The New Paper, 9 May 2004

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  • 38 1 the new paper MAY 9, 2004 on Sunday MITA (P) 024/03/2004 Website: newpaper asial com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg 80 CENTS I Singapore Press Holdings Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 iiiiili 8 81 *****9 > the new paper on sunoay
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    • 52 1 y- j «r ,-cPAIN of single mums When five share o packet of rice Singapore women open up MAN U-CHELSEA EXCLUSIVE Live action from Id Trafford tunnel Plus: 6 pages on the match ffl Kids hit, shamed at S'pore childcare centres EXPOSED: Aussie expert reports child scare tactics. Govt acts
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    • 1148 2  -  CHILDCARE OR CHILD SCARE? Childhood education trainer blows the lid on scary practices at S'pore childcare centres REPORTS NG WAN CHING won THE mountain of evidence seemed to be growing before her eyes. She was horrified. Children were
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    • 433 2 A LITTLE girl wet her pants. It would have gone unnoticed if not for the teacher who spotted it. She questioned the girl on the spot in front of all her friends, demanding to know what happened. The girl denied it, but
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    • 568 4  -  CHILDCARE OR CHILD SCARE? Ministry's investigations show 3 out of 4 complaints valid By Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg THE Ministry of Community Development and Sports (MCDS) has investigated all the four cases referred by Ms Deborah Harcourt. Their conclusion: That "certain teachers did indeed practise inappropriate
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    • 194 4 WHEN Ms Nancy Lee-Wong, who runs Jenan Childcare and Development Centre, heard that some centres' employees hit young children and use threatening language with them, she said: "This must be the work of untrained people in the field, because the training we have
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    • 908 6  -  WHAT HAPPENED TO LYDIA Born healthy, had high fever when 3 months old Had hydrocephalus meningitis— infection of membranes covering brain Has since had 25 operations REPORTS AND PICTURES By Joyce Levi Joyce Lim joycel@sph. com.sg A SICKLY child doctors said could die at anytime is one
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    • 579 7 ON Mothers' Day, Madam Christina Poh's children will be with their father. At the thought, she broke down and cried. Lydia immediately came over to comfort her, saying, "Mummy, please don't cry." Since her divorce, her children have been spending their weekends with their
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    • 1365 8  -  with a child of my own HER DILEMMA: Works day night Almost entire $1,100-salary goes to expenses Daughter more attached to babysitter HER DESPAIR: Fears for the future Feels 'old' tired at 20 Wants to spend time with daughter but also wants to party By Celine Lim
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    • 154 8 ONE thing Farah has going for her is her job. She enjoys the creative process of painting delicate nail designs as a manicurist, she said. Her passion is beauty. She likes helping other women look and feel their best. But she fears her job won't take
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    • 998 9  -  HER ANXIETY: That she might lose her flat Not enough money to feed her four children Nasty comments from others By Celine Lim cellsf&)sph. com. sg FOR this divorced mother-of-four, Mothers' Day will be fraught with anxiety and uncertainty. There
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    • 143 9 BRAS are up for grabs for the first 1,000 mothers who turn up at ERO Lingerie today. Mothers can vist the five outlets at Causeway Point (#02-39), Junction 8 (#02-09), Jurong Point (#01-16), Plaza Singapura (#02-10) and Tiong Bahru Plaza (#01-18). Remember to bring your
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  • NEWS
    • 1446 10  -  Filipino maid was 'wife' to S'pore man for 9 years... then he dies When he had money problems, she dug into her savings to help him. For a while, she even worked part-time to foot his bills though she knew she was breaking the
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    • 1247 12  -  REPORTS AZHAR GHANI tnp@sph.com. sg RISING costs might put pressure on prices but when should the buck be passed to consumers? There's never a good time for price hikes. But, going by past lessons, timing is everything. Take the controversy over
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    • 209 12 Property tax for HDB home-owners The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) will be revising the annual value of Housing Board flats for the first time in 14 years since 1990 between July and December this year. This will double the number of home-owners an extra 400,000 who
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    • 780 13 Welcome to the Diversity critical to S'pore's survival GO forth, young student, and be different. That is the path Singapore's young should take. That is a big challenge for a small country like Singapore, Acting Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said yesterday. "We have to avoid producing students
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    • 139 13 SINGAPORE is not bereft of talent, Mr Tharman said. He cited an article in The Wall Street Journal on May 6, about how Raffles Junior College sent more students to the top 10 US universities than any other international school. "There
