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The Deputy Prime Minister and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills have jointly announced today, an investment of £950m to “Create and safeguard more than 200,000 jobs across England”. But none of that investment is targeted at Eastleigh. The bids that have been successful in the South East Region are: Portsmouth Naval Base...
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An aggressive con man has been ringing up local old folk and demanding immediate payment of up to £6k or else face being arrested and dragged off to jail. Hampshire Trading standards warn that the con man is telephone cold calling vulnerable residents and telling them that they had subscribed to some phoney-baloney telephone monitoring...
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Wealthy Eastleigh residents who own second homes may soon lose the discounts they get on their Council Tax bill in legislation that the Department of Communities and Local Government is expected to announce later today. Lib Dem controlled Eastleigh Borough Council currently gives a 10% discount on the Council Tax due on second homes...
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Hampshire Constabulary are suggesting people who don’t want to be disturbed by trick or treaters this Halloween to display a ‘No Trick or Treat’ poster at their front door. The poster can be downloaded and printed from: www.hampshire.police.uk. A spokesman Hampshire Constabulary’s Safer Neighbourhoods said: “Every year Hampshire Constabulary’s force control room receives calls...
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Eastleigh Borough Council have recently launched their draft local plan for a short period of consultation which runs from 28th October 2011 to 3rd January 2012. The plan comprises a 268 page document, two interactive maps and a summary leaflet, all of which can be accessed via the Planning Policy and Design page on the Eastleigh...
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Local Asthma and allergy sufferers – along with people who have Chronic Obstructive pulmonary Diesease -will have a chance to talk to top medical experts about their condition next month. The AAIR Charity is to staging another open evening at the £5m Biomedical Research Unit at Southampton General Hospital (C Level West Wing) on...
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Officers in Eastleigh have been actively tackling purse theft in the town. Pc Rob Thomas from Eastleigh Central Safer Neighbourhoods team has secured a stock of purse chains which are being distributed to vulnerable people across Eastleigh, along with PCSO Tina Fry who organises high profile police advice surgeries in Leigh Road on a...
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Eastleigh College’s Visual & Creative Arts department was host to Britain’s pre-eminent film artist, Guy Sherwin, last week as he came to deliver a lecture and 16mm camera-less film workshop. The students, all from the Pre-Degree Foundation Diploma course, were fortunate to have the opportunity to spend the day with Guy learning about 16mm...
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Ian Baird’s Spitfires have signed N’Power Championship goalkeeper Jack Dovey from Southampton on loan. Eastleigh’s Director of Football announced on the fans forum today: “We are pleased to confirm that we hope to complete the loan signing today of goalkeeper Jack Dovey from Southampton FC. Assuming the formalities are completed, Jack will join the...
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UKIP leader Nigel Farage has challenged Eastleigh’s Lib Dems to explain how they intend to limit new housing to just local people and prevent occupation by immigrants. Earlier this month Eastleigh News reported how Councillor Paul Bicknell had published and distributed a leaflet around the town’s Aviary estate that claimed that new houses to be built on...
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A Bishopstoke woman’s family is preparing to take on the BUPA Great South Run for Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research to raise money for research into the disease that led her to find the sister that she never knew she had. Doris Adams’ husband, Nigel, along with her two children, Paul and Sally, and Sally’s...
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A head teacher in Botley has denied suggestions that her school is in danger of closing. Sian Tomlin, the head of Botley School was forced to write to worried parents after they had received a letter from Botley Cllr Rupert Kyrle claiming the school was in danger of closure if more houses were not...
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Draft plans which earmark Hamble airfield as the preferred site for gravel extraction and Boorley Green as the preferred site for 1300 homes were approved today (October 13)at at separate meeting of Conservative led Hampshire County Council and Lib Dem controlled Eastleigh Borough Council – despite the opposition of local residents and pressure groups....
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Police have released images of three people they would like to speak to after a purse was stolen from a woman who was while shopping at Asda. At around midday on Wednesday, October 19, a 68-year-old woman from Romsey was shopping in the Chandlers Ford Superstore when she was approached by a man who...
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Ian Baird’s Spitfires are playing sixth placed Chelmsford City tonight away in the Blue Square Bet South at the Melbourne Stadium. Eastleigh will come in to this game with good spirits after a fantastic 3-0 league victory over second placed Welling United on Saturday. On loan Mike Green from nPower League 2 side Port...
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