New Forest

Sand filters have been installed at East Boldre wastewater treatment works at a cost of £3.7million.

Empty homes that were left to rot now have people living in them after New Forest District Council helped to bring them back into use.

Flood alerts have been issued for parts of the New Forest and Christchurch today after Storm Éowyn brought heavy rain and strong winds.

THE county council may start charging firms, and its own highways department, up to £2,500 a day for causing delays working on Forest roads.

New Forest District Council planning applications and decisions for the week ending Friday 24th January.

Strong winds and heavy rain coming with Storm Éowyn tomorrow are set to continue across the weekend.

Strong and gusty winds are set to batter coastal parts of the New Forest tomorrow ahead of the predicted arrival of Storm Éowyn.

Storm Éowyn is expected to bring “very” strong winds, heavy rain and possibly snow to the New Forest and Christchurch on Friday.

Police officers have defended their idea to take a Forest stroll with members of the public after some claimed they should instead be fighting crime.

A £1.75 million refurbishment of New Forest District Council’s HQ could be axed amid the prospect of council mergers.

“There was a terrible sound, like a roar…there was metal falling from the sky.”

A cash reward is on offer amid the hunt for a hit-and-run driver after a New Forest pony was left to die with a broken leg.

New Forest District Council planning applications and decisions for the week ending Friday 17th January.

Dates of hearings to scrutinise a plan for future quarry sites across the New Forest have been set.

Police are appealing for witnesses after bags of asbestos were dumped in two New Forest locations.

Birds from Russia, Iceland and Greenland spending the winter on the Waterside make the area a globally important spot for wildlife, experts have said.

Police arrested 13 suspected drink and drug-drivers in the New Forest during a Christmas crackdown that snared over 300 county-wide.

A Gypsy has won his fight to keep a mobile home on farm land in Dibden.

The county’s air ambulance saw a “staggering” increase in emergency call-outs last year.

New social groups for elderly people to socialise and make new friends have been launched by Age Concern in partnership with Sovereign Network Group.