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  • The Humber Half Marathon - a bridge not too far

    PICKING the races to run for this year-long schedule was not easy. In fact, the project started back in the summer of 2005, and even now I'm still tinkering with the plan of 80 races as new ones appear on the horizon when I think that would be a good

  • Dimi: Hampshire will be okay without me

    Dimi Mascarenhas has backed his team-mates to find the form to guide Hampshire through to the quarter-finals of the Twenty20 cup for only the second time in five years. This afternoon's rain-affected six-wicket defeat against Surrey at the Brit Oval

  • Hampshire sent spinning to defeat

    Hampshire continued their disappointing start to the Twenty20 Cup with a convincing six-wicket loss against Surrey at The Oval this afternoon. In a game reduced to 10 overs a side following heavy overnight rain, Surrey made the most of the damp conditions

  • New Whiteley road should help bus access

    WORK on a new road that should improve bus links to and from Whiteley is to get under way from Monday. The road, which will link to Yew Tree Drive, will be built off the A3051 Botley Road and is being constructed by developers Persimmon Homes with the

  • Shoppers snapped for Mall film project

    CUSTOMERS at a Southampton shopping centre had the chance to be models for the day when a leading photographer snapped shoppers' faces as part of a project to help celebrate the country's cultural diversity. Fifty shoppers were invited to pose for the

  • Why couldn't QE2 have remained in her home port?

    IT was a sentimental Edwardian music hall song of years ago but now, almost a century later, it's words could not be more appropriate as Southampton prepares to say a long goodbye to the liner, Queen Elizabeth 2. The song's chorus went: "We've been together

  • Christian charity says we should do more to help Aids victims

    A CHRISTIAN charity is calling on churches in Hamp-shire to become more involved in the plight of millions of people caught up in the worldwide Aids pandemic. Samaritan's Purse International UK (SPI), which co-ordinates the Christmas shoe box appeal

  • Fire service not hitting ethnic staff numbers

    HAMPSHIRE fire service is struggling to recruit enough black and ethnic minority staff. Despite recent improvements just 0.64 per cent, or ten of its 1,569 uniformed staff, come from ethnic minority communities. By the end of 2006 the service had failed