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Teenagers at a New Milton school have clubbed together to send food parcels to help the people of Central America in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch.

The pupils in Year 7 at Arnewood School were so touched by their plight that they decided practical aid was called for.

They collected sugar, flour, salt, tinned meat, saucepans and tin openers which they filled 30 food parcels with. A large container ship sent sail for Honduras with the parcels onboard last week.

75 YEARS AGO

ON Tuesday evening Mr Brian Newey was leading a bull through Manor Farm when it became restless, rearing and plunging.

It then turned on Mr Newey and threw him to the ground. The bull paused and sniffed around him, then renewed the attack, tossing Mr Newey over his back.

It then pinned him down with its horns across his chest. Mr Newey retained sufficient presence of mind to grasp the bull’s nose ring and twist it.

Still grappling with the animal Mr Newey rolled through the bushes and brambles, his clothes tore to shreds.

His cries for help were heard by Mr Reg Miller in a field half a mile away. He arrived to give help to Mr Newey who had managed to crawl under a barbed wire fence through which the bull was unable to follow.

He escaped with severe shaking and bruising.

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BOROUGH councillors are considering a suggestion that the bombed site adjoining the National Provincial Bank in New Milton be turned into a garden with seats and a shelter as at present old people and mums with prams had nowhere to rest before starting home after shopping.

The mayor pointed out that this was asking the council to take up land in an expensive area and there was a recreation ground nearby where people could rest.

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A TOTAL of 14 cattle and pigs had to be slaughtered on Tuesday owing to an outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease.

They were the entire stock of Bridge Farm, Ashley.

Compensation has been fixed by an auctioneer at £375 10s. The market value of the animals being paid in full.

The disease was found to be present in seven pigs and one heifer. The outbreak is an especially hard blow for pig-keepers amongst the New Forest Commoners for they are now unable to turn their pigs out to pick up acorns and beech nuts.

50 YEARS AGO

MILFORD laundry is closing down at the end of this year solely because the staff situation has become ‘impossible’ in the words of its managing director M J Thwaites who told the A&T that while getting staff had been a problem for years, it had now become impossible owing to a lack of housing in the village for lower paid workers.

“We are building more and more £38,000 houses,” said Mr Thwaites “but in the end where are the workers going to live?

“Where are the people to live who are needed to man essential services such as laundries?”

Founded in 1896 by a Madame Patti who was a maid to Lady Cornwallis-West Milford laundry was sold to Mr W. Beesley former head of the village school.

A fire destroyed the laundry in 1988 but it was rebuilt. Mr Thwaites said customers would now have to travel to New Milton to have their laundry done.

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CARS in the Christchurch area were stopped and searched on Wednesday night after a prisoner escaped from the hospital.

He was a London man who was awaiting an escort in the custody of local police who had arrested him on behalf of the Metropolitan force.

On Thursday the man was still at large but had been traced to the London area.

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THE world of 81 year old widower Tom Fishbourne revolved around his cottage in Buckland Road, Lymington.

When Lymington Borough Council condemned the row of 14 cottages Tom adamantly refused to budge.

The remaining 13 dwellings were boarded up and became derelict but Tom’s cottage at the end remained spotless inside and out.

Repeated eviction attempts by the council failed and Tom even wrote to the Queen pointing out that he had served with the Royal Navy under her grandfather and all he wanted was to live his last years in peace in his home.

He received a sympathetic reply and last Sunday morning Tom won his fight, for he was found dead in his armchair but still proudly master of his own home.

25 YEARS AGO

THE police are to be asked for their view about Milford-on-Sea’s village centre becoming an alcohol-free zone.

The parish council’s planning committee had suggested that having a bottle and can drink-free zone (where it would be an offence to drink in public) would be difficult to police and was not worth pursuing.

But Dr James Scobie asked if the police had been consulted and Prof Gerald Smart said such zones did not work well in a number of villages.

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THE offer of a £3,000 contribution towards the £10,000 cost of widening Milford-on-Sea’s High Street pavement by eight inches has been agreed by the parish council.

Members were told the village traders were unanimous in their opposition to the widening.

Mrs Elizabeth Everard said she believed the residents would be “appalled” at the council spending so much money for eight inches.

But Prof Gerald Smart said he had “no doubt” that the village “will benefit.”

Mrs Everard said she did not agree saying to widen the pavements had been made “when we did not know what the ridiculous cost was going to be.”

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NEW MILTON firemen were called out twice at lunchtime on Monday to Gore Grange after cooking triggered alarms. Overdone sausages and prunes were responsible.



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