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Stories for 16 May 2003

Basingstoke News

Fan's cup final ticket anguish

A SCHOOLBOY footballer has put his team-mates first and given up his dream of seeing his soccer heroes play in tomorrow's FA Cup final.   more...

MP backs gas pipeline plan

PLANS to build a 17-mile gas pipeline across the north Hampshire countryside have won the cautious backing of Basingstoke MP Andrew Hunter.  more...

Hundreds sign petition to remove road humps

A PETITION of more than 500 signatures calling for the removal of the road humps in Pack Lane, Kempshott, was due to be presented to Basingstoke council at its annual meeting last night.   more...

Saints are kings of The Castle

THE SAINTS fans will come marching in to a Basingstoke pub tomorrow as supporters gather for their team's FA Cup final showdown with Arsenal.  more...

Completion date set for re-housing plans

LONG-RUNNING plans to provide new accommodation for a group of Basingstoke people with learning disabilities should be completed by next March - even though a bid for £200,000 from the deputy prime minister's office was turned down.  more...

All change!

THERE'S been a change at the head of Basingstoke council with the leader and deputy swapping over the two top roles. The new leader, Cllr Rob Donnelly, who up until this week was deputy leader of the council, has taken over from Liberal Democrat group leader Cllr Brian Gurden, who now becomes deputy.   more...

Chief speaks frankly on hospital's challenges

PRESSURE of work under a new system and a lack of staff are being blamed by bosses for the barrage of complaints about nursing care for the elderly at Basingstoke hospital.  more...

MP offers a reprieve in return for change

BASINGSTOKE MP Andrew Hunter says he is prepared to suspend his threat to name and shame the town's hospital in the House of Commons so managers can grapple with serious lapses in care for elderly patients.  more...

Basingstoke Sport

Tarr sticks but Liddiard leaves

TWO of Basingstoke's top sporting stars have made decisions this week which will affect their respective teams for the coming season.  more...

New Town accolade for Allaway

BASINGSTOKE Town defender Ricky Allaway added another award to his season when he became the club's player-of-the-year at the annual dinner and awards evening.  more...

HQ final beckons

THE three Basingstoke players who helped Hampshire into tomorrow's semi-finals of the County Shield keep their places against Oxfordshire at Down Grange.  more...

Rae's strike ends promotion dream

Reading 0 Wolves 1 (Wolves won 3-1 on aggregate)  more...

Top marks for Shaun

SHAUN UDAL helped himself to two four-wicket hauls as Hampshire drew with hosts Oxford University in a three-day rain-affected game that finished on Sunday.  more...

National cup hurdle

BASINGSTOKE and North Hants are involved in cup and league action for the second weekend running.  more...

Pony sisters share in British success

A GREAT Britain show-jumping debut in South Africa turned into an unexpected triumph for the Mantel family from Aldermaston.  more...

Big Ben strikes five times

ALL-ROUNDER Ben Hazell won five of the 17 titles Basingstoke and Mid-Hants collected at the Hampshire track and field championship at Portsmouth.  more...

Eastleigh News

Pain means gain for centre

A HAMPSHIRE man stuck out his chest for an Eastleigh charity - as people ripped off clumps of his hair with wax strips.  more...

We'll fight allotment development

ANGRY allotment gardeners last night stepped up their campaign to block controversial plans to build homes on their Eastleigh town centre plots.  more...

Action ruled out in Pirelli furore

HUNDREDS of Hampshire workers who believe they were made redundant unfairly have been dealt a bitter blow by a European inquiry.  more...

Farehamandgosport News

Mayor helps couples celebrate

IT WAS a golden moment for 14 couples who joined together to celebrate 50 years of married life.  more...

SHE CAME, SAW, AND RAN AWAY!

THEY were determined to make their presence felt - despite being denied a face-to-face meeting with the woman who holds the fate of the their community in her hands.  more...

Forestandwaterside News

Six day rule for livestock to be relaxed

AN EASING of laws controlling livestock movements - in place since the foot-and-mouth disease crisis of 2001 - has been welcomed by organisers of the New Forest Show.  more...

Protests fail to stop mast extension plan

PLANS to increase the height of a mobile phone mast in the New Forest have been approved - despite strong protests from a nearby school.  more...

