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• Claus opens contract talks

  CLAUS LUNDEKVAM is the next on the hit list as Saints look to take a contract out on him. read more

• Darts: Entries flood in for Echo Open

  The Daily Echo Hampshire Open is right on track for a repeat performance of last year's successful tournament. read more

• Olympic stars provide a fitting finale at the Quays

  The biggest-ever Hampshire swimming championships concluded at the Quays with the older age-groups and the junior and open titles. read more

• SPORT STARTING TO FEEL PINCH!

  SPORT in Hampshire is at the mercy of the food and mouth crisis. read more

• In Port

  Today's Principal Arrivings: P&O Nedlloyd Stuyvesant, container, 0500, 207; Montlhery, vehicle carrier, 0600, 201 link; Nordsee, container, 1030, 205W; Jingu Maru, vehicle carrier, AM, 40; Tanabata, vehicle carrier, AM, 34/35; Celtic Monarch, container, 1200, 204W; Kapten, general, 1200, 47; Crystal Ace, ro/ro, 2030, 202; Heerweg, general, PM, 107; Rodlo, bulk, PM, 36. read more

• Wolverhampton wait on disease verdict

  Wolverhampton's evening meeting tonight is the latest to be threatened by the foot and mouth epidemic. read more

• TOP TEN BOOKS: with Waterstone's of Southampton

  The best selling books in Southampton this week read more

• Esther's agony

  Esther: The Autobiography by Esther Rantzen, published by BBC Worldwide, priced £17.99. read more

• Fears over early rounds of Village KO

  SOME early round matches in the National Village Cricket Knockout competiton will have to be decided by the toss of a coin if the foot and mouth crisis stretches on into early summer. read more

• Leagues due to meet to discuss implications

  HAMPSHIRE'S major cricket leagues will meet on Tuesday to discuss what options, if any, they have of playing on through the foot and mouth crisis. read more

• Winchester KS clinch indoor title

  The South Hampshire Indoor Cricket League title has returned to Winchester KS, as they pipped holders BAT Sports A to the championship by the narrow margin of just three points. read more

• Golf clubs suffering in the New Forest

  BRAMSHAW Golf Club has been able to cushion the closure of their Forest Course by keeping their Manor Course open, the difference being that part of the Forest course is on open land. read more

• Blackey shoots himself in second place in Brazil

  Matt Blackey made a bold move up the leaderboard and into second place in the Sao Paolo Open on the day that his course record was shattered by an unknown South African. read more

• Jobs go early

  PLUNGING stock market prices resulted in Southampton-based investment and financial company Skandia Life shedding 52 temporary staff yesterday, three weeks before their contracts ended. read more

• Review: Sweet FA, Oaklands Community School Youth Theatre

  THIS one-act play, performed as part of Totton Drama Festival, tells the true story of football-mad Southampton schoolgirl Sedge Stanbury, who beat opposition from teachers, parents and others to become a professional footballer. read more

• Review: Emotions explode in this intense drama

  My Mother Said I Never Should: RAODS, Plaza Theatre, Romsey read more

• Band laying on the Abba style

  JUST what is it about Abba that made the Swedish foursome such a hit all over the world - they still get even the creakiest old dancing queens out on the disco floor? read more

• Echoes down half a century

  FOR the first time in more than half a century, a Fryer will not be selling the Daily Echo to people in Hampshire. read more

• Change of heart over axed route

  PASSENGER power has forced bus operator First Southampton into a massive U-turn to reinstate vital services axed under a huge shake-up last autumn. read more

• Learning how other cultural groups live

  TEACHERS and careers workers toured religious temples across Southampton as part of a multi-cultural awareness day. read more

On this day: Hampshire Archive