Burley

MOTORISTS who drive off-road in the New Forest are warned their vehicles could be seized after police caught three offenders in a week.

PART of Lyndhurst High Street will be temporarily closed to allow a delivery of 20-metre concrete beams.

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.

HUNDREDS of spectators braved the wind and rain to roar home riders and their horses at the popular New Forest point-to-point races.

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

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

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

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.

AN OAK ‘saved’ by a group of Burley residents who formed a human chain to stop its felling may still have to be cut down.

A DETERMINED tree hugger says she has saved a large oak from being felled in Burley after a group of residents formed a human chain around it.

The New Forest village turned out in force for a primary school fundraiser.

A MOTORIST escaped serious injury when a car rolled onto its roof near Burley last night (Sunday).

AN all-action horsewoman who competed at Hickstead died of an accidental drug overdose after a serious fall left her in chronic pain.

THE popular Burley Steam and Vintage Show returned to raise over £1,000 for The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance.

BANKER Mark Johnson has reported to prison in the US, but has applied to be transferred to a UK jail, it has been confirmed.

BURLEY bicycle hire business New Forest Cycling faces a huge loss in summer trade after raiders stole 15 electric mountain bikes worth over £30,000.

A VEHICLE caused damage to the open Forest after driving across it to flytip a load of waste.

FORMER retained firefighter Peter Bromfield who was heavily involved in village life in Burley has died aged 81.