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Police are warning people to take extra care when using cashpoint machines (ATMs) after a new scam by thieves to try and get money from people came to light. There have been at least 25 known incidents in the past few weeks where a strip of plastics has been stuck on to the area...
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The council have issued a warning that con artists are trying to scam people into revealing their bank details over the phone with the promise of a council tax rebate: “A resident of the borough was recently contacted by someone claiming to be from the Council Tax Department of Eastleigh Borough Council. The resident...
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A necklace was stolen from an elderly woman in Eastleigh on Thursday. A 74-year-old local woman was waiting for a bus on Upper Market Street in Eastleigh at around 6.35pm when two women, thought to be in their 20s, approached the woman and asked her if she would like to buy some jewellery. After...
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An Eastleigh builder who persuaded a Dorset pensioner to pay over £6,000 for work he didn’t need has received a one year suspended jail sentence. Aaron Barnes 32, from Leigh Road, had told the OAP that his roof timbers were rotten and would have to be replaced, however when trading standards officers inspected the...
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A court has been told how an Eastleigh man ‘panicked’ after he saw his beloved Ferrari 360 spider burst into flames Car dealer Chris Carey, 40, charged punters £15 a time to drive the 185 mph supercar to raise funds for the air ambulance service. But an uninsured driver wrote it off by wrapping...
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