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3/2/12   JN

Gas leak on Tangier Road, Portsmouth causes disruption. Pictured are Police officers giving members of the public help in Tangier Road.

Picture: Paul Jacobs (120408-3)

Homes evacuated as gas leak causes night of problems in Portsmouth

RESIDENTS have been allowed back into their homes after being evacuated more than 20 hours ago because of a gas leak.

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The administrator of Portsmouth Football Club Andrew Andronikou.

Picture:Steve Reid

Pompey face crucial week ahead, warns Andronikou

POMPEY’S future lays in the days, not weeks ahead, according to administrator Andrew Andronikou.

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European Metal Recycling (EMR) in Dundas Spur, Hilsea, was on fire on Friday

Scrapyard blaze

AROUND 800 tonnes of scrap metal caught fire at a metal recycling centre.

Chris Huhne outside his home in central London to announce his resignation as energy secretary

Chris Huhne was right to quit the cabinet, say MPs

MPs from across the area have welcomed Chris Huhne’s decision to step down from the cabinet after he was charged with perverting the course of justice.

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Liza Done with children in Gambia

It began as a holiday but now Liza is on a mission

A LAST-MINUTE holiday changed the life of a woman who is now running 100 miles to help the people of an African country.

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Sport rss

Fratton Park will not host today's match with Hull because of a frozen pitch

Pompey’s clash with Tigers postponed

Pompey’s Championship match with Hull today has been postponed because of a frozen pitch.

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4/2/12   Sport

Langstone Sports Ground football match was cancelled due to a frozen pitch, despite the bright sunlight

Picture: Paul Jacobs (120410-4)

Local football fixtures fall foul to the weather

Local football was counting the cost of the weather today, with the entire non-league programme falling victim to the icy conditions.

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24/11/2011 (SPORT) POMPEY TRAINING

Portsmouth FC players training at Wellington Sports Ground in Eastleigh on Thursday 24th November 2011.

Pictured is: New signing Joe Mattock during training.

Picture: Sarah Standing (114165-4511)

Appy keen to bring Joe back to Blues

Michael Appleton has revealed Joe Mattock issued a personal apology to him after signing for Championship rivals Brighton instead of Pompey.

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Pompey manager Michael Appleton Picture: Robin Jones

Wanted trio are the future at Fratton

Pompey’s in-demand trio have been hailed as the future of the club.

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A packed entry list is expected for the 2012 Chichester Priory 10k

Full house for Chi 10k

Organisers of the Chichester Priory 10k have put up the ‘full house’ signs for tomorrow’s 21st running of the race after receiving 2,000 entries.

Lifestyle rss

A rehearsal night of The Portsmouth Chorus

A chorus of approval

Inspired by the success of TV’s military wives choir, more and more people are enjoying the benefits of singing. MISCHA ALLEN

reports - and has a go herself.

Windsurfers at Club Adakoy, Turkey

It’s all about action on Adakoy Island

If there’s one thing you won’t find yourself doing at Club Adakoy, it’s lazing about. You may find yourself collapsed on a sun lounger in the afternoon, but that’s likely to be a form of well-deserved recovery.

Camellia

Camellias can bring colour to the garden

On a trip to a garden centre, I was amazed to see an extensive array of camellias in pots with masses of plump flower buds already to emerge into an explosion of long-lasting blooms.

Sean Bowman

Weekend with Sean Bowman

Kings Theatre trustee Sean Bowman is 68 and lives in Southsea. He’s responsible for heritage at the theatre and is a leader of the monthly tours. To book, call (023) 9282 8282.

Sue Simmonds' brother Andrew Kimber pictured in 2005

Sue hopes saucy postcards will pay for New Zealand trip

IT HAS taken Sue Simmonds 25 years to collect nearly 2,000 saucy postcards.

Community rss

Dickens street party

PEOPLE living in the street where Charles Dickens was born will be making an early toast to his bicentenary with a big street party tomorrow.

Centre with hands of box of fish is George Foster. extreme right Patsy Jackson, market manager and extreme left is Billy Stignant market foreman at the Surrey Street market circa 1946. Picture: Stuart Handley of Caan, France.

Readers happy to share their memories of life in Landport

Over the years I’ve written quite a few pieces about the streets of Portsmouth. But nothing has grabbed the attention quite like the photograph of Surrey Street, Landport that was featured here a month ago.

Front page of The Evening News from February 26, 1949

The day when 51,385 fans crowded into Fratton Park

No matter how many fans pack Fratton Park tomorrow one thing’s certain, the gate will not come anywhere near the number who squeezed into the Blues’ home nearly 63 years ago.

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Pompey captain Reg Flewin with the championship trophy at Fratton Park at the end of the 1948-49 season, alongside club president Field Marshal Montgomery

Championship victory

But it was not all heartbreak that year for Pompey and their legions of fans.

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Brush with the law

George Holdron’s linen drapery shop in Commercial Road was one of the best-appointed businesses in Portsmouth, situated at the junction with Arundel Street.

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Saturday 04 February 2012

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