While many churches are experiencing falling attendances, Fair Oak’s Parish Church of St Thomas is bucking the trend. With 425 members and growing, St Thomas’ clearly has something many churches do not. Associate Minister Jono Harvey, is taking St Thomas’ out to the people to “Celebrate 2012” – a campaign inspired by the extraordinary events in Britain this…
Local printer beats recession
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Despite the recession, business looks rosy for Eastleigh based Fair Oak Design & Print Ltd. As part of their expansion into high quality digital printing, they have recently invested in a state of the art Xerox. Printer Charles Prewitt, with his wife Joy as financial manager, started the family business in 2006 using a single…
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Ancient Oak felled in Bishopstoke
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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 before…
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Free Trade Tirade
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If by “free trade” we mean “no tariffs on the import of artificially cheap foreign goods” or no restriction on the immigration of cheap labour, then THAT is an abomination and we should NOT preach it ON MORAL and ECONOMIC grounds (economics and morality are not mutually exclusive)! The opening of our borders to cheap…
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Ireland’s Passport to Euro Hell
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Ireland (SOUTHERN Ireland) is BUST! Worse than that – Ireland has lost its independence (the most important thing in the World)! It took Ireland only 40 years to achieve its independence from the UK, from the very first separatist mutterings in the 1880s to the ultimate prize in 1921: Independence! But easy come, easy go!…
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Exporting the Public Sector
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We learn with horror that Winchester and Eastleigh Health Care Trust (WEHCT) which runs the Royal Hants County Hospital, is going to axe 20 secretarial and clerical jobs and send the work to India. (See story here) Hmm! Would this be connected with the EU-India trade deal expected to be signed in December? I’ve nothing…
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EU Axes Cyprus Airways
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Cyprus Airways is facing bankruptcy thanks to EU legislation which prohibits State aid for companies! More than 300 Cyprus Airways staff face the sack next year unless Cyprus, like many other EU satellite States (but not Britain of course which always plays cricket) is willing to stick two fingers up to ruinous EU legislation. Cyprus…
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Cameron breaks another EU pledge
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Although the Right Honorable David Cameron MP did not actually dare to repeat the words, “cast iron guarantee”, nevertheless he DID assure us (in English as plain as English can be) that there would be a referendum on any FURTHER transfer of sovereignty to the EU. Now what do we find? Europe Minister David Lidington…
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I.O.EU
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That ever curiouser EU hybrid puppet, officially stamped on its forehead with the tiny EU logo “Cameron-Hague”, but more popularly known in its Prime Ministerial guise as “Dave” or with its “yes-man” head plonked on, in which case it goes by the name of “William” (after all, did you ever see them both together?) is…
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Fair Oak Speeders Give Des the Hump
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If you haven’t heard of him before, you have now. Des Scott is Fair Oak & Horton Heath’s newest Borough Councillor. Following a justly deserved promotion from Fair Oak Parish Council, Des has begun his Eastleigh Borough Council career with an issue bound to tick the boxes of most Fair Oak voters. Anti-social driving by…
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VAT? You must be joking!
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“Why is the Conservative coalition NEEDLESSLY raising VAT? Pity the LibDems can’t resist their Conservative colleagues! Perhaps passive acceptance of Conservative policies is the price the LibDems’ must pay for basking in the Conservative limelight. VAT is an EU tax imposed by the Conservatives on April Fools’ Day 1973. Instead of raising it, UKIP has…
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It’s Superhuhne!
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There’s something mighty beautiful in Chris Huhne’s relationship with Carina Trimingahm. I believe it will establish him as something of a hero in the eyes of Britain’s younger, more macho male voters. Firstly his relationship involves a younger woman (a situation most young male voters will sympathize with). Secondly he clearly has the “x-factor”: That…
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The Stewart System predicts World Cup winners!
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The Stewart System predicts World Cup winners. It was devised in 1996 by long standing anti-EU pattern watcher Peter Stewart. The system has proved 100% accurate on both occasions it has been used (1998 and 2006). The Stewart System operates on the presumption that the EU uses its multi-billion dollar slush-fund to “fix” strategic World…
