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Sky News award winning special correspondent David Bowden has been spotted on the streets of Eastleigh out in search of Leo Barraclough the Brighton based Labour party candidate for Eastleigh. Eastleigh News bumped into David and his team who were filming in Market Street Tuesday morning. They were shooting sequences for their election coverage...
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UKIP’s first elected councillor in Hampshire, Hugh McGuinness, is to stand for Parliament in the constituency of East Hampshire. The Chairman of the Eastleigh branch of UKIP is also a parish councillor for Fair Oak and Horton Heath where he was the only member of the council to vote against the renaming of the...
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A 35-YEAR-OLD Eastleigh man who raped a woman in her flat in Eastbourne has been given a four-and-a-half year jail sentence it has been reported in the Bexhill-on-Sea Observer Matthew John Cook, of Chandler’s Ford, was visiting a friend in Eastbourne when the attack happened on October 2008. Cook was charged with two counts...
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Recent statistics released by Hampshire Constabulary show that recorded crime in Eastleigh Borough has fallen by 15 percent. This equates to 1390 fewer victims of crime. The statistics relate to recorded crime during the operational period April 2009 to March 2010, compared to the previous operational year. The break down of these results show...
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The cinema chain that owns the Swan centre’s flagship cinema ‘Vue’ is trying to find a buyer for the company it has emerged. The state of the art movie theatre opened in Eastleigh last year and reported an excellent start to trading. Vue which operates 65 cinemas in the UK and has 20% of...
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The Spitfires have ended their season 11th in the Blue Square premier league following a 4-1 away defeat by relegation candidates Worcester City. Eastleigh got off to a flying start after Richard Gillespie was brought down in the box and duly converted the subsequent penalty. However the home side soon levelled after they too...
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The Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne, has been attacked by Tory candidate Maria Hutchings as “soft on crime” during a live debate at Fleming Park. “The Liberal Democrats are very soft on crime” Ms Hutchings claimed in the debate on law and order broadcast by BBC Radio Solent. “They are talking about...
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“They’re charming people, but they’re eccentrics” was the verdict of barrister Peter Herrity on the three minority candidates standing in the newly created constituency of Meon Valley. The last hustings of the campaign at Waltham Chase saw 150 people come to the Methodist Chapel to hear all six candidates. However, when English Democrat candidate...
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Italian style restaurant chain Prezzo is now open at the Swan Centre in Eastleigh. This joins the existing chain eateries/cafes Nando’s, Costa Coffee,Frankie & Benny’s and Macdonalds. Prezzo has a varied menu, including pasta, risotto, chargrilled meats, fresh salads and award winning Pizzas. The restaurant also has unrivalled panoramic views of an exotic lingerie...
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When I met up with Chris Huhne’s team on Saturday morning the full effect of what ITN had described as a ‘political earthquake’ had not yet fully sunk into public consciousness. The previous day, following the televised debate, while Chris Huhne was making his way back from Manchester, a clearly shell shocked Gordon Brown...
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A full list of candidates standing in the General Election on May 6th for the constituency of Eastleigh has been published today. The list now includes an independent candidate, a replacement candidate for withdrawn English Democrat candidate Malcolm Moore and a candidate from the ‘National Liberal Party’ who are expressly standing in an attempt...
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Eastleigh Public Library in the Swan Centre reopened today following its four month long refit. The interior space and layout has been redesigned and there is new shelving and equipment on display. However, the most radical change is that the issue and return of books are no longer handled by librarians wielding date stamps....
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Eastleigh’s final home game of the season saw the Spitfires take on Bishops Stortford in their penultimate fixture of the campaign. Eastleigh were looking for their third successive win after victories over Welling and Dorchester in the past week. Manager Ian Baird looked to give some of the clubs youngsters a taste of Blue...
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The Highways Department of Hampshire County Council has ordered Chris Huhne’s office to move some of their campaign posters following a complaint from a member of the public. Up to ten of the 3 ft Square fluorescent orange billboards proclaiming ‘Liberal Democrats Winning Here’ had been erected outside Bursledon Market on the busy Bursledon...
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“Women have a say, we also have a vote” candidates were sharply reminded at the end of an otherwise lacklustre hustings in Cowplain, part of the newly created, largely rural constituency of Meon Valley. Lyn Palmer, a local community activist interrupted the chairman’s winding up speech to point out that all the questions that...
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