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Police have issued an e-fit image of one of two men they need to identify in connection with the stabbing of a woman in West End on Saturday, January 12. The man is described as white, in his early twenties, slim, slightly muscular and about 5ft 9ins tall with cropped sandy-blond hair. He was...
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A West End couple awoke to discover intruders in their house yesterday night. Burglars had scaled a 6ft fence and forced a rear door to gain entry to a house in Upmill Close at around 1 am Wednesday morning October 10. By the time the householders, a 35-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man, got...
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David Morris, 57, from West End is calling for local people to join him on a four-day spinathon event to raise vital funds for Parkinson’s UK. David is looking to recruit 300 volunteers to cycle the equivalent of 5,000 miles between them on an indoor stationary bike. David was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in March...
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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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West End’s Rose Bowl cricket ground has been on the verge of going bust says The Daily Echo. Echo Chief Reporter Julian Robinson claims to have had sight of a top secret report from Eastleigh council finance boss Nick Tustian which states that the cricket ground was in danger of going into administration earlier...
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Pheasant rustlers have struck in Burnett’s Lane and made off with 200 of the birds. Unbeknown to the thieves, the flock have just been dosed with a wormer normally prescribed to cattle or sheep. Between 10pm on Sunday, October 9 and 6am yesterday morning Thursday, October 13 the thieves entered the West End farm...
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Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne has received praise for his performance as energy secretary from an unexpected source. Conservative grandee and Thatcherite John Gummer has described Mr Huhne’s performance as Energy Secretary as “the success of this government”. In an article published in the Yorkshire Post today former environment secretary John Gummer , now Lord Deben...
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The Borough of Eastleigh is set to stage an historic ‘first ever’ south coast Test Match when England entertains Sri Lanka at the Rose Bowl starting today. The Rose Bowl, which is situated at West End in the heart of the borough, is set to welcome tens of thousands of cricket fans over five...
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Hedge End police have released an e-fit image of a youth they would like to speak to in connection with a theft from a motor vehicle in West End. The incident occurred at around 12.15pm on Tuesday, February 1 in Ingersley Rise, West End. A front window of a Vauxhall Corsa was smashed and...
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Hedge End police are hunting a yob who racially abused staff at the ‘Hong Kong Chef’ in Townhill Way, West End. The incident occurred between 10.10pm and 10.20 pm on Saturday, December 11. The youth entered the takeaway and was abusive towards staff and was asked to leave. While being ejected he assaulted one...
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Officers from Hampshire County Council Trading Standards say they are disappointed that an operation to clamp down on underage sales from cigarette vending machines has revealed a 75% failure rate. In a sting operation last week a 15 year old volunteer visited four premises in Eastleigh, West End and Fair Oak, which resulted in three out...
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The number of hotel firms going bust jumped last year by 61%, accountancy firm Wilkins Kennedy has said as the benefits of the weak pound and the ‘staycation’ summer were offset by the slump in business travel. Hotel chains to go under last year included McKever Hotels, Folio, the Real Hotel Group, Comfort Inn,...
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A High Court Judge has dismissed a call for a judicial review into Eastleigh Borough Council’s decision to fund the building of a 175 bedroom 5 star hotel saying it had “no realistic chance of success”. Local hoteliers including the Holiday Inn, had challenged the council’s decision to waste £32m of public money on...
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Hampshire North West and Conservative frontbench MP Sir George Young has officially welcomed the Councillor for West End South Joyce Sortwell and her husband, West End Parish Councillor Graham Sortwell,both former Liberal Democrats, to the Conservative Group on Eastleigh Borough Council. Also with Sir George was Councillor Godfrey Olson (Conservative Group Leader) and Conservative PPC for Eastleigh Maria...
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Eastleigh’s Conservatives have gained an extra seat as Joyce Sortwell, Independent Councillor for West End South has ‘walked the floor’ to join the minority four man group. Councillor Sortwell was orginally elected to West End South in 2006 as a Liberal Democrat and was also Chairwoman of the Borough Standards Committee but lost the...
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