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Bluebirds could change to red

Cardiff City are considering a proposal to change the colour of their kit to red. It is one of a number of options being considered by the club's board as part of a rebranding exercise to boost their chances of attracting greater revenues. Cardiff -

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Ritchie swaps Stags for Hawks

FORMER AFC Totton boss Stuart Ritchie has been unveiled as Havant & Waterlooville's new manager. Ritchie, who announced he was resigning as Stags boss a fortnight ago, has signed a two-year contract at Westleigh Park. Ritchie, who used

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Top award for man who saved friend from the bends

AS a member of Britain’s main maritime search and rescue organisation, he is used to averting tragedy at sea. But Hampshire coastguard Steve Calfe found himself battling to save a close friend who stopped breathing after a diving expedition

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Romsey centenarian remembers the Zeppelins coming over

SHE was born just weeks after the Titanic disaster and can remember the First World War. Now Anne Mee has celebrated her 100th birthday. The grandmother-of-six and great grandmother-of-ten marked the milestone yesterday with members of her family and

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Hampshire nursing heroes receive thanks

PATIENTS who have had their hospital stay brightened by a nurse or midwife have the chance to say thank you. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are giving the public an opportunity to nominate nurses and midwives who have gone the extra mile to

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Empty home tax rules cost £11m

TAX breaks for empty homes are costing councils in the south more than £11m, the Daily Echo can reveal. Taxpayers are subsidising discounts for second home owners and landlords of neglected properties that lie vacant. With parts of Hampshire

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Barmby sacked by Hull

Hull have sacked manager Nick Barmby, accusing him of "casting public doubt on the integrity" of the club's board. The 38-year-old, who has only been in the job for six months after taking over from Nigel Pearson in November, was widely reported

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Hampshire campers warned of barbecue danger

CAMPERS are again being warned of the dangers of using barbecues in tents after a teenager was killed by suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. The death in Shropshire at the weekend comes after two similar tragic deaths at Hampshire campsites within the

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Truly Remarkable PR performance from Winchester-based firm

HAMPSHIRE PR firm The Remarkable Group has stormed up an influential table ranking firms on their performance. The award-winning marketing and communication agency, based in Winchester, has jumped more than 20 places from last year to 78

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Allardyce plays down final pressure

The npower Championship play-off final at Wembley is widely regarded as the biggest game in club football - but Sam Allardyce says he felt more pressure facing Middlesbrough at home. Allardyce will lead his West Ham side out at Wembley against either

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Tiny tortoises making a big impression at Winchester park

KEEPERS at a wildlife park have welcomed a quartet of new baby tortoises that are as small as a 20 pence piece. The tiny arrivals are the first in five years at Marwell Wildlife, near Winchester. Just over a week old, the critically endangered Egyptian

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Inquest to resume into death afer being sent home

AN inquest is due to resume this week into the death of a 20-year-old who died hours after being sent home by a doctor. Gary Lovett had had severe flu-like symptoms for two days since December 23, 2010 and saw an out-of-hours GP on Christmas

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New mental health group awards night in Southampton

THOSE who have gone that extra mile for people suffering from mental illness will be celebrated at a special awards evening to launch the Southampton Service User Network (SSUN). The organisation aims to give those living with mental health issues the

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My mum died from a heroin overdose - I thought all adults used drugs

CARLY* was just a little girl when her mother died of a heroin overdose. She’s spent much of her childhood being moved from home to home – sometimes living with family friends or in temporary foster care. The longest she’s lived anywhere is a

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Romsey mountain biker fears for his career after thefts

A CHAMPION mountain biker fears his career could be ruined after thieves took £14,000 worth of his equipment. Grant Fielder has lost the two new bikes he had been working on to ride in competitions this year. Now he is faced with using

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Biker killed in crash named

A BIKER killed in a head-on horror crash on a Hampshire road at the weekend has today been named by police. Bernard Ryder, 50, from Waltham Crescent, Southampton was riding his red Honda CBR 900 motorcycle on the A35 towards Lyndhurst at 4.17pm

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Duke given Winchester University tour

THE Duke of Gloucester was given a tour of Winchester University’s business school as he paid a royal visit to the West Downs Centre. He watched a demonstration of a stock market simulation in the school’s trading room and met past and present

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Sorry to say goodbye to the Football League

YOU know why I’m glad Saints are in the top flight again? Because it means no more promotions – the hangover from the win over Coventry took two days to leave me in peace, and quite frankly, I can’t go through that again anytime soon. But I have

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Canoe run river epic for Southampton sailor

HE is an experienced sailor who travels the high seas delivering a wealth of expensive sailing and power boats. But 30-year-old David Taylor from Woolston, Southampton, has recently been commissioned with his most unusual delivery yet. For he has been

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Phone mast battle looms in Winchester

MORE applications have been made by mobile phone company Vodafone to build masts in Winchester. It includes one site, at Stoke Road in Abbotts Barton, where the firm has twice withdrawn its plans, faced with opposition from residents.

