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A Hampshire pirate radio station, has been dramatically banned from the airwaves after a raid by police and the Department of Trade and Industry.Officers burst into a house in Southampton after tracking Wispa FM broadcasts to a roof-space transmitter.The dance music station, which broadcast on 99.2FM, was shut down after complaints to the DTI.The station was broadcasting between 6pm and 12am each day from a house in MacArthur Crescent, Bitterne, with the motto ''bringing unity to the south coast community''.It had a volunteer staff of more than 40 and had been running for approximately eight months before officers intervened.Wispa FM's DJ Risky, the station's joint spokesman with DJ Sublo, said they were "gutted" at the raid.Together with their colleagues, the pair now face acriminal prosecution with up to two years in prison and an unlimited fine if found guilty."They told us they'd been recording us for weeks."DJ Risky said the station had huge community support."We had text messages from people saying that we were doing a wicked job of keeping kids off the streets. Our business plan was to go on for two years and then go for a licence once we had drummed up enough community support - it's a community project. It started as a charity thing to get kids off the streets."Even the DTI said that it was only that we didn't have a licence. They had monitored us and there was no racism, no violence and no abuse - nothing."They vowed that the raid would not be the last of Wispa FM.The station had already gained support with a 500-strong mailing list, and t-shirts and mobile phones bearing the Wispa logo were common on the city streets. UNKNOWN SOUTH TIMETABLE
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