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Stories for 9 February 2001

Hampshire Business

Proving itself in line of fire

HAMPSHIRE-based South Midlands Communications Ltd (SMC) has been continuing to send equipment around the world.   more...

Middle East orders prove RTK's boats are in demand

SOUTH Coast boatbuilder RTK Marine is celebrating success in the Middle East with new orders from customers in the Arabian Gulf.  more...

Interest rates cut greeted by relief

BUSINESSES in the South have welcomed yesterday's cut in interest rates which have fallen a quarter of one per cent to 5.75 per cent.  more...

Southampton Business

In Port

Today's Principal Arrivings: Scotia, cargo, 0300, 47; MOL Maas, container, 0530, 206; OOCL Freedom, container, 0700, SCT; Autorunner, vehicle, am, 201; P&O Nedlloyd Genoa, container, am; Bujin, vehicle, 1600, 43.  more...

Southampton Leisure

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (U) **

ALL things being equal, the release of this film in the UK is tantamount to us sending Bill & Ben The Movie to Hollywood.  more...

Almost Famous (15) ****

FIRST up, this is not the tale of wanton rock 'n' roll debauchery that some might (reasonably) have expected, given its origins in writer-director Cameron Crowe's experiences as a Rolling Stone reporter in the mid-1970s.  more...

Dude, Where's My Car? (12) *

IN the not too distant future ... Panic! Hollywood chief execs leap out of windows.  more...

UGC Southampton cinema programme

Film times for UGC cinema, Ocean Village, Southampton - Fri 9th Feb to Thurs 15th Feb.  more...

Odeon Southampton cinema programme

Film times for the Odeon cinema, LeisureWorld, Southampton - Fri 9th Feb to Thurs 15th Feb.  more...

Stamp albums? I used to fill them in

CRAIG David an avid stamp collector? Strange but true, apparently. These and other intriguing facts about Southampton's premier pop genius - soon to be seen at the Bournemouth International Centre - are revealed in a new interview with the teen sensation. Read on for more . . .  more...

Convention head back on the road

FOUNDING fathers of folk-rock, Fairport Convention, are back on the road again. Fairport, named after original member Simon Nicol's house in Muswell Hill, London, where they first convened back in 1967, play two Hampshire dates this month.  more...

No longer the model Popstar

EXACTLY when is a supermodel not a supermodel? When she decides she wants to become a serious pop-star . . . obviously!  more...

Cold Comfort Farm Chesil Theatre, Winchester, Monday to Saturday

IF YOU'VE ever toyed with the idea of moving to the country, Cold Comfort Farm might well change your mind. An antidote to the country dream if ever there was one, Cold Comfort Farm, the brilliant Stella Gibbons's much-adapted comic nove offers quite a different perspective on rural existence than the one you might find in the pages of Country Life.  more...

One World The Mayflower, Wednesday to Saturday

MICHAEL Flatley has got a lot to answer for. The unnaturally tanned dancer, whose Irish dance extravaganza Riverdance and its various permutations were a surprise hit with the same people who later made line-dancing a national craze, single-handedly turned something normally reserved for village fetes and eisteddfods into spectacular populist entertainment on a Cecil B. DeMille scale.  more...

Spike The Nuffield Theatre, until March 3

TO MOST people - or most fans of ageing British sitcoms, at any rate - Richard Briers has one of two possible wives. There's Felicity Kendall, of course, his winsome other half from The Good Life.  more...

Southampton News

Euro-style urban life

BARCELONA, Paris, Dublin - great European cities admired for their civilised way of life.  more...

Project raises parking loss fears

CONCERNS over a loss of parking spaces if new council offices and flats are built at New Milton have been expressed at a meeting of the town council.  more...

Rail network poised to be Europe's best

BILLIONS of pounds could be spent on transforming Hamp-shire train services into the best commuter network in Europe.  more...

Theo wins praise for prompt action in takeaway blaze

FIREFIGHTERS have praised a Southampton takeaway owner who tackled a blaze in his shop yesterday.  more...

Missing teenager is found

A SOUTHAMPTON teenager who disappeared from his family home four days ago has turned up safe and well.  more...

Burglar locked up after chisel attack

A CAREER burglar who stabbed a man with a chisel after being disturbed is starting a five-year prison sentence today.  more...

Planners poised to ditch Dibden

HAMPSHIRE planners are poised to reject proposals for a planned new container terminal at Dibden Bay.  more...

CARNIVAL IN CRISIS!

ONE of Hampshire's biggest street spectacles is in danger of being dropped in a bid to save public money.  more...

Southampton Sport

Bradford match has six appeal for Jones

Paul Jones is aiming for six of the best on Saturday as the team who can't score take on the side with an invincible home record.  more...

Last chance for Basingstoke

Basingstoke visit the last chance saloon tomorrow as they bid to escape relegation from National League 3 South.   more...

Hussain rekindles his confidence with purposeful innings at the start of tour

NASSER HUSSAIN looked inside the dressing room for the inspiration to end his long struggle for form and play his most significant innings for England in over a year on the tourists' opening day of first class cricket in Sri Lanka.  more...

Linnets fight off rivals to keep hold of Phillips

LYMINGTON & New Milton go into tomorrow's heavyweight battle with Andover at Fawcett's Field boosted by news that striker Leigh Phillips has pledged his future to the Linnets for the rest of the season.  more...

Wary Whites are cautious over top of table tie

SALISBURY City manager Geoff Butler can't help but fear that the Whites are setting themselves up for a fall in their top-of-the-table clash against Margate tomorrow at Raymond McEnhill Stadium.  more...

Lee: I'll be Sharpe while at Pompey

WHEN the fixture lists came out at the start of the season, Lee Sharpe would have been expecting to turn out at The Dell tomorrow afternoon for Bradford City.  more...

DAN'S STYLE MORE SUITED TO SAINTS

Bradford have branded Saints star Dan Petrescu an "under-achiever" on the eve of tomorrow's clash at The Dell.  more...

Blackey gives it one last chance

Matt Blackey has revealed he came close to quitting golf after failing to regain his European Tour Card at San Roque in November.  more...

Ellen clings on to second place

Ellen MacArthur was today clinging on to second place in the Vendee Globe Challenge.  more...

  
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