Hampshire Business

Saints fans reach for the Sky with TV show

A LOCAL television company is helping to keep Saints fans bang up to date with the latest news from St Mary's in the run-up to Saturday's FA Cup final against Arsenal.  more...

Picture improving for cable TV firm

HAMPSHIRE based cable television operator NTL said it had made a fast start after emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States four months ago.  more...

Hampshire Food

Manhattans, 12 Upper High Street, Winchester

THE LITTLE slice of Italy next to Winchester Castle has been feeding the city's diners for decades.  more...

Manhattans, 12 Upper High Street, Winchester

THE LITTLE slice of Italy next to Winchester Castle has been feeding the city's diners for decades.  more...

Iow News

Police hunt holiday park bomb hoaxer

A POLICE hunt is under way for the hoaxer who sparked a major emergency services alert by sending a suspect device to an East Cowes holiday park.   more...

Chemicals removed from factory site

A MAJOR operation to remove 300,000 gallons of dangerous chemicals from a disused Shanklin factory site is under way.   more...

Seven new refs with inside knowledge

SEVEN inmates from Camp Hill Prison at Newport have qualified as football referees.  more...

£300,000 needed to protect mosaics

EFFORTS to stave off the possibility of having to bury some of western Europe's finest Roman mosaics are gathering pace.  more...

POLICE PROBE MYSTERY DEATH

A POLICE investigation is continuing on the Isle of Wight today after the body of a labourer was found in the garden of a flat.  more...

Southampton Craigdavid

Saint Craig David

IT'S NOT every day an A-list celebrity engages you in conversation about the finer details of your love life.  more...

Southampton Food

Manhattans, 12 Upper High Street, Winchester

THE LITTLE slice of Italy next to Winchester Castle has been feeding the city's diners for decades.  more...

Southampton Leisure

CINEMA LISTINGS

Films showing in the Hampshire region this week  more...

THE HEART OF ME (15)

HELENA Bonham Carter returns to her cinematic home - period drama - in Thaddeus O'Sullivan's latest movie, set in '30s London.  more...

KANGAROO JACK (PG)

CHARLIE Carbone (Jerry O'Connell) and Louis Fucci (Anthony Anderson) have been best friends ever since Louis saved Charlie from drowning as a child.  more...

THE ACTORS (15)

CONOR McPherson is one of the most exciting and acclaimed young dramatists working today.  more...

ANTWONE FISHER (15)

FILMMAKERS should have to apply for a special licence to make a movie that is more than an hour-and-a-half long.  more...

Capercaille

As a genre, Capercaillie would generally be pigeonholed as folk and have certainly won awards in that genre, but perhaps World Music is a more accurate label.   more...

Longview

Strictly speaking, this is a bit of a cheat in the Local Heroes section...Longview are Manchester-based, but the singer/songwriter and driving force is a Hampshire lad - so we figured he's local and, having landed a major record company contract, a hero in our books.  more...

Goldfrapp

GOLDFRAPP are a duo made up of former Tricky vocalist Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory. Their debut album Felt Mountain, released last year was a huge seller - half a million at the last count.  more...

Lisa Scott -Lee

WHEN TEEN bands disintegrate you never can tell which of them are going to survive with their careers intact.  more...

Local Affairs

GOOD humour is helping to raise money for a good cause as Bishopstoke Players present a comedy in aid of the NCH children's charity.  more...

Calamity Jane

Gosport Amateur Operatic Society ride into town with their production of the hit musical Calamity Jane this week.  more...

Beside the Seaside

Actor Jonathon Morris is still best-known for playing Adrian Boswell in 80s sitcom Bread. But he tells ANDREW WHITE that his true passion has always been for theatre...  more...

Wilde at Heart

I thought my life was going to be a brilliant comedy. I found it to be a revolting and repellent tragedy."  more...

The Edge of Darkness

THE upper-class Victorian household could have created for the writer of gothic-tinged thrillers.  more...

Southampton News

Crucial talks on who will control city's budget

CRUCIAL talks are due to take place that could decide who controls Southampton's multi-million pound budget over the coming months.  more...

EU red tape threat to vital cancer research

SOUTHAMPTON MEP Roy Perry says he'll fight to save the city's leading leukaemia charity threatened by new EU rules.  more...

