Chris March

Police have released a CCTV picture of man they want to trace after a roadworks tool was stolen.

Firefighters have started scaling down attendance at a large heath blaze off the A31 near Ringwood, which they have been battling for over a week.

Searches have concluded at a nature reserve as police continue investigating reports of a man in the water.

A busy stretch of road badly damaged by a fire that devastated a large swathe of New Forest heathland will remain shut into the weekend.

A holiday firm vowed to conduct a full review after a convicted sex offender it employed at one of its parks was jailed for groping young boys there.

“Please bear with us” – this was a senior councillor’s plea in response to complaints of missed waste collections in the New Forest.

Immersion in water is believed to have led to the death of a 54-year-old Langley man, an inquest heard.

An extended lease is being sought by a Forest rugby club amid an expansion plan to mark its upcoming centenary.

The last of the firefighters who battled a major New Forest heathland blaze left the scene, two weeks after it first broke out.

Sales of illegal tobacco and vape, along with antisocial behaviour, resulted in a Ringwood store being ordered to shut for three months.