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  • The Customer Is Always Right (Even When They're Wrong)

    My wife and I recently decided to try to help reduce traffic pollution by catching the bus to and from our shop in Winchester city centre. Last week, we were just leaving our store when I saw our bus arrive at our stop. We ran across the road faster than

  • Police hunt rapist

    POLICE are hunting a man who raped another man in Southampton in the early hours of Saturday. Detectives from Hampshire Constabulary’s Major Crime Department have launched an investigation after a 22-year-old man from the city reported the

  • Saints smash Watford to stay top

    SAINTS strengthened their position at the top of the Championship, after thumping Watford 4-0 at St Mary’s. Rickie Lambert’s penalty midway through the first-half had given Nigel Adkins’ men a slender lead at the interval. Another

  • Man airlifted after dirt buggy accident

    A MAN was today airlifted to hospital after his dirt buggy rolled in the New Forest. Ambulance crews were called to Lymington at 1.19pm after the off-road vehicle tumbled over. A 28-year-old man suffered lower arm injuries from the crash

  • Saints 4 Watford 0 - as it happened

    Follow @the_saints Like us on Facebook Live Match Updates The Sports Pink Online The Sports Pink is now available to read online. The latest edition goes live every Saturday night. Click the front page for

  • Waterfront plans are looking up

    IT would be Southampton’s tallest building, nearly twice the height of the city’s Civic Centre clock tower. Rising up to 28 storeys, more than 260ft high, this is the striking landmark tower that will complete an abandoned flagship development

  • Cat shot in the head with BB gun

    A CAT has lost an eye after being shot in the head twice with a BB gun. Six-year-old Toffee is thought to have wandered around in agony for three weeks before finding her way home and being rushed to a vet. Toffee was exploring Landford

  • Food firm fined after worker’s fingers crushed

    A FOOD company has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 after a woman’s fingers were crushed in a cutting device. The worker was feeding a product into a machine used to make crisps at Berkshire Foods Ltd when her left hand became trapped between

  • Adkins: my Dean dilemma

    Nigel Adkins admitted it was a tough decision to drop Dean Hammond – and must now decide whether to give him an instant recall. The central midfielder, who has been the team’s skipper, was left on the bench as Saints slipped to only their second defeat

  • New Forest national park staff prepare for HQ move

    THE organisation that runs the New Forest National Park is preparing to move to a new headquarters. The National Park Authority (NPA) is just weeks away from leaving South Efford House in Milford Road, Everton, and transferring to Lymington Town Hall

  • Train company collects customer service award

    SOUTH West Trains has been awarded a prestigious customer service award. The ServiceMark accreditation from the Institute of Customer Service, the UK’s professional body for customer service, recognises the high standard of service provided to customers

  • Allinson: good for morale

    IT WAS suggested by his teammates that Bob Allinson was only brought out of retirement in the 1980s because it would “be good for the morale of the team”. Allinson actually made his debut for Ashlett Club in 1964. But he then took a lengthy