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Reasons to hate South West Trains - number 50097

7:58pm Friday 17th May 2013

If he goes I'll miss the fashion tips

5:01pm Thursday 16th May 2013

For Saints fans there has been no escaping the news this week that Chairman Nicola Cortese might be heading for the exit.

Penalise the sensible drinkers I say

4:58pm Thursday 16th May 2013

Interesting the small print of plans by Southampton City Council to consider charging parking fees in the city in the evening.

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I like a politician who can wear a chunky jumper

4:57pm Thursday 16th May 2013

I think I like our new Dear Leader.

Sage words from Dr Lewis

4:55pm Thursday 16th May 2013

Sage words this week in the House of Commons from local MP Dr Julian Lewis.

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Teachers should welcome shorter holidays

8:51pm Saturday 27th April 2013

Schooling is not like it was in my day-thankfully.

Boogie on down - while you can

10:28am Monday 22nd April 2013

There you are minding you own business at the bust stop – and before you know it you are an internet sensation.

It matters when someone tells porkies

10:26am Monday 22nd April 2013

It matters when someone doesn’t tell the truth.

And giving an impartial opinion - it's Gerry Adams

5:42pm Sunday 14th April 2013

I was, I will admit, pleasantly surprised by the tone and presentation of the announcement of Baroness Thatcher’s death from the BBC – at least initially.

Mrs T? She was more exotic than a Vesta curry

5:39pm Sunday 14th April 2013

With plans for the funeral of Baroness Thatcher in final preparation, Editor Ian Murray recalls the impact of her arrival on his life

Last one down the helter-skelter gets the coffees

11:44am Friday 5th April 2013

It claims to be Britain’s most fun-filled office.

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If not there, then where can we stick these monstrosities?

11:40am Friday 5th April 2013

Editor Ian Murray asks if we do not want to build giant factories in an industrial port, will we ever build such structures again.

Would we stomach a Time Team programme to dig up Queen Victoria?

5:08pm Friday 29th March 2013

With yet more royal bones being exhumed, Editor Ian Murray asks where will it end?

Are we heading down the road of arming our police?

4:58pm Friday 29th March 2013

With news that 200 extra police officers are to be 'armed' with Tasers, Editor Ian Murray asks if we are on the slippery slop to having a fully-armed police force.

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Be afraid, be very afraid

8:10am Tuesday 26th March 2013

With news that council bin operatives are shopping residents to bosses if they place the wrong items in bins, it's time to see what life will be like for all of us in 2030.

What a difference a year makes

2:47pm Friday 15th March 2013

Last year I found myself having to take to task my hosts at what was undoubtedly one of the highlights of the Hampshire business calendar.

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Why can't South West Trains be more like National Express?

10:09am Saturday 2nd March 2013

Interesting comparison travelling to London recently.

Oscar winner Affleck is a fibber - but then again so was Shakespeare

9:50am Thursday 28th February 2013

Hollywood star Ben Affleck' is wrong to play fast and loose with the truth in his film Argo which in true Hollywood form attacks Britain for no good reason.

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Are these the worst election candidates ever?

9:14am Friday 22nd February 2013

There’s no hiding any skeletons in the cupboards of Eastleigh’s by-election candidates as they come under the glare of the country’s media spotlights

The donkeys will be braying again - but it is the squaddies who do the dying

8:23am Tuesday 19th February 2013

The decision to change the name of the Sandhurst sports hall – the military training academy – from The Mons Hall commemorating the first battle involving British forces in the First World War to the King Hamad Hall is frankly disgusting.

Arts for bonkers sake

2:33pm Monday 18th February 2013

Is it really just me?

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Pity the poor folk of Eastleigh

2:32pm Monday 18th February 2013

Pity the poor folk of Eastleigh.

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Suffer the little children - they ask the most awkward questions

2:29pm Monday 18th February 2013

They are the most ruthless of interrogators.

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Richard III - Kind King or Dick Dastardly?

12:57pm Friday 8th February 2013

GOOD old Richard III. At least that, I think, is how we are supposed to see him now.

A great gesture by Beckham

12:58pm Friday 8th February 2013

A MARVELLOUS gesture from David Beckham, announcing as he signs for French team Paris Saint-Germain, that he is to donate his £3.5m salary to a local children’s charity.

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Just when do you become an adult?

11:28am Friday 1st February 2013

This week we had the sad story of Southampton student Yunzhao Fan who tragically killed himself when he found he couldn’t cope with his studies at Southampton University.

Top marks or the dunce's cap for whoever thought up this one?

