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Budget 2013 - Homebuyers scheme welcomed

9:03am Thursday 21st March 2013

PEOPLE in Southampton will be able to buy a typical first home with a deposit of just £6,500, George Osborne pledged in yesterday’s Budget.

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Budget 2013 - live

10:04am Wednesday 20th March 2013

George Osborne delivers his Budget 2013 to the House of Commons on Wednesday March 20.

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Budget a missed opportunity, says council leader

2:58pm Wednesday 20th March 2013

SOUTHAMPTON city leader has slammed the budget as a “missed opportunity” to help struggling businesses and households.

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Business leaders welcome budget

2:48pm Wednesday 20th March 2013

HAMPSHIRE business leaders are welcoming cuts to corporation tax, national insurance and the decision to scrap the threatened fuel duty.

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What Hampshire wants from the Budget

10:58am Tuesday 19th March 2013

IT IS a make or break budget to lift the country out of its worst slump since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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People power forces rethink on housing scheme

12:20pm Monday 18th March 2013

A plan for 118 new homes in Lordswood and Coxford has been thrown on the scrap heap after city council boss Richard Williams was forced to ditch it through a show of people power.

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Boy offers money from the tooth fairy to save after-school club

4:29pm Friday 15th March 2013

IT was a gesture that would have melted any parent’s heart, a wide-eyed little boy offering to donate a few pounds from the tooth fairy to rescue his beloved after-school club.

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Huhne still a friend, says Clegg

2:20pm Thursday 14th March 2013

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said today that he still regards jailed former colleague Chris Huhne as a "friend", but is not expecting to visit him in prison.

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Future pensioners face pitiful pensions

12:00am Thursday 14th March 2013

FUTURE Hampshire pensioners face the misery of failing care and pitiful pensions, a study warns today.

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Huhne bullied by prisoners on first day in jail

9:05am Wednesday 13th March 2013

Disgraced MP Chris Huhne was this morning waking up on a jail wing for vulnerable prisoners after being bullied during his first day behind bars.

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Huhne and ex wife wake up behind bars

7:09am Tuesday 12th March 2013

Disgraced former Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne and his ex-wife are waking up behind bars today after they were each jailed for eight months.

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Huhne and Pryce jailed

5:12pm Monday 11th March 2013

Disgraced MP Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce were both sentenced to eight months jail for perverting the course of justice over speeding points a decade ago.

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Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce jailed - live

12:15pm Monday 11th March 2013

FORMER Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce are due to be sentenced today for perverting the course of justice.

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Huhne's jailing a 'personal tragedy' says Clegg

6:06pm Monday 11th March 2013

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg regards the jailing of former Cabinet colleague Chris Huhne as ''a personal tragedy'' for the ex-Energy Secretary and his wife, a spokesman said today.

Judge's sentencing remarks following jailing of Huhne and Pryce

5:28pm Monday 11th March 2013

Sentencing remarks from Mr Justice Sweeney as he sent Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce down for eight months each.

Huhne says sorry to constituents in Eastleigh

6:00pm Monday 11th March 2013

DISGRACED former Eastleigh MP has apologised for lying about asking his wife to take speeding points on his behalf.

Vicky Pryce found guilty

2:47pm Thursday 7th March 2013

THE ex-wife of disgraced Chris Huhne has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice.

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• The ten years from speeding points to court for shamed MP
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The fall of a Cabinet minister and his top economist wife.

3:00pm Thursday 7th March 2013

He was a Cabinet minister with a shot at the Lib Dem leadership, she was the Government's top economist.

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The emails that questioned how much senior LIb Dems knew

3:41pm Thursday 7th March 2013

A series of emails between Vicky Pryce and Sunday Times journalist Isabel Oakeshott raises questions about how much senior Liberal Democrats knew about the scandal before it hit the headlines.

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The ten years from speeding fine to court for shamed MP

3:16pm Thursday 7th March 2013

Nearly a decade ago, Chris Huhne and then wife Vicky Pryce lied about which one of them had incurred three penalty points in Huhne's BMW.

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Pryce 'cooked-up defence to speeding points offence

2:51pm Friday 1st March 2013

THE ex-wife of disgraced former Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne ''cooked up'' her defence and took his speeding points as ''a quick fix to an inconvenient problem'', a court heard today.

Clegg hails Lib Dem win in Eastleigh

12:04pm Friday 1st March 2013

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has hailed his party's success in the Eastleigh by-election, telling activists in the Hampshire town: "We held our nerve, we stood our ground... we overcame the odds and we won a stunning victory."

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Ashdown and Balls in Eastleigh to impress voters

4:39pm Tuesday 26th February 2013

MORE big name politicans have descended on Eastleigh today as by-election fever continues to grip the town.

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Council's 'more for less' pledge

6:00am Tuesday 26th February 2013

WINCHESTER civic chiefs have pledged to get “even more for even less” after approving their annual budget.

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Millions to be available for transport

6:00am Tuesday 26th February 2013

MILLIONS of pounds of funding for transport in Southampton and Hampshire could soon be available.

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Eastleigh too close to call

5:15pm Monday 25th February 2013

As the candidates enter the final days of canvassing in the Eastleigh by-election a Daily Echo poll has revealed it is going to go down to the wire.

