Hampshire Police

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

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 slammed impatient motorists who sounded their horns at an ambulance blocking a high street as crews battled to save a baby's life.

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 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.

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.

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 SUSPECTED drug-driver was arrested as police joined another multi-agency speeding crackdown on a notorious Forest animal accident black spot route.

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.

WOULD-be kidnappers snatched a two-year-old girl near Ringwood but were foiled when her mother’s dog bit one of them.

ATTEMPTS by a conservation group to stop the sale of Lymington's former police station to a retirement housing developer have failed.

POLICE closed a New Milton road on Saturday night as they continued to investigate a hit-and-run crash which killed a retired nurse.

A MAN has been arrested in connection with a crash on the A326 Marchwood bypass which claimed the life of a mum-of-five.

THREE teens were arrested after robbers armed with a hammer stole cigarettes and tobacco in a raid on a Totton petrol station.