Crime

A two-day dispersal order was activated in Totton town centre after heightened police powers saw two youths arrested on suspicion of weapons offences.

A motorist was Tasered and headbutted a police officer following a car chase in Lymington.

A man who admitted sending indecent or offensive messages via social media has been fined £80.

A 14-year-old robbed a girl at knifepoint and was later found armed with a plug in a sock, a court has heard.

Raids and arrests were carried out across the New Forest as part of a national week-long crackdown on drug supply networks.

Police have released CCTV images of two women they want to trace after hundreds of pounds of stock was stolen from a Christchurch pharmacy.

Hurling abuse at a woman in a superstore landed a Christchurch man with a 12-month conditional discharge when he appeared before magistrates.

A shoplifter faces sentencing for stealing goods from two stores in the New Forest within as many days.

Police have released a CCTV image of a man they want to trace after about £50 of meat was stolen from a Ringwood convenience store.

A “brazen” shoplifting in which around £1,000 of Christmas stock was taken left a family-run garden centre’s staff “shocked” and “disappointed”.

Police have released a CCTV image of a man they want to trace a month after a staff member was assaulted in a theft at a Ringwood store.

Staff at Christchurch Food Bank were devastated to find thieves had stolen over a thousand pounds’ worth of Christmas food.

A farmer rescued his cattle as Totton barns were destroyed in an arson attack, wrecking three tractors and hundreds of hay bales.

A woman who was seriously injured after being thrown of her bike by a hit and run driver is appealing for help catching them.

A man from Lymington has been arrested in connection with a fire on a book store in the town.

Police seized an incorrectly assembled electric motorcycle being illegally ridden on a Fordingbridge street by a youngster.

Quick-thinking staff at a Lymington bar jumped into action to tackle a fire at a book store in the High Street last night.

A man is due to appear in court charged in connection with a crash in which an 18-year-old woman died on a main road between Ringwood and Matchams.

Police in Lymington have warned locals to “use it or lose it” when it comes to the force’s desk and offices at the town council site.

A CCTV image of a woman wanted in connection with the theft of face cream worth £195 from a Lymington store has been released by police.