11:26am Friday 1st February 2013

Director of People. Now there’s a title to grapple with.

Quite a bright spark our dear leader

11:24am Friday 1st February 2013

A bright spark, or just plain dim?

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Alex is my real hero - not some over-paid, over-rated footballer kicking a pig's bladder

11:22am Friday 1st February 2013

I’m not surprised that round-the-world yachtsman Alex Thomson is a little coy about whether he will be looking to take part in the next Vendee Globe race in 2016.

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Blame Black Beauty for why we don't enjoy a decent horse pot roast

10:52am Friday 18th January 2013

I blame Black Beauty, or more probably in my case, Champion the Wonder Horse.

Big Fat Quiz was for Big Fat Bullies

6:39pm Friday 4th January 2013

I’m delighted that Channel 4’s Big Fat Quiz End of the Year has brought such a strong reaction from folks who, like me, found much of the material distasteful.

Show some Lycra? far too damp

6:38pm Friday 4th January 2013

With all the talk of rail fare hikes this week, not to mention the threat to £400,000-worth of bus service cuts in Southampton to meet budgets, is it little wonder that taking to our bikes has suddenly become a national obsession.

I'd rather our fiscal cliff than theirs

6:37pm Friday 4th January 2013

Talking of fiscal cliffs – and lets not go there over why we had to endure the endless prattling in the US over problems with their budget all through the festive season – we are facing our own financial precipice here in Southampton in the coming weeks.

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Back to the future with city walls

9:40am Saturday 15th December 2012

News that Southampton City Council is looking at plans to reconnect the historic Bargate with other parts of the old city walls is not surprising.

The BBC and when the rich aren't really rich - and the poor aren't really poor.

10:15am Friday 7th December 2012

The bias at the BBC in its coverage of the Tory led government is becoming paper thin.

Loss of free speech too high a price to pay

11:26am Friday 30th November 2012

Daily Echo editor Ian Murray responds to Lord Justice Leveson's report into the press

Raise a glass to the PM, if we can afford to

11:22pm Wednesday 28th November 2012

Do I think putting up the price of booze will mean less binge-drinking youngsters vomiting in our city streets of a Saturday evening? No.

Andrew Marr in naked cover-up. Saucy stuff at the Beeb

11:18pm Wednesday 28th November 2012

BBC in hot water again, and just as the Lord Justice Leveson Inquiry is reporting on funny goings on in the media, this time for fiddling with historical accuracy. Or to be more accurate, they are accused of a cover up.

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Better together? The Spanish think so

10:31am Tuesday 27th November 2012

Lots of talk and flag-waving in Barcelona as Catalonia heads for the exit as part of Spain.

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You can't run our economy if you don't have a view on Marmite

10:15am Tuesday 27th November 2012

I’m not as sold on the new Governor of the Bank of England being a foreigner as some seem to be.

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Beware of judges looking to take away all of our freedoms

5:20pm Thursday 22nd November 2012

With news that the Lord Justive Leveson enquiry into the workings of the British press will report next week, Daily Echo Editor Ian Murraymakes the case for avoiding a doomsday scenario

Luckily I have a thick skin

5:30pm Thursday 22nd November 2012

A couple of accusations again this week, following our balanced and accurate reports into the cuts at Southampton City Council, that this paper, and this editor in particular, are anti-Labour and in the pocket of the Tories.

Flogging off the art makes sense, as any financially sound Philistine would agree

5:05pm Wednesday 21st November 2012

Well, what a surprise.

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Who hasn't nodded off to Chekov?

6:12am Friday 9th November 2012

We have all been there. Nodded off during a production of Chekov and awoken with a start, not certain where we are and why people are shouting in Russian. Or is that just me?

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How many rescuers can one victim cope with at a time?

6:11am Friday 9th November 2012

You wait all day for a rescue team to turn up, and then three come along at once.

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We learnt what we already knew from the US elections

6:08am Friday 9th November 2012

So what have we learnt from the US elections?

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Not the happiest days in Fiona's life

11:20am Friday 26th October 2012

IT’S strange how worlds coincide so many years later.

Is any councillor worth £70,000 a year?

11:31am Friday 19th October 2012

If we are paying councillors more than MPs, why do we need so many high-paid officers?

Difficult to trust any of them, sadly

11:25am Friday 19th October 2012

As evidence comes to light that Southampton City Council leader Richard Williams misled the public and was supported in doing so by his whole group, can we trust anything we hear from the people governing the city?

No appeal for motorist fined as he tried to save a life

4:09pm Friday 12th October 2012

WHAT kind of world is it in which someone saving a life is given a parking fine?

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