Crowds formed at the Chandlers Ford branch of ASDA last night as gaming fans converged on the hypermarket to for the midnight release of footie action game FIFA 12 described in the gaming press as the ‘Most eagerly awaited game of the year”. An Eastleigh News reader was on hand to capture the scene on…
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Rugbytots comes to Fleming Park
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Ex-Scotland rugby captain, Budge Pountney, is bringing rugby to young children in Eastleigh through his new business venture Rugbytots South Hants. Rugbytots combines the multiple skills used in rugby with a fun, energetic and structured play programme for children between the ages of two and seven. Running Rugbytots classes is a dream come true for…
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‘Hairspray’ tonight at The Point
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It’s going to be ‘mash potato time’ at the point this weekend as the local ‘Stepping Out’ school of dance stage their own version of the popular cult 60’s musical ‘Hairsrpay’ at Eastleigh’s ‘The Point’ dance studio. The Bishopstoke based dance troupe has over 50 students who perform in classes covering all major dance styles.…
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Thomas the Tank Engine returns to Vue
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Eastleigh’s Vue cinema has a treat in store for Thomas the Tank Engine fans as it screens Thomas and Friends: Day of the Diesels next monthonSeptember 17 and 18. What’s more, tickets are only £4.50. Thomas the Tank Engine and friends have to confront the mischievous Diesels in their latest adventure. Thomas and Percy are…
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Come Dine With Me to film in Eastleigh!
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The hugely popular Channel 4 reality cooking show Come Dine With Me is returning for a new, day-time series and are planning an episode in the Eastleigh area! The producers are looking for people over 18 years of age in and around the Eastleigh and Southampton area who have a passion for cooking to demonstrate…
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Eastleigh actress inspired by Old Library
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The Eastleigh born actress and producer Rebecca Vaughan takes to the stage tonight to bring Jane Austen’s most celebrated female characters to life in her own theatrical production, Austen’s Women. The show at Basingstoke’s Central Studio described as “tightly corseted but frilly, flowing and flamboyant in all the right places” features Austen’s leading ladies –…
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Saving the story of Hedge End’s strawberry fields forever
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Hedge End’s days as a strawberry-growing locality may be long gone but now a community project will help local people learn about their fruit-growing history. Thanks to a £10,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) people will learn of the time, in the 1860s, when over 20,000 tonnes of berries a day were loaded…
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JLS in special Eastleigh screening
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Vue Eastleigh will be screening JLS: Eyes Wide Open, the UK’s first ever 3D concert movie, which was filmed on the band’s 2010-11 sold out tour, at 2pm and 7.30pm on Friday 3rd June at the Swan Centre.* The film, which was recorded live at the London O2 Arena in January this year, contains exclusive,…
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You can’t give it away…
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The new £5 million Berry Theatre at Wildern School in Hedge End is now open but despite the well advertised offer of free tickets for the opening show, local residents voted with their feet and stayed at home. Eastleigh News however, took advantage of the offer to check out the facilities and the kind of…
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Tree-mendous!
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A new GoApe Tree Top Adventure has opened in Itchen Valley Country Park, and just in time for summer. For those of you that don’t know what GoApe is, their own description of “Tree Top Adventure” does the job. It’s a day out where you walk through the trees at dizzying heights, wearing a harness…
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Easter break kids activities at The Hub
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The Hub in Bishopstoke Rd, Eastleigh will launch a new Children’s Activity Program over the Easter school holidays. ‘The Hub CAP’ will offer supervised sports and activity programmes to 8 – 13 year olds. Activities will include team games, sports and crafts and for the more adventurous, laser tag, orienteering and the climbing wall to…
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Hunter or prey?
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Blooded is an independently made fictional documentary, and for those of you confused by the oxymoron; that means it’s a fictional plot but in the style of documentary. It explores the moral issues surrounding the fox hunting ban, and by extension it also throws murder and extremism into the fray. These political controversies run alongside…
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Spitfire in Eastleigh skies again
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A Spitfire will be taking off from Southampton Airport in Eastleigh this morning to commemorate the anniversary of its maiden flight. The iconic fighter plane, piloted by Carolyn Grace, will take off at about 11.30 am and fly out over the Solent returning over the site of the Supermarine factory in Woolston where many of…
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Cabinet Minister and Mayor make cuts
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Eastleigh new Youth centre ‘Energy’ finally opened today following delays and controversy the town’s Mayor John Caldwell and Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne the Secretary of State for ENERGY cut the tape to officially open the facility that has cost £680,000 to refurbish after many years of service as the Leigh Ballroom. Eastleigh Borough Council in…
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£7,000 to explore sexuality
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An Eastleigh based ‘Theatre Company’, who ‘fuse cabaret and animation’ in order to ‘explore themes of gender and sexuality’ has received £7,000 from the arts council to fund its work. The company called ‘Milk Presents’, who are one of the ‘associate artist’ groups based at the loss making Point theatre, have secured the funding to…
