Calshot and Lepe

An increase in flooding incidents has prompted a study by the Environment Agency, a district council meeting has heard.

A fresh appeal has been made to find the head of a shark that washed up dead on Lepe beach in the New Forest.

New Forest residents struggling to keep up with the cost of living can find help at five newly launched community hubs.

The search is on to find the head and tail of a rare shark which washed up on a New Forest beach.

Objections by local landowners have been blamed for causing the New Forest section of a national walking route to be among the last to be signed off.

A visiting walrus which hauled itself on Calshot beach over the weekend prompted a warning to give the animal "a very wide berth".

A series of flood alerts have been issued across the New Forest and Christchurch this morning.

Heavy rain is set to continue in parts of the New Forest until Thursday morning.

A heavy rain warning and a series of flood alerts have been issued for today (Monday).

Thousands of knitted poppies have gone on display at Lepe Country Park ahead of Remembrance Day.

The eastern edge of the New Forest is set for another dumping of rain tomorrow.

Visitors are being urged not to visit Lepe Country Park today (Tuesday) following a power cut from Storm Claudio.

A COLLECTION of hundreds of antiques from Exbury House, home of the Rothschild family, has sold for more than £1.3m at auction.

THE castles at Hurst Spit and Calshot have been named among six of the UK's coastal fortresses most vulnerable to rising sea levels.

SQUEEZED households in the New Forest struggling to afford groceries will get more for their money thanks to a commitment by a food wholesaler.

FURTHER closures have been announced of New Forest car parks and cycle routes for this year's pony drifts.

AUTHOR sets about trying to solve one of the Second World War's most enduring mysteries.

A woman who went to the aid of a lady being drowned in a bog in the New Forest has told how the victim “would not have made it” without help.

COMPETITORS made waves over the weekend as hundreds of people gathered to watch the 34th RNLI Great Waterside Raft Race.

A COASTAL path from Calshot has been officially opened as part of the world’s longest continuous walking route.