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    • at a glance
      • 115 14 SHE works at putting away the bad guys. Ms Fran Townsend jj first came into prominence 14 years ago as a prosecutor in a New York court, taking on mobsters affiliated with the Gambino crime family. Today, the 42-year-old M mother of two boys is
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      • 115 14 Snapshots of the main news to save you time US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld took responsibility on Friday for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners and offered his "deepest apology". But he said he would not resign just to satisfy his political enemies. "These events occurred on my
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      • 110 14 THERE will soon be a massive transfer exercise in the Malaysian civil service. It will be part of the government's drive against corruption and misuse of power. First to be shuffled will be those in "sensitive" departments such as Customs, immigration and the police. Officers who have served
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      • 131 14 AN officer of the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) has been accused of asking two teenage drug suspects for sexual favours, in exchange for recommending that they get lighter punishments. Kok Chi Chuan, 29, a sergeant, was charged in a district court with six counts of
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      • 108 14 THE recommendations of the National Wages Council (NWC) are expected to be made public on May 17. Acting Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday that the council, made up of representatives from the Government, employers, unions and chambers of commerce, had completed its
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      • 338 14 SQOO6 crash in Taipei THEY went to court in the US and won more than seven times the compensation Singapore Airlines was offering them. The children of a California couple who died on board SQ 006 when it crashed in Taiwan nearly four
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    • 791 15 ENGINEER ON TRIAL FOR EXEC'S MURDER IN KL HE stood calmly in the dock, listening to the opening statement. The prosecution said it would show that the 37-year-old engineer had choked Ms Noritta Samsudin to death on Dec 5 last year. Smartly dressed
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    • 506 16 HE USED TO PICK FRUIT VEGGIES... IT was a moment he would never forget. In 1980, Mr Jose Hernandez (below) was hoeing a row of sugar beets in a California field when he heard the news on his transistor radio. The first Hispanic-American astronaut,
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    • 614 17 Dove staff gives firm's beauty creams and lotions big boost THEY are not slender supermodels selling a dream. They are "real women", showing some real curves. And the beauty products they are advertising are getting a real boost. Sales of the firming formulations doubled within a
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    • 678 18 Why did she make Iraqi prisoners do this? THE CHARGES Conspiracy Dereliction of duty Cruelty and maltreatment Making a false statement Assault THERE were n6 rules. There was little training. But the mission was clear. Break down the prisoners for interrogation. So said
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    • 319 19 AP. THEY wanted to show the US their commitment in the war against terrorism. So the Macedonian police gunned down seven innocent immigrants, then claimed they were terrorists to impress the superpower, said the authorities. The men were illegal immigrants from Pakistan
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  • 306 25 TECH Wire services. IT is said that the key to fighting terrorism is better intelligence. But security experts from the US and Europe are convinced that better technology will help too. This week, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation organised the first-ever exhibition which showcased
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  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND
    • 492 33  -  FAWZIAH SELAMAT WHENEVER feng shui master Adelina Pang hangs a wind-chime, she notices her neighbours would do the same. Geomancy's poster girl almost invariably gets approached for feng shui tips while out shopping. "I was looking around a condo unit (which she just bought)
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    • 198 33 Ms Pang has identified her living room and dining area as her wealth sector. She has placed a water feature in the living room which she said will help bring her more wealth. A model of a merchant ship loaded with gold ingots is used for
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    • 133 33 Using the Flying Stars system a system used by geomancers to chart out the energy pattern of a home Ms Pang identified this living space on the second floor of her house as having "quarrelsome" energy. "It's not a good area for children to play or for
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    • Article, Illustration
      144 33 Ms Pang recommends that your stovetop sit on your "bad luck sector" and never on your "good luck sector". This is determined through your birth data usually the birth data of the main breadwinner is used. "For good luck, the knobs of the stove should also be I
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  • HEY!
