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Arrests after drugs found following bungalow fire

5:20pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

THREE men have been arrested after police found cannabis growing equipment in a Hampshire home gutted by fire.

Investigation continues after violence at festival

12:21pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

ALL six men who were arrested after a brawl in a Hampshire village yesterday are still in custody this morning.

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Gang member spared jail

11:50am Friday 17th May 2013

THE final member of a crime gang that plundered £160,000 in property from a string of shops across the south has been spared further jail time.

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Live webchat with Police Commissioner

4:39pm Thursday 16th May 2013

LOG ON tomorrow morning for your chance to quiz the man in charge of policing in Hampshire.

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Couple lie about driving offences

2:30pm Thursday 16th May 2013

A COUPLE from Southampton admitted lying about who was behind the wheel when the husband was caught speeding and jumping a red light.

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Digger stolen

2:25pm Thursday 16th May 2013

THIEVES have stolen a digger worth £16,000 from a hire company in Hampshire.

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Illegal immigrants caught at Hampshire ferry port

1:43pm Thursday 16th May 2013

Two illegal immigrants have been found hiding in a lorry at a Hampshire ferry port.

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Water leaks blight new £30m police station

4:00am Thursday 16th May 2013

A MAJOR Hampshire police station virtually closed down and earmarked to be sold looks set to be given a new lease of life – due to Southampton’s iconic new station being riddled with water leaks, the Daily Echo can reveal.

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Police car rammed during dramatic high-speed chase across Hampshire

2:11pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

A police car was rammed during a high speed chase across the Hampshire countryside today.

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Man tasered for threatening police

12:04pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

A MAN was tasered by police last night when he became violent and threatening to officers who were trying to arrest him in a supermarket car park in Hampshire.

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Is this property yours?

6:10pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

TAKE a good look at this array of jewellery and electrical goods, as police are trying to trace its rightful owners.

Refusal to leave cell to face GBH charge

6:00am Wednesday 15th May 2013

A SOUTHAMPTON man accused of violence refused to leave the cells at Winchester Crown Court and attend his hearing.

£3.3m seized from criminals

11:36am Tuesday 14th May 2013

IT is the dirty money made by those who heap misery on the people of Hampshire.

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Officer in court charged with disclosing intelligence to criminals

11:50am Tuesday 14th May 2013

A former Southampton police constable appeared in court today charged with disclosing information and intelligence to alleged criminals.

Great Britain athlete has 30 pairs of Nike trainers stolen in burglary

3:42pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

The kit belonging to an international athlete from Hampshire has been stolen in a burglary.

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Madam must pay back £50K

11:50am Tuesday 14th May 2013

SHE benefited by more than £50,000 from her crime, and now she’s facing losing everything she’s got as police take the money back.

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Man charged with murder

5:32pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

A MAN has been charged with murder, following the discovery of a body.

Police clamp down on illegal raves

1:11pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

POLICE chiefs are set to launch a campaign aimed at stamping out illegal raves across Hampshire – ten days after hundreds of youths brought chaos to a village.

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Fundraiser's bike stolen weeks before charity challenge

1:00pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

SHE has raised thousands of pounds for charities, supporting the country’s most vulnerable and impoverished adults and children.

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Police launch race hate app

10:53am Tuesday 14th May 2013

IT's the new tool that police hope will help stamp out hate crime in Hampshire.

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Gang 'tried to con taxman of £2m'

9:43am Tuesday 14th May 2013

A CRIME gang operating in Southampton tried to con £2m of taxpayers’ money from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), a court heard.

Madam netted £51,000 running brothel

4:46pm Monday 13th May 2013

A WOMAN who ran a high-class brothel from penthouse flats in Southampton made £51,000, it has been revealed.

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Prison 'a sobering experience' says Huhne

1:28pm Monday 13th May 2013

Disgraced former Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne repeated apologies for his wrongdoing today, saying that prison had been a ''humbling and sobering experience''.

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Pryce to publish prison diaries

4:43pm Monday 13th May 2013

Chris Huhne's ex-wife is to publish a book based on the diaries she kept during her recent two months in prison, her publisher announced today.

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Police given more time to question murder suspect

3:29pm Monday 13th May 2013

Detectives from Hampshire Constabulary’s Major Investigation Team (HMIT) have been granted more time by magistrates to question a 39-year-old man on suspicion of murder.

Disgraced MP's ex-wife speaks on release from prison

9:53am Monday 13th May 2013

THE EX-WIFE of disgraced former Eastleigh MP, Chris Huhne, has spoken publically after the pair were released early from prison today.

