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Stories for 25 March 2002

Basingstoke News

Nightmare ordeal of beaten bobby

A POLICEMAN has told how he thought he was going to die after he was set upon by a brutal gang of thugs during a terrifying late night attack in Basingstoke. more...

La Rue makes light of his visit

SHOWBIZ legend Danny La Rue - one of Britain's most popular and prolific entertainers - brightened up the day when he made a special guest appearance in Basingstoke on Saturday. more...

Community set to get a council-funded warden

THE BOROUGH'S first community warden is set to be appointed in the Buckskin area of Basingstoke as the council's Cabinet is recommended to approve £10,000 funding for the post. more...

Hop-a-long head leads the way to the eggs

HEADTEACHER Stephen Kelsey proved he was game for a laugh when he dressed up as the Easter Bunny. more...

Five years for pervert caught in net sting

A LORRY driver has been convicted of downloading and distributing indecent photographs of children following a joint internet chatroom sting operation between police in Hampshire and the United States. more...

Train company trying to get back on track

BOSSES at South West Trains have set up a task force in an attempt to tackle constant delays. more...

New life celebrated with planting of tree

A BABY from RAF Odiham has received a unique gift to cherish for the rest of her life. more...

Fire prevention through education

YOUNGSTERS at a Basingstoke school had fun dressing up as firefighters and finding out what it's like to drive a fire engine in an emergency. more...

Thousands to be spent on expelled pupils

EDUCATION bosses at Hampshire County Council have set aside £365,000 next year to pay for tutors for pupils barred from school. more...

Basingstoke Sport

'Stoke keep cup in exciting final

BASINGSTOKE retained the Hamp-shire Cup with a thrilling 16-15 victory over arch-rivals Havant on Sunday. more...

Pipe victory celebrations muted

TRAINER Martin Pipe became the first jumps trainer to earn more than £2m in prize money in a single season when his five-year-old Ravenswood scored by one-and-a-quarter lengths at Newbury. more...

Johannesburg could be new all-round star

IN A single week, the climax of the National Hunt season gives way to the start of the Flat and this year, more than ever, Godolphin's quest to win the Kentucky Derby is expected to reach Everest-like heights. more...

Town gift a goal to their Camrose conquerors

Basingstoke Town 1, Braintree Town 2 more...

New Inn appeal on nine-point penalty

NEW Inn, the Basingstoke and District Saturday champions, have appealed to the Hampshire FA over a deduction of nine points. more...

Bliss leads home Overton runners

A DETERMINED group of runners from Overton Harriers were confronted by blustery conditions and rain towards the end of the South's premier 10k road race at Eastleigh. more...

Proctor in road race double

AMANDA Proctor continued her excellent build-up for the London marathon by winning the women's trophy at the Petersfield half-marathon. more...

Water End lose title chance

Barbican 3, Water End 1 more...

Farehamandgosport News

Sculpture to mark Queen's Jubilee

A UNIQUE sculptured wrought iron gate will be built off Fareham's West Street at a cost of £20,000 to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee. more...

Hampshire Jubilee

Jubilee sculpture to be built

A UNIQUE sculptured wrought iron gate will be built off Fareham's West Street at a cost of £20,000 to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee. more...

Hampshire Sailsolent

Southampton Yacht Club's Spring Series - Race 2

Victory for X-Parrot, Big Boys Toys and Shakatak in Southampton Yacht Club's Spring Series Race 2 - Sunday 24 March 2002 more...

LEG 5 - DAY 17: LEADER BOARD

ASSA ABLOY and Tyco, lying in second and third place respectively, have closed the gap on overall race-leader illbruck to just 21 miles. more...

Iow News

Shrimps removed from sale

ENVIRONMENTAL health officers on the Isle of Wight have moved to ensure batches of contaminated warm-water shrimps and prawns are removed from sale following a health warning from the Food Standards Agency. more...

Southampton Business

In Port

Today's Principal Arrivings: Autosun, ro/ro, 0600, 201; Sormovskiy 3055, misc, 0800, 36; Bonn Express,container, 1400, 204; APL Garnet, container, 2000, 207; P&O Nedlloyd Shackleton, container, 2000, 206. more...

Southampton Leisure

Albion Band have a spring in their step

MUSIC from the stage and screen is given a brassy makeover at The Point, Eastleigh next week. more...

Southampton News

Project aims to give youngsters choices

MORE than 500 teenagers in Southampton, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight are set to take part in exciting new activities after a vital project received a £1.1m cash boost. more...

Benefit system's good and bad points

SOUTHAMPTON City Council has sound systems in place for administering Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit - but has inconsistent standards of verifying claims. more...

BATTLE ZONE

RESIDENTS armed with knives, baseball bats and hurling bricks clashed with police as part of Southampton was turned into a battle zone last night. more...

Southampton Shipping

Radio link-up for Titanic Wireless Commemorative Group

THE HEROIC actions of one of the illfated Titanic's radio operators are set to be commemorated in April. more...

Titanic poetry competition

DON"T forget to enter the latest Daily Echo Poetry and Short Story Competition. more...