Leanne's story

AS SOMEONE who knows the value of targeted treatment, Totton's Leanne Jacobs is deeply concerned about the future of Leukaemia Busters.  more...

£1m road opens up centre

RESIDENTS in Southampton breathed new life into a neighbourhood centre yesterday when a new road was unveiled.  more...

Bid to curb fake Saints gear rip-off

TRADING standards officers have been sweeping the city's streets clean of counterfeit football goods ahead of Saints' FA Cup final this weekend.  more...

Mis-Teeq and Kym top of bill

KYM MARSH and Mis-Teeq are among the latest acts to be announced for this year's Power in the Park pop festival.  more...

Residents slam traveller invasion

ACTION will be taken to evict travellers who have invaded Eastleigh playing fields as Hampshire County Council assesses what help it can give to the community.  more...

Bowling club bust-up over phone mast plan

A ROW has broken out between a Southampton bowling club and its neighbours over plans to construct a 15-metre mobile phone mast.  more...

City's huge thirst for Cup success

PUBS across Southampton will be packed to the rafters as the city celebrates its biggest footballing occasion in 27 years.  more...

Saints on tour - but only if they win!

SOUTHAMPTON people will have the chance to welcome home their FA Cup heroes on Sunday - but only if Saints beat Arsenal.   more...

Go on, win it for me, Saints!

BRAVE and proud. Perhaps the most deserving Saints fan at the FA Cup showdown in Cardiff tomorrow will be Hampshire eight-year-old Jack Belge, pictured right with the famous trophy.  more...

Southampton Shipping

In Port

Today's Principal Arrivals: Nedlloyd Oceania, container, 0030, 204; Atlantic Spirit, ro/ro, 0100, 40; MOL Priority, container, 0600, 205; Madame Butterfly, vehicle, 0630, 34/35; Auto Atlas, ro/ro, 1100, 38/9; Grande Mediterraneo, vehicle, 1100, 201; Platinum Ray, ro/ro, 1330, 43; Amanda, general, 1400, 36S; Liban Car, ro/ro, 1600, 43; Glorious Ace, ro/ro, 2230, 202; Autosky, ro/ro, 2300, 25 link; OOCL Chicago, container, PM, 207; Tinka, container, PM, Con Term  more...

Southampton Sport

Best-seller Match of the Millennium back on shelves

Saints are set for their first Cup final of the Millennium at The Millennium Stadium.  more...

Hunger could be the difference says legend Tiss

SAINTS legend Matt Le Tissier is backing his former teammates to pull off an upset and lift the FA Cup tomorrow.  more...

Seaman to lead out uncertain Arsenal line-up

Arsene Wenger has confirmed that David Seaman will lead out Arsenal for the FA Cup final as captain.  more...

MARS: I'M FIT FOR THE FINAL!

Saints skipper Chris Marsden has declared himself fit to face Arsenal in tomorrow's FA Cup final.  more...

Final puts mockers on Terese's big day

SAINTS' first FA Cup final appearance for 27 years will play havoc with tomorrow's athletics programme.  more...

DIVING - 60 kids ready to take a dive

OVER 60 pupils from schools in Southampton and the surrounding area have entered the first ever Southampton Schools' Diving Competition due to be held at The Quays tomorrow, writes Wendy Gee.  more...

Green's back in time for derby day

Arch rivals Easton & Martyr Worthy and St Cross Symondians go head to head in an all-Winchester Southern Electric Premier League, Division 2 derby at Cockets Mead tomorrow, 1pm.  more...

Spearman takes advantage

Shaun Udal spent the day in the treatment room as Gloucestershire's batsmen put a threadbare Hampshire attack to the sword at Bristol yesterday.  more...

County clubs to discuss the Wessex League expansion plan

The Hampshire League are calling their elite clubs together to discuss the repercussions of this week's bombshell news that the Wessex League are to expand into a second division.  more...

Weston unearth another Roberts

WESTON PARK Boys' School believe they may have unearthed a 21st century version of Graham Roberts.  more...

Southampton Titanic

It's your ticket to board Titanic

It is perhaps the best known of all Southampton stories. It tells of courage, sorrow, bravery and survival.  more...

It's your ticket to board Titanic

It is perhaps the best known of all Southampton stories. It tells of courage, sorrow, bravery and survival.  more...

  
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