Hampshire County Council

In another case, in March 2024, they helped a Sudanese small boat migrant with established wrinkles and a pronounced Adam's apple after immigration authorities judged him to be 28.

He claimed to be 17 upon arrival in Dover and was given children's accommodation in Portsmouth after he was referred to Hampshire County Council by Care for Calais.

So they are making direct referrals to county councils.

Why is this allowed? We know that they have a track record of fraud.

But the fraudulent event does not exist and is part of a ticketing scam.

Hampshire Trading Standards officers say no such event has been authorised by Hampshire County Council or the park.

They urge us all not to buy tickets and to exercise caution when seeing adverts posted on social media.

Anyone who's already handed over money is being asked to contact their payment provider or Citizens Advice.

So in terms of what's happening in Hampshire, so we had our local elections in May.

Hampshire County Council that has been historically conservative run, fell into no overall control, still has a conservative leader.

My understanding is that they've said they're going to judicial review the plans for LGR, which obviously is separate to devolution, but it could have implications.

And I think my reading of the situation is because of the political changes and the different dynamics we now have at play.

The move follows strong local opposition and means that for now the southern parishes stay very much part of East Hampshire.

We speak to Councillor Nick Adams-King, leader of Hampshire County Council, to hear his reaction to the announcement.

Our concern all the way along was that there was no public support for changing the boundaries, either in East Hampshire or across towards the New Forest and Test Valley.

But also, more importantly, in doing so, it made that new, enormous Mid Hampshire Council that Petersfield would have been in both unviable and unsustainable and also gave it no financial resilience.

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julie butler for peaceful shine radio and i'm with the leader of hampshire county council councillor nick adams king now nick you've got a bit of a smile on your face at the moment obviously because local government reorganization has now been put on hold um

Just to be clear, it's not put on hold, it's withdrawn.

The plans that they put forward, they've withdrawn, and they've had to withdraw them because they'd made a decision.

And here's one more statistic.

In Hampshire, Hampshire County Council, I think 82% of local authority spending is on care.

Is on what?

Social care.

... around 40 or 50 protesters gathered near the Marriott Hotel on Tuesday night.

Leaders of the local Hampshire County Council went to the scene and spoke to the hotel manager.

They then addressed the protesters and said, "Look, this is the situation.

In there, in there at the moment is the Pakistan under-19 cricket team."