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Le Tissier to kick off Southampton centre’s celebrations

SAINTS legend Matt Le Tissier will kick off the celebrations when a new £3.8m sports facility is unveiled in Southampton this month. The footballer-turned-pundit will line up alongside other ex-Saints players to take on a team of students from Southampton

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Brilliance to call UK home

Royal Caribbean International is to base another of its cruise ships in Britain, the company has revealed. In the largest ever deployment to the UK from the business, the 2,112-guest Brilliance of the Seas will sail from Harwich, Essex,

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Nice paint job! Check out Southampton man's impressive 'Ferrari'

ON first glance you see a flashy Ferrari parked in a superstar’s garage. But take a closer look and you’ll find it is actually a clever illusion. Crafty Chris Smart could not afford a rare 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO at a jaw-dropping £15m – so instead

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When Prince Harry met a Southampton war hero

PRINCE Harry met a wounded war hero from Southampton at the British ambassador’s residence in Washington yesterday. Captain Dave Henson, 27, was among a group of servicemen and women who had competed at America’s Warrior Games, an event for

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Southampton museum wins awards

SOUTHAMPTON’S Tudor House Museum has scooped two property awards. The museum which re-opened in July last year following an £8m makeover, was the cream of the crop in the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ South East Awards. Architects

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Royal wedding 'organiser'

WHEN Duncan Jeffery says he helped put on the wedding of the century he isn’t exaggerating. If you thought organising a wedding was a lot of work, imagine what it was like being part of the team behind the wedding of Prince William and Kate

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Caravan overturns causing long tailbacks

MOTORISTS are facing long delays after a caravan overturned on a major Hampshire dual carriageway. Tailbacks are stretching for up to five miles on the A31 through the New Forest, and on the M27 westbound following the incident. A caravan heading east

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Drink-driver from Southampton drove the wrong way down dual carriageway

A SOUTHAMPTON man drove the wrong way down a busy dual carriageway while more than twice over the drink-drive limit. Andrius Steinas was spotted by police travelling the wrong way down Millbrook Road West in the city, and was stopped in a garage forecourt

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Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder

A WOMAN and her 19-month- old daughter were last night in hospital after violence erupted at a Hampshire home, ending in a man being arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The 27-year-old woman was left with multiple “serious injuries”

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What to do when you win the lottery

WHAT would you do if you won the lottery? We’ve all dreamed about it during a dull commute, a bad day at the office or when we go to buy our ticket. And a former Daily Echo journalist has written a book answering just that question.

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New designs for biomass plant revealed

THESE are the visions energy bosses hope could finally win residents round to the idea of a huge £300m power plant on their doorsteps. The Daily Echo can today reveal the three new designs for a controversial 100 megawatt wood-fuelled power

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Shop targeted by raiders

A HAMPSHIRE convenience store has been cordoned off by police this morning amid reports of a cigarette raid. Blue and white tape surrounds the Co-op on Bassett Green Road in Southampton while a number of police vehicles are stationed outside

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Four escape horror crash near Romsey

FOUR people amazingly escaped without serious injuries in this horror crash. The collision between a Volvo Estate and a Ford Galaxy happened on Crampmoor Lane at the junction with the Straight Mile, near Romsey at around 12.30pm yesterday. Police said

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Epsom Downs, Salisbury Playhouse

FIRST performed in 1977, this entertaining and thoughtprovoking play is a perceptive examination of the Epsom Derby, the famous horse race popular since 1780. Nine tremendous actors play more than 50 different characters, from jockeys and horses

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City man arrested after fatal crash

A Southampton man has been arrested following the death of a motorcyclist on the Hampshire-Surrey border. Mark Edwards, 50, from Camberley, died when his moped was in collision with a Royal Mail lorry on the A331 near Frimley. His family

