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Daily Archives: April 20, 2011

Test match threat to Rose Bowl

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April 20, 2011
Test match threat to Rose Bowl

Question marks are still hanging over the future of a £32 million hotel to be developed by Eastleigh Council at the Rose Bowl cricket ground while the English Cricket Board has also warned that failure to improve facilities could lead to Test matches going elsewhere. Last year the council fought off a legal challenge...
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Eastleigh is cancer hotspot

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April 20, 2011
Eastleigh is cancer hotspot

Eastleigh residents have been identified as being among those at the greatest risk of bowel cancer in Hampshire according to the bowel cancer awareness project who based their findings on the assessment of a combination of lifestyle risk factors such as smoking, poor diet and bowel cancer mortality rates. To coincide with Bowel Cancer...
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Big name retailer leaves town

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April 20, 2011
Big name retailer leaves town

One of the oldest names on Eastleigh’s Market Street, Currys, will be pulling down their shutters for the last time on April 29 due to lack of business. In the ‘60s and ‘70s Currys were located at the opposite side of the road to their current premises which was then a branch of Dixons....
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Big Brother is watching you…

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April 20, 2011
Big Brother is watching you…

Eastleigh council spends more on CCTV surveillance than major cities like Coventry, Oxford or Preston shock figures reveal. The recent addition of two temporary CCTV cameras in upper market street to monitor bus station activity has thrown the use of CCTV in the town centre into the spotlight. Despite assurances from the council that...
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Council hails supermarket expansion

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April 20, 2011
Council hails supermarket expansion

Fears for the future of small independent in the Town centre have arisen as supermarket giant Sainsbury’s announce plans to ‘revitalise Eastleigh Town centre’. Meanwhile video cameras mounted on high masts have recently appeared around Upper Market Street monitoring traffic in and out of the Bus station – this follows the publication in the Daily Echo...
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