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A MAN who is banned from entering a large chunk of Southampton city centre has been jailed for shoplifting and breaching his criminal behaviour…

SHE helped educate many of Southampton's children during a teaching career that spanned more than 40 years. A meticulous, well-known and much loved teacher, Jacqueline Mary Cowie has passed away aged 78 after a short battle with a rare form of cancer. Jackie's teaching career started at Wildground Junior School in the late 60s and she continued to share her passion for teaching in schools including Hollybrook, Portswood, Aldermoor and St Mark's. Art was her first love and this was no better illustrated than by her highly acclaimed displays of her pupils artwork in the schools tent at ...

PRISON had failed to curb James Rogers and now he faced the inevitable - a one way ticket overseas. Just three days had passed from his release before he once more embarked on crime, a smash and grab raid on a Southampton shop where he snatched three watches from a window display. Impudently, however, he suggested a novel proposition to the judge. "Why don't we toss on a coin on it," he urged. "Seven years if I guess right and transportation for life if I get it wrong." But Recorder Bingham was not one for frivolity. "It's seven years," he thundered - and Rogers was led away to aw...