Marchwood

Two New Forest tips threatened with closure will remain open after the county council’s cabinet rejected plans to close 12 sites across Hampshire.

Two Forest household waste and recycling centres will be closed next year under plans by Hampshire County Council.

Surveying the work of his troops, Lieutenant Colonel Terry Wilcox smiled broadly and said: “I couldn’t be prouder of them.”

The Solent Freeport is expected to create fewer jobs and less money for the area than first thought, a report has revealed.

A 64-year-old man has died in an industrial accident in Marchwood, police have confirmed.

Invented in Christchurch, the Mexeflote will be crucial to the success of a New Forest regiment during a forthcoming exercise in Albania.

The grieving family of a man killed when a car ploughed into a tree off a main road at Marchwood have paid tribute to a “heart and soul of the party”.

Marchwood Junior School continues to be ‘outstanding’, inspectors have ruled.

Parts of the New Forest many have discoloured tap water following emergency repairs.

A man was killed and a woman badly hurt in a crash on a main road at Marchwood.

Plans to change a former Marchwood care home into a house in multiple occupation (HMO) have come under fire.

Glass was smashed and equipment torched when vandals wrecked 10 pieces of “high-value” plant machinery in the early hours.

A military officer from Marchwood avoided a roads ban over failing to identify a driver suspected of an offence.

A gang wearing balaclavas blocked a Forest road with cones and leapt from bushes to steal a car after the driver stopped to clear the obstruction.

Police are probing multiple thefts, break-ins and attempted break-ins reportedly involving five masked men in Eling and Marchwood.

A new 66-bedroom care home on agricultural land in Marchwood has been granted planning permission.

A plan to build up to 150 homes on fields at Marchwood has been given the green light despite villagers’ concerns about flooding and overdevelopment.

Properties and roads could be impacted by flooding in parts of the New Forest tomorrow (Tuesday).

A village’s only doctors’ surgery has announced it had taken the “difficult decision” to consider closing the practice due to a lack of GPs.

New Forest District Council’s opposition to plans to close two local household waste and recycling centres has moved a step closer as