From Our Files: Going for groin...police wake-up...remembrance drive-through
50 YEARS AGO
PRINCE Charles, who has taken an interest in the League of Venturers for some years, has graciously consented to become their grand patron.
Mr Philip Smith, leader of the organisation said: “I think it is a tremendous achievement by a group of 30 youngsters to attract such an interest.”
The league was founded in 1961. Since then teenagers from it have made a name for themselves with brave rescues in the Solent.
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WHEN a gas fitter called at the Crown Inn pub in Everton he was bitten between the legs by an Alsatian dog.
The man required hospital treatment, Lymington magistrates heard.
He had knocked at the door of the pub when the dog ran out after it was opened and attacked him.
A woman pleaded guilty to having a dog dangerously out of control and she was ordered to keep it under control in the future.
Her defence solicitor said that the dog was used as a guard dog but had never bitten anyone before.
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A FORMER Sway man who got the village policeman out of bed late one night alleging that he had been assaulted demanded to speak to the chief constable on the telephone.
The wife of the policemen was so alarmed at the noise he was making that, armed with her husband’s truncheon, she went downstairs to assist him.
The man became “hysterical and argumentative” and told the policeman: “No wonder the youngsters call you pigs and fuzz, you are all the same. I pay your wages. I want some service.”
He was arrested by the policeman for being drunk and disorderly.
25 YEARS AGO
ELEVEN-year-old Ashley Junior School student Daniel Devries dramatically changed his image in aid of Children in Need Day.
He had his ponytail cut off and raised £140 for the children’s ward at Southampton Hospital where his school friend Kevyn Mondz was treated following a road accident earlier this year in France.
Daniel’s mum said: “He’s had the ponytail for three-and-a-half years and has grown quite attached to it, but it’s going for a good cause.”
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A MAN who unintentionally interrupted a Remembrance Day service at Burley by driving through the village in his noisy sports car feared for his safety when angry members of the congregation attacked his vehicle.
The driver of the eight-cylinder 1900 Morgan said he wanted to apologise to them. The man said he had followed the directions of a police officer.
He said he realised he was in the middle of the service when he spotted the vicar standing at The Cross reading from a bible.
The motorist said some of the attendees then ripped his wing mirror off and started banging on his car.
He said: “I didn’t go through honking my horn and flashing my lights. I just rumbled through slowly.”
“I wasn’t being disrespectful.”
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DESMOND Swayne MP for New Forest West has lashed out at bishops for claiming extravagant living expenses while not preaching the traditional Gospel.
The MP told the House of Commons the expenses should be directly linked to a bishop’s “theological orthodoxy and evangelical zeal”.
He said that congregations were “tired” of bishops who funded their “extravagant lifestyles off the back of the church while scarcely believing the fundamentals of the Christian faith.”
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THE children's ward at Lymington hospital is to close early in the new year two years after a report claimed the ward did not meet new Royal College Standards.
It cited the number of paediatric doctors on attendance at night as "concerning."
Now the Community Health Trust has ruled operations on children in Lymington hospital will cease.
A children's ward was opened at the hospital in 1983 but when the old Grove Maternity Hospital closed at Barton it was converted into a maternity wing.
The children's ward was re-sited in the hospital and named after Nigel Morgan a paediatric surgeon from Hythe who played a key role in re-establishing children's services at Lymington.
