The Itchen Navigation Heritage Trail is competing in the category for Best Environment Project.

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But John Denham, Labour MP for Southampton Itchen, has spoken against cuts to the city's other arts groups.

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The Hampshire nominees are the Bluebird Care Hampshire Disability Cricket Project and the Itchen Navigation Heritage Trail Project.

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He then moved to the State Veterinary Service, working in Itchen Abbas and Taunton and eventually at the SVS HQ at Tolworth, in Surrey.

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The areas include Bailey's Hard in Beaulieu, the Itchen River above Itchen Bridge, Hythe, Dodnor at Medina on the Isle of Wight and Lytchett Bay in Poole.

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The River Itchen, a candidate for SAC status.

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