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  • FOOTBALL - Full time scores

    Full time scores from the top clubs in the South Sunderland 2 - Southampton 2 Portsmouth 2 - Blackburn Rovers 2 Northampton Town 0 - Bournemouth 3 For the Saint's match report, see our Saints section now...

  • FOOTBALL - Half time scores

    Half time scores from the top clubs in the South Sunderland 1 - Southampton 1 Portsmouth 1 - Blackburn Rovers 1 Northampton Town 0 - Bournemouth 1

  • Hodd knows Reid's game

    Southampton manager Glenn Hoddle is looking forward to doing battle with former England team-mate Peter Reid at Sunderland this afternoon. Hoddle knows that Reid will have Sunderland well prepared for the managerial head-to-head between the former international

  • Weal sets up final place

    HAMPSHIRE'S Nick Weal is on course for a return to the final of the Lawn Tennis Association's national championships final. Former finalist Weal, who has given up full-time tournament play to concentrate on coaching, still had enough power and guile to

  • Do not play with matches

    A MOTHER-of-four today warned of the danger of children playing with matches after a blaze at her Hampshire home. Ellen Jury does not keep matches in her home, but her family was forced to flee for their lives after one of her children got hold of a box

  • Research centre to lead the field

    THE LARGEST centre for cutting-edge chemistry in Europe is to be built in Southampton after the university won more than £9 million in public and private funding. Southampton University has been awarded £5.9m from a government fund to build and equip

  • MP Sandra praises college for work with dyslexic children

    ROMSEY MP Sandra Gidley has given a pat on the back to special needs staff at a Hampshire College. Mrs Gidley - whose maiden speech in the House of Commons in May was on education - visited to Applemore College, near Hythe, to learn more about its dyslexia

  • Police officer denies careless driving

    A HAMPSHIRE police officer crashed while taking a prisoner to a police station late at night, Southampton magistrates heard. The accident happened when Pc David Hindle lost control of a Transit van on a bend. It went across the road, hitting the verge

  • Lottery cash boosts centre's revamp

    VOLUNTEERS in a Hampshire town are toasting success after securing a National Lottery boost to a £72,000 community centre makeover scheme. Hedge End's Drummond Community Association has been awarded a grant of just over £22,000 towards the costly revamp

  • Bid to solve riddle of smokers' health

    SCIENTISTS in Southampton might soon be able to explain why some smokers live to a ripe old age, while others die prematurely of lung disease. A team of researchers at Southampton General Hospital have launched a unique study into how different people's

  • Villagers plead to keep police station

    THE pleas of Hampshire villagers could still keep the doors open on a valued police station that has been earmarked for closure by constabulary chiefs. Members of force overseers, the Hampshire Police Authority, have vowed to keep all options open until

  • Saints scrape draw

    Sunderland 2 - Southampton 2 Glenn Hoddle stuck with the side which beat Chelsea last week - his first unchanged line-up of the season. German striker Uwe Rosler was back on the bench following hernia surgery and Hassan Kachloul returned after a week

  • England on boil

    England's frustration at being unable to complete victory in three days spilled over into an angry confrontation with an umpire on the penultimate day of their cricket tour match with a Governor's XI yesterday. With less than a week to go before the opening

  • Super swim puts Clegg up there with the best

    Hannah Clegg finished second-best in a regional championship race for the second time in two months at the Southern Counties winter championship. But, where last month's Southern Schools silver ended a long run of school-level success, her 50m backstroke

  • Portillo's message to transport bosses

    You have my sympathy . . . SHADOW Chancellor Michael Portillo dropped in on Hampshire road hauliers to discuss Gordon Brown's pre-budget statement. Speaking at road haulage firm Royers Ltd, in West End, Mr Portillo said he sympathised with truckers who

  • Will we ever know germ cloud effect?

    A CONTROVERSIAL new book released today describes the full extent of chemical and germ warfare experiments carried out in Hampshire and Dorset in the 1950s. Gassed, by journalist Rob Evans, describes how scientists carried out more than 150 highly-secret