    • 1425 34 /FENG SHUI MASTERS Call them Masters Feng Shui, to be exact. Here for the International Feng Shui Convention which ends today, FAWZIAH SELAMAT finds out what makes them and their ancient art tick Master Stephen Skinner (UK) Can feng shui really change people's lives? "When I was
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      513 36  -  By Loh Wanyun wanyun@sph.com.sg WITHIN a fortnight, the Singapore film industry has suffered three body blows. First came the news that the Best Director prize for the short film category in the 17th Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF) was won by 25 Secondary Three students from CHIJ (Toa
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      403 36 THEY'RE not even old enough to watch some of the NC-16 films at the Singapore International Film Festival. t But that didn't stop these 25 Sec Three i students from winning the Best Director award. Their entry, Conflict and Crisis, is a sobering and poignant commentary on the
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  • HEY!
    • 480 39  -  By Chang May Choon changmc@sph. com.sg SINGAPORE singer-songwriter JJ Lin has a big Mother's Day present for his mum. A prestigious trophy, no less! The 23-year-old was crowned Best New Artiste at the Golden Melody Awards in Taipei last night. JJ is the second Singaporean
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    • 213 40 I AM a 16-year-old boy and I love to make friends. One of my guy friends has fallen in love with me. We have been friends for two years and he has been sending me SMS messages asking me to be his steady. What
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    • 227 40 I AM a 16-year-old girl, and I know this sounds silly, but I've had a crush on a teacher in my school for the past three years. My friends say he is a jerk, but I don't care. My brain tells me that I hate him
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    • 725 40 MISERABLE Girl is a single, 22-year-old domestic maid who has worked here for three years to support her mother, 39, and two siblings, aged 14 and 10. Her mother makes decisions that affect the family without consulting her and was recently cheated by another
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    • 211 42 Highlights Liar Liar Channel I, 6.30pm Starring Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney. A lawyer who's a habitual liar is unable to lie for 24 hours due to his son's birthday wish. Rebecca Loos: My Story Channel 5, 10pm David Beckham's alleged mistress and ex-personal assistant sets the record straight in this
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  • 675 44  -  HEY/») SIVA CHOY THE tap on my bathroom sink started leaking a week ago. It wasn't a huge leak. It was just a piddling one-drop-a-second leak. But Ms Wife, who discovered it, reacted as if it was a leak on the Titanic. "We've got to fix
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  • RACING
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      281 46 Sky Legend (Race 2 No. 8) This former Kranji-based galloper deserves to break the duck today. His last-start second to Wanko, over the Ipoh 1,600m on a soft track a fortnight ago, was a top effort. Despite being drawn awkwardly then, he snatched the lead quickly but was
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    • 164 46  -  By Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg ONLY a broken collarbone. That was the diagnosis for apprentice Mohd Hairin, who suffered a bad fall together with fellow-rookie Razali Musa in the opening event at Kranji last Friday night. Hairin, who tumbled from Very Good Ric, was
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    • 219 46 Racing Hare Tan Danny Hw Taw Theai Loon Mkharf Lee RACE Man Tan Danny KKoo Tan Item Loon NkkMlUe i vigHUf' 1 v OfympkT«am 4 Speed Chaser 3 Gold King 2 Dynamic Reign 9 Hoganjville <N SOcmM 8 Skqr Ufmd 7Trie Lnc SkyUc-d SOoMhtrd 4Ute I9CYUEGBO*
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    • 119 47 RACE 1: Pressure No More, Gold King, Speed Chaser, Crouching Tiger, Speedy Bet, Olympic Victory, Olympic Team. RACE 2: Ocean Patrol, Sky Legend. RACE 3: Shanghai Knight, Big Boom, Royal Power, Good Knowledge, South Wind. RACE 4: Eanwright, De Best, Future Prince, Time To Success. RACE 5: First Emperor,
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    • 403 48  -  By Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg LAST Friday night, it was Kiwi trainer Lurie Laxon who stole the thunder at Kranji by taking out the first three events. Yesterday, it was the turn of Singapore oil trader and
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    • 363 49 BADMINTON: THOMAS AND ÜBER CUPS AFP. REIGNING champions Indonesia set their sights on a showdown with the dominant Chinese after opening their Thomas Cup badminton campaign with a 5-0 win over the US yesterday. But despite strong home support, Indonesia dropped enough points to suggest they
