From Our Files: Hair-raising rescue...rural policing fears...nurse’s ticket to rile
50 YEARS AGO
THIS is Wellworthy’s answer to bringing back the football crowds! The Wellworthy ‘Carnival Bunnies’ team have been training hard under manager Ernest Merrifield, head of catering at the factory who keeps an eye on the player’s figures.
It is unlikely that the girls will need treatment on the field for the sponge men who have threatened to use the kiss of life on any casualties.
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A WOMAN with her hair still in rollers dived into the run at Mudeford to rescue a drowning man.
Mrs Sally Parker, of Haven Cottages, is the administrative officer at the Mudeford lifeboat. She had been in the middle of a perm when the alarm was raised.
As the lifeboat was launching she ran to the Quay and saw that the 78-year-old man’s head was going under and his feet up. She then dived eight feet into the water, came up under him and got hold of him.
They were swept along as far as Bass Rock where they were helped ashore.
Her rescue was described by Ken Derham of the RNLI as “very courageous and an exemplary rescue”.
The mayor of Christchurch also congratulated her, saying: “To my mind anyone who jumps into the Run deserves a medal, it terrifies me to look at it.”
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DOG wardens from New Forest District Council are keen to reunite two unusual Neapolitan mastiffs with their owners. The dogs were possibly stolen before being abandoned in the New Forest.
They were found wandering in Burley. Dog warden Neil Burton says the two dogs, both bitches, could have been stolen for breeding purposes before being dumped.
He said: “There are people who steal dogs even from other parts of the country before finding them unsuitable and dumping them.”
Mr Burton said the dogs were a special breed that needed expert care. They will grow to around 150 pounds. He said: “We’re just hoping that anyone who saw anything will come forward.”
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NEW Milton Ratepayers are standing firm over their policy that Fawcett’s Field off Christchurch Road, New Milton, should not be developed but used as open space.
They will be sending a letter upholding the local planning authority’s refusal of planning permission for 81 residential units on part of the land to an appeal by the owners J and JE Fawcett to be held on Tuesday.
Chairman Mrs D Love said: “Housing development would only bring in more elderly people to the area and the services are fully stretched now.”
25 YEARS AGO
EIGHTY-six members of the public attended a Police Liaison Committee meeting when police divisional commander Supt David Ball from Lyndhurst attempted to placate fears over rural policing.
There were groans when he revealed local police officers are soon to be re-equipped with four-wheel-drive vehicles replacing motorcycles which are deemed impractical.
“They will not have to be cold and wet as they travel about their job – the thought of internal heating is very appealing.”
When one woman referred to rumours that Lymington police station is to be sold off Supt. Ball replied: “We would not be getting twelve new vehicles if we were pulling out.
“What did Margaret Thatcher say? ‘No, no, no!’.
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FOOTBALL fans anxious to get their hands on tickets for the now sold out England and Scotland Euro 2000 qualifier were not always careful about when they dialled the Wembley box office number.
Hundreds of calls went to Marchwood nurse Karin Jazosch, who works at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital at Winchester, who said they “never ceased”.
So she has left a message on her answerphone and gone to stay with her mother. Karin said: “I don’t even like football!”
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OVER 300 women have been traced following the revelation that a doctor who treated them at Southampton’s Princess Anne Hospital was infected with hepatitis C.
Women who had surgery at the maternity hospital between July 1995 and July 1997 were sent letters to alert them and were given the opportunity to attend special clinics for advice and blood tests. So far 250 women have contacted the hospital.
Patients who had hysterectomies or Caesarean sections are thought to be more at risk.
