Commoning

The family of a children’s show donkey killed in a hit-and-run near Bramshaw have offered a £1,000 reward for help to track down the driver.

Sunny Boxing Day skies drew hundreds of spectators to Fritham to watch riders thunder home in the annual New Forest point-to-point races.

Cattle have returned to graze unwanted plants in a "secret forest" left virtually untouched for over a century.

Thundering hooves will cross the finishing line at Fritham Plain for this year's Boxing Day Point to Point races.

Three animals were killed in crashes with vehicles on New Forest roads last week, the verderers have reported.

A pony was killed on one of the New Forest's worst roads for animal deaths, the verderers reported.

Calls to ban fireworks and sky lanterns in the New Forest via new antisocial behaviour laws have been rejected by the district council.

Another impatient motorist has been filmed in the New Forest – this time a motorcyclist revving his engine to scare a group of cows.

ON-the-spot fines of up to £100 could be issued for feeding Forest livestock and lighting barbecues under new laws being considered by NFDC.

"For any operator the campsites need to be made to pay well and not simply to tick over with a marginal profit."

Mystery surrounds the disappearance of a mounted deer head from the Verderers’ Court in Lyndhurst.

The verderers are set to work with a leading New Forest cycling group to improve the cycle network after it was branded “not fit for purpose”.

The Royal Mail has launched an investigation after dashcam footage of a delivery van swerving off the road to pass a Forest pony was posted online.

Dashcam footage of a Royal Mail van overtaking a driver who had stopped for a New Forest pony has prompted an angry response from locals.

Plans for a return to public pony auctions at the Beaulieu Road Sales Yard have been put on hold until next year amid a continuing strangles outbreak.

A letter calling for greater financial support for the farmers amid spiralling costs will be sent to the government by New Forest District Council.

A consultation into new powers to deal with anti-social behaviour in the New Forest national park has been approved.

Motorists are being urged to drive cautiously as the evenings get darker to continue a "record breaking" reduction in animal accidents.

A pig and a young pony were killed in crashes on New Forest roads last week, the verderers reported.

National park authority members have refused to back a bid by Solent Freeport to make the area an investment zone.