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As part of a new initiative to combat anti-social behaviour Hampshire residents are being invited by the police to send in videos and photos of problems in their communities Hampshire Constabulary say they will be working to reduce the number of anti-social behaviour incidents across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight this summer ....
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Aviva staff in Eastleigh helped raise a bumper £100,000 for charity after taking part in a sponsored sleep out. Almost 30 Aviva employees slept rough outside the insurer’s Chilworth House office and were joined by senior management, including chief executive, Aviva UK Life, Toby Strauss. The Sleep Out was part of Aviva’s global Street...
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Hampshire has just 18% woodland cover compared to the European average of 44% according to the Woodland Trust, the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. They are challenging shoppers in Eastleigh to help create many acres of new woodland throughout the UK by buying from the Woodland Trust fashion range found in the Swan Centre’s Dorothy Perkins...
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Eastleigh News has nominated the former Cranbury Road Infant School – now serving as Eastleigh College Education Annexe – for inclusion on the register of ‘most at risk buildings in the country’ as compiled by the Victorian Society, a heritage charity which campaigns for the preservation of Victorian and Edwardian buildings.
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Eastleigh’s liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne – the newly promoted energy secretary in the coalition cabinet – has indicated he is happy with the government’s approach to issue of Human Rights despite having been widely reported in the press as saying that he would resign if the Human Rights act were to be repealed....
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Staff from insurance giant Aviva, will sleep rough on the streets of Eastleigh this Friday to highlight the issue of street children. The Sleep Out is part of Aviva’s ‘Street to School’ programme which is designed to help vulnerable children get off the streets and back into education. Aviva employees from all over the...
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Eastleigh Borough Council are once more running a series of lunchtime concerts on the towns Victorian bandstand situated in Leigh Road recreation ground – as they have done for the past three years. The popular concerts will run every weekend throughout the summer from June to September. Both Saturdays and Sundays are available with...
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The leader of Eastleigh Liberal Democrats Keith House has been re-elected in his absence -as leader of the Eastleigh Borough Council – in a unanimous and unopposed vote. The annual general meeting of Eastleigh Borough Council, the first full council meeting to be presided over by new Mayor John Caldwell, was held at the...
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An Eastleigh angler has landed Farmoor Reservoir’s biggest ever fish – a brown trout which weighed in at a staggering 17.5lb. Fly fisherman Richard Martin hooked the monster from the banks of the Oxford beauty spot. His catch broke the reservoir’s previous record – another brown trout caught in October 2008 – by 3Ib....
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Repairs to potholes on a Hedge End roundabout has driven residents round the bend when work was abandoned leaving the road surface in a worse state. The roundabout, at the intersection of Salwey Road and Duke Road with Kings Copse Avenue had the tarmac surface removed on the May 5 in preparation for resurfacing,...
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Local self storage company, ready steady store, is supporting The Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre Company by donating much needed space at its storage facilities. The local theatre company will use the facilities to house its collection of costume and props. The storage company, based on Leigh Road, has committed to sponsor The Sarah...
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While walking down the street one day a Member of Parliament is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. ‘Welcome to heaven,’ says St. Peter. ‘Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high...
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Thursday night saw the annual Mayor making ceremony take place at the Towns Civic Offices as the outgoing Mayoress Pamela Holden- Brown made way for new Mayor John Caldwell – the Conservative councillor for Hiltingbury East. Mrs Holden-Brown had a vote of thanks proposed and seconded by councillors Haulwen Broadhurst and Graham Smith while...
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‘Judas’. That was the verdict delivered by a Labour voter on the community website ‘Hedgeendpeople’ on the news that Eastleigh’s re-elected MP Chris Huhne had negotiated himself a position in the Conservative cabinet as Energy Secretary. Faced with defending a majority of only 568, Eastleigh’s Liberal Democrats had campaigned hard to encourage tactical voting...
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