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Despite the panic driven petrol shortage subsiding last week some local garages are still charging a premium at the pumps. Eastleigh News has received an email from an angry local reader as follows: Dear Sir, I have attached a picture that has two shots in it. One taken last Monday, and one taken today,...
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A Hedge End author has embraced digital technology and is now writing exclusively for the Kindle platform. Matt Shaw started writing creatively at the age of 12 then experimented with the concept of writing screenplays before self-publishing his first book “The Autobiography of a Nobody” . Delighted with the results...
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Hedge End’s Finance & Administration Committee have agreed to proceed with the Town’s bid to become a Portas Pilot. The Portas Pilot competition was launched in February by the Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP, the Minister for Housing and Local Government and Mary Portas. The competition aims to choose 12 towns to become Portas...
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The Salisbury International Arts Festival has brought its Nature of Art In Wessex project to Eastleigh. The Nature of Art in Wessex involves communities in six different areas across the South of England, using the arts to help improve access to the natural environment. The communities develop the work themselves and all projects are featured...
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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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Figures just released by Flybe, with Valentines Day firmly in mind, show that 6% of its workforce admit to being in a relationship with a work colleague That statistic includes more than 30 couples who are working together as cabin crew and flight deck staff. Exeter based Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline and the...
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The start of a new year can raise many questions in our minds. One of the biggest is where we want to go on holiday during the coming months. Whether it’s a relaxing beach holiday in the sun or a winter ski adventure, these days there’s something to suit everyone’s needs and budgets. In...
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A Hedge End woman could be in line for a thirty grand pay out after slipping on a fake icicle while visiting Santa Claus in his grotto at Selfridges. The 73-year-old granny was having a family photo taken in the grotto at the posh store in London’s Oxford Street when she slipped and fell after...
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Eastleigh’s classic cars and motorbikes could be exempted from the MoT test under proposals published for consultation today by Roads Minister Mike Penning. Classic and historic vehicles are often very well maintained by their owners and have a much lower accident and MoT failure rate than newer cars. The current requirement for these vehicles...
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