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  • Police probe park sex attack

    DETECTIVES in Southampton are investigating a sexual assault that happened in a city centre park early today. The woman was attacked just after midnight, near to the Lord Palmerston statue in Palmerston Park, which has been cordoned off all

  • Scrabble supremo battles it out for title

    A Southampton Scrabble supremo will engage in a high-stakes war of words today when he thrashes it out for the title of champion of the board game. Contestants Wayne Kelly and Gary Oliver, from Shirley, will go head-to-head in the National

  • Disaster strikes at start of Volvo Ocean Race

    DISASTER has struck a Hampshire-based yacht only hours into the Volvo Ocean Race. Just six hours and 85 nautical miles into the 6,500-nautical mile m leg from Alicante in Spain to Cape Town, Ian Walker's Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing's Azzam has dismasted

  • Adkins revels in "great" victory

    NIGEL Adkins hailed a “great” victory at Coventry, as Saints ended a run of five away games without a win. The manager watched on as his side prevailed 4-2 in a rollercoaster of a match at the Ricoh Arena to maintain their advantage at the top of the

  • Schoolboy charged with threatening teacher

    A SCHOOLBOY has been charged by police after allegedly threatening a teacher with an iron bar. Officers were called to Lakeside School in Winchester Road, Chandler’s Ford, on Thursday afternoon, after reports that a teenager had punched another

  • 40 jobs go as dealer shuts four branches

    MORE than 40 staff have been made redundant as four branches of struggling south coast car dealers Southgate Group have closed. Its Mitsubishi franchises in Romsey, Poole and Bridport and a joint Subaru and Peugeot site in Blandford, Dorset have

  • Hampshire Cricket project wins National Lottery Award

    The Bluebird Care Hampshire Disability Cricket Project has been voted Best Sports Project 2011 at the National Lottery Awards. It pipped the two other nominees to the prize at a televised ceremony earlier this evening. The project provides training