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Hants concede double century partnership after promising start
Adam Lyth and Jonny Bairstow, who experienced sharply contrasting fortunes last season, came to Yorkshire's rescue by each scoring centuries against Hampshire at Headingley on the first day of the home team's Specsavers County Championship campaign
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Poole Town boss salutes his Southern Premier Division champions
AN EMOTIONAL Tom Killick paid tribute to his squad for remaining loyal to Poole Town and delivering the Southern League title after last season’s heartbreak. The Dolphins made sure of the Premier Division crown and promotion to National League
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Eastleigh lose star striker to appendicitis
EASTLEIGH can catapult themselves into the Vanarama National League play-off zone with victory at FC Halifax Town on Tuesday (7.45pm). But they will be travelling to West Yorkshire without top gun James Constable who had his appendix removed yesterday
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Plea to find missing schoolboy, aged 12
A hunt has been launched to find a missing Hampshire schoolboy. Police have issued a plea for help in tracing 12-year-old Alfie Smith. Officers are concerned for the welfare of the youngster, from Hayling Island. They have appealed for
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Weary Winchester still one point short of the play-offs
THERE'S nothing like a bit of suspense to spice up the end of the football season, but Winchester City are taking it to extremes. Needing a home victory over Larkhall Athletic to make 100 per cent sure of a play-off spot, fifth-placed City fell
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AFC Totton display was "verging on the embarrassing"
ANGRY AFC Totton boss Steve Hollick slated his side’s inept performance as “verging on the embarrassing” following yesterday's spiritless 5-1 humbling at home to Swindon Supermarine. With nothing but pride to play for, the mid-table Stags threw
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Southampton pair given the all clear
Jose Fonte and Victor Wanyama have both been given the all clear after going to hospital in Liverpool. The Saints duo were both forced off during the 1-1 draw at Goodison Park and had to be taken a Liverpool hospital to be checked out. Fonte
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Sex monster jailed for attack on girl aged eight
A MAN has been jailed for 17 years for raping a girl when she was just eight years old. Ashley Orsborn, 25, of no fixed abode in Hampshire, was today sentenced at Winchester Crown Court to 17 years, plus a year extension on licence. He was
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Thousands in city to celebrate Vaisakhi festival today
VIBRANT colour and music will flow through Southampton today as thousands of people celebrate the Sikh festival of Vaisakhi. The Sikh New Year is the holiest day of the calendar and the city will be marking the festival with a colourful street
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Hampshire mum appears on TV dating show in bid to find love
A Hampshire mum has appeared on a reality television show in the hope of finding love. Fran McRoberts, a 47-year-old mother-of-two, took part in Channel 4’s First Dates, where she was paired up with 46 -year-old Colin from Essex. But the single
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Koeman rues Southampton's away scoring record
Ronald Koeman admits he is at a loss to explain just why Saints continue to struggle in front of goal away from home. The Saints boss went all out attack at Everton, naming Graziano Pelle, Shane Long, Sadio Mane and Dusan Tadic in his starting
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Vow to keep Southampton running - for free
IT is the global mass running event which has united hundreds of thousands of people in embracing a healthier lifestyle and fostering newfound community spirit in hundreds of towns and cities - including in Hampshire. The Parkrun movement has rapidly
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Southampton's Stag Gates - a lost landmark
IT was one of Southampton’s most imposing landmarks, right up until its demolition almost a century ago in 1919. Nowadays its legacy lives on in name only. Once, bus passengers would regularly hear the conductor calling out: “Stag Gates, next stop
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Free climbing - daring spectacle or height of selfishness?
SLOWLY he raises his body into a handstand, as he perches on the edge of a crane 220ft above the streets of Southampton. Danny Morgan’s stunt at the WestQuay Watermark this week isn’t the first daredevil climb in Southampton and as such feats become
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Rugby club is up for award at festival
AN INCLUSIVE rugby club has been nominated for a St George’s Day Award. Wessex Wyverns Rugby Club was the first openly Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender (LGBT) inclusive club in Hampshire that welcomes anyone who wants to play rugby.
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Mum's huge abseil to help ill toddler
A BRAVE Hampshire mum will conquer her fear of heights for her poorly little boy. Little Sebbie Smith was diagnosed rare illness making him just one in a million with the life-threatening condition. Before his first birthday, the youngster
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Hunt for hit and run driver after serious biker crash
A MOTORCYCLIST suffered severe injuries after being caught in a hit and run crash which also involved a tractor. The 58-year-old male rider is hospital with “life changing” injuries after the crash on the B3035 Corhampton Down near Bishops Waltham
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PHOTOS: Hundreds enjoy Ye Olde medieval festival
Knights and princesses turned up when a medieval festival came to town. Members of medieval reenactment company Black Knight turned up in their finest garb to impress families and children in Eastleigh. Visitors to the town had the chance to
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PHOTOS: Record breaking Parkrun in Southampton
Nearly 1,000 runners braved the rain to compete in a record-breaking Southampton parkrun. The 867 participants surged across the finish line at the flagship event on Southampton Common yesterday - smashing the previous record of 844. Their
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VIDEO: Plague of 100 rats make family's life a nightmare
A FAMILY say their lives have been made a misery - due to a plague of rats. Ali Khan says his neighbour is apparently feeding the rodents and estimates there are as many as 100 living in the garden. This has left his children too scared to