A PLANNING application has gone in for a 330-home "retirement village" and a 60-bed care home at the Matchams Stadium, near Ringwood.
THE centre of Christchurch will ring to the sound of outlandishly loud voices on Saturday in a competition to find the new town crier.
A LARGE quantity of “nurdles” – small plastic pellets – were found on Lepe beach during a clean up carried out by volunteers.
A DESIGN by a New Forest mum has been printed on a T-shirt by fashion company White Stuff to raise funds for family charity Home-Start UK.
DELAYS have hit an £85,000 lifeline to reopen a Christchurch play park which has been shut for more than two years.
A TRIAL of plant-based plastic bollards is being carried out by Hampshire County Council.
CREATORS of royal TV drama The Crown apologised to Ringwood residents after they were "bombarded" with loud fireworks while filming at Somerley House.
NEW Forest horse riders have welcomed changes to the Highway Code aiming to give them greater protection on the roads.
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A NEW Milton baby born with a serious genetic disorder has been given new hope after being treated with the world’s most expensive drug.
FOR Tony Pearse, the sea was a lifetime passion which saw him serve in the navy then spend the rest of his life working a succession of related jobs.
THE New Forest has been voted the best national park in Europe and 10th best in the world – ahead of even the Grand Canyon in the US.
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A CRATE full of guinea pigs was dumped in a field in Bransgore, leaving one of them just hours from death.
A BRITAIN’S Got Talent-style competition will find a new town crier for Christchurch.
VOLUNTEERS are being sought to help thousands of toads safely cross a road near Ringwood on their annual migration to breed.
AN eco-themed sermon on people doing their bit to “preserve the wonderful natural world God gave us” was delivered by Emily Albury.
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A DEVELOPER has applied to demolish a house and bungalow in Walkford to build nine homes.
A MOTHER sobbed as she watched her 16-year-old son appear in the dock charged with the murder of Edward Reeve who was found dead in his Walkford home.
A WILDLIFE rescue service is warning people not to take injured deer to a vet after once finding one lying across a grandmother’s lap in a car.
A PLAN for 11 homes in Christchurch was refused after historians said they would be built on top of potentially important archaeological treasures.
AN application to build 19 affordable homes has been submitted for greenbelt land on the edge of New Milton.
