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Out of sorts Australia finalize Ashes credentials
With the Ashes little over a week away, Australia name their squad to contest the series tomorrow, a group of which has come under unruly fire of late. Quite never has an Australian side looked so out of sorts, particularly as their proud cricketing
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Hampshire remembers
HUNDREDS of people across Hampshire remembered the fallen this morning. Despite heavy wind and rain, young and old gathered at war memorials throughout the county to pay tribute to those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. The dead
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British couple freed by pirates
British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler finally left Somalia today after more than a year in captivity. The couple, from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, were reportedly handed over to local officials in Adado after a ransom was handed over to their
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Pensioner scared by creeper
A PENSIONER woke to find an intruder creeping through his bedroom window. The 64-year-old Southampton man went for an afternoon nap with his wife at 4.45pm, but woke just an hour later to find the burglar climbing into the house in Southcliffe
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Woman's body found in ditch
A YOUNG woman has been found dead in a ditch in Hampshire. Elizabeth Neilson's body was found around 1.30pm on Friday at the side of Undershore Road in Lymington. Police and paramedics were called to the scene but the 32-year-old was
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Theatre needs half-a-million pounds
A HAMPSHIRE theatre needs to save £540,000 to lift it out of the red for the first time in its history. For the last 28 years Ferneham Hall in Fareham has been losing money but now a major shake-up is planned to make the savings needed for it
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Hammond - we didn't deserve to lose
CAPTAIN Dean Hammond thought Saints’ performance at Carlisle warranted at least a point. Nigel Adkins’ men fell to a 3-2 defeat at Brunton Park yesterday, which ended a four-match winning run. Despite falling foul of several individual errors, Hammond
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Health bosses investigate return of rickets to city
HEALTH chiefs in Southampton are joining forces to discover why rickets has returned to the city. As reported in yesterday’s Daily Echo the crippling bone disease has made a comeback with children across the city being diagnosed, more than
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Fallen Hampshire soldiers remembered
THE deadly cloud drifted in from the north east on a light wind, moving slowly the lethal fog seeped insidiously into the trenches manned by the Hampshire soldiers and the shout went up: “Gas, boys, gas!’’ Yellow-grey smoke, with its pungent, nauseating
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Couple die within days of each other
A HAMPSHIRE couple who spent almost 70 years together have died within three days of each other. Joan and Leslie Powell were married for 68 years and lived in Bishop’s Waltham for nearly all of their lives. Joan, 85, died on Sunday after a battle