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Koeman: We want Capital One Cup glory

Saints boss Ronald Koeman says his side are gunning for the Capital One Cup trophy after advancing past Millwall. Koeman fielded a strong side at The Den, as the club booked a place in the third round of the competition with a 2-0 win. The

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Pelle and Cork off the mark as Saints get first win

Saints are through to the third round of the Capital One Cup after Jack Cork and Graziano Pelle scored their first goals for the club. After a disappointing first half, half-time sub Cork headed Saints into a 53rd-minute lead - his first goal

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Benali arrives at Hull City

FRANNY Benali had the best day of his epic challenge, arriving at Hull City’s KC Stadium on a day that saw him cover 42 miles. The Saints legend ran 36 miles from the north Yorkshire market town of Pickering to Hull City before heading on to his

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Snap a summer selfie for chance to win Boat Show tickets

SUMMER maritime enthusiasts are being asked to get snapping selfies for charity and win tickets to a boat show. Hamble-based MDL Marinas wants to see how people are making the most of the summer sunshine and show off their activities, including

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Heavy assault carried out with 'great skill'

THE pages of the Daily Echo 100 years ago carried the latest statement issued by the British Official Press Bureau, which reported that British forces had successfully reached their intended new position and were engaged in heavy fighting with the

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Festival a knockout for families back in 1980

THERE were plenty of smiles, and maybe just a few tears, as people gathered to enjoy the Lordshill Fun Festival back in August 1980. Among the many attractions, the highlights on the day included an It’s a Knockout competition, inflatable frolics

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Couple wed in restaurant converted from a church

A HAMPSHIRE restaurant, which is a converted church, has held its first wedding in more than 30 years. Dave Gardiner and Vicky Baker tied the knot at their dream venue, The Vestry in Southampton, and have played a major part in bringing weddings

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Guides invade Forest for adventures

THOUSANDS of Guides have been enjoying adventures in the New Forest. An estimated 2,000 youngsters and leaders have been at the Foxlease Training and Activity Centre, near Lyndhurst, for a four-day event that ended yesterday. The event, called

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Hampshire 'Rapunzel' gives up hair for cancer cause

AILA-MAE Ford has dreamed of being Rapunzel all of her life and was growing her hair so she could look like her favourite princess. But when her grandmother, Viv Ford, lost her battle with bowel cancer earlier this year, the seven-year-old decided

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Classic play to be beamed to cinema

A classic play will be beamed from the heart of London to a cinema audience. The Regent Cinema, Christchurch, will screen the National Theatre’s production of Euripides’ powerful tragedy Medea on Thursday, 4 September at 7pm in a satellite broadcast

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Government wants black box from helicopter crash that killed four men

THE Scottish Government is taking legal action to access the black box from a helicopter crash that killed a Hampshire man and three others. George Allison, 57, of Winchester, died after a Super Puma helicopter crashed into the North Sea in August

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Festival of food and film at town restaurant

AN Italian restaurant will be serving up tasty treats when it hosts a screening of a critically-acclaimed movie for a film festival. Food at the movies usually involves popcorn or sweets wrapped in noisy plastic but La Fenice in Eastleigh will

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Motown legend books southern gig

FANS of Motown can delight with the news that one of its biggest and most popular stars is performing at a venue in the south on Tuesday, September 16. Soul diva Martha Reeves and her band The Vandellas will be setting the stage alight with an

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Stop bashing UKIP

RE Richard Grant’s missive. How many of the 28 members of the EU are net contributors and how many are net recipients? Everybody would like to be in a club that pays them. S WALKER, Hedge End.

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UKIP on the rise

RICHARD Grant’s comment that UKIP are just troublemakers is absurd. Their rise in the vote is due to the fact they represent a significant percentage of the electorate who believe we will be better off in every sense without the overregulation

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Message to the UKIP bashers

I SEE those tireless UKIP-bashers, Richard Grant and DR Smith, are at it again (Letters, August 20, 21 and 23). Mr Grant claims that UKIP “wants to destroy Great Britain”, but gives no reason for this absurd assertion. Reality could not be

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Maggie was right

FURTHER to recent correspondence on the EU, as usual Margaret Thatcher put it correctly, if undiplomatically. Shortly after she left office she declared that, throughout her lifetime, Britain’s problems had come to Europe, and the solutions to

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Referendum will not cost city

