The Countess Mountbatten Hospice Charity in West End has received over 50 hand-knitted chicks with chocolates inside. These will be sold to raise funds just in time for Easter. Care workers at Fisher’s Pond based Caremark Winchester & Eastleigh have been busy knitting since March and were able to hand them over recently. Calum Gray, Managing…
Eastleigh Borough Council has formed an ‘innovative’ partnership with builders Galliford Try in order to develop land between West End and Horton Heath the trade magazine Inside Housing has revealed. The greenfield site, recently purchased by the council is bordered by Allington Lane, Burnetts Lane and Chalcroft Industrial Estate and Eastleigh Borough Council has…
Two homes were burgled within hours of each other in West End last week. The daytime raids took place on Wednesday (22 March) and in both cases glass panels were smashed to force entry. One of the homes targeted was at Catherine Close where sometime between 9am and 2pm, a full length glass front door…
Police are appealing for witnesses to a fatal road traffic collision on Allington Lane, close to the junction with Hogwood Lane, in Fair Oak on Thursday. The emergency services were called at 12.35pm following reports that a silver Skoda had left the road and had landed on the railway tracks. The incident resulted in the closure…
The new Hilton Hotel at the Ageas Bowl has finally been opened after a long and troubled genesis which included companies going bust and a council bailout during the construction phase, but it promises to be unique and unrivalled lesisure facility. Hampshire County Cricket chairman Rod Bransgrove and Council Leader Keith had taken part in…
The conservative campaign in Eastleigh is still drawing in the big guns. Former party leader William Hague has been canvassing in Hedge End followed the day after by the Defence Secretary Michael Fallon. In an interview at the Hedge End Conservative Club, William Hague told me these high profile visits were a measure of the importance…
A man has been arrested after woman was threatened while she was out walking her dog in West End. Police are appealing for witnesses following the attempted robbery in Hatch Grange Park, West End on Wednesday March 25. Sometime between 11.30am and 11.50am, a 53 year-old woman was approached and threatened by a man while…
As campaigning for the General Election begins to intensify it’s clear the Conservatives are absolutely determined to try and wrest Eastleigh back from the Liberal Democrats who first took the seat from them over twenty years ago. Business minister Matthew Hancock is the latest in a string of Conservative ministers to visit the constituency in…
A service station cashier was left ‘shocked and frightened’ after hooded ram-raiders carried out a daring late night robbery The cashier was working at West End Service Station at around 2 am when he saw a stolen Rover Metro reverse at speed crashing into a metal security shutter taking the front door clean off its…
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 clean…
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 up…
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 2011.…
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 worth…
The old burial ground in West End was on the world stage this morning, as West End Local History Society hosted a wreath laying ceremony on the grave of Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, KBE, RD, RNR, the Captain of the RMS Carpathia, on the centenary of his actions that rescued 706 survivors from the Titanic.…
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 this…
