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UPDATE: missing girls found

May 23, 2013
UPDATE: missing girls found

Police at Eastleigh have confirmed that  two missing 14-year-old girls have returned safely to their homes. The two youngsters -one from Velmore, Chandler’s Ford – were unaware they had sparked a massive social media campaign while they were staying with friends at Shirley Southampton. Police were concerned that they had not been seen since...
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Police Commisioner axes Chandler’s Ford HQ plan

May 22, 2013
Police Commisioner axes Chandler’s Ford HQ plan

Hampshire’s new Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Hayes has today finally sealed the fate of the force’s £10 million white elephant HQ  on Chandler’s Ford Industrial Estate. The former Police Authority had bought the Apha Park office complex  on Electron Way in 2008 for £9.6 million and has since spent a further £1.8 million...
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Update: Body found on local footpath

May 22, 2013
Update: Body found on local footpath

The body of a local middle-aged woman has been found on an Eastleigh  footpath which  runs from Twyford Rd to the Itchen Navigation towpath  close to the Harvester restaurant and Travelodge at Ham Farm. A dog walker raised the alarm at about 8.55 am. Although a local Police unit and an ambulance from Southern...
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Bishopstoke Bridge re-opened to Traffic

May 19, 2013
Bishopstoke Bridge re-opened to Traffic

  The town’s busy Bishopstoke road bridge has re-opened to traffic following a 90 minute closure this afternoon (Sunday 19 May) on safety grounds. Train services to London on the mainline were also disrupted. The recently elected County Councillor for Eastleigh East – former Lib Dem now Ukip Cllr Andy Moore – alerted Police...
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Traffic chaos as Bishopstoke Bridge in emergency closure

May 19, 2013
Traffic chaos as Bishopstoke Bridge in emergency closure

UPDATE: Bridge re-opened at 16.20 following inspection by Network Rail – HCC engineers to re-assess at 5pm – Police say : “Engineers tell us matter reported today is part of a long term issue”. One of Eastleigh’s main thoroughfares the B3037 Bsihopstoke Road is closed to traffic this afternoon (Sunday May 19) after bolts...
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Brazen thieves drive off with digger

May 16, 2013
Brazen thieves drive off with digger

A plant hire firm in Chandler’s Ford has had a £16,000 mini- digger stolen in broad daylight. Two thieves, who were both wearing ‘hi-vis’ jackets, were spotted brazenly loading Takeuchi mini-digger onto the back of a white van from a site in Sutherlands Court, at 0630 hrs on Friday, May 10. The first suspect...
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Eastleigh’s creatives at heart of Town Centre

May 16, 2013
Eastleigh’s creatives at heart of Town Centre

Eastleigh’s latest creative hub – The Sorting Office – was launched last week by world famous designer Wayne Hemingway MBE – the founder of iconic brand ‘Red or Dead’. The Council is leasing the town’s former 1920s sorting office – which lies behind the Post Office in the High Street – from Royal Mail...
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Malcom is new Mayor

May 16, 2013
MalcolmCross small

    Councillor Malcolm Cross has been invested as Eastleigh’s First Citizen at the annual Mayor Making ceremony taking over from Cllr Rupert Kyrle. Cllr Cross is only the second Mayor to come from Hamble.   The new Mayor said:   “I’m very excited about my mayoral year and I’m looking forward to promoting...
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Huhne goes home

May 15, 2013
Huhne goes home

Eastleigh’s former MP Chris Huhne has been released from prison after serving just eight weeks of an eight month sentence. Huhne, a former Secretary of State, will continue to serve his sentence under a ‘Home Detention Curfew” order though it would appear that home for Chris Huhne is in London – and not Eastleigh...
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Student appeals for missing flute

May 9, 2013
Student appeals for missing flute

A talented Barton Peveril ‘A’ level music student has lost her prized flute while travelling to college and fears it may have been stolen.   The student boarded a Blue Star college bus from Warsash Rd (Campion Close area) on Friday at 07.45 to travel to College. She had her Trevor James Virtuoso flute...
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Burglars get shock in £7,000 boiler heist

May 9, 2013
Sirocco Park's Dew Lane entrance

Bungling burglars who stole gas boilers from an Eastleigh building on Bank Holiday Monday may have received more than they bargained for when they cut through live electricity cables while stealing over £7,000 worth of new Combi gas boilers The Thieves struck at the new ‘Sirocco Park’ estate on Passfield Avenue  opposite Fleming Park...
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Scammers target OAP in Waitrose Car Park

May 5, 2013
Scammers target OAP in Waitrose Car Park

A 73 year–old-woman from Chandler’s Ford has become the victim of distraction thieves while shopping at Waitrose. On Wednesday, March 27 the OAP went shopping at Waitrose in Chandlers Ford and paid for items using her bank card. After she put her shopping bags in her car and just before she got in her...
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Ukip surge in County elections UPDATED

May 3, 2013
Ukip surge in County elections UPDATED

In a sensational result Ukip have consolidated their surprise by-election performance and returned three county councillors in Eastleigh taking the seats from the Liberal Democrats while the Conservatives comfortably held their seat in Chandler’s Ford and overall control of the County Council with a reduced majority. Ukip won 10 seats in the county –...
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Polls close in County Election

May 2, 2013
Polls close in County Election

Polling has closed in today’s county elections, held throughout England and Wales. Twenty-seven county councils and seven unitary authorities have gone to the polls and in Eastleigh district all seven divisions are being contested – the winners will represent Eastleigh on Hampshire County council until 2017. At the moment conservatives’ hold 51 of Hampshire...
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TV quiz show seeks local contestants

May 1, 2013
TV quiz show seeks local contestants

  Producers from TV quiz  ’Perfection’ are looking for contestants from our area. A team from the BBC 1 daytime show hosted by popular DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles will be in Southampton next week looking for people who would like to take part the next series. If you haven’t seen it, Perfection is described as:...
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