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  • Dimi return is not enough

    The return of Dimitri Mascarenhas failed to prevent Hampshire from sliding to a seven-wicket defeat in the Clydesdale Bank 40 League match against Durham at Chester-le-Street today. The former England one-day international took all the wickets in reducing

  • Police could investigate Chris Huhne

    A POLICE probe may be launched after claims cabinet minister and Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne asked another person to take the rap for his speeding offence. It follows reports today that Mr Huhne, secretary of state for energy and climate change

  • Test drive car thief drove at me

    A CONMAN sped off in a £23,000 car after deliberately driving at the owner during a test drive. Lesley Boon says she was forced to leap out of the way as the thief drove at her, getting so close the bonnet touched her leg. The 41-year-old

  • Detectives plea for missing girl, 14, to come home

    DETECTIVES are asking for help to find a teenage girl from Southampton who has been missing for five days. Megan Rudkin, 14, was reported missing by her mum after failing to return to her Milton Road home on Wednesday. Police say they

  • Man made shoe bomb threats at train station

    A MAN who repeatedly yelled that he had a bomb in his shoe at Southampton railway station has been ordered to do 150 hours’ unpaid work. Christopher Albon, 35, told rail staff he was going to detonate the bomb when he arrived the city’s central

  • Marshland search for body ends

    MARSHLAND searches for the body of a teenager who vanished 15 years ago have ended. Damien Nettles was last seen aged 16 after a night out in West Cowes, Isle of Wight, on November 2, 1996. Officers have been searching the water and

  • Benefits centre to close

    PLANS have been revealed to axe Government offices in a Hampshire town. The benefit processing centre in Totton is due to close as part of a nationwide cost-cutting drive that is expected to result in the loss of 2,400 posts. The Government says residents