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    • 144 49 THOMAS CUP (MEN) Thailand 5 South Africa 0 Laohathaimongkol bt C Dednam 15-1,15-2; Thiraratsakul bt Potgeiter 15-8,15-5; Teerawiwatana/Panvisvas bt C Dednam/James 15-5,15-6; Wiriyapadungpong bt Viljoen 15-2, 15-1; Prapakamol/Ngernsrisuk bt R Dednam/Potgeiter 15-3,15-3 Germany 4 New Zealand 1 Joppien bt Moody 15-5,15-10; Roch bt Bellingham 15-6,15-5; Gordon btZwiebler 15-9,15-0; Kindervater/Siegemund
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    • 654 50  -  FORMULA ONE: SPANISH GRAND PRIX By ERNEST LUIS npsports@sph.com.sg HE'S the Alain Prost of Britain when it comes to motor racing. With a smooth driving style like that of the French four-time ex-world champion, Jenson Button is showing that, with a surprisingly good car
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    • 158 50 Reuters. ORGANISERS of the Spanish Grand Prix and Formula One commercial rights boss Bernie Ecclestone has agreed to extend the race until 2011. But this is subject to the tobacco legislation that is hanging over the sport. F1 had agreed to get rid of tobacco funding by the
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      95 50 REEBOK honoured the 10th anniversary of the death of three-time world Formula One champion Ayrton Senna by launching a limited footwear collection. He was tragically killed on May 1,1994, when he crashed his Williams car into a waM at the San Marino Grand PHx. Called the Nacionale Leader,
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    • 287 51 QUALIFYING RESULTS BAR-HONDA'S Jenson Button suffered a big blow in the qualifying race for the Spanish Grand Prix. The 24-year-old, chasing his fourth podium in a row after starting the last race on pole, was 14th fastest after running wide. He was expected to be Michael
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    • 262 52 Make-or-break night for Espanyol against Deportivo EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN PA Sport. ESPANYOL face a make-or-break clash with Deportivo tonight, knowing that anything other than a win against the Galician side would put them in serious trouble at the foot of the table. Having beaten Atletico at home, Espanyol faced local
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    • 276 53 EURO KICKOFF: GERMANY Reuters. WERDER Bremen sealed their fourth Bundesliga title with a stylish 3-1 victory at second-placed Bayern Munich, the defending champions, yesterday. Three goals in the first 35 minutes set up Werder for a win that sent them nine points above Bayern with
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    • SUNDAY cheers
      • 1751 54 Watch out! Roman Abramovich is waving his chequebook! The Russian oil baron wants to win the Premiership at all costs. And he means it. Chelsea's sugardaddy supreme had already blown a fortune in transfers but he has made even more money available to the club. WANG MENG
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      • 256 55 ROME wasn't built in a day. But Roman Abramovich wants to show you how. We all assumed that the billionaire landed in London just to escape the attentions of Russian premier Vladimir Putin but, since then, the mogul had turned the nearly-men of Chelsea into genuine Premiership contenders.
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      • 345 56 ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger is close to finalising his plans for next season and David Beckham doesn't figure in it. Sure, he has admitted that he needs just one more player to complete his jigsaw but he has already ruled out the England captain and simply
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        1038 56 GOOD afternoon ladies and gentlemen, and' welcome to Ashburton Grove for the first game of the new season 2008-2009." The PA announcer cranks up the volume for his favourite part of the day. "We've just had the team news in and here is today's line-up. In goal, Ireland's
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      • 345 56 Graham Stack ('Keeper), 22: Confident, brassy local lad excelled in the Carling Cup run. Capped by Ireland at under-21 level, lustln Hoyte (Right-back), 19: From a family of sprinters, he has represented England at all levels up to under-21. PhHppe Senderos (Centre-back), 19: Giant, imposing centre-back
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      • 387 56 Wire Services. AitSENE Wenger showed he has no intention of resting on his laurels as he celebrated Arsenal's title triumph by signing another Thierry Henry continuing to set new standards as the spearhead Of a fearsome attacking unit and Jose Reyes having only recently joined the
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      • 74 57 May 9 B*wn Araanat 19 X 56 7 3 1 1 9 12 4 14 11 9 C 5 M*9 Nm* IMw 73 17 10 tl 13 9 7 St S3 1301 I BWtA *l 2-0 N'castle N'castle
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      • 346 57 PA Sport. NEWCASTLE v WOLVES: Newcastle's defensive resources will be stretched even further for the visit of relegated Wolves today as Andy O'Brien begins a two-match suspension. The Republic of Ireland international is sidelined after being sent off at Aston Villa, and with Jonathan Woodgate out for the
