Holiday centre should address its priorities

10:25am Thursday 30th April 2009

We are writing to you on this occasion to express our extreme disappointment in the decision that Sandy Balls has taken in cancelling forthwith the Rookies Lifesaving courses that used to take place on Saturday mornings at the swimming centre.

No to cold callers

3:07pm Tuesday 20th May 2008

IN a bid to halt doorstep crime, a large area of West Moors has been designated a cold calling controlled zone (CCCZ).

Health and safety threat to town's annual carnival

4:00pm Thursday 28th February 2008

I READ the recent Forest Journal cover article about the effects in Ringwood of changes to health and safety legislation regarding street closures with dismay, particularly as I have participated in the town's carnival and am on the festival committee which organises a number of charitable activities within the town.

What can be done to lower