Police are appealing for witnesses after nearly £15,000 worth of power tools were stolen from three vans in Eastleigh. The thefts took place overnight between Monday June 14 and Tuesday June 15 in the Nightingale Avenue area. Two of the vans were parked in Sandmartin Close and the third was parked in Woodpecker Way. PC…
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Handgun arrest in Town Centre
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Police have arrested a man after an alleged firearm incident in Eastleigh. Officers were called to Mitchell Road, the service road that runs between Market Street and Southampton Road in Eastleigh town centre, in the early hours of this morning, Wednesday, June 16, after a man claimed he had been threatened by another man who…
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300 Jobs to be sacrificed for more Flats
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Plans to build a business park on derelict land in Eastleigh town centre – providing up to 320 much needed local jobs – could be scrapped in favour of building more retirement flats. Retirement homes specialist McCarthy and Stone are already advertising the ‘assisted living’ apartments they intend to build on the ‘Centris’ site although…
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Pirelli Fire Update
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Two youths have been arrested on suspicion of arson following the fire at the former Pirelli, now Prysmian site in Eastleigh. The fire started at 2.50pm yesterday afternoon, (June 13) at the derelict Pirelli Sports Club in Passfield Avenue. The fire is being treated as suspicious and a joint investigation is being carried out between…
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Huge fire on former Pirelli site
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Up to 70 fire fighters from across Hampshire have been fighting a huge blaze at the site of the former Pirelli Social club this afternoon. At about 3 o’clock the fire brigade arrived on the scene at Dew Lane as smoked billowed out across Eastleigh. Both Dew Lane and Leigh Road were closed to traffic…
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Old School Rules
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Eastleigh News has nominated the former Cranbury Road Infant School – now serving as Eastleigh College Education Annexe – for inclusion on the register of ‘most at risk buildings in the country’ as compiled by the Victorian Society, a heritage charity which campaigns for the preservation of Victorian and Edwardian buildings.
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Eastleigh man hooks old Trout
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An Eastleigh angler has landed Farmoor Reservoir’s biggest ever fish – a brown trout which weighed in at a staggering 17.5lb. Fly fisherman Richard Martin hooked the monster from the banks of the Oxford beauty spot. His catch broke the reservoir’s previous record – another brown trout caught in October 2008 – by 3Ib. Mr…
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Two out of three ain’t bad
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Sky News award winning special correspondent David Bowden has been spotted on the streets of Eastleigh out in search of Leo Barraclough the Brighton based Labour party candidate for Eastleigh. Eastleigh News bumped into David and his team who were filming in Market Street Tuesday morning. They were shooting sequences for their election coverage and…
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Police: Crime falls in Eastleigh
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Recent statistics released by Hampshire Constabulary show that recorded crime in Eastleigh Borough has fallen by 15 percent. This equates to 1390 fewer victims of crime. The statistics relate to recorded crime during the operational period April 2009 to March 2010, compared to the previous operational year. The break down of these results show that…
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Vue Cinema up for Sale
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The cinema chain that owns the Swan centre’s flagship cinema ‘Vue’ is trying to find a buyer for the company it has emerged. The state of the art movie theatre opened in Eastleigh last year and reported an excellent start to trading. Vue which operates 65 cinemas in the UK and has 20% of the…
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Swan Centre Library reopens
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Eastleigh Public Library in the Swan Centre reopened today following its four month long refit. The interior space and layout has been redesigned and there is new shelving and equipment on display. However, the most radical change is that the issue and return of books are no longer handled by librarians wielding date stamps. Instead…
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Eastleigh Airport deserted
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Eastleigh Airport’s busy departure terminal was deserted this evening as air travellers heeded warnings to stay away due to the Icelandic Volcanic Ash cloud which was drifting over Britain. Every single flight was cancelled and there was just 6 staff on the check in desks handling phone calls while two retail workers replenished the shelves…
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Explosion latest – Man charged.
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Police investigating an explosion outside a house on Chadwick Road in Eastleigh at the weekend have charged an 18-year-old man from Truro Rise, Eastleigh with causing an explosion likely to endanger life. He has been remanded in custody to appear before Southampton Magistrates Court tomorrow, Wednesday, April 14. In all six people were arrested…
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Explosion arrests now total six
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Police investigating an explosion outside a house on Chadwick Road in Eastleigh at the weekend have arrested three more people. This brings the total number of people arrested in connection with the incident to six. Two have been bailed until June while enquiries continue. An 18-year-old Eastleigh man arrested earlier is still being held after…
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Explosion latest – Third person arrested.
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Police investigating an explosion outside a house on Chadwick Road in Eastleigh at the weekend have arrested a third person. An 18-year-old Eastleigh man is being questioned on suspicion of causing an explosion likely to endanger life. A man and a woman, 56 and 58 respectively, who were arrested at the weekend, were bailed until…
