Crime

Police have released a CCTV image of a man they want to trace following a theft at a New Milton convenience store.

A New Forest man who shared images featuring the face of a Harry Potter actress superimposed on to the bodies of children has been jailed.

Two 14-year-old boys were arrested after another teenager was violently robbed in New Milton town centre.

A man was warned by a judge he had come close to being sent to prison after he knocked a person unconscious with a single blow in a New Forest pub.

A New Forest police station will reopen to the public next month, the police and crime commissioner for Hampshire has confirmed.

Police are hunting burglars who stole tools, a camera and sunglasses from a Christchurch home.

A New Milton man who admitted possessing over 200 indecent images of children as young as five has avoided being sent to prison.

Two teenage boys have received conditional cautions for criminal damage and shoplifting in the New Milton area.

A spate of anti-social behaviour, including petrol poured on play equipment and shop staff harassed, sparked a dispersal order in Totton town centre.

Staff at high street takeaways in New Milton have been subjected to racist abuse by a gang of youngsters, the town council has been told.

A community has rallied after railway sleepers were stolen from flowerbeds outside a New Forest library.

A man who smashed the windows of a New Milton shop with a hammer has been ordered to cough up £3,000 compensation.

A woman who intervened when two teenagers were threatened with a blade in a New Forest park is being urged by police to come forward.

A man was arrested after an early morning police raid uncovered a large haul of class B drugs and cash at a Totton home.

A knife bin will be at Lymington’s police station this week for those who want to surrender blades.

Police are hoping to reunite a seized haul of thousands of pounds of stolen tools with their owners.

A New Forest pensioner was among victims targeted in six courier frauds by bogus police and bank staff across Hampshire in two weeks.

Police are looking for a man who tried to kidnap a woman in Lyndhurst at the weekend.

A mum who was mown down in a hit-and-run on New Milton’s high street says she is “really lucky to be alive” after the car “came out of nowhere”.

A man and a woman are due to appear in crown court following a robbery at a New Milton home.