Eastleigh candidates announced for parliamentary and Local elections
Eastleigh’s candidates for the General Election and local Elections on May 7 have been announced meanwhile Parish and Town Council seats go uncontested
View ArticleClegg: ‘We need 60 Eastleighs!’
“We need 60 Eastleigh’s” Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg declared yesterday while at a party rally at West End’s Ageas Bowl. The Liberal Democrats are currently trailing Labour, The Conservatives and Ukip in...
View ArticleChancellor’s Chickenhall Lane election pledge
The Conservatives have promised to deliver vital road improvements for Eastleigh if they are re-elected with an outright majority. Chancellor George Osborne has announced funding for a Botley by-pass...
View ArticleTories ‘on way up’ as Mims wins in Eastleigh
Godfrey Olson, the Leader of Eastleigh Borough Council’s Conservative Group has declared that the party is ‘on the way up’ after Mims Davies became the constituency’s first female MP in the General...
View ArticleEastleigh blood donors honoured
A group of dedicated blood donors from Eastleigh, including the town’s former MP Mike Thornton, have potentially saved more than 2,000 lives between them say the NHS Blood and Transplant service. The...
View ArticleReport: Eastleigh General Election Hustings 2017
Eastleigh’s Parliamentary hopefuls have taken part in an General Election hustings at Kings Community Church Hedge End where around 120 local people gathered to listen to the wannabe MPs answer...
View ArticleMims: ‘I haven’t broken any promises’
Conservative candidate Mims Davies has hit back at her Liberal Democrat election rival saying “I haven’t broken any promises”. Davies is seeking re-election to the seat she won from Mike Thornton in...
View Article‘I’d chain myself to the railings’
Lib Dem hopeful Mike Thornton has told Eastleigh News he would “chain myself to the railings” to prevent development on Stokepark Woods in Bishopstoke. The location of future housing in the emerging...
View ArticleMims Davies re-elected as Eastleigh MP
The Conservative candidate Mims Davies has been re-elected as the MP for Eastleigh in Thursday’s General Election. While the Conservatives have lost seats and seen majorities reduced across the country...
View ArticleFormer MP pleads: ‘don’t axe our social care grants’
Eastleigh’s former MP Mike Thornton is pleading with Hampshire County Council to rethink plans to axe grants for vital services that many elderly and vulnerable Eastleigh folk rely on.
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