March 2005 News Archive

Solent Coastguard received a report that a woman was threatening suicide by entering the water close to the lifeboat station. The lifeboats were launched and searched the waters immediately downtide from the lifeboat station towards the entra...

Borough Regeneration Strategy Report Raises Questions of Credibility. In December last, Havant Borough published a report entitled ‘Havant Borough Draft Strategy for Regeneration 2005-2009’. The document aims to ‘to set a vision for a more pr...

Feeling SAD? Bored of quiet nights in? Want to inject a bit of excitement into your week? Why not have fun at a quiz night that will also make a difference to lives of children in a deprived corner of Africa. Local teacher...

Present.:          P Fisher (PF), A Higham (AH), D Turvey (DT), Nigel & Lesley Marsden (NM & LM), L Neale (LN), Colin Ric...

Anyone travelling along Hayling's seafront this week will have been hard pushed not to have noticed that the annual flood defence work has restarted once again. The yearly "recycling" operation, co-ordinated by Havant Borough Council's bea...

Lifeboat crew on Hayling Island were shocked to find that their lifeboat station had been broken into on Thursday morning 10 March. The cost of replacing the equipment and repairing the damage will be around £5,000. Thieves smashed a g...

March -May & Sept-Oct (inc): 7 days per week (inc Bank Holidays) Up to 1 hour £1.00 Up to 2 hours £2.00Over 2 hours £3.50 Jun-Aug (inc)Up to 1 hour £1.00Up to 2 hours £2.00 Up to 3 hours £3.00 Over 3 hours ...

Singer/songwriter Julia Fordham has helped West Sussex’s Ashington CE First School produce a remix of her song, “Happy Ever After.” The charity CD single also includes tracks with Bollywood singer/songwriter Aadesh Shrivastava and its proceeds...

 As home secretary Charles Clarke re-opens the debate on the classification of cannabis, one woman tells the BBC how she believes the drug destroyed her brother's life. Pam Blake, 51, from Hayling Island nea...

A Press Release has been issued today as follows:A scheme for the short term protection of East Head to ‘hold the line’ whilst a long term solution is found has been submitted for planning approval. It involves the recycling of 13 thou...

Having watched one of the first responders struggle with building a web site and getting nowhere fast, The team at Brit-Net stepped in and produced a comprehensive website for the Hayling First Responders which covers their effor...

A new record £73,639 has now been raised from Ride 2004, to which can be added a further £6,273 as a result of gift aid declarations. This takes the fundraising from the event over the last 19 years to an amazing £658,500, so we have now passed th...

Once again we see the results of minimized policing of Hayling as  a group of young tugs attack an 80 year old pensioner and steal a precious ring from him along with his wallet.   If that was not enough, they then proceeded to kick...

Residents caught a former councillor dumping loads of rubble opposite their home. Bob and Wendy Tobin photographed Ex-Councillor Christopher Mincham illegally tipping the waste on four separate occasions.And it was their pictures tha...