More news, no ads
Home People
SIR – My thanks to the A&T for highlighting the planning application at Hinton burial grounds (A&T, 13th May).
SIR – The plans to build more retirement flats where the police stations were in both Hythe and Lymington is absolutely ridiculous.
A WELL-LOVED member for many years of St John Ambulance and a former governor of Foxhills Junior School, Gordon Fillis, has died at the age of 93.
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.
SIR – Before moving here I lived near Banbury, which is ruled by Cherwell District Council (CDC). It had recycled badly.
KNOWN both to his customers and family as ‘Mr Fix-it’ there was little that former ironmonger Tony Puzey could not repair.
SIR – At Verderers’ Court recently there were impassioned pleas in support of planting trees in Burley for the Queen’s jubilee
SIR – Perhaps I could save the cost of a feasibility study into reopening Ampress Halt (A&T, 29th April)? It isn't.
SIR – It was very interesting attending the planning appeal at Lymington council chamber last week to consider Churchill Retirement Living's appeal.
SIR – Three recent headlines suggest we have concerns regarding planning in both the BCP and New Forest District Council areas.
"The site is a designated green corridor which is retained for wildlife"
SIR – Tell me I am dreaming, but what I see on the TV about the war in Ukraine is almost like watching a video game but in real life.
SIR – We read with great interest Dr D. J. Delany (Letters, 8th April) with regard to the proposed Pennyfarthing development off Manor Road.
LONGSTANDING Lymington hairdresser and sailor Tony Collard has died at the age of 86.
SIR – Is there no authority who will take responsibility for the large numbers of assorted motorhomes parked up along New Lane and Saltgrass Lane?
THE clifftop residence in Barton which housed refugees from 1954 to 1991.
A RECENTLY-rediscovered rare gun turret used to help defend New Milton during the Second World War could be restored for display.
SIR – This plan strikes me as a reversal of what these people at Hampshire County Council were put in position to do – serve the people.
"I can visualise so much improvement that not having wheeled bins would be against individual rights for a healthier environment."
A DISTINGUISHED scientist with a lifelong love of New Forest deer has died at the of 92.
SIR – I write with dismay at the attitude of both Hampshire County Council and the New Forest park authorities.
SIR – Thank you for your recent article highlighting the difficulties faced by Bashley residents, in particular when trying to walk in the village.