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      • 426 58 UK TIPSTER: DAVE TINDALL FULHAMv ARSENAL: It's 36 down and two to go in Arsenal's bid to go through the Premiership season unbeaten and the trip to Fulham looks like the final banana skin. Fulham have one of the better home records in the Premiership and are in
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      • 511 59 NEWCASTLE v WOLVES SHEARER: PA Sport. Newcastle have three huge matches in which to resurrect their season after seeing the chance to end a 35-year trophy famine ripped from their grasp. Sir Bobby Robson and his players still have the wounds from the Uefa Cup
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      • 191 59 PA Sport. NEWCASTLE striker Shola Ameobi (below) is preparing for three cup finals after having one wrenched from his grasp. The 22-year-old was impressive in the Uefa Cup defeat in Marseille. However, Ameobi is hungry for more and determined earn himself another crack at the continent's
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      • 700 61  -  Southampton 1 Aston Villa 1 PMfettfS) Angel (39) SOUTHAMPTON: Niemi 8. Telfer 7, Hall 6. Lundekvam 7, Higginbotham 7, Prutton 6, Svensson 6, Folly 6, Fernandas 7, Beattie 7, Phillips 7. Subs not used: Blayney. Griffit. Blackstock, Kenton, Ormerod ASTON VILLA: Sorensen 7. De
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      • 1323 62  -  Leeds United ............3 Chariton Athletic ......3 Kilgallon (29) Holland (11) Pennant (41) Euell (76pen, 79) Smith (69pen) Leeds: Robinson, Richardson, Duberry, Kilgallon, Harte, Kelly, McPhail. Matteo, Pennant, Smith, Milner. Subs: Carson, Radabe, Barmby, Wilcox, Winter. Charlton: Kiely, Young, Hreidarsson. Fortune. Powell, Stuart. Holland, Euell. Konchesky,
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      • 244 62  -  By Howard Foster SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT JERMAIN DEFOE ensured Spurs ended their home campaign on a 1-0 winning note when he scored with a stunning volley after 17 minutes. It was route one football as Ledley King played a long ball out of defence. Defoe nipped ahead
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      • 810 63 MANU 1 CHELSEA 1: CHELSEA FINISH SECOND EXCLUSIVE Chelsea achieved their best finish in the English league last night when they clinched second spot after winning the title in 1955. They did it by pulling off a 1-1 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford.
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      • 530 64  -  MANU 1 CHELSEA 1: CHELSEA FINISH SECOND By Adrian Chan RUUD van Nistelrooy's inclusion in the Manchester United line-up against Chelsea was the major talking point among local punters yesterday. Many had expected Sir Alex Ferguson to leave his top striker out of the game,
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      • 260 65 MANU 1 CHELSEA 1: CHELSEA FINISH SECOND PA Sport. RUUD van Nistelrooy's 27th goal of the season was not enough to prevent 10-man Chelsea earning automatic qualification for next year's Champions League. The goal rescued a point and some pride for United, who must now face
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      • 320 65 PA Sport. MAN U manager Sir Alex Ferguson admitted midfielder Paul Scholes was lucky not to be sent off. Scholes, returning after a three-game suspension, was substituted on 36 minutes. He had earlier been booked for diving and also escaped a further caution for
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      • 148 65 VAN NISTELROOY REAL TALKS? AFP. MAN United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy has held secret talks with Real Madrid. The Spanish sports dally Marca claimed that the meeting took place in Madrid on April 7. The report added that the club were looking to make an offer for Van Nistelrooy to
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      • 169 65 PA Sport. SIR Alex Ferguson thanked the Man United fans for their support this season. They will have to qualify for the Champions League next season but still have the chance of silverware this season when they take on Millwall in the FA Cup final
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      • 449 66 MANU 1 CHELSEA 1: CHELSEA FINISH SECOND PA Sport. CHELSEA coach Claudio Ranieri believes he could still be in charge at Stamford Bridge next season. His players certainly seem to hope he will. That probably drove the Chelsea players to go all out yesterday
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      • 158 67 ...and Man U thank him, too MfINU 1 CHELSEA 1: CHELSEA FINISH SECOND ...or thank you, Italian. That's what Claudio Ranieri is saying to his countiyman, Chelsea 'keeper Carlo Cudicini, who had a perfect game in stopping Manchester United. Well, almost perfect... Ronaldo dribbles in from the 1
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