D R Smith’s latest attack on Conservative candidate for Southampton Itchen and councillor for Harefield Royston Smith has many inaccuracies that need correcting. I don't know where Mr Smith’s figure of £20,000 for holding a referendum comes from

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Candidate should be local

ONCE again I find myself disagreeing with the views and sentiments of D R Smith and his hostile attitude to Royston Smith in his quest to become MP for Southampton East as opposed to Labour’s offering of Londoner Rowenna Davis. Far from being a

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Stop attacking Conservatives

MR D R Smith has such a hatred of Conservative politicians that he will stop at absolutely nothing to try to damage their reputation publicly. He and his Labour Party colleagues have repeated the line about the cost of Royston Smith’s local referendums

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Let me set record straight

I APPEAR to have upset D R Smith (no relation thank goodness) by pointing out the fact that I am the local candidate for the Southampton Itchen constituency in the forthcoming general election (In My View, August 19). Nowhere in my leaflet did

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Disabled-friendly housing

LEONARD Cheshire Disability has recently found that thousands of people across the country are being forced to wash at their kitchen sinks, sleep in their living rooms, or use commodes because their homes are not disabled-friendly. This is simply

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These exams are not easy

I WOULD like to congratulate all Southampton pupils on their GCSE results. The pressure our young people are under to get the grades they want is immense and should never be overlooked. I have the utmost respect for them and their teachers.

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Seeing the darker side of cycling

THERE are many letters printed in the Daily Echo extolling the virtues of cycling. Tonight I was turning into St Catherine’s Road when at the last minute I spotted (it was 10pm) a cyclist, dark clothes, no lights. I shouted to him that I had

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Rail fare rise is ‘anti-passenger’

I HAVE always been an enthusiastic railway user but luckily not a commuter. The latest rail increase is anti passenger and anti green, which surely shows that the Government and just not just the latest Government have no intentions of ever making

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£250K small price to pay for the Bargate

FOR more than 800 years it has stood proud as a symbol of our city. Protecting Sotonians from onslaughts throughout the centuries and even standing defiant against the raids of the Luftwaffe which caused so much devastation around it. But now

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Murder investigation launched as boy dies after fireball horror

A MURDER investigation has been launched into the death of a five-year-old boy in a car fire. Tommy Sheldon, from Southampton, died in hospital yesterday after a two week battle with life threatening injuries suffered in the blaze in Hursley, near

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Pedestrian injured in hit-and-run

Police are investigating a hit-and-run accident that left a pedestrian with serious leg injuries. A 44-year-old man was taken to hospital after he was hit by a silver-coloured Subaru Impreza that failed to stop after the collision in Hampton Lane

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Half mast flag in tribute to couple killed in India bus crash

SOUTHAMPTON City Council is today flying its flag half mast at the Civic Centre in memory of the city couple who died in a bus crash in India. Roopesh Nawarkhele, 38, and his wife Kavita, 37, were killed instantly when their coach overturned after

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Police hunt hit-and-run driver

Police are investigating a hit-and-run accident in Hampshire that left a pedestrian with serious leg injuries. A 44-year-old man was taken to hospital after he was hit by a silver-coloured Subaru Impreza that failed to stop after the collision

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'Mindless stupidity' of owl sculpture vandalism

VANDALS have damaged a statue at a Hampshire beauty spot. The owl sculpture was part of a series of animal sculptures carved out of a fallen tree at the Hocombe Mead nature reserve, in Hiltingbury. But now it has been left blackened and burnt

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Controversial phone mast taken down

HAMPSHIRE’s most controversial phone mast has been removed. Contractors have taken down the Orange mast in Byron Avenue, Winchester, ending 13 years of argument and debate. Residents battled the mast for more than four years, with marches,

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Exotic reptiles dumped in bins

LIZARDS were cruelly dumped in a bin and left to die from the cold. Animal welfare inspectors are hunting for the person responsible who abandoned four bearded dragons, which experts believe may have tried to frantically scratch their way out.

