21 November 2019
Vic House, who regularly played Father Christmas, helped launch the Highcliffe Charity Players HIGHCLIFFE has lost one of its best known and most colourful…
14 November 2019
Bruce Davidson at 94 finishes the New Forest 5k TRIBUTES have poured in to “inspirational” and “incredible” New Forest runner Bruce Davidson who has died…
14 November 2019
Ray Thompson with one of his beloved dogs PIONEERING electronics engineer Ray Thompson was such a modest man that it was not until the film The Imitation…
07 November 2019
Evelyn Lamb was a champion of the NHS RETIRED district nurse Evelyn Lamb, who was a champion of the NHS and pillar of the New Milton community for 60…
30 October 2019
The gates to Hinton Admiral Estate SIR George Meyrick, one of the area’s wealthiest landowners and a close friend to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,…
25 October 2019
Jim Cobb with niece and nephew Valerie and Steve House at Cobb’s Holiday Park closure in 2013 LONGSTANDING holiday park owner and leading Freemason Jim…
04 October 2019
Brian Wilson with Cindy THERE were three things that Brian Wilson held dear: the New Forest, his ponies and his wife – and according to his widow Angie,…
26 September 2019
Milford stalwart Michael Reed has died aged 82 LONGSTANDING horticulturalist and Milford community stalwart Michael Reed has died suddenly at the age…
20 September 2019
David and Susan Balme at their son's wedding SUSAN BALME, who for decades kept secret her husband’s key role in breaking the Nazi war codes, has died…
19 September 2019
Leon Crouch, who was a successful industrialist and philanthropist has died aged 70 AS a child Leon Crouch walked from his council house to school wearing…
05 September 2019
Alan Girling was born on the Isle of Wight in 1939 RETIRED property developer and farmer Alan Girling has died aged 80 after a long illness. He was born…
29 August 2019
Tom Porter, who was from Burley, has died aged 93 AN ENTREPRENEUR who owned a pub chain, wrote quizzes and had many books published has died aged 93. Tom…
15 August 2019
Irene Taylor, from New Milton, was described as a "complete one-off" One of the New Forest’s oldest residents Irene Taylor has died at the age of 107…
09 August 2019
Daughter Yvonne said Bill Dunkinson was "very much a village man. He adored Brockenhurst and his family" A FORMER Brockenhurst coal merchant from one…
19 June 2019
Frank Coombes with his late wife Ivy on his 89th birthday in 2007 A GRANDFATHER with distinguished wartime service and aviation career who spent much…
06 June 2019
Yvonne King died aged 91 after a "wonderful and love-filled life" A FORMER New Forest magistrate and longstanding member of the Royal Lymington Yacht…
06 June 2019
Ron Evans before the Cenotaph remembrance service in 2017 A VETERAN who survived one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War and later went on…
24 May 2019
Dr Ivor Johnston, a Lymington GP for four decades, died aged 85 MUCH-LOVED loved Lymington GP for four decades, Dr Ivor Johnston, has died after battling…
16 May 2019
Wally Wright was head of humanities at Noadswood School A FORMER head of humanities at Noadswood School and rugby enthusiast Wally Wright has died at…
16 May 2019
Monica Langston with her husband Jack PARISH champion Monica Langston, who ran Lyndhurst’s post office for many years, served as church warden and was…
