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Burglars have struck twice in Bishopstoke’s Hamilton Road police report. On Thursday, October 25, an 87-year-old woman woke to find her front door insecure and her laptop computer missing from the dining room. The computer is a bright red Dell Inspiron 1545. No other items were missing. On Halloween night, between 5 –...
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Police working to trace a car involved in a hit-and-run are appealing for witnesses after a 20 year-old was left lying in the road with serious injuries. The incident happened at about 10pm on Thursday, May 3 in Bishopstoke Lane between Bishopstoke and Colden Common. The victim, a 20-year-old man from Colden Common was...
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Police officers disturbed thieves trying to empty the ATM cash machine outside the Bishy Esso garage after a 999 call from a local resident The police were alerted at around 1.30 am this morning (April 4) that the free standing ATM was under attack. Officers from Eastleigh police quickly arrived at the scene to...
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Prompt action by local residents led to the swift arrest of suspects following a break-in at Bishopstoke last night. Police raced to the Co-op store in Spring Lane, Bishopstoke at approximately 1 am, after residents reported a Burglary in progress. When officers arrived they found the front door had been smashed and the alarm...
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A mighty oak has finally been felled at the junction of Itchen Avenue and Bracken Crescent in Bishopstoke. I thought a little poem might be cool as the tree is about 250 years old so I wrote this. “I stand by the stump of an ancient tree, this mighty old oak stood here long...
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Police are appealing for information to help locate a mountain bike which was stolen from Bishopstoke between 4 & 5pm on Wednesday 15 February. The Scott Aspect mountain bike was stolen from a driveway on Haig Road. The bike has 24 gears, is data tagged and white & black in colour. The owner, a...
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A gang of would be muggers attempted a steal a guitar from a man walking through Bishopstoke. The 57-year-old man was walking down Nelson Road at around 8pm last Friday, December 30. As he reached the junction with Stoke Park Road he was pushed from behind and fell to the ground A group of...
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A Bishopstoke Mum battling to reduce the speed limit along Alan Drayton Way claims lives will be lost if the current speed limit remains in place. At the November meeting of the Bishopstoke, Fair Oak and Horton Heath Area Committee, Hunters Way resident Natalie Stanfield branded the 40 mph stretch of the B3037 as a...
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A Bishopstoke company is celebrating after being awarded a subcontract to assist in the production of two of the largest and most powerful warships ever constructed for the Royal Navy. Wessex Galvanizers – who are based on the Tower Industrial Estate off Chickenhall Lane - will galvanize steel pipework which will be used in...
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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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If you simply haven’t had the time to lie in the garden and get a healthy looking tan despite all the recent sunny weather, then Bishopstoke based beautician Sarah Keenan has the answer for you – Spray Tan Van! Sarah hit the local headlines last year after she followed a hunch and talked her...
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A Bishopstoke woman was forced to sit and watch two men ransack her house after they forced their way into her home in Hartley Road, Bishopstoke on Friday, September 9 around 10pm while she was in. The owner heard a loud banging on the front door and two masked men forced their way into...
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A Bishopstoke man who was caught cycling along Mansbridge Rd with two knives and a sharpened screwdriver down his sock has been jailed for 40 weeks. Southampton Crown Court heard that Luke Acourt, 20, was being searched by police for drugs after being stopped for cycling erratically when he pulled out an eight-inch screwdriver...
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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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Local children and families are set to benefit from a new play area at Glebe Meadow, Bishopstoke that they helped to design. The new £50k community scheme was funded by Bishopstoke, Fair Oak & Horton Heath Local Area Committee and includes an extended toddler area with two multiplay climbing and slide units for different...
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