Fordingbridge

A reward of up to £5,000 is being offered amid a hunt for two drivers who failed to report fatal collisions with New Forest animals.

Divisive plans to convert a Forest barn into holiday accommodation have been approved despite fears over light pollution.

Homeowners and councillors are pushing back against a developer trying to make changes to a housing scheme after the discovery of Roman archaeology.

A steam festival in Fordingbridge which was set up last year after another popular event folded has been hailed a success.

A stalker who threatened to burn down his ex-partner’s house and leave her “jobless, carless and homeless” has been jailed.

Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of life stretching back to the time of Stonehenge’s construction at a site where 200 homes are being built.

Emotions were running high as students across the New Forest and Christchurch received their A-level results.

A 150-year-old chapel could become a family home under newly submitted plans.

Cala Homes has started building 198 new homes on its Knightwood Chase site in Fordingbridge.

The acclaimed illustrator of the Discworld book series, Paul Kidby, will officially open and judge this year’s Fordingbridge summer art show.

Planners gave the go-ahead retrospectively for a former bank in Fordingbridge to be converted into commercial premises and residences.

A mobile phone mast will have to be ripped down from a Forest field after an appeal was thrown out.

Police are hunting offenders who abandoned a stolen car after it ploughed into a tree at Ripley, near Sopley.

A man who styled himself on comic book villain the Joker has been found not guilty of trying to kill a woman he called his “Harley Quinn”.

A man accused of strangling his ex-girlfriend twice told a jury he took a lie detector test to prove he was not cheating on her.

A cyclist who was knocked off his bike and killed on a Forest highway was “effectively invisible” to other road users, a coroners’ court heard.

A man who styles himself on the Joker and is accused of strangling his ex twice said he throttled her only once after she attacked him first.

Three bridges in the New Forest are in substandard condition for heavy vehicles, research has revealed.

A man accused of trying to murder a New Forest woman has a collection of tattoos of her, including a portrait on his neck, a court heard.

A man who “identifies” as comic book villain the Joker tried to kill his partner by strangling her in her New Forest home, a court trial heard.