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Santa’s flying visit to Stockbridge

5:00am Wednesday 3rd December 2008

Father Christmas is to arrive by helicopter for Stockbridge’s late night Christmas shopping next Wednesday.

Over 1,300 complaints lodged about Christmas blunderland

Lapland animal enclosure

3:40pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008

SANTA was punched in his grotto and elves scuffle with parents in the gingerbread house as the list of shame goes on.

Hampshire man guilty of schoolgirl murder

Peter Tobin

4:10pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008

A HAMPSHIRE man has today been sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in jail for murdering a school girl.

Body found in lorry on Hampshire motorway

Breaking News

4:32pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008

THE body of man has been discovered in the back of a lorry on a Hampshire motorway.

Shop a crook with Crack-a-crime for Christmas

Robert Yeo

4:00pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008

AS the second door is opened on our alternative Christmas calendar we are asking for your help in tracing Robert Yeo.

Residents want sewage overflow removed after foul smells

Residents and yachtsmen at Fareham Creek

2:24pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008

THE notorious pong may have gone but there’s a new stench that is causing a stink in Fareham.

Swiss man robbed in Southampton alleyway

Daily Echo News

12:58pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008

POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a 40-year-old man from Switzerland was robbed as he walked along an alleyway in Southampton.

Man charged over Hamble bank raid

Robbers strike at Hampshire bank

10:23am Tuesday 2nd December 2008

A MAN has been charged after an armed robbery at a small Hampshire village bank yesterday.

Hampshire child welfare supremo takes on top job at Baby P council

Hampshire child welfare supremo takes on top job at Baby P council

8:25am Tuesday 2nd December 2008

A HAMPSHIRE council chief has been put in charge of children’s services at the London borough where a 17-month-old boy was killed after months of abuse.

Tributes paid to hero of the boxing ring

Vince Hawkins

3:20pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008

HE will be remembered as Hampshire’s finest post-war boxer.

Fears grow for missing woman

Yvonne Jones Misper

12:16pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008

POLICE are appealing for help in tracing a woman who may have been out all night in sub-zero temperatures last night.

Confidence falls in region’s economy

Fay Webster

10:58am Tuesday 2nd December 2008

BUSINESS confidence in the south east has plummeted ten points to -30, business leaders will be told today.

Drug ruling is a death sentence says Grandmother

Linda Lemon

7:00am Tuesday 2nd December 2008

A HAMPSHIRE grandmother says she has been given a “death sentence” by health bosses after being refused a drugs lifeline.

Win your Christmas dinner

TASTE OF CHRISTMAS: Simon Broadribb of Uptons Butchers

11:38am Tuesday 2nd December 2008

TODAY we are giving you the chance of winning yourself your Christmas dinner.

Murder inquiry police release man

paula poolton frontb.jpg

8:38am Tuesday 2nd December 2008

A SECOND man arrested over the brutal murder of Paula Poolton has been re-bailed by police.

Knife-wielding thief threatened cashier

Robbers strike at Hampshire bank

8:33am Tuesday 2nd December 2008

AN ARMED robber threatened a terrified woman cashier with a knife in a raid on a tiny bank in a quiet Hampshire village.


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