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        <title>They’re just “such brilliant lads”</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[LYNDHURST Workmens Club B are just wonderful, according to Gary Cool.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>Judd Trump returning to the Guildhall</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[HUNDREDS of Hampshire fans will next Thursday witness professional snooker at Southampton Guildhall for the fourth year running.]]></description>
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        <title>There was only one Dougie Fricker</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[DOUGIE Fricker had a hard life, he was paralysed down one side but everybody loved him.]]></description>
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        <title>Safety second for ex-paratrooper Bill</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[BILL Anderson has vowed to curtail his safety play if Bitterne Royal British Legion A gain promotion to the Premier.]]></description>
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        <title>I knew your brother…Dick Barton</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[THERE was as much talent watching this year’s Summer Bonanza final as there was actually playing.]]></description>
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        <title>Silver service?</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[SCOURING pads are banned from the Winchester home of Southampton billiards champion John Mullane.]]></description>
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        <title>Holland, 71: I just play to my ability</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[CHRIS Holland, an ever present member of the Southampton side from the start of the Inter-Town League in the mid-1960s to its demise in the early 1980s, insists he just plays to his ability now.]]></description>
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        <title>Churchills in The Pink</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[WHAT challenges are left for Churchills?]]></description>
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        <title>Journey’s end for Austen</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IT WAS a fairytale finish to a two-year journey on the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Bronze Tour.]]></description>
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        <title>Former Chandler’s Ford SC junior claims double national success</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[THE air-conditioned Star Snooker Academy proved to be a blessed relief from the scorching sun last Saturday in Sheffield.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>Heart wrenching singles final</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IT WAS a mournful handicapped singles final at Eastleigh WMC on Tuesday.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>Cribbage to peg out?</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[CRIBBAGE and dominoes could soon die out because youngsters nowadays are more interested in high-tech, shoot-’em-up computer games.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>Does Warren Renyard owe Graham Hollick a few beers?</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[THE race for the Premier title was surrounded by mystery, intrigue and the merest hint of deception.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>Miss Mozart retains her composure</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[MARIA Catalano insists she’ll “never give up” on her long-term dream of claiming the women’s world championship title.]]></description>
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        <title>Fair play to James - even if he does come from Pompey!</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[THAT was the reaction of Southampton’s Martin Smith after being whitewashed by James Green in the pool individual final at Hedge End Club.]]></description>
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        <title>The stars descend on Marchwood</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IT WAS wall-to-wall talent. But the darts wasn’t up to much.]]></description>
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        <title>Churchills boosted by Finn and Nash signings</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IT was probably the understatement of the season.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>Sunday solution to Super League fixture crisis</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[AN unholy row has broken over leaked plans to play Super League snooker matches on Sundays.]]></description>
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        <title>Finn: a mere shadow of his former self</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A SLIM-LINE Mike Finn retained his Town Championship title in a final described as the best in living memory.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>What year is it?</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[WOOLSTON Social Club D were forced to concede their Peter Marchi Cup second-round snooker match last November at Salterns WMC A because of a bit of a “cock-up”.]]></description>
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        <title>Oneupmanship clinches cribbage trophy</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A LITTLE bit of oneupmanship helped The Brook Social Club cribbage side overcome the mighty St Denys Conservative Club C in the 1994 Simonds Cup final.]]></description>
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        <title>Ron Harding's 'tidal wave'</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[FORMER AC Delco player Ron Harding was always the butt of practical jokes.]]></description>
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        <title>Knocking on the backdoor of the Premier</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[THEY are not exactly knocking on the door of the Premier, more knocking on the backdoor – as team member Darren Butler put it.]]></description>
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        <title>A Day to remember</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A ST Denys teenager made a dream debut on the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Bronze Tour.]]></description>
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        <title>Sarisbury: not so green</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[THEY’RE back. And this time they intend to creep up the snooker league.]]></description>
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        <title>Oh we do like to beat the C siders</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[TO BE in the cut-throat cribbage first division and do battle again with the mighty C siders or not to leave their friends in the third. That is the question.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Snooker skipper Taylor made for bowling</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[SNOOKER skipper Nick Taylor has threatened to try his hand at bowling.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Fourth time lucky</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IT WAS fourth time lucky for Welshman Roy Jones as the Hedge End B pool team clinched an unlikely derby-day victory over their A side.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Testwood WMC’s nine-card brag team</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[POOL is just a “sideline” of Testwood WMC’s Thursday nights out.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Will cribbage history be made in 2012?</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[NO ONE has ever won it twice.]]></description>
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        <title>Slice of bad luck won’t halt Churchills’ domination</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[FORMER Town Champion Adam Nash was lucky to keep his leg after losing an argument with an extremely sharp and rapidly moving mechanical device on a building site]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Breaking news</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A SNOOKER-loopy Hampshire teenager woke to some stunning news this Christmas morning.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Q World C in the swim at Riverside</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[THE Grinder insists he has speeded up and Alex Chircop was in Eric Cantona mode.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Who’s a silly boy?</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[WORLD Snooker chairman Barry Hearn has dismissed Mark Allen as “a silly little boy”.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>BOF’s hectic lifestyle leaves no time for snooker</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[DAVE Murrey is happy to sit on the bench nowadays because he’s “got to get up early in the morning for golf”.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>The amazing Mr Staines</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[RICHIE Staines is amazing because he does things no one else can do.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>He's a man in 649,740</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IT’S a 649,740-to-one chance that most cribbage players never see before they peg out.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Hamilton: I was fast - once</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[SKIPPER Alan Hamilton, 61, reckons he used to play as quickly as the youngsters in his snooker team.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Bowen delighted with Ding show</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[PROVIDING he stayed awake long enough, seven-year-old Bowen Zhu would have been delighted with Ding Junhui’s performance at Southampton Guildhall on Thursday night.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Who is George, the mini-bus driver?</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[NO ONE seems to know his surname but the team “love him to bits”.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>Oh sugar!</title>
        <link>https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9318493.oh-sugar/?ref=rss</link>

        <description><![CDATA[SO IT’S 1-0 to me in the great Tesco sugar hunt.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>Not feeling grand</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[THREE days earlier and it would have won Nigel Spiers a cool £1,000.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>Matthew Le Tissier, a shoe-shine kit and a pin-up boy</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[HE EXPECTED a brick through his window after commenting “rather negatively” about Saints legend Matt Le Tissier.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>Allinson: good for morale</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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”.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>Over the moon and sick as a pig</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[STUART Seaborn was over the moon and sick as a pig following Hedge End Club’s first derby pool match.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>Being bombed was the worst part</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[WATCHING German bombs rain down on the nearby Cunliffe-Owen aircraft factory in Swaythling was the “worst” part of Roy Major’s 51 years working on the railways.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <title>And the fifth name is Ashton</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IT WAS an age when snooker professionals Mike Hallett, John Parrott, Cliff Wilson and Dean Reynolds were household names.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[TOWN Champion Mike Finn has blasted the Super League format on the eve of the new season.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[EMOTIONALLY and physically drained (and that included referee Jim Everett and the spectators) after a near four-hour Summer Bonanza final, winning captain Dave Mumford hinted he may dust off his cue on a more regular basis.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[HEARTLESS, cruel, vindicated, fully justified.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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