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Index Obituary Business Planning Book reviews 21 Christian Comment 22 Letters 22 From Our Files 26 Puzzle Corner 26 New Forest Notes 27 Food & Drink 33 Back Care feature 34-35 Classifieds 36-37 Motoring 40-41 Family Announcements back page 9 771353 223033 9 771353 223033 38 9 771353 223033 39 Union slams plans for private company to run Forest leisure centres Page 4 Car dealer offers reward after raiders cause £6k damage Page 5 169-home plan for police station site to be reviewed by council Page 8 Rebuilding only part of sea wall ‘a waste of time’ say campaigners Page 9 9 771353 223033 9 771353 223033 34 9 771353 223033 35 9 771353 223033 36 37 14 18 20

– ‘I wants to make your flesh creep’.” Sir Desmond said he had “celebrated” the ascension of Mr Johnson to Tory leader and PM, as he thought he would lead a “sceptical and liberal Conservative administration”. However, he stressed his be- lief that the government’s lock- down measures and policies to combat the spread of the pan- demic were “disproportionate”. “By decree, they have inter- fered in our private and family lives, telling us whom we may meet, when we may meet them and what we must wear when we meet them,” he continued. “We have the cruelty of elder- ly people in care homes being disoriented, unable to see the faces of their loved ones or to receive a hug. “We have the tsunami of deaths that we may experience shortly as a consequence of un- diagnosed cancers and heart disease, and the discontinua- tion of clinical trials.” Sir Desmond added: “I do not underestimate for one mo-

Sir Desmond Swayne slams ‘attempt to terrify British people’

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SIR Desmond Swayne has slammed a claim by the gov- ernment’s chief scientists that coronavirus cases could reach 50,000 per day in mid-October– suggesting they said it only to scare the public. The comments made by Prof. Chris Witty and Sir Patrick Vallance were a “sackable of- fence”, the New Forest West MP claimed, adding: “It was project fear. It was an attempt to terri- fy the British people, as if they had not been terrified enough.” Sir Desmond, an outspoken critic of lockdown measures, also went as far as question- ing if Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been “abducted by Dr Strangelove” – the mad scientist portrayed in Stanley Kubrick’s famous anti-war sat- ire – and “reprogrammed by Sage over to the dark side”. He made the outburst in the House of Commons on Mon- day, when he said the purpose of politicians was to “impose a sense of proportion” and “not be in thrall” of science. “I will make myself very un-

The seal followed rowers along Lymington River after flopping aboard Andrew Havard’s boat for a closer look

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Detained on suspicion of assault, a 16-year-old from Bournemouth was later re- leased under investigation. The scene was cordoned off between Barclays bank and the Anglo Asian Food & Wine off-licence on Saturday evening while investigations were car- ried out. Officers also had to put a dispersal order in place in re- sponse to anti-social behaviour resulting from the assault. This allowed them to clear groups of people from areas surrounding Station Road for The cheeky creature, who was spotted by Lymington Rowing Club coach Kirsten Me- lin and her companion Andrew Havard, spent several minutes sunbathing on the front of their rowing boats before following the pair along Lymington River. Kirsten, who teaches the Learn to Row programme and leads adventures with the Lym- ington-based company Rowing Adventures Ltd, has spotted A PLAYFUL seal delighted ear- ly morning rowers in Lyming- ton River on Monday – when it hopped aboard for a spot of sunbathing.

the rest of the weekend. Posting on social media, area PCSO Alan McCaffery hit out at the offenders who caused the disorder. He wrote: “For those of you who suffered alarm and distress as a result of this behaviour I will apologise on behalf of those responsible, albeit I will not hold back, and openly say that these people are selfish morons putting others at risk and will be dealt with robustly going forward if a repeat performance is encountered.” seals in the river before but has never enjoyed such a close en- counter. She said: “We saw a seal in the quay and again in the river over the quiet summer and it has ap- proached the boat once before – but we hadn’t really had time to stop for long enough to allow the seal to relax. “We had gone out for a sun- rise row on Monday morning because we were unable to join one of our college friends Pete who is undertaking a charity bike ride in Wales, to mark the end of his cancer treatment and in memory of Dave, also a col-

lege friend, who passed away during lockdown– because of the restrictions on groups of six and local lockdowns. “We let Pete know that we would be getting involved by going for a sunrise row instead – and then this really amazing and special thing happened.” When the pair first spotted the seal in the Pylewell area of the river, it spent time playing a few metres away from them before plucking up the courage to get closer, and eventually climbed aboard both of their boats. Kirsten said: “The seal was really intrigued by us and seemed very friendly. It enjoyed sunbathing on the front of our boats and I think it would have happily stayed there all day.” The creature, which was like- ly to be a common seal or har-

popular, but I believe that the appearance of the chiefs last week should have been a sack- ing offence,” the Tory back- bencher said. “When they presented that graph, it was with the caveat that it was not a prediction, but nevertheless it was clear that they presented it as a plausible scenario, with its 50,000 cases per day by mid-October based on the doubling of infections by the week. “Not on one day since March have there been infections on a day that were double that of the same day of the week preced- ing, not once.

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“Where did this doubling come from? What was their purpose in presenting such a graph? It was the purpose of the fat boy in [Charles Dickens novel] The Pickwick Papers A TEENAGE boy was arrest-

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ed after a man was assaulted in New Milton town centre on Saturday evening, and a local PCSO slammed the “selfish morons” responsible for related disturbances. The alarm was raised shortly before 6pm, with reports of an altercation and anti-social be- haviour in Station Road. Paramedics responded along with police, and a 29-year-old man was taken by ambulance to Southampton hospital with what were described by police as “minor facial injuries”.

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