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Hedge End Town Council is currently giving away Theatre tickets. The Berry Theatre will be celebrating its first birthday soon, and Hedge End Town Council is sponsoring that anniversary. The full programme of events can be seen in the online brochure Announced by Cllr Louise Bloom at the Community & Culture meeting of 14th February,...
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Hedge End residents are contributing twice towards the Eastleigh Festival of Music & Mela, an annual event that draws large crowds into the Town Centre. At the Community & Culture committee meeting of 14th February, Hedge End Town Council was asked to contribute £500 to the Asian Welfare & Cultural Association, which would be...
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Professional musicians and their gathering audience were treated to a lively warm-up act at Hedge End’s Village Hall earlier this week. Preparations for a performance of ”All on a Winters Night”, a feast of songs, carols, stories and folklore by Johnny Coppin, Paul Burgess and Mick Dolan, were disrupted by a dispute over the...
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Eastleigh Borough Council tore up their commitment on tackling Climate Change in spectacular fashion on Saturday night when Mayor Wayne Irish threw the switch on a dazzling firework display and thousands of Christmas lights which will continue to burn in the streets for the next six weeks. A large crowd of up to 10,000...
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Over 1000 people packed around the War memorial in Hedge End this morning, to attend Hedge End’s Remembrance service. The quarter of a mile from Hedge End’s 2000 Centre to the War memorial was closed to traffic to allow the parade and outdoor service to take place. The parade, which was led by Cllr Mrs...
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A mysterious sighting of lights over Hedge End has intrigued local residents. Two panels of Christmas lights in St Johns Road have been seen illuminated in the evenings, despite the official switch-on of Hedge End’s Christmas lights being more than two weeks away. Contractors have recently been installing the lights in preparation for the...
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Eastleigh residents will be celebrating the News that the Olympic flame will be travelling through the borough next year in the run up to the 2012 London Olympics. The torch is being carried 8,000 miles by a relay of 8,000 people over 70 day period. The journey will at Lands End on 19 May...
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Eastleigh is due to have a ‘close encounter’ on Tuesday when a giant asteroid, over a quarter of mile long and said to be blacker than coal, will fly past BETWEEN the Earth and the Moon. The Asteroid named EU-55 is currently hurtling our way at 30,000 miles an hour and will be visible...
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Today is Armed Forces Day and communities all over the country will be staging events to show support for the nations service men and women. While some Councils will be staging parades with marching bands, noisy aircraft fly-pasts and parachutists, Eastleigh Borough Council instead opted for a quiet, private flag raising ceremony which took...
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Hedge End’s days as a strawberry-growing locality may be long gone but now a community project will help local people learn about their fruit-growing history. Thanks to a £10,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) people will learn of the time, in the 1860s, when over 20,000 tonnes of berries a day were...
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