One of the biggest concerns raised at public meetings attended by police officers in the New Forest is speeding motorists.

Maria Mills has become the new Chair of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Social Enterprise Network (H&IOWSEN). H&IOWSEN is an open network dedicated to raising the profile and impact of social enterprises in Hampshire.

Daryl Russell, 39, from Calmore, Totton, was sentenced at Southampton Magistrates Court on 9 November to an 18 month community order for housing benefit and forgery offences.

Communities across the whole of the New Forest will be able to share in the Olympic celebrations when the Olympic Flame comes to Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst and Lymington next year, it has been announced.

New Forest District Council is supporting local householders by appealing directly to Prime Minister David Cameron to hold back on further increases in energy prices.

The Safer New Forest Partnership is warning local householders to be on their guard if they receive “threatening” calls from a bogus phone company.

A magical musical steam train ride to see Santa, through a winter landscape filled with story-book characters, has become part of the family Christmas fun at Exbury Gardens in the New Forest. Entrance to the world-renowned Gardens may be enjoyed by everyone who buys a ride on the Santa Special, while the Christmas Trail through the woodland walks is something the whole family can explore together. “Our steam train ride to see Santa is an...

SCA Group is delighted to have reached the final four in the Guardian Social Enterprise Awards 2011. SCA, which offers not-for-profit health and social care services across the south, entered a three-minute film for the awards. It shows Chief Executive Maria Mills talking about the impact SCA’s services have on customers and about SCA’s plans for the future. The film will be shown at the Guardian Social Enterprise conference in London...

“Anyone who thinks adoption is second best has got it totally wrong,” said Carole from the New Forest. “It’s as wonderful as giving birth to your own child,” added Carole who is proud mum to five year old Bea and says it’s the best decision she and her husband Andy ever made. Carole and Andy are helping Hampshire County Council raise awareness to adoption in Adoption Week. The County Council is especially keen to hear from...

A party of students will be heading off for a life-changing trip to Africa next year and it’s ExxonMobil who are helping to wish them bon voyage. Twenty students from Totton College have raised hundreds of pounds each towards the once-in-a-lifetime trip to Kenya. But the first and last legs of the two-week adventure, the journeys to and from the airport, have been paid for by Esso Petroleum and ExxonMobil Chemical at the Fawley refinery...