Business

ANGRY complaints that the luxury glamping Pop Up Hotel in Calshot is a 'shambles' prompted the founder to make an apology to customers.

AN Austrailian investment bank has bought a majority stake in Southern Water after the utility firm was fined a record £90m for dumping raw sewage.

A PAY tribunal claim was won by 25 staff who worked at the collapsed Peeks Party Store after the liquidator declined to fight it, it has emerged.

THE owner of a camp site near Fordingbridge has admitted it made a "mistake" in underpaying a worker by more than £3,300.

German supermarket chain Aldi has announced it plans to open a new store in Totton.

LITTLE Angels Nursery and Pre-School has joined calls to help save its damaged New Milton Memorial Centre base.

MARKS & Spencer looks set to launch a branch at the site of New Milton high street's former Co-op store which shut nearly six years ago.

A RINGWOOD workshop has found excellence in excrement as its dog poo bag dispenser has scooped a place in a global online giant's design awards.

A SIXTEENTH century New Forest pub is welcoming guests again after being "completely transformed" during a £1m project.

DOZENS of actors who have played Alice at the Adventure Wonderland theme park gathered to celebrate its 30th birthday.

THE scrapping of unpopular plans for a new £1.2m toilet block on Lymington’s Town Quay has sparked warnings of lost trade for businesses.

A HISTORIC New Forest golf club and pub, on the market for £4m, have now been sold.

A FORMER Green Beret from Lymington is now fighting on the frontline for his cannabis oil products.

LIVE-IN care provider Promeidca24 is creating 100 new jobs in the local district and has called for applications.

IF there is one thing New Forest beekeeper Simon Noble knows, it’s the importance of buying local honey.

THE government's call to move to stage 4 of the roadmap on 19th July has been welcomed by the chairman of New Forest Business Partnership.

BEAULIEU garden centre Fairweathers has had to ban dogs after nine fouled in its gift shop in just one weekend.

CHRISTCHURCH firm Reidsteel will be pushing into the old Peeks and Monkey Madness site next door.

MORE than 100 local jobseekers attended a fair launched to plug urgent vacancies in the New Forest's hospitality industry.

INSPIRED by her flock of rescue chickens, Blackfield baker Clare Ellis is set to launch a monthly vegan food market.