WORK on a a multi-million pound leisure package for Eastleigh will start this summer.

The council has already announced that Vue Cinemas, one of the country's leading cinemas, is to open a nine screen multiplex in the £25 million leisure complex which will be an extension to the Swan Centre.

Now the leisure plans have been given a boost with the news that one of the UK's leading tenpin bowling companies is to help create Eastleigh's entertainment paradise.

AMF Bowling will be providing a 20 lane bowling centre with a bar, pool tables and food servery.

This week the company also applied to the Eastleigh Licensing Committee for permits for 40 gaming machines that will be part of the bowling centre's entertainment menu.