Business

POPULAR Christchurch restaurant La Mamma, which has served generations of families, is to close after nearly 50 years.

A NEW Forest pub has applied for planning permission to add 14 guest bedrooms to attract tourists.

CHEESES sourced and produced in the New Forest will be focus of a new online business launched by Totton turophile Andy Bryant.

A COUPLE claiming to be food bloggers are suspected of scamming Christchurch restaurants and netting hundreds of pounds worth of food and wine.

WITH their sights set on running a French vineyard, Bramshaw couple Ian and Amanda Brown never imagined they would be making wine in the Forest.

THE landlady of The George pub, Fordingbridge, will shut it on Christmas and Boxing days so her staff can have time with their families.

THE Welcome Co-op store in Brockenhurst has scooped a national prize.

A MOVE to stop any future licensed sex establishments setting up in Christchurch, Bournemouth and Poole area has failed to win approval.

AMBITIOUS plans by a group of East Boldre residents to save the village shop have hit a stumbling block.

HOSPITALITY businesses across the New Forest are facing a “perfect storm” as they battle supply issues, wedding backlogs and loss of European workers.

WITH Halloween just around the corner, Sunnyfields Farm in Totton is offering the "Pumpkin Experience" with pick-your-own and colourful displays.

STAFF at New Milton’s Fagans Menswear were thrilled when a bridegroom from the TV series Married at First Sight chose his suit from the store.

More than £10.8m is set to be ploughed by New Forest District Council into developing a business site in Ringwood to help the district's recovery.

A Christchurch tech entrepreneur has launched an ethical online marketplace where only sellers who meet strict criteria can list their products.

A LYNDHURST accountant was kicked out of professional groups and fined for misconduct which cost the taxman hundreds of thousand of pounds.

SHOPPERS will be able to buy more using contactless payments instead of chip and pin when limits rise to help the economy recover from the pandemic.

A GROUP of East Boldre residents set to take over the village shop have proposed an expansion which they say is needed to make the venture viable.

LIDL's new store in part of the Homebase building in Christchurch Retail Park will open to the public this week.

TRADERS in Christchurch are set to vote on plans to bring in a business levy to help pay for town centre improvements and boost the local economy.

A BROCKENHURST hotel has hit the market with a £2.35m price tag – months after winning permission to downsize to a B&B.