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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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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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Eastleigh residents will be shocked to discover that the town’s landmark bandstand, so often the centre of community events, has been extensively vandalised. The Victorian edifice which stands proudly in the Town Centre recreation ground was only renovated two years ago but now faces further repairs after mindless yobs left almost every panel of...
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Eastleigh’s Ukip branch has welcomed another high profile defector from a rival party. John Edwards – the Chairman of Hampshire English Democrats – has resigned his position and signed up to the Euro-sceptics. Waiting to greet him at Ukip’s Market Street HQ were two of Eastleigh’s former Lib Dem councillors, Glynn Davies-Dear and...
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Police at Eastleigh are appealing for witnesses after a 58-year-old Chandlers Ford man was attacked and suffered serious eye and facial injuries. Between 10 and 10.30pm Wednesday, February 20, the man was walking home from Eastleigh train station. As he walked along Leigh Road, near the Co-op and Pirelli premises, a car pulled up...
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Blockbuster become the latest chain with a local presence to go into administration - can the Eastleigh stores avoid closure?
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More snow is predicted for Eastleigh. Cold snap to continue. Families enjoy winter fun in town centre.
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Southampton Airport is preparing itself for a snowfall tonight and is poised to shift almost 900 tonnes of snow form the runway.
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A six year-old boy who formerly lived in Eastleigh has been named as a victim of the most recent American school shooting rampage which has claimed the lives of 20 children, six members of staff, the gunman and the gunman’s mother. The latest atrocity happened on Friday (December 14) at Sandy Hook Elementary...
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Eastleigh is getting set to enjoy a festive season of fun with the launch of the town’s Christmas celebrations and family fun day on Saturday 24 November 2012. The day-long celebrations, that each year attracts thousands of local people to the town, will culminate with Father Christmas and the Mayor of...
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A charity which runs a drama school in Eastleigh and aims to create opportunities for disadvantaged youngsters has been adopted by the sponsors of an theatrical awards ceremony and will represented at their ceremony this year by top West End actor Ed Stoppard InterAct has been chosen by the prestigious Whatsonstage.com Awards as its charity...
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The number of people who are unemployed n Eastleigh as measured by the number of job seekers claiming JSA has dropped for the eighth month in a row. There are now 1,462 jobseekers in Eastleigh or 1.9% of the local working age population – down from 1,750 , or 2.2%, in March . This...
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Police and emergency services – a total of five police cars, two ambulances and the Hampshire and IOW Air Ambulance – all converged on Derby Rd earlier this evening (October 16) after it was reported a boy had been knocked off his bicycle. A 16 year-old student on his way home from college had...
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Eastleigh’s own ‘Naked Rambler’ aka Stephen Gough has been released from prison in Scotland earlier today where he has finished serving the latest in a string of sentences totaling six years for refusing to wear any clothing while hiking around the country. Gough left Saughton Prison in Edinburgh the same way he went in – stark naked except...
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Park Sport 2012 is proving more popular than ever so ‘don’t miss out and sign up soon’ that’s the message from Eastleigh Borough Council as hundreds of local children have already signed up for this years summer scheme – fishing has already sold out and many others are filling up fast! Now in its...
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