Bags for life are to be removed from Co-op stores across the New Forest and Christchurch and replaced with compostable carriers.
HAMPSHIRE residents will head to the polls on 6th May to elect a new police and crime commissioner.
ON 6TH May Christchurch residents will be given the chance to vote for the Dorset’s police and crime commissioner.
A DRIVER who hit a New Forest pony and left it to die in the road without reporting the incident has been sentenced.
A MILITARY bandsman who was given a six-month trial having never played an instrument before in his life has finally retired after 50 years of music.
A SERIES of special films have been released celebrating the 60th anniversary of Beaulieu’s National Motor Museum reference library.
AN equestrian told how she and her children rescued two horses from their field as a huge inferno raged at a next door New Forest community building.
POLICE have arrested a man following a string of catalytic converter thefts in the New Forest during one night.
DISCOUNT chain Home Bargains is seeking permission to extend its store into the neighbouring unit at Christchurch Retail Park.
A Hythe care home installed its very own pub to keep residents happy during lockdown which saw boozers across the country forced to close down.
A PUBLIC inquiry will be held into plans for 44 new retirement apartments at one of the gateways into Lymington.
A RINGWOOD software development company has seen its staff numbers more than double over the course of pandemic lockdown.
A FOOTBALL referee and dad of two has raised more than £4k by completing a marathon running, cycling and rowing event while undergoing chemotherapy.
THE future of a community shop has been secured after the NPA approved plans for it to co-locate in an extension to Boldre War Memorial Hall.
FORMER NFDC leader, Cllr Barry Rickman, has been ejected from the ruling Tory group and is now sitting as an independent member.
COUNCILS will have to resume face-to-face meetings this month after a legal challenge aimed at extending pandemic rules failed.
A Fordingbridge woman has escaped eviction from her cottage home after proving she had broken planning rules for at least a decade.
THE Liberal Democrats have called on Labour to withdraw a leaflet it has issued in Ringwood claiming only its candidates are 'local'.
A NEW video has been released to show off Christchurch and its iconic features to attract tourism.
SOPLEY farmer Dan Tanner and his team of pickers are busy harvesting one of the nation's favourite spring vegetables ready to sell in his shop.
