Hampshire Police

POLICE have launched a probe into a blaze which destroyed a car at Eling late last night.

A HOLBURY driver who rammed a police car during a chase while in a stolen car and disqualified from the roads was spared a jail term.

POLICE are warning "frustrated" residents not to set up vigilante-style groups to tackle crime themselves.

TWO men were arrested after police responded to reports of a burglary in progress at a vehicle repair workshop in New Milton.

A PROLIFIC offender was spared jail by a judge for two distraction burglaries due to hints he had "turned a corner".

A MAN who exposed himself to two women near secluded woodland in Fordingbridge has been jailed for six months.

CONSERVATIVE Donna Jones is the newly elected police and crime commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

A PENNINGTON teenager was punched twice in an unprovoked attack as she walked to college, prompting a safety warning from her mother.

A PARISH priest shared his shock and disgust after a severed deer head was found dumped beside a foodbank at his New Forest church.

TWO axes and a knife were discovered in a New Forest street during a crackdown on crime involving blades.

COUNSELLING has been offered to staff and pupils at Arnewood School following the death of 15-year-old student Max Thurnell-Read.

POLICE had to perform CPR on a man who was badly hurt in an attack outside a shop in Calmore thought to have arisen from a disabled parking space row.

A MOTORIST was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after a car ploughed into the wall of a house in Lymington town centre.

HAMPSHIRE residents will head to the polls on 6th May to elect a new police and crime commissioner.

POLICE have arrested a man following a string of catalytic converter thefts in the New Forest during one night.

A POLITICAL party in Hampshire has not put forward any candidates for the police and crime commissioner elections due to an “exorbitant” fee.

POLICE were assaulted as they arrested three people in relation to offences involving class A drugs at a Totton property.

A SURGE in catalytic converter thefts in Hampshire has prompted a week-long campaign urging people to anonymously report suspected or known offenders.

PEOPLE are being invited to surrender knives or sharp objects to police in the New Forest during a week of action aimed at tackling knife crime.

POLICE are hunting a man who sexually assaulted a teenage boy in a daylight attack at the busy Eling Recreation Ground in Totton.