Historic Watch goes on sale

A HISTORIC watch which stopped at exactly the time the ill-fated Titanic sank beneath the waves of the north Atlantic is expected to sell for around £25,000 when it is auctioned in Southampton in April. more...

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THE TITANIC DISATER

To the Editor of the Hampshire Chronicle... more...

WINCHESTER "TITANIC RELIEF FUND"

To the Editor of the Hampshire Chronicle... more...

The Wreck of the Titanic: April 20th, 1912

We direct attention to a letter from Canon Braithwaite (Vice-Dean) in another column stating that the offertories at the Cathedral tomorrow (Sunday), which were to have been set apart for the Church missionary Society, will now be given to the Mayor of Southampton for immediate help to those who have been rendered widows and orphans by the sinking of the liner Titanic. more...

BEREAVEMENTS IN THE CITY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

The first intimation in Winchester of the sad news of the wreck of the liner Titanic was received at the office of the Hampshire Chronicle at 10.44 a.m. on Monday morning, the following being a copy of the Central News telegram posted in our window shortly afterwards:- more...

April 20th 1912 : WRECK OF THE TITANIC 1635 PERSONS DROWNED

Yesterday, after a most agonising suspence of four days, details of the loss of the great liner Titanic were received. more...

A LULLABY: APRIL 15th, 1912.

Ye mourners, be strong, be strong! Sing them a lullaby-song! They gave-thy men so brave- Themselves in a glorious trying, now richa nd poor are lying, Engulphed in a common gave. more...

GREAT DISASTERS OF PAST TWENTY YEARS

The tragic fate of the Titanic naturally recalls other great disasters within memory. In the past twenty years the principal wrecks have been as follows:- more...

FORECAST FULFILLED

How strangely imagination may anticipate history has seldom been more remarkably shown than in the disaster to the Titanic. It was foretold in many of its details in a curious little novel by Mr. Morgan Robertson, entitled "Futility," published in the United States fourteen years ago. more...

SOME FEATURES OF THE TITANC.

The Titanic, build by Harland and Wolff, has the same dimensions as the Olympic, which was also in collision last autumn, the other vessel being the cruiser Hawke, her length being 832ft, and her breadth 92ft. Her gross tonnage is, however, 43,682 or 1004 tons greater than the Olympic, and 4394 more than the Mauretania. more...

RELIEF FUNDS

The Lord Mayor has opened a Mansion House fund for the relief of the sufferers from the disaster, which is being liberally contributed to. Among the earliest contributions received were sums of 500 guineas from King George and 250 guineas from Queen Mary. Queen Alexandra forwarded £200. more...

UNIVERSAL SORROW

The whole civilised world has been thrown into grief by the unparalleled disaster to the Titanic, and already this universal feeling has been expressed in a very striking way. more...

GLOOM IN SOUTHAMPTON

In Southampton people to the last moment clung to the hope that better news of the Titanic would be received, but on Tuesday afternoon the whole town was overcome with gloom. more...

WINCHESTER, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1912

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SCENES OF GRIEF IN LONDON

Throughout the whole of Tuesay London lived in an atmosphere of suspense waiting for the wireless messages which came through the air with their words of comfort or desolation, or, almost worst still, bringing neither the one nor the other, but leaving a sharper pain of gnawing anxiety in the hearts of those whose near and dear ones were on the doomed vessel. more...

TERRIBLE STORY TOLD BY CABLE

A Standard New York cablegram, dated New York, Tuesday, says:- more...

WINCHESTER, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1912 : WRECK OF THE TITANIC APPALLING LOSS OF LIVES WOMEN AND CHILD

A terrible disaster, unparalleled in the records of the sea, has overtaken the world's greatest ship, the White Star liner Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday in last week on her maiden voyage to New York. more...

The arrival of the Titanic: from the Hampshire Independent Saturday April 6th 1912

Quietly and unostentatiously, without any blare of trumpets, the Titanic, the world's latest and biggest ship, steamed up the silent waters of the Solent and docked at Southampton at midnight on Wednesday, taking the same berth in the new wet dock that the Olympic occupied 12 hours before. more...

From The Hampshire Independent: A HUGE CALAMITY

The civilised world is suffering from the shock of a huge calamity, the sorrow attending which is brought home with particular force to our own town of Southampton. more...

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Southampton Sport

BRISTOL CITY YOUTH 2 - SAINTS YOUTH 0

Saints fielded young academy sides on Saturday as some of the scholars played on trial for other clubs around the country. more...

BRIDGE ON THE BRINK

WAYNE Bridge today stands on the threshold of realising his World Cup dream after winning selection for Sven-Goran Eriksson's 27-man squad to face Italy at Elland Road on Wednesday. more...

Basketball: Scott threatens extra training for Stars after loss

SOLENT STARS' coach Mark Scott is threatening his squad with extra training sessions this week after letting the Kingston Wildcats off the leash to suffer a surprise 96-92 mauling. more...

RIX SACKED

GRAHAM RIX's troubled tenure as manager of Portsmouth finally came to an end today. more...

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