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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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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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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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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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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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Eastleigh Police launched a new community initiative last week designed to give residents a regular forum to discuss their crime and public order concerns with local beat officers, councillors and council officers. The informal sessions provide a talking shop under the banner of ‘Partners and Community Together’ (PACT) which can cover a wide range...
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A missing 80-year-old man has been found alive and safe in the Eastleigh area this afternoon following a search and appeals to the public via Social Media. Eastleigh police would like to thank those who assisted by sharing information and remaining vigilant in the search for 80 year-old John Knight who was reported...
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Missing 80-year-old man has been found alive and safe in the Eastleigh area this afternoon Thanks 4 RTs eastleighnews.co.uk/2013/03/help-f… — Eastleigh News (@Eastleigh_news) March 31, 2013 Police are renewing an appeal for information about a vulnerable missing man. Officers are increasingly concerned for the welfare of John Knight, aged 80, from Chandlers Ford in...
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A 17 year-old youth accused of robbery appeared at Southampton Youth Court on Monday to answer the allegation of an attempted robbery of a 40 year-old man on the Archers Road/Beaulieu Road railway footbridge. During the incident it is alleged a group of youths carrying a case of lager approached the intended victim...
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Officers from Eastleigh police Safer neighbourhoods team and British transport police will be at the towns rail station this Monday morning (28 January) to meet with commuters. Cops will be on hand to speak to members of the public arriving in Eastleigh or those waiting for trains, offering them theopportunity of free cycle...
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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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A man who sparked a major incident at Alexander Square last May after he squirted heroin into the mouth of his baby and tried to murder his ex-partner has been jailed for 18 years today. Roger Weir, a former soldier from Slough Lane, Poole beat the 27 year-old woman with a metal baton then shot her...
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Burglars with a taste for champagne have struck in West End. Police are investigating an afternoon break in in Moorgreen Road on Wednesday (August 1) when thieves smashed their way thorugh a rear glazed door into the home of a middle aged couple while they were at work and made of with a £1,000...
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A man was punched and slashed across the forehead with a knife in a terrifying broad-daylight robbery in Valley Park, Chandlers Ford. Police have just released an e-fit of a man they need to identify after the knife-point ordeal in Chandler’s Ford on Thursday, July 12 in which the victim was robbed of £400....
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A 23 year-old Essex man was robbed £120 after he was surroned by a group of youths in Hamble last Sunday night. The victim was along Wells Place at about 8:10pm on his way back to the boat he is working on after a visit to the pub when the robbery happened. He was...
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