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LEARN MORE30 January 2021
TO be diagnosed with Covid-19 two days before your 100th birthday would leave most people reeling. It certainly worried the family of great-grandmother Stella Hunt who celebrated the century milestone last Saturday...
23 January 2021
A BARTON couple celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary by having their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine...
24 December 2020
Vandals hacked down a Christmas tree on Barton clifftop, but efforts have since been made to repair it “IT’S disgusting” – this was the reaction of a…
20 November 2020
Rescue teams at the scene (pictures: Southbourne Coastguard) A DOG walker had to be airlifted by helicopter after becoming stuck waist-deep in mud on…
20 November 2020
The scheme was planned for Barton Common Lane (picture: Google) A BID to demolish a home in an exclusive Barton road to make way for four houses was narrowly…
09 November 2020
PEOPLE across the New Forest and Christchurch honoured the fallen differently this year as the pandemic forced the scaling-back of annual Remembrance Sunday commemorations...
08 November 2020
The thieves targeted a home on Barton Lane (picture: Google) JEWELLERY, cash and fragrances to the value of £7,000 were stolen by thieves from a Barton…
06 November 2020
DETERMINED to mark this year’s Remembrance despite tough new Covid lockdown laws, the community of Pennington came together a few days early to lay wreaths at the village’s war memorial...
03 November 2020
Emergency services at Barton beach (picture: SCAS) RESCUE teams raced against time to help a walker who had fallen on rocks at Barton beach as the tide…
02 November 2020
Harmeet Singh Brar from Sikh Council Hampshire said he intended to still lay a wreath at the Indian memorial THE new month-long national lockdown has…
28 October 2020
Plates left at Sir Desmond Swayne's constituency office in Barton A LOAD of empty plates was dumped at the entrance to a New Forest MP’s constituency…
26 October 2020
The porpoise had been dead "for some time" COASTGUARD officers were sent to Barton beach after a large, dead porpoise was washed ashore. Responding to…
25 October 2020
The homes would be built in Barton Common Lane (picture: Google) PLANS to replace a Barton home with four new houses have been opposed by town councillors. Property…
20 October 2020
The injured pair were handed over to paramedics FIREFIGHTERS had to free two elderly people from an overturned vehicle following a crash on the A337 at…
08 October 2020
The mess inside Roy Edwin's Barton beach hut following the raid MORE than 20 Barton beach huts were ransacked causing thousands of pounds worth of damage…
03 October 2020
It's not the first time a dog has been hurt on a hook at Barton beach A DOG owner is appealing to fishermen to take their hooks home after her pet had…
18 September 2020
The Byron Road lights have raised more than £80,000 over the years (photo: Becky Bryant) A STRING of popular events have been cancelled across the New…
15 September 2020
Hurricanes in the Battle of Britain (photo: © IWM CH 1508) THE memory of an RAF pilot from Barton killed in action aged 20 has been honoured as this year…
09 August 2020
One of the new anti-litter billboards BILLBOARDS featuring a giant crab are the latest initiative by New Forest District Council to encourage people to…
31 July 2020
The casualty is taken to the lifeboat EMERGENCY crews rescued a woman who fractured her ankle on Barton cliff face yesterday (Thursday) evening. Lymington’s…