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The creation of 500 jobs at the proposed new Police Headquarters in Eastleigh looks under threat as Hampshire Police Authority announce they will review the plans for the Chandlers Ford site in the light forthcoming cuts in the Police budget. The plans will up for discussion at the Police authority meeting on July 20th....
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Thieves managed to drive away in their booty following a burglary in Eastleigh on Sunday June 27 during which a £39,000 Mercedes was stolen. The incident occurred between 2am and 8.30am at an address in Guildford Drive an affluent area of Chandlers Ford. Entry was gained to the house via the front door where...
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Hampshire Constabulary has announced plans to streamline some of its services with that of neighbouring forces, which could result in the loss of jobs it was warned. The county police force is one of 5 county forces along with Kent, Thames Valley, Surrey and Sussex which form the South East police region. This region...
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Fortis Insurance has opened a second office in Tollgate, Chandlers Ford to handle the firm’s increasing growth and expanding workforce. Fortis, which already has more than 1,000 employees in Tollgate, has acquired office space in Turnpike House, opposite its current offices. The new office follows the announcement that the firm is to hire a...
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Eastleigh residents face the risk of flooding unless remedial work is undertaken to counteract the erosion of the Monks Brook riverbank. That’s the stark warning from Sam Snook , a local environmental campaigner who claims that recent housing developments at Valley Park and the Pirelli site – and the office complexes at the top...
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Police are appealing for information following the theft of some unusual tools from a van in Chandler’s Ford. The incident occurred between 11pm on Wednesday May 26 and 6.30am on Thursday May 27 while the van was parked in Hursley Road. About £15,000 worth of specialist Dewalt and Festool carpentry tools were stolen during...
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In the elections on the 27th May for the new parish councils of Chandlers Ford and Allbrook – and for the Hiltingbury wards – both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats took 11 seats each leaving the Conservatives with overall control of both Hiltingbury wards. Peter Luffman, the former Labour leader in the Borough...
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Aviva staff in Eastleigh helped raise a bumper £100,000 for charity after taking part in a sponsored sleep out. Almost 30 Aviva employees slept rough outside the insurer’s Chilworth House office and were joined by senior management, including chief executive, Aviva UK Life, Toby Strauss. The Sleep Out was part of Aviva’s global Street...
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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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Police in Eastleigh are concerned for the welfare of a woman who has gone missing from her home in Chandler’s Ford. 43-year-old Tutiernawati Darsim Suhana was last seen by a neighbour outside her home in Kingsway, Chandler’s Ford at around 11.30am on April 30. Tutiernawati, originally from Indonesia, had lived and worked at the...
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