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A car failed to stop following a collision in Chandlers Ford on Friday September 10 and Police are appealing for information to help trace the driver. The collision occurred on Bournemouth Road at 1.40pm involving a Yamaha motorcycle and a blue car which failed to stop at the scene. Both vehicles were travelling from...
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A local orthopaedic consultant has been named as one of the top ten hip replacement surgeons by his peers in a recent poll conducted by the Daily Mail asking other hip surgeons who they would send their ‘nearest and dearest’ to should they need a total hip replacement and why. Mr Douglas Dunlop, who...
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Fair Oak motorists have been left counting the cost of repairs after ten vehicles were damaged on Friday night September 10. Police are appealing for information on the incidents which occurred in Fair Oak Road and Itchen Avenue between 7pm on Friday and 8am on Saturday September 11. Wing mirrors were either ripped off...
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Hampshire’s Chief Constable has announced that budget cuts will mean a potential 1400 jobs could be shed to save money. Meanwhile the constabulary has millions of pounds tied up in a festering industrial unit on a Chandlers Ford trading estate. In a statement issued yesterday Chief Constable Alex Marshall predicted an anticipated shortfall in...
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A new fitness studio that uses revolutionary ‘space age’ exercise machines has opened in Shedfield – and Eastleigh News readers can have a go for free! The Gironna Health and Fitness Studio in Sandy Lane is running small ‘power plate’ classes using vibrating plate machines to stimulate muscle groups. The technology was originally developed...
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Police have launched an appeal for witnesses following the theft of a £30,000 sports boat from the side of the road opposite a slipway off Hamble Lane, Hamble. The theft happened between 3.20pm and 4.45pm on August 31, 2010. The owner, a Worcestershire man, had positioned the boat across from the slipway in Ensign...
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Hampshire County Council intends to carry out brickwork repairs to Brambridge Park bridge that crosses the River.Itchen on Kiln Lane, close to the Brambridge Park Garden Centre. Work is planned to start on Monday 4th October 2010. A road closure at the bridge site will be in force for the work that will be...
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Police have released details of a vicious attempted robbery in Fairoak on Friday September 3 and are appealing for witnesses The incident occurred as the victim, a 54-year-old woman, walked along a pathway between Elderberry Close and the park on Blackberry Drive in the vicinity of the Youth Centre on the Brookfields Estate. Two...
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There are strange omens in the sky over Fair Oak . Eastleigh News contributor Peter Stewart spotted this fine example of a circumzenithal rainbow earlier this evening. This is either a sign from the Lord that he is happy with the state of things in the borough or else it is a naturally occurring...
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Police are appealing for witnesses and conducting house to house enquires following the theft of a moped from a house in Northlands Road, Newtown, Eastleigh, during the early hours of this morning between 2 a.m and 3 a.m. Police are asking people who may have heard or seen anything out of the ordinary during...
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