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Oh baby! New mum goes into labour during first dance at wedding

WHEN Anna and Nick Laker joined their newlywed friends for a first dance at their wedding, they never imagined their baby boy would make an unexpected arrival. But despite having nearly two months to go until her due date and being 200 miles away

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Bray-ving the rain for village fair

FAMILIES braved the pouring rain to support their community fair. The annual Stubbington event was a damp affair this year but spirits were high despite the popular donkey derby being cancelled. Children were given the chance to pet the donkeys

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Downward spiral led to drug-related death

A MAN who was found in an alleyway near a Hampshire train station died from a combination of drugs and suffocation, an inquest heard. Originally from Poland, Krzysztof Miska moved to the UK in 2008 with his then-wife Aleksandra Miska, and was found

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Care home staff raise funds for families

A WINCHESTER dementia care home raised £670 to help a nearby community centre inspire families with arts and library activities. Staff and families of residents living at Colten Care’s St Catherines View in Stanmore chose the Carroll Centre as

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Get uniforms ready for charity run

FAMILIES are being invited to dress up in emergency services outfits for a charity fun run in September. The run on September 14 will raise money for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance. Participants can dress up as policemen, firemen

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New director for environmental group

A RIVERS trust has announced it is appointing a new director and hopes to expand its operations. Paul Jose, who has worked with water-related environmental projects for 25 years, will take the Wessex Chalk Stream and Rivers Trust post in October

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Teenager shaves hair for charity

A TEENAGER has bravely given up her hair for a cause close to her heart. Fourteen-year-old Ada-May Haddon had her locks lopped off in aid of MacMillan Cancer Support. The teenager was supported by family and friends as she underwent the chop

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'Why I write 40 letters a week to prisoners'

EVA Hogendoorn excitedly greets the postman every day. That’s because she receives up to EIGHT letters from some of her 3,000 pen pals who are among the country’s most dangerous prisoners. But inside the envelopes isn’t what may be expected

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A right Royal 100th birthday for theatre

A WINCHESTER landmark has celebrated its centenary. The Theatre Royal celebrated its opening exactly 100 years ago to the day with a cake and birthday activities to entertain visitors. A vintage King Alfred bus ran from the Broadway to the

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Become a volunteer at charity

A HEARING loss charity is calling on county residents suffering from deafness or tinnitus to help shape its policy. Action on Hearing Loss, Britain’s largest hearing loss charity, is appealing for people with hearing problems to join its research

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Council promises to take action over rat infestation

ENVIRONMENTAL health bosses have vowed to take action after the best place in the country to live has been infested with rats. The Daily Echo revealed how residents of Valley Park were demanding action after their streets, parks and woodlands have

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Totton on top after taking derby day spoils

WHAT a difference a year has made for AFC Totton. This time last season, the Stags were about to be pummelled 4-0 at Sholing in the FA Cup – an uncomfortable defeat considering they were two divisions higher than their then Sydenhams Wessex neighbours

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Brock 'n' rolling to the very top!

BROCKENHURST are enjoying the view from the top of the Sydenhams Premier Division. Pat McManus’s men are the surprise new leaders following yesterday’s 6-3 beating of rock-bottom Totton & Eling at Grigg Lane. With previous pace-setters

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Hampshire's Scott Mills joins Strictly

HAMPSHIRE-BORN DJ Scott Mills will be ditching the radio waves in favour for the ballroom as he is the latest celebrity to join this year’s Strictly Come dancing line-up. The Radio 1 presenter, who grew up in Eastleigh, announced the news on his show

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'Doctors gave me months to live, eight years later I am still fighting for my family'

JAN Simper recalls the moment doctors diagnosed her with terminal cancer and gave her just months to live. Devastated, she couldn’t bear to imagine not being there to see her grandchildren grow up. But Jan chose to laugh in the face of cancer

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A £250,000 facelift for the Bargate

SOUTHAMPTON’S most iconic monument is set for a £250,000 facelift. Civic chiefs have rubberstamped the project to restore the 800-year-old structure the historic Bargate to put a halt to major erosion damage. And the project could result in

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Fight continues to save pub

A SOUTHAMPTON pub at the centre of a battle by campaigners to prevent it becoming a fast food restaurant has held a family fun day. The Bittern was raising money for the chemotherapy ward at Southampton General Hospital. Entertainment included

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First World War exhibition

A HAMPSHIRE museum will be taking visitors back to the First World War. The ‘Working, Waiting, Weeping’ exhibition looks at life for women during the war, at the Bursledon Brickworks Museum from tomorrow until Thursday.

