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Eastleigh’s play-off dream has been kept alive with back to back wins this week when they won vital away games to Basingstoke then Staines. Following the 8-2 trashing by Thurrock Eastleigh were able to beat Basingstoke 1-0 thanks to an Anthony Rivieire second half strike. Meanwhile at Staines yesterday Sam Butler gave Eastleigh an...
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Eastleigh shoppers, well used to having to dodge canvassers selling charity subscriptions, had a new hazard to sidestep yesterday in the form of representatives from minority Christian sect the ‘Jesus Christians’ who were working the streets spreading their message by trying to interest passers by in copies of their promotional DVD. Not many people...
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Charges for long stay parking in the Town centre have just risen by up to 7%, well over the rate of inflation. Even before the latest rise, visitors to Eastleigh who may have wished to linger in order to enjoy the new restaurants, bowling alley and cinema would have had to pay considerably more...
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Details of Eastleigh Borough Council’s budget for 2010 have been revealed by the leader of the Council , Keith House. In a largely ‘good news’ pre-election budget speech the Lib Dem Leader revealed he planned to make 50% efficiency savings without any cuts to services or staff redundancies and that Council Tax increases would...
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Rail workers have been meeting here for almost 100 years in Eastleighs oldest survivng Working Men’s Club. As the Rail Maritime and Transport Union prepared to hold a strike ballot by local Network Rail workers later this week, the Eastleigh branch of The Rail Maritime & Transport Union invited Tim Cutter, the Trade Unionist...
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Shoppers at the town’s Swan Centre were startled to find themselves in a the middle of an intergalactic war as Aliens and Colonial Marines battled it out in the shopping centre’s ‘Game’ Store to celebrate the launch of Alien V’s Predator. During the height of the fighting, 6 year old Molly Knight from Bishops...
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Eastleigh were at their worst and hopelessly destroyed 8-2 by a well-organised Thurrock side who fired on all cylinders this afternoon. Hakan Hayrettin’s play off hopefuls were streets ahead of Ian Baird’s Eastleigh on the day, as Thurrock made the most of the Spitfires’ appalling display punishing the home side with lethal finishing and...
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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 MP Chris Huhne has hit out at the lack of planning that has seen Eastleigh’s town centre centre become surrounded by roadworks and diversions. Traders in Eastleigh’s town centre have been beset bya series of recent problems affecting their trade: power cuts, extreme weather, repairs to the local electricity network and now roadworks....
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Figures issued by the Office for National Statistics show the number of people claiming Job Seekers Allowance in Eastleigh jumped 5.7% in the last quarter to reach it’s highest level since 1996. Meanwhile during the same period the number of vacancies available at Eastleigh’s Jobcentre fell 58%. In January there were a total of...
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