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Police are investigating a burglary at the Aquajardin garden centre in Allington Lane, Eastleigh. Offenders struck at the remote site just after 1am on Sunday, February 27. The offenders forced entry at the rear of the complex before entering the office area and removed a safe containing an undisclosed amount of cash. This is...
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a 20 year-old woman suffered head injuries following a brawl in Market Street in the early hours of Saturday morning. The woman was taken to Southampton General Hospital with head injuries. Police were called to Missenden Place, Market Street, Eastleigh, just after 2am to find a gang and several...
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LATEST: Tonight’s match was called off 5 minutes before kick off by the referee due to a waterlogged pitch Eastleigh plays Farnborough Town on Monday night in a Hampshire derby, home at the Silverlake Stadium. The last time these two teams met was the first game of 2011. Eastleigh were behind within six minutes of the...
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Local taxes will go up for people living in Eastleigh. Charges for a typical band D property in the borough will rise to an average of £193 in an inflation busting hike of 51% . Although the council’s part of bill has been frozen by the government at £104.81 the addition of parish precepts...
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Latest: Today’s game postponed due to waterlogged pitch. Eastleigh will be looking today to bounce back after two consecutive league losses at home. After a disappointing 0-2 loss to Braintree Town and a 0-2 loss to Dover Athletic the Spitfires will be going for a win against 20th placed Maidenhead United as they play...
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Eastleigh new Youth centre ‘Energy’ finally opened today following delays and controversy the town’s Mayor John Caldwell and Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne the Secretary of State for ENERGY cut the tape to officially open the facility that has cost £680,000 to refurbish after many years of service as the Leigh Ballroom. Eastleigh Borough Council...
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Campaigners fighting to the win the popular bus station cafe an 11th hour reprieve arrived in style last night to present an 800 signature petition to a full meeting of Eastleigh Council. A Velvet double decker bus transported around twenty protestors to the civic offices led by cafe manageress Lynsey Chant. Velvet Bus driver...
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Councils should open up their public meetings to local news ‘bloggers’ and routinely allow online filming of public discussions as part of increasing their transparency, Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said yesterday. To ensure all parts of the modern-day media are able to scrutinise Local Government, Mr Pickles believes councils should also open up...
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Youth Options will host a Race Night at Eastleigh Football Club on Friday 18th March 2011. There will be eight exciting races and guests will be able to have a flutter on as many horses as they like. This is the third time Youth Options have hosted a Race Night. Fundraising Manager, Louise Andrews...
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Eastleigh went down by two goals to nil at the Silverlake Stadium for the second game running, following on from Saturday’s defeat to league leaders Braintree Town just two days before. Tonight’s loss at the hands of Dover Athletic saw the Spitfires fail to score in consecutive games for the first time this season....
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An enraged driver got out of his car and tried the smash the car window of another road user who had beeped his horn in a road rage incident on Chestnut Avenue in Chandler’s Ford on Sunday (Feb 20). The incident happened shortly before 1.30pm A 28-year-old man was driving a white Vauxhall Combo...
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Last Friday, Chris Huhne, MP for Eastleigh and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, received a Valentine’s card from his constituents at his offices on Leigh Road. In the card, signed by Eastleigh residents, Mr Huhne was asked to show his love to his global neighbours who are facing the effects of...
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Hampshire Firefighters, including personnel from Eastleigh’s Fire Service HQ on Leigh Road, are preparing to deploy to New Zealand to assist with an international search and rescue operation after the city of Christchurch was hit by a severe earthquake. The earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale struck at around 12:51 local time (23:51...
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The Spitfires will try and rebound on their recent l 0-2 loss against top of the table Braintree when they play Dover Athletic home at the Silverlake Stadium. The game has been rescheduled from 18/12/10 when it was called off due to a frozen pitch. Dave Malone explained on the fans forum the day...
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Eastleigh College apprentices and over 50 year 9 pupils from Quilley School took part in an exciting Scrapheap Challenge event held at Eastleigh College last week. Pupils were set the challenge of designing, planning and constructing a fully functioning product that will facilitate the transportation of an egg across a minimum distance of five...
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