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Staff from the Macdonald Botley Park Hotel, Southampton, will be taking part in a range of exciting activities from abseiling and dragon boat racing to marathons, to raise £10,000 for Action for Children in 2013. To date the hotel has raised £2000 towards the year-end target. Action for Children; a leading children’s charity which...
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Traffic will grind to halt in Botley at noon tomorrow as up to four hundred local residents are set to Stage a protest march through the town’s High Street which will be closed to traffic from 11.45 am to 12.45pm (diversions will be in place.) Botley isn’t the sort of place you might...
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The Chair of Botley Air Pollution Group has called on townspeople to be more proactive in the campaign for a reduction in traffic – and its accompanying air pollution – driving through the congested town centre. In a newsletter reviewing the campaign so this year Steve Robinson-Grindley told the group that politicians ‘at...
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Police at Hedge End today released an e-fit of a man seen committing an indecent act on three nights on a footpath behind Jenkyns Close, Botley. A dog-walker reported finding the man on September 20 – 22 at about 10.30pm looking through a frosted bathroom window from behind a 6ft fence. When challenged on...
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Don’t make life easy for opportunist thieves in hot weather advise police Police are reminding people to take care not to leave their windows and outside doors open in the current hot weather if they are out or even if they are in and the open windows and doors are out of their view....
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Botley residents are facing an increase in their council tax due to the cost of fighting Eastleigh Borough Council’s local housing plan. In a survey of residents sponsored by the parish council last October, 96% of respondents said they were opposed to an extra 1400 new homes being built on Boorley Green. The Parish...
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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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Botley folk have voted a resounding ‘yes’ to more family homes in their community. Mike Jarvey of Botley Parish Housing group told a meeting of the Planning and Highways committee of Botley Parish Council that the questionnaire they had commissioned on proposed local housing requirements showed a majority of residents supported the development of...
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Publishers of pro- conservative newspaper The Daily Mail - which has been investigating alleged election overspending on leaflets by Chris Huhne – are now printing his leaflets for him. Conservatives in Botley had been up in arms over the latest mail shot from Eastleigh Lib Dems, claiming that the four page full colour ‘newspaper’...
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A Police Officer was assaulted and a man and teenager left injured after being set upon by a gang of youths in Botley on Friday Night. The incident happened outside a property in Rowley Close at around 9pm. A 35-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy were approached and assaulted by four young men. The...
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It was standing room only at Botley primary school last Tuesday as the Parish Council called a public meeting as a “first stage in a community wide consultation to identify the changing needs of the community over the next five to ten years”. Up to 100 Botley residents, who have only just fought off...
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A prize-winning group followed in the footsteps of the radical politician,William Cobbett at the weekend on a free Hamble Valley guided walk around the picturesque village of Botley. The Downton Guides from Wiltshire enjoyed a day out in the Hamble Valley after completing a questionnaire at a Group Travel Exhibition in January. Celebrating the...
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It is said that the good folk of Botley once lynched a man for daring not to drink as deep as his neighbours…Chris Huhne must have had some idea of the how the poor chap must have felt at the first hustings of the election campaign held in the old market town on Tuesday...
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In an eagerly awaited showdown, Eastleigh’s candidates from the three main political parties took part in a discussion on the Sunday lunchtime BBC TV ‘Politics Show.’ BBC South political correspondent Peter Henley was in the chair as sitting MP Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat) Maria Hutchings (Conservative) and Leo Barraclough (Labour) prepared to face each...
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Eastleigh Conservatives have received another visit from a Tory ‘big hitter’ in the form of Party Chairman Eric Pickles, following in the footsteps of leader David Cameron, Theresa May, James Clappison and Sir George Young – all of whom have visited the borough recently to show support for Maria Hutchings in her election push....
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