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Staff from insurance giant Aviva, will sleep rough on the streets of Eastleigh this Friday to highlight the issue of street children. The Sleep Out is part of Aviva’s ‘Street to School’ programme which is designed to help vulnerable children get off the streets and back into education. Aviva employees from all over the...
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Local self storage company, ready steady store, is supporting The Sarah Siddons Fan Club Theatre Company by donating much needed space at its storage facilities. The local theatre company will use the facilities to house its collection of costume and props. The storage company, based on Leigh Road, has committed to sponsor The Sarah...
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The number of hotel firms going bust jumped last year by 61%, accountancy firm Wilkins Kennedy has said as the benefits of the weak pound and the ‘staycation’ summer were offset by the slump in business travel. Hotel chains to go under last year included McKever Hotels, Folio, the Real Hotel Group, Comfort Inn,...
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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...
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Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ahead of the budget to back the campaign to save the pub. Mr Huhne pointed out that more than 7,500 pubs have closed and more than 70,000 jobs have been lost since 2005. Mr Huhne commented: “Local pubs have been even harder...
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A High Court Judge has dismissed a call for a judicial review into Eastleigh Borough Council’s decision to fund the building of a 175 bedroom 5 star hotel saying it had “no realistic chance of success”. Local hoteliers including the Holiday Inn, had challenged the council’s decision to waste £32m of public money on...
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Local bus operator Velvet have announced thatFree Wi-Fi internet access will be available soon on board all their buses on all routes . Their ‘Blue Onboard ‘ bluetooth system will be getting a major upgrade which will mean that all passengers will be able to access the net for free using devices such as...
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Both Chris Huhne and Sir Terry Wogan were involved in campaign launches concerned with Fire Safety issues yesterday. Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne has backed a new campaign to stop home fires due to faulty electrical cables. The Approved Cables Initiative (ACI) was launched in London to ensure the use of safe electrical cables such...
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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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The tills were ringing once again in the towns former Woolworth store as Poundland gave shoppers a taste of TV soap razzamataz to celebrate it’s offical opening. As an instore DJ got the crowd bopping Emmerdale Farm’s Jeff Hordley AKA ‘nasty’ Caine Dingle declared the store open and signed autographs for star struck shoppers....
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