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Police are appealing for witnesses following an early morning holdup at the Texaco filling station on the A335, Southampton Rd. At about 5.30 am this morning the late night cashier was threatened by a masked man holding what appeared to be a firearm. As the cashier ran to take cover and alert the Police,...
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Hedge End Special Constable Warner Baker is to receive an MBE in the Queens New Year honours list it has been announced. He has been based at Hedge End since 1991 and was promoted to the rank of section officer 8 years ago.
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It has been reported in the Daily Echo that a ‘Gatso’ style speed camera, worth £40,000 and sited on the B3037 Bishopstoke Rd was destroyed by an ‘explosion’ at about 2.30 am. It is unclear as to whether this was as a result of indivduals acting alone or as part of a wider campaign....
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Evidence of retail price deflation has descended on Eastleigh with the opening of a new discount store ’89p Extra’ in the Towns High Street. The new store will provide competition for the exsisting 99p Stores outlet in The Swan centre which it claims to undercut. This will be a new experience for the 99p...
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Twelve young people who courageously put the skills that they learnt in Scouting into dramatic effect have been recognised by The Scout Association. The youngest is Kerena, a nine-year-old Cub Scout, from Chandlers Ford, Hampshire, who showed huge maturity following the tragic death of her mother through cancer. Shortly before her mother died, Kerena...
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Now when Jesus was born …. behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. Matthew 2:1-12
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Eastleigh Ballroom fans have been told to ‘Foxtrot Oscar’ by their landlords, Eastleigh Borough Council, who are evicting them from the Leigh Ballroom after 30 years of competitive dancing which had placed the former Leigh Road drill hall on the international dance map. However the popular venue, home to current UK Professional Latin Dance...
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Data just released by the Office for National Satistics show Eastleigh residents are in the grip of a 1970′s revival as up to 2000 people struggle to live on £64.30 a week. That is all the former Railway Towns jobseekers, the number of which has almost doubled in the last year, have to look...
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View Larger Map A Satellite parked in geo-stationary orbit 20,000 miles above the Congo has discovered a large mysterious hole in Eastleigh Town Centre!The photo, reproduced below, clearly shows a barren wasteland, measuring a couple of acres, bordered by Leigh Rd and Sopwith Rd and normally hidden from the curious gaze of passers-by. Ancient...
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It was a Winter Solstice to remember this afternoon as Eastleigh citizens who only a few weeks earlier had expressed their disappointment at the size of the ice rink supplied by the council for the annual ‘winter carnival’ were just as amazed to see the entire town centre transformed into a skating rink the...
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