Eastleigh Express

Two years since frail widow Georgina Edmonds was brutally battered to death in her Brambridge home, Police have announced a breakthrough in their investigation. Months of forensic work has identified DNA traces left by the Killer.
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The big freeze has resulted in delays in collecting the backlog of Christmas household waste. All Waste Collections together with street cleaning, litter picking and litter bin emptying were suspended last week due to adverse weather conditions.
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Yesterday night, one of the coldest of the year, a small group of local church goers prepare to walk Eastleigh’s frozen streets in order to help or talk to anyone who might come their way. They are the ‘Street Pastors’ and they have been doing so every Friday night since July. It has been...
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As the snow continued to fall and Police warned people not to travel, the centre of Eastleigh resembled a Ghost Town this morning.
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Traffic chaos came to Eastleigh this evening as the rush hour traffic was once again affected by snowfalls on top of a frozen road surface – the second time in a fortnight.
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Many Eastleigh Town Centre businesses were left counting the cost this afternoon as the normally busy Market Street was hit by a power cut. ‘The power went this morning for a while then came back on then went completely at about 2pm’ said a worker at Longs greengrocers who were still managing to trade....
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As freezing winds and snow are set once more to sweep across the area, the Government has announced it is to slash funding to its ‘Warm Front’ scheme which helps disadvantaged groups heat and insulate their homes.
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If you have been thinking of a making a fresh start this New Year by starting your own business, then it’s time to get your skates on and put your business plan into action – the deadline for applications for Eastleigh Council’s ‘Business Start Up’ grant is January 11th!
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As the New Year was ushered in, most of Eastleigh’s credit crunched citizens bid a ‘good riddance’ to 2009 – a year which saw the unemployment rate for the town double. 2009 had started with the closure of the Woolworth store in the Leigh Road precinct. Exactly 12 months later the large store space...
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Police are appealing for witnesses following an early morning holdup at the Texaco filling station on the A335, Southampton Rd. At about 5.30 am this morning the late night cashier was threatened by a masked man holding what appeared to be a firearm. As the cashier ran to take cover and alert the Police,...
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