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Hospice gets green light to add rooms

Man destroyed underwear A BLACKFIELD man who destroyed a woman’s under- wear has been banned from contacting her. Jonathan Lane (56), of Exbury Road, was also given a 12-month conditional discharge by Southampton magistrates, and ordered to pay costs of £106. The restraining order will be in place until November 2022. A SERIES of books celebrat- ing the history of Brocken- hurst raised over £3,000 for the village churches. Titled By-Gone Brocken- hurst and penned by lifelong villager John Purkess, a newly published third vol- ume lifts the lid on wartime Brockenhurst and how the Forest made toys popular with royalty. The £5 volume can be bought from Streets Iron- mongers or the St Saviour’s Church. After lockdown they will be available at outlets including Pot Pourri, Cards and Candy and St Barbe Museum, Lymington, or by emailing office@brocken- hurstchurch.com History books raise £3,000

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ty and there continues to be a large unmet demand for addi- tional palliative care provision in the locality. “The benefit which the pro- posal provides is to allow the hospice to cost-effectively ex- pand and adapt and as such provide their valuable service to additional people from the local community.” Pointing to Oakhaven’s lo- cation within the green belt, Mr Belli said that while there was strong local and nation- al guidance against new de- velopments except in very limited circumstances, propor- tionate additions to existing buildings could be permitted. He continued: “The new ex- tensions are discreetly locat- ed to the rear of the site and use materials and a design that match in with the contemporary styling of an earlier ex- tension.” Speaking at the time the application was regis- tered, Oakhaven represent- ative Melanie Stone said the charity was unlikely to move forward with implementing the plans in the immediate future “given the current financial in- stability the charity is facing”. board, the woman was flown to a waiting ambulance on the clifftop which took her to hos- pital. A spokesperson for HM Coastguard Lymington said she was suffering from the effects of the cold, but no further details of her condition were available. The spokesperson reminded the public to take extra care when walking in the area. “It’s a notorious area for mudflats which have been ex- acerbated by bad weather re- cently, with heavy rain,” he said. “Walkers should be aware of this hazard. If you do get stuck, don’t panic, remain still and call the coastguard on 999.”

Oakhaven extensions approved to help meet demand for services

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THE inpatient capacity of Oakhaven Hospice looks set to be boosted with three extra bedrooms under plans agreed by New Forest District Council. The scheme involves the ad- dition of two en suite bedrooms at the Lower Pennington Lane facility and the conversion of a former office and storage area to create a third. It was described by NFDC planning officer Stephen Belli as a “modest and appropriate” addition to the existing facil-

The Pennington facility is operating at capacity

print of the building by 14%. The need for additional bed- rooms was set out in the ap- plication which revealed:

ities that would be screened by trees. Two small extensions will be created by infilling the space between the main hos- pice building and a linked chapel – increasing the foot-

“The hospice continues to operate at capaci-

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New nurse boosts staff numbers at Oakhaven OAKHAVEN Hospice has wel- comed a new nurse to bring its community team to eight full-time equivalent members caring for more than 250 peo- ple locally. ey from the Beaulieu Beaufort Foundation. Her work will in- clude offering help and advice to care homes, in particular. Andrew Ryde, hospice chief executive, said: “This post will mean that we are able to further extend our services to nursing and care homes, al- Tricia Kelly (inset) is the new registered community nurse, a role backed by mon-

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Oakhaven said its work has increased significantly since the start of the year and is now providing more than 2,500 hours of care every month.

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A FUNDING package worth £2.8m will help provide free school meals to nearly 2,750 disadvantaged New Forest chil- dren during the Christmas hol- idays. The amount has been hand- ed to Hampshire County Coun- cil by the government, which has pledged an overall £170m for the nation’s vulnerable fam- ilies as part of its Covid Winter Grant Scheme. The U-turn was in response to the campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford to help dis- advantaged children get free school meals which were con- troversially not provided during the October half term. The government has also said its Holiday Activities and Food programme will be ex- tended to cover the Easter, summer and Christmas breaks in 2021 too. It has promised to increase Healthy Start payments, which help expectant mothers and those with young children on low incomes and in receipt of benefits to buy fresh fruit and A DOG walker had to be airlift- ed by helicopter after becoming stuck waist-deep in mud on a notorious stretch of beach at Barton. The alarm was raised around 10.20am last Thursday after the 49-year-old woman got into dif- ficulty below Hoburne Naish holiday park at Chewton Bunny – a site of many mud flats res- cues. Mud rescue teams from Lym- ington and Poole coastguard responded and used a platform to reach the casualty and a lance to inject water around her to loosen the mud. They had to carry out ex- tensive digging before she was freed, having been stuck for about two hours. Following assessment by the

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Rescue teams at the scene (Photo: Southbourne Coastguard)

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vegetables, from April 2021. HCC leader Cllr Keith Mans said that the council had dis- tributed funding during the October half term via the vol- untary and community sector to support the most vulnerable families in Hampshire. He said: “While our support to help address the immediate problem in Hampshire has been important, we made it clear to government that a proper solu- tion was needed to this national issue. “This recent announcement is very welcome news for the hardest-hit Hampshire families – particularly for those specif- ically and significantly affect- ed by the pandemic, and for whom the challenges of winter will be especially difficult this year.” Cllr Mans added: “With fund- ing to be allocated locally, we’ve already set to work in earnest on developing plans that will enable us to support those in the greatest need in Hamp- shire. “While much of the focus to

date has been on supporting families whose children are el- igible for free school meals, we will be exploring the possibility of extending the assistance to families of children being sup- ported by a social worker, and those where we are delivering early help interventions to pre- vent families reaching social crisis.” When the free school meals issue went to parliament be- fore the half term, it was voted against by all of the three local MPs – Sir Christopher Chope (Christchurch), Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) and Julian Lewis (New Forest East). Dr Lewis told the A&T: “I was prepared to accept the gov- ernment’s assurances that they were supporting needy families by means of large increases in benefits. “Now that they have appar- ently changed tack, the issue has been resolved.” Neither Sir Desmond nor Sir Chris responded to request for comment by the A&T on the government’s new policy.

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