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Victory for cabbies over spycams in taxis

11:22am Friday 22nd February 2013

CONTROVERSIAL ‘taxicams’ that were ordered to be fitted in all Southampton cabs could now be ripped out after they were ruled illegal.

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Cameron defends Hutchings for pulling out of hustings

11:53am Friday 22nd February 2013

DAVID Cameron was forced to defend Tory candidate Maria Hutchings after she came under fire for pulling out of a by-election debate.

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Claims of bullying as councillor quits

4:20am Friday 22nd February 2013

A LEADING member of Lymington Town Council has quit after months of controversy over the future of the seawater baths.

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Education one of the winners in new council budget

4:04pm Thursday 21st February 2013

YOUNG people in Hampshire are set to benefit in the county council's new budget, announced today.

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Cameron grilled by workers in Eastleigh

2:39pm Thursday 21st February 2013

David Cameron rolled into the Eastleigh by-election today as he attempted to bolster the campaign to get Maria Hutchings elected.

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'Juries need to be researched' following collapse of Vicky Pryce trial

10:30am Thursday 21st February 2013

A retired lord chief justice and a former director of public prosecutions (DPP) have called for greater research into juries following the collapse of the Vicky Pryce trial.

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UKIP supporter hurt after town centre fall

11:37am Thursday 21st February 2013

Emergency services were called to the aid of a political canvasser this morning.

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Councils spending more on high-earning staff

10:43am Wednesday 20th February 2013

Two Hampshire councils spent hundreds of thousands of pounds more on high-earning staff in 2011-12 than the previous year, according to a survey released today.

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REPRIEVE: Savage cuts and hikes in fees for vital care put on hold

7:32am Wednesday 20th February 2013

SAVAGE funding cuts and hikes in day care costs for thousands of Southampton’s most vulnerable residents have been temporarily put on ice amid huge concerns about the drastic impact they would have.

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Ex-MP's partner drops legal case

4:54pm Tuesday 19th February 2013

Carina Trimingham, the partner of disgraced former Eastleigh Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne, has dropped her bid to appeal in her privacy battle against Associated Newspapers over a series of stories which appeared in the Daily Mail.

Huge development decision slammed by MP candidates

12:17pm Tuesday 19th February 2013

EASTLEIGH by-election candidates have slammed the decision to allow 1,400 new homes to be built on countryside in the constituency.

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Devoted mum to lose allowance for vulnerable sons

10:50am Tuesday 19th February 2013

A SOUTHAMPTON mum has devoted her life to caring for her twin boys, who have severe learning difficulties and disabilities, but is worried about the impact of council cuts on her and family.

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Sorry - Labour candidate apologises for wishing Thatcher had been killed

2:24pm Monday 18th February 2013

LABOUR'S by-election candidate John O'Farrell has apologised for any upset his comments wishing Margaret Thatcher had been killed in a terrorist attack might have caused.

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Savage cuts threaten some of city's most vulnerable

10:49am Monday 18th February 2013

THEY are some of the most vulnerable residents of Southampton whose families have chosen to devote their lives to care for them.

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Pryce jury still debating verdict

10:57am Monday 18th February 2013

The jury in the trial of former Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne's ex-wife has retired to continue its deliberations.

Labour candidate 'disappointed' Mrs Thatcher didn't die in Brighton bomb

2:25pm Sunday 17th February 2013

LABOUR’S Eastleigh by-election hopeful is at the centre of a storm today over revelations that he once wrote of his hopes Margaret Thatcher had been murdered in a terrorist attack.

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Inside the Eastleigh election campaign circus

8:00am Sunday 17th February 2013

“HELP yourselves to the biscuits,” said one of the cheery staff who had clearly been put on ‘biscuit detail’ that day.

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Milliband on campaign trail in Eastleigh

10:48am Saturday 16th February 2013

LABOUR leader Ed Miliband is in Eastleigh today to boost his party’s by-election prospects – and to promote his plans for a so-called “mansion tax”.

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Fight over cuts just starting, say council rebels

11:49am Friday 15th February 2013

“THE fight is just beginning.” That is the message from rebel councillors taking a stand against savage cuts imposed in Southampton.

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Jury retires in Vicky Pryce trial

2:06pm Thursday 14th February 2013

The jury in the trial of Chris Huhne's ex-wife has retired to consider its verdict.

Naked Rambler supports Lib Dems in by-election

10:34am Thursday 14th February 2013

EASTLEIGH'S famous naked rambler has pinned his colours to the mast ahead of the town's fiercely contested by-election.

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Oaklands swimming pool plan led to dissent

12:50pm Wednesday 13th February 2013

IT was the closure of Oakland’s Swimming pool that led to the first cracks within the Labour party. Angry at the plans, Coxford councillors Don Thomas and Keith Morrell formed their own party Labour Councillors Against Cuts.

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Huhne's ex-wife among 'most powerful, talented and intelligent women in the country'

6:16pm Tuesday 12th February 2013

Chris Huhne's ex-wife was ''one of the most powerful, talented, intelligent and trusted women in the country'' and would not have been forced into taking his speeding points, a court heard today.