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Police in Hedge End are urging homeowners to double check the credentials of tradesmen offering gardening services. It follows reports of rogue traders operating in the area. It appears older residents are being targeted in particular. Sergeant Barbara Hardcastle of the Safer Streets team based in Eastleigh said: “We would advise homeowners not to...
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Hedge Enders are up in arms over plans to fell a much loved laburnum tree outside the village hall. The flowering tree was planted in 1956 by Hedge End Women’s Institute to commemorate their Golden Jubilee however there are plans to extend facilities for a play group which meets at the hall and...
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A 15-year-old boy from Hedge End was assaulted and robbed in Meadowsweet Way, Horton Heath sometime between 5.30 and 7pm on Sunday, March 13. It happened in an alleyway which links Meadowsweet Way and Botley Road. The boy saw two men approaching him. He kept his head down but looked up as they got...
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Animal rights actiivsts who vandalised and damaged property at local banks have pleaded guilty today to causing criminal damage. Thomas Harris, 27, of Ringwood, pleaded guilty at Winchester Crown Court to conspiracy to cause criminal damage admitting his role in a series of attacks against Barclays Bank in 2008. Two others, Christopher Potter, 20...
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A 62-year-old woman has been subected to racist abuse while walking her dog in Hedge End Police have disclosed. The OAP was with her husband in the fields behind St Lawrence Close and Mallet Close at around 10.30am last Wedensday – November 24th – when a man directed a racially abusive comment towards her....
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Police have named the woman who was found drowned in the pond at Dowd’s Farm, Hedge End. The body of Clare Zavad 37, was found floating face down and fully clothed. Police say the body had been in the water for several hours before being discovered on Saturday afternoon by a walker who raised...
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A Hedge End town councillor has warned car drivers to stay away from Eastleigh town centre or pay the price. Speaking at a public meeting organised by Southampton and Eastleigh Friends of the Earth, Eastleigh’s cabinet Minister for Environment Louise Bloom claimed that parking controls were part of the councils strategy to reduce local...
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A grieving widow has paid a poignant tribute to her motorcyclist husband tragically killed in a road accident at Hedge End as police named the victim as Jimi McIndoe of Ludlow Road, Bitterne. Mr McIndoe, 37, died on Sunday when his Yamaha was in collision with a John Deere tractor and trailer in Bubb...
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A 37-year-old Bitterne man has died in a motorbike accident in Hedge End. The collision occurred at 3pm on Sunday when the motorcyclist, who was riding a blue and white Yamaha along Bubb Lane, was in collision with a green John Deere tractor. The motorcyclist died at the scene but the tractor driver, a...
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Thieves have boken into a local school in Hedge End and stolen 16 computers despite signs warning that the premises are guarded. The sought after Apple iMacs disappeared overnight between Thursday October 7 and Friday October 8 after offenders forced entry into Wildern School in Wildern Lane and took the computers valued at approximately...
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