Lyndhurst

A LYNDHURST man who had been due to have a council funeral was given a spectacular high street send-off after a local funeral director stepped in.

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

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

THEY were the lumberjills: members of the Women’s Timber Corps launched 80 years ago which sent hundreds to work in the New Forest during WWII.

PLANS to turn a former B&B into a home for people with mental illness have been thrown into doubt amid competing proposals winning the green light.

NESTLED in the idyllic grounds of Lyndhurst’s Lime Wood Hotel, Raw and Cured restaurant has recently reworked its superfood-inspired menu

PEOPLE are urged to look out for a “reasonably unique” clock being offered for sale after burglars stole it from a Lyndhurst home.

FORTY vans were stopped and a driver arrested as police and local authorities carried out another anti-flytipping operation in Lyndhurst.

FIVE affordable homes could be built on the edge of the New Forest under a trailblazing new scheme.

AN INDEPENDENT school in Lyndhurst which teaches pupils with special educational and complex needs has been rated ‘good’ by Ofsted.

POLICE officers could be relocated to Lyndhurst while the main Southampton Central station undergoes an upgrade next year.

AN EIGHT-FOOT fairy door thought to be the world's largest has been unveiled at Furzey Gardens to mark the launch of its £500k centenary fundraiser.

THE future of the former Fenwick hospital in Lyndhurst has been thrown into doubt after the group that runs it pulled out.

WATER refill stations have been installed across the New Forest in an effort to entice people back onto the high street.

NEW Forest District Council has launched an investigation into a large haul of asbestos roofing flytipped at Stoney Cross.

A DEVICE used to tell drivers their speed has disappeared from a New Forest village road just days after being installed.

NEW Forest District Council is to plant 60 red, white and blue themed trees locally to help mark the Queen's jubliee year.

THE Tall Trees trail by Rhinefield Ornamental Drive near Brockenhurst has been rated as a better walk than a route up Mount Snowdon.

SENIOR district councillors have said they are powerless to do anything to stop more bank branches shut after the latest raft of local closures.

MORE than 50 waste carriers driving through a New Forest village were stopped during a crackdown on flytipping.