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Spring Awakening, Showstoppers, The Nuffield Annex, Southampton

Spring Awakening is quite some coming-of-age tale with its frank portrayal of sexual turmoil, experimentation and abuse, abortion, suicide and perhaps even love! The edgy script is set to folkinfused rock music. It perhaps sounds an unlikely combination

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T.F.A.H.E.T.G.D.S.’s Production of Macbeth, Swanamore Amateur Dramatic Society, Swanmore Village Hall

“BADLY timed and inappropriate sound effects, random lighting cues, disastrous set and props, fluffed lines, excessive prompts, ham-acting, inept crew, shockingly bad scene changes – all that is perceived as the worst aspects of the am-dram world

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Three acts added to Hat Fair bill

THREE extra eye-catching evening shows have been added to the bill for this year’s Hat Fair. Running in Winchester from Friday, July 6 to Sunday, July 8, organisers are putting on a big performance each night. There will still be plenty of street

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Top polo players to do battle

FOLLOWING on from the success of Polo at Marriners last year, the organising committee, led by David Cowley, former national chairman of Pony Club Polo, will be re-staging the event this year. Taking place on Sunday May 27, the beautiful private

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Off the buses - why Saints had no open-top bus tour

Their sensational return to the Premier League has made them the toast of Southampton – yet Saints have not responded to the council’s suggestion of a celebratory open-top bus tour. Adam Leitch asks why. THE etiquette of football-related

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Local sellers and buyers line up in their droves to participate in National Open House Weekend

Following the success of previous campaigns, leading local agents Morris Dibben are planning to take part in what is expected to be the UK’s largest ever Open House Weekend. Taking place on the 12th and 13th May, the sellers of properties marketed

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Pensioners’ tax discount

I READ with interest the article (Daily Echo, April 26) regarding the pensioners’ ten per cent council tax discount in Southampton. I have volunteered in the community in Thornhill for many years and I know from talking to pensioners that many

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Haunting memory

RICHARD A Jacob is correct about the photograph published on April 7, it is the old Victorian house at the top of the hill in Romsey Road, Southampton. In the 1980s I had a couple of friends that lived there as it was rented out as bedsits. At

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We do care

I FEEL obliged to draft this letter after reading in your letters column a piece from Peter Baille about the regeneration programme in Weston. The heating in the Weston tower blocks has changed three times – a size change of radiators, where pipes

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Don’t force fluoride

HOW can the current Labour leader of Southampton say that he wouldn’t push fluoride on the public when he voted twice in its favour and also suggests a referendum? By voting in favour and considering a referendum he is essentially saying that

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Personality in politics

THANK you for publishing such riveting information about the leaders of the two main political parties in Southampton, who were contesting the right to lead Southampton City Council in the recent elections (‘Head to Head’, Daily Echo, April 28).

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This Bill must be defeated

LAST year on the Test Way walk near Hillstreet I was privileged to witness a once-in-a-lifetime scene. I suddenly noticed a hare in a field so of course put my binoculars on it. As I did so I looked in amazement because I saw a lot of others and in

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Dogs with leading role on the road to recovery

THEY are a grrr-eat way of getting patients smiling again during long stays on a hospital ward. But after years of dedicated service, two of Southampton General Hospital’s longest serving pet therapy dogs are putting their paws up as old age starts

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OAP ordered off bus after she forgot her pass

A BUS company is investigating after a pensioner was ordered off one of its services for forgetting her pass. Jean Cannon, 85, hopped on the bus near her Totton home to visit her daughter, Sandra Cannon-Donowa, who lives just one mile away.

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Joy - and caution - at Labour election victory

UNION bosses have hailed Labour’s Southampton council election victory, but business leaders are giving the city’s new red dawn only a cautious welcome. The reactions will partly boost incoming leader Richard Williams, but also hint at the

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Adams back to skipper Hampshire

Hampshire face possibly their toughest challenge of the season yet as they take on high-flying Derbyshire in the LV= County Championship at The Ageas Bowl starting tomorrow. The only thing that’s been able to stop the midlanders so far has

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Charity carer recognised for improving children's lives

SHE spends her working life making sick children smile. Now a Hampshire charity worker’s achievements have been officially recognised with a place on a national “happy list”. Claire Floyd, a member of the play team at Naomi House children’s hospice