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Hunt for taxi driver attacker

POLICE are hunting a man who knocked out a taxi driver in a late-night assault. The 28-year-old victim was allegedly assaulted at the junction of Mansbridge Road and Howard Close in Swaythling. The man was found by a colleague and taken to

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Engineering tests begin ahead of city centre revamp

PRELIMINARY work has started on the £150m Silver Hill scheme in Winchester. Engineers and archaeologists are drilling test boreholes across the site between Friarsgate and The Broadway in the city centre. The holes will be up to 40m deep to

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Charity sale in aid of African children

A SOUTHAMPTON woman will be raising money for children in Africa. Christine Hooper, from Shirley, will be hosting a car boot and tabletop sale to support the Child’s i Foundation at St James Road Methodist Church on Saturday from 9am-1pm. The

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Ex-pub site to be built on

TWENTY-ONE affordable homes are to be built in Winchester after planning chiefs approved plans to build on the site of an estate’s last pub. Winchester City Council gave the green light for the council houses on the former site of the New Queens

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Happy Harvey toddles off with with contest crown

Harvey Dumper has been crowned top of the gorgeous tots in the Daily Echo’s Child of the Year competition. The 13-month-old from Southampton beat dozens of cute rivals to the top spot, making parents Katie Taylor and Joe Dumper proud. It was

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COMMENT: Koeman must show domestic cups more respect than his predecessor

“It’s a great opportunity to go on a run. It’s something we are going to take very seriously.” Those are the words uttered by Saints captain Jose Fonte in today’s Southern Daily Echo, and every supporter wants to believe them. The memories

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Studies linking humans to chimpanzees may need to be reviewed, say Hampshire experts

Comparing chimpanzees and humans without considering their upbringing is like comparing a child brought up in a loving family to one brought up in a Romanian orphanage, according to researchers studying primate behaviour. Professor Kim Bard, from

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Overturned caravan causes motorway delays

AN OVERTURNED caravan on a Hampshire motorway caused serious delays for motorists. The vehicle overturned at about 6.35am after a collision also involving a car on the M27. The crash happened on the westbound carriageway and resulted in severe

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RUMOUR MILL, August 22 - Koeman linked with Belgian international defender

Saints boss Ronald Koeman is being linked with a move for Belgium international defender Toby Alderweireld. The 25-year-old centre back started his career at Koeman’s former club Ajax Amsterdam prior to a £6.1m switch to Atletico Madrid in the

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Body of doctors' receptionist found dead on shore

TRIBUTES have been paid to a young receptionist who was found dead on a shore in Southampton. Southampton Coroner’s Court has named Rebecca Currie, 24, as the dead woman who was discovered on the River Itchen shoreline at Hazel Road in the Woolston

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Restaurant could face £120,000 fine for employing illegal workers

A HAMPSHIRE restaurant could face a fine of up to £120,000 for employing illegal workers. A Home Office raid at the Jarna Indian restaurant on Christchurch Road, New Milton saw three Bangladeshi men arrested as staff were questioned over whether

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Saints set for a League Cup reunion with three former players at Millwall

Saints are set for a reunion with a host of former players when they visit Millwall tonight. The Lions boast three ex-Southampton members in their ranks – Richard Chaplow, Ricardo Fuller and Scott McDonald. All three could feature against their

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Rapist jailed after years of horrifying attacks

HE is a “monster” who subjected his terrified victim to years of horrific sexual attacks, driving her to the brink of insanity. Peter Burns tied up the young girl and repeatedly raped her, threatening her not to make a sound otherwise he would

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Tributes paid to Southampton couple killed in coach crash horror

TRIBUTES have been paid to a Southampton couple who died in a horror smash while on holiday in India. Roopesh Nawarkhele, 38, and his wife Kavita, 37, were killed instantly when their coach overturned after colliding with a car. Witnesses said

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Gardos and Taider set for first Saints starts in Capital One Cup trip to the Lions' Den

Florin Gardos looks set to make his first appearance in a Saints shirt tonight as Ronald Koeman’s side head to Millwall in the Capital One Cup. The centre-half, who joined this summer in a £6m deal from Steaua Bucharest, has recovered from a hamstring

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Benali's 'tough' Bank Holiday Monday

It will be his third club in three days and there won’t be any stopping there. Saints legend Francis Benali is today en route to Hull City in the early stages of his charity challenge of running to all 20 Premier League clubs. The 45-year-old

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Hill's delight after Constable breaks Eastleigh goal duck in style

Eastleigh manager Richard Hill was “pleased” for James Constable after the striker scored his first goals for the Spitfires in a 3-1 home victory against Welling in the Conference Premier yesterday. The 29-year-old bullish frontman, who arrived