Bransgore

A CRATE full of guinea pigs was dumped in a field in Bransgore, leaving one of them just hours from death.

DOG owners are being urged to pick up after their pets in the New Forest after 18 unborn calves were lost to a disease linked to dog faeces.

DRIVERS have been stopped using a narrow New Forest cut-through while diversions are in place during work to replace Holmsley Bridge on the A35.

A PROBLEM installing foundations of the replacement Holmsley bridge has been blamed for the A35 having to shut longer than originally planned.

INDEPENDENT Bransgore farmer Richard Frampton has won the Bransgore and Burley New Forest District Council seat after a festive byelection.

A CHARITY which supports and teaches people with learning difficulties and disabilities through horses has held its annual nativity.

A FESTIVE by-election battle will see four candidates vie for the vacant Bransgore and Burley seat on New Forest District Council.

BRANSGORE Parish Council has formally objected to plans to build 100 homes near land prone to flooding in the village.

DRIVERS face three months of disruption on one of the New Forest’s main arteries when the A35 completely shuts for bridge replacement work.

A WOMAN was punched in the face and kicked as she lay on the ground in an attack by a fellow dog walker in Sopley.

BRANSGORE Primary School pupils have become 'hedgerow heroes' after learning more about work to improve hedges on the nearby Meyrick Estate.

TOWNS and villages across the New Forest and Christchurch will join the nation in commemorating the fallen on Remembrance Sunday, 14th November.

NEW Forest District Council has a new cabinet member – Cllr Geoffrey Blunden replacing Mark Steele, who resigned after a row with the leader.

A FRUSTRATED Winkton pensioner's car has had its windows shot out in catapult attacks three times in as many weeks.

A CATAPULT, a stolen Network Rail survey box and suspected drugs were found in an uninsured car seized by police in Bransgore.

TWENTY new volunteers have joined New Forest Basics Bank, swelling its ranks to well over 100 as the service continues to expand to meet demand.

A CAR was destroyed in an arson attack when five men targeted a Bransgore home early last Friday morning.

A BANKSY-STYLE graffiti artist has unmasked himself so he could return to Bransgore and repair an uplifting artwork he secretly created 10 years ago.

A STRING of vehicle offences in Arundel Close, New Milton, resulted in a Bransgore man being jailed for 34 weeks.

THE death of a "wonderful" Bransgore woman who took her own life was wholly unexpected, an inquest heard.