Crime

TWO alleged shoplifters got more than they bargained for when a Brockenhurst store owner gave chase after they raided twice within hours.

POLICE swooped on New Milton Rugby Club’s Ashley field following reports of a group armed with baseball bats.

A DRUG dealer struck a man with a baseball bat before pulling out a knife and telling another that he would "skin him alive".

A BROCKENHURST pensioner’s lifelong hobby could be “out of the window” after thieves smashed into his car and stole £5,000 of fishing gear.

ATTACKING a police constable landed a Lymington woman with a £100 fine.

OFFICERS found a haul of cannabis, drug gear and ball bearings in a car which they seized in Christchurch.

NEW research suggests non-white children in Hampshire are up to five times more likely to be stopped and searched compared with white children.

POLICE are urging people to beware of courier fraud which has claimed hundreds of thousands of pounds in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

TWO teenagers were arrested after a man was hospitalised following an attack at Christchurch railway station.

VANDALISING a police cell cost an Ashley woman £135 when she appeared before magistrates.

TWO people were arrested after police seized a stash of class A and B drugs in a raid on a Pennington property in the early hours of this morning.

A MAN accused of stabbing to death Max Maguire in Lymington claimed he acted in self-defence when his brother was attacked, a jury was told.

THREE people were arrested after a hit-and-run collision involving a car that hurt a cyclist and brought down power lines in Twiggs Lane, Marchwood.

A WOMAN from Ireland was one of two people arrested after power tools were stolen in eight raids on outbuildings around Fordingbridge in one night.

A CAMPAIGN group has delivered a stark warning after a driver was caught at 64mph at a notorious New Forest animal accident blackspot.

ONE of the brothers standing trial over the murder of Lymington fisherman Max Maguire has been cleared.

HAMPSHIRE officers are gearing up for a week-long crackdown on knife crime.

BEING involved in the supply of around £32,500 of cannabis landed a New Forest man with a suspended prison sentence.

A TEAM of table tennis-playing pensioners fears they will have to disband after vandals wrecked their last remaining table at New Milton.

A VEHICLE rental company manager dramatically foiled a bid to steal a customer’s van from its New Milton yard by ramming the raiders' vehicle.