese hit Tokyo Sonata. Sacked without warning, Ryuhei chooses to conceal his unemployment from his family. Dividing his days between the employment agency and food hand-outs
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat (PC)
Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Publisher: Electronic Arts Classification: 18 (PEGI) YOU wouldn’t know it to look at it, but things are getting better in The Zone. Call of Pripyat is something of a return
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Wombling free
SO festival-goers will be wombling free this year it seems. The Wombles, the band made up of pointynosed furry fictional characters, are to reform for a one-off special appearance at Glastonbury in the summer. While not quite as exciting as
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Marti’s in town for Chicago
SINGING sensation Marti Pellow returns to The Mayflower as Billy Flynn in the national tour of the smash hit musical Chicago next week. The former Wet Wet Wet frontman first played the role to great acclaim in the West End, subsequently repeating
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Graham takes a close look at British Gas
GRAHAM Smith from Alresford is going behind the scenes at one of Britain’s largest companies. He is one of 20 customers chosen by British Gas to inspect the firm and report his findings. He has already visited a call centre in Wales and his schedule
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Airport boost for Southampton youngsters
HAMPSHIRE teenagers have reached new heights in self-confidence thanks to a cash boost from Southampton Airport. Funding from the BAA Communities Trust has seen more than 120 young people from disadvantaged backgrounds dive into action as part of Fairbridge
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Extra police drafted in for big cup clash
MORE than 260 police officers are being drafted in for tomorrow’s Saints and Pompey FA Cup derby. A capacity 32,000 will be at St Mary’s Stadium for the FA Cup fifth round clash. The match is being billed as the biggest of the season
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Pancake races are flippin’ good fun, say children
THERE was a pancake-flipping frenzy at a Hampshire school as youngsters competed for the coveted golden frying pan trophy. More than 300 pupils at Redlands Primary School in Fareham spent the afternoon battling it out in the playground to
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Hoax 999 caller ‘put lives at risk’
IT is an emergency line that could mean the difference between life and death. Yet Ellen Randell used Hampshire police’s 999 number to make more than 1,000 hoax calls. She plagued the constabulary’s control room with false reports that
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Stairway fall killed man, inquest told
A MAN died after falling down the communal stairs of his home, an inquest heard. Neale Thomas landed awkwardly at the foot of his neighbour’s front door at 9am on July 4 last year. Winchester Coroner’s Court heard the 39-year-old, who had learning
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Pompey have "no excuses" says Pardew
ALAN Pardew has piled the pressure on Pompey, declaring they have “no excuse” not to beat Saints. Pardew was in particularly upbeat mood yesterday, as he looks to mastermind a second famous cup success in a week. But while Saints were
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Council slammed for art spending
COUNTY council bosses have been accused of a “shocking waste of public money” for buying hundreds of works of art. They have spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ cash on 353 paintings and other works to decorate meeting rooms, corridors
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Pompey rivalry surprised me - Lambert
RICKIE Lambert admits he has been taken aback by how fierce the rivalry between Saints and Pompey is. The 27-year-old hotshot will experience his first south coast derby tomorrow, in the FA Cup fifth round at St Mary’s. Saints’ 24-goal
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Ex-Saint Bridge given World Cup warning
WAYNE Bridge has been told he must turn up for England's friendly against Egypt next month or risk being left out of the World Cup, according to reports. The former Saint has been under an intense media spotlight in recent weeks, after allegations
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Saints fans have a laugh at Pompey with web video
IT’S the unlikely Internet sensation that has Saints fans logging on to laugh at their rivals. Almost 40,000 people have watched a video which portrays the final days of Hitler’s life as a meeting in the Pompey boardroom. Clips from
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Uni wants 100 new professors
UNIVERSITY chiefs want to recruit 100 new top academics to Southampton in the next five years to lessen the impact of Government funding cuts. The extra professors are part of ambitious expansion plans to push the University of Southampton
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Hats on for Haiti at Winchester's Kings' School
HATS FOR HAITI: KINGS’ School in Winchester raised nearly £1,000 for the earthquake relief effort in Haiti. Pupils and staff at the school, off Romsey Road, took part in a Hats for Haiti event to collect the cash. Two pupils, Matthew
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Rod’s fans support sick musician
FANS of legendary rocker Rod Stewart are rooting for a Hampshire musician who was seriously injured in a road accident near his home. Guitarist Gary Leport formed The Dimensions in the early 1960s and gave the spiky-haired singer his big break by inviting
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Love – and lions – in the air
SOUTHAMPTON is set to celebrate Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year on the same weekend for the first time in years with a variety of events. The launch of the Festival of Love and the celebrations for the Year of the Tiger, which includes a performance
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Rival airport route no threat to Southampton
AIRLINE Flybe has moved to dismiss fears it may switch from Southampton Airport to its Bournemouth rival, after bosses revealed plans to launch flights there for the first time. Currently by far the biggest carrier at Southampton, Flybe yesterday
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Council lets still available
WINCHESTER City Council continues to struggle to let its properties in the recession. Discussions over Avalon House, the former planning department on Chesil Street, are still ongoing. The council wants £226,000 annual rent for the building.
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Ikea prepares first anniversary celebration
THE pulling power of Swedish flat pack furniture is demonstrated beyond doubt by news that 3,269,323 shoppers have passed through the door of Ikea’s Southampton superstore since it opened a year ago today. Now bosses plan to celebrate the milestone
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Redknapps lead summer surge
FORMER Saints player Jamie Redknapp and his pop star wife Louise are credited with driving a 15 per cent rise in sales for holiday name Thomas Cook. The chain which, together with its Going Places subsidiary has 14 Hampshire stores, reported a
