Fareham, England News

CAMPAIGNERS in the Wickham area have expressed concerns at the latest plan for a new town to be built there.

But Kim Haddaway fears she will have to put the brakes on her latest fundraising challenge after thieves stole her bicycle just weeks before she sets off on a cross-Channel bike ride.

They're taking place along the shoreline of Hook-with-Warsash Local Nature Reserve , and around Hook Lake, with the aim of raising the profile of one of Fareham's hidden treasures.

Detectives are focusing on a report that a nine-year-old girl was approached by two men in Finisterre Close, Hill Head, between 8.30pm and 9pm on Tuesday.

Conservative Mark Hoban and Labour MP Alan Whitehead - have paid the money in full.

BRYANT: I am trying to contact Herbert Knight whose last address was Mr Fegan's Homes, Bucks, or the Training Farm, Goudhurst, Kent, way back in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The man entered the address on Mays Lane in Fareham between 10.45am and 11.10am on Wednesday, May 1. When challenged by the 82-year-old woman who lives there, the burglar claimed he was visiting to help her husband with their car.

Buses will replace train services between Winchester and Southampton, and between Eastleigh and Fareham.

But against that backdrop of austerity, the Daily Echo can today reveal how many of Hampshire's top council officers have had pay packages worth more than A 100,000. Today the TaxPayers' Alliance has released its 2013 town hall rich list, featuring the latest figures for how many public servants earned more than A 100,000 in 2011-12. The TPA's ... (more)

TWO HAMPSHIRE MPs have been told to hand back hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of profits from taxpayer-funded homes.

FEARS over the position of the first school to be built in Welborne - the new town to be built north of Fareham - have come out at a consultation.

Councillor Paul Whittle will be the new leader, taking over from Councillor Jim Forrest, who has led the group for two years.

Officers say they are taking the reports from members of the public seriously and want to quickly identify any suspect and ensure public safety.

The Community Action Team meeting will take place on Thursday, May 16 at St Columba Church in Hillson Drive, Fareham from 7pm.

MEMBERS of Gosport's council last night signalled 'serious concerns' over the design and the courses offered at a college due to be built at the Daedalus enterprise zone.

The inspection, which was part of a national programme of joint inspections of police custody, looked at nine custody suites including Southampton , Winchester , Fareham , Lyndhurst and Newport in the Isle of Wight.

A crew from Cosham fire station was called to assist firefighters from Fareham to free the woman from the Renault Clio.

Volunteers armed themselves with gloves and bags as they collected rubbish on a windy Saturday on the shoreline near Clarence Pier.

A crew from Fareham went to the Harvester pub in Gudge Heath Lane, Fareham, to rescue a little girl whose head had become trapped underneath a table.

Crews across the area are preparing to stand together amid suggestions that a fire engine could be removed from Southsea fire station.