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Police launch Hampshire murder investigation

8:59am Sunday 12th May 2013

The death of a man in Hampshire is being treated as murder by detectives from Hampshire Constabulary’s Major Investigation Team.

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Gang jailed for spree of burglaries across Hampshire

4:30pm Friday 10th May 2013

A GANG has this afternoon been jailed for more than 13 years for carrying out smash and grab raids at stores across Hampshire and the south of England.

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Fake pilot on the run after flying passenger jets

5:12pm Friday 10th May 2013

A HAMPSHIRE conman who faked pilot’s qualifications to get a job flying holiday makers to the UK is on the run after failing to appear before the courts for sentencing.

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Naked Rambler fined again

4:23pm Friday 10th May 2013

HAMPSHIRE'S Naked Rambler' has been fined after he was found guilty of nine public order offences for walking nude in public places including outside a primary school.

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Charged with murder

6:27pm Friday 10th May 2013

A SOUTHAMPTON man has been charged with murder.

Jim Davidson bailed in sex offence investigation

2:46pm Friday 10th May 2013

Comedian Jim Davidson has been rebailed over alleged sex offences by police investigating the Jimmy Savile scandal.

City youth at heart of anti-crime initiative

12:20pm Friday 10th May 2013

SOUTHAMPTON youngsters are set to be at the heart of a groundbreaking new project aimed at reducing youth crime and offending.

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Murder detectives are given extra time to question suspect

11:32am Friday 10th May 2013

DETECTIVES have been given an extra 36 hours to question a murder suspect arrested in Southampton after an international manhunt.

‘Sleeping’ would be burglars arrested at store

11:29am Friday 10th May 2013

POLICE have arrested two men following a break-in at a furnishing shop.

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Police to pay £150k for officer's cut thumb

11:05am Thursday 9th May 2013

Hampshire police will have to pay £150,000 of public money to lawyers after losing a legal appeal today against compensation given to an officer who cut her thumb while dismantling a cannabis factory.

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Men approaching children prompts police investigation

6:27pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

POLICE are investigating after a number of 'suspicious' incidents involving men approaching children.

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Murder suspect arrested in city

5:59pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

AN ESCAPED convict who was wanted on suspicion of murder has been arrested in Southampton.

Thieves steal boilers worth £7,000

2:13pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

BURGLARS have taken boilers worth more than £7,000 from a nearly completed block of flats.

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Wedding wrecked by drink driver

10:00am Tuesday 7th May 2013

THESE are the horrific injuries that wrecked the wedding plans of a Hampshire bride-to-be after a drink driver ploughed into her family’s car.

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Arsonist spared jail after attempt to take his own life

6:00pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

A SOUTHAMPTON man, who started two fires in his flat in a fit of depression because he wanted to commit suicide, was spared a prison sentence after his girl friend told a judge how she had seen a massive change in his personality since he had been receiving treatment on four months remand.

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Vandals strike at city cafe

5:45pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

POLICE have questioned a 12-year-old boy after the window of a popular cafe at the heart of a revamped park in Southampton was smashed.

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Hampshire Police must improve health care in custody, says report

11:20am Tuesday 7th May 2013

HEALTH care in police custody provision in Hampshire is in need of attention, according to a government report.

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Lapdancers accused of 'kidnapping' club boss

8:53am Monday 6th May 2013

TWO lap dancers from Southampton have been accused of helping to kidnap a club boss who owed them £42,000 for their services during a horse racing festival.

Second death linked to 'rogue' batch of heroin

4:10pm Friday 3rd May 2013

ANOTHER man has died following warnings of a 'rogue' batch of heroin in Hampshire.

Couple spared jail after being drunk and in charge of a child

1:22pm Friday 3rd May 2013

A COUPLE found to be drunk while in charge of a young child have been spared an immediate jail sentence.

Illegal workers found at restaurant

4:35pm Friday 3rd May 2013

IMMIGRATION officers have swooped to arrest three illegal workers at a Hampshire restaurant.

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Murder accused in court

10:43am Friday 3rd May 2013

A MAN has appeared in court charged with the murder of Southampton dad Jahmel Jones.

Man made 'bomb detectors' in his garden shed

4:03pm Friday 3rd May 2013

An unemployed man has been convicted of making fake bomb detectors in his garden shed.

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Efit released following city centre sex attack

10:37am Friday 3rd May 2013

THIS is the face of a man wanted over a sex assault in a Southampton park.

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