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Safe cup passage for Saints
SAINTS advanced to the second round of the FA Youth Cup with a 3-1 win at Plymouth Argyle tonight. Jason Dodd’s under-18 side rocked the Pilgrims youngsters at Home Park with goals from Joe Curtis, Lloyd Isgrove and Sam Hoskins seeing them through.
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Pearson ponders all-girl Eastleigh Mini League offshoot
THE Eastleigh & District Mini Soccer League has raised the possibility of setting up an offshoot league just for girls who want to play football. The EDMSL is one of the largest youth leagues in Hampshire, offering clubs in the Southampton and Eastleigh
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Broadlands to be heated entirely by own timber
BROADLANDS Estate has started preparing fuel for a pair of new biomass boilers that will heat the house after its £4m refit. The new boilers will be run entirely on wood from the 4,500-acre estate. Two boilers, each weighing three tonnes, have
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Water company fined for sewage in river
SOUTHERN Water has been prosecuted for allowing raw sewage to enter a tributary of the River Itchen at Eastleigh. Appearing at New Forest Magistrates' Court the company admitted the offence and was fined £5,000 with £3,440 costs.
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Lets Cook Local aiming to get people cooking
YOUNG people can try their hands at cooking local food with the help of a new recipe booklet. Let’s Cook Local features recipes from the eight finalists of the Hampshire school cookery competition Create and Cook, which took place during this
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Council to sell up headquarters
A HAMPSHIRE council may soon be selling its headquarters and moving to the town centre, the Daily Echo can reveal. Hundreds of staff will be transferred from Eastleigh Borough Council’s giant Leigh Road base to a smaller site nearer the High Street
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Ball's World Cup final shirt sold at auction
ALAN Ball’s 1966 World Cup final shirt has fetched over £50,000 at auction today. The Saints legend’s jersey was up for sale as part of an impressive range of football memorabilia owned by former England and Manchester United star Nobby Stiles
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Notts County appoint new manager
NOTTS County will have a new manager in place for the visit of Saints on Saturday - with Paul Ince remaining the odds-on favourite. The League One side sacked Craig Short and his assistant Dave Kevan on Sunday, but have moved quickly to fill the void
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Cabbie's £2k fine for crash which ruined victim's life
IT left her with multiple facial injuries, a broken spine and mental scars that will long outlast the physical ones. Now teenage car crash victim Jasmein Chahal has spoken of her anger at the £2,000 fine given to the taxi driver behind the
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Poppy tributes for servicemen
TRIBUTES were this morning paid to service men and women at the launch of the Royal British Legion Hampshire Poppy Appeal. A naval guard of honour and the legion county standard as well as serving personnel, cadets, veterans and poppy collectors
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Docks ladder fall leaves man with serious head injury
A MAN was evacuated by air ambulance to hospital after a fall in Southampton docks. The 76-year-old fell off a ladder onboard a vessel in berth 104 at Gate 10 in the Western Docks, at about 10.20am this morning. He was taken to Southampton
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Halloween Fashion Show At The Marlands Shopping Centre.
Come along to the Mall Marlands this Friday 27th October, to see a seriously spooky Halloween fashion show by the 'Daily Echo's' Out There Models. Shows start at 11am,then every hour till 4pm.
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Planned landmark tower could become student digs
A LANDMARK tower dubbed the “Gateway” to Southampton is to become student flats after being hit by the banking crisis. Developers now want to fill the proposed 13-storey building in Swaythling with 376 student rooms instead of the 81 apartments
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‘Single’ mum was a £15,000 benefit cheat
A SOUTHAMPTON mum has been ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work for cheating the taxpayer out of £15,000 in benefits. Sarah Crawford, 32, of Millbrook Road West, admitted charges of fraudulently claiming income support after an investigation
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Abuse of pensioners soars by 79 per cent
THE NUMBER of reports of abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults in Hampshire has gone up by 79 per cent. The county council has dealt with 1,437 reported incidents, compared with 804 the year before. Action was taken to stop the abuse in about 40
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WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2011 (Xbox 360)
Genre: Wrestling Platform: Xbox 360 Publisher: THQ Classification: 16 (PEGI) [Copy and paste last years review here.] And that's literally what we could do if this review was only about the gameplay and the
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BAE in bid for deal with Brazilian navy
THE Brazilian navy is weighing up whether to order a fleet of 11 new ships from Hampshire warship builder BAE Systems after the company formally submitted its bid for the work. It’s a crunch decision for the 3,000 Hampshire workers employed
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Hospital parking fees 'to be fairer'
SWEEPING changes to staff parking charges at a Hampshire hospital will see bills slashed for some frontline workers – while top-end earners could see their permit charges triple. Those who are on lower incomes will make a saving as Southampton
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Saints begin Youth Cup campaign
SAINTS will face Plymouth Argyle in the first round of the FA Youth Cup tonight. Jason Dodd's team travel to Home Park for the fixture on the back of a fine run of form. The Under 18s have won their last four league matches, seeing off
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Farmhouse bought for £18k on sale for £2m
A HAMPSHIRE developer who bought a Tudor farmhouse for just £18,000 is now selling it for almost £2m. When James Ashby purchased the 16th century home there was a tree growing in the kitchen and nettles were coming through the upstairs floors
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Bid to rescue sailors from burning ship
A rescue operation was launched today to save 111 people from a burning ship. The Athena, a factory fishing vessel, is 230 miles south-west of the Isles of Scilly. The Falmouth Coastguard is co-ordinating an air and sea rescue. The Athena is owned
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Villagers plan to run their own pub
VILLAGERS hit by the closure of their local pub have unveiled plans to buy the building and run it themselves. The Forest Heath Hotel in Station Road, Sway, has been empty and boarded up since it was shut by Admiral Taverns more than a year
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Morgan walks disciplinary tightrope
Morgan Schneiderlin is the latest Saints midfielder to be walking a disciplinary tightrope. The Frenchman picked up his fourth booking of the season in the win over Oldham at St Mary’s and is now just one yellow card away from having to serve
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Pipe bomb jury set to retire today
JURORS were expected to retire today to consider their verdict in the case of a Hampshire teenager accused of wrecking a car with a home made bomb. Robert White is said to have planted the device on the offside wheel of a Vauxhall Vectra parked
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Victims of ‘death sentence’ get MP's support
ROMSEY’S MP has stood up for people who were infected with contaminated blood products in hospitals during the 1980s. Speaking during a Commons debate, Caroline Nokes, pictured, said: “These products were for many a death sentence and if not
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Pledge on funding for social care
THE leader of Hampshire County Council has pledged to fund frontline child protection and adult social care despite the harshest Government spending cuts for years. Central grants for local authorities are to be reduced by 26 per cent by 2014-15. County
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TV thief foiled
A THIEF tried to steal a television from a delivery truck in Winchester city centre. Police are seeking witnesses following the attempted theft in Market Street close to Monsoon. The yellow City Link van was parked while the driver delivered goods to
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Police swoop on gardens in hunt for burglar
POLICE this morning surrounded part of a residential area after a would-be burglar was disturbed during an attempted break-in. A spotter helicopter using heat-seeking thermal imaging was deployed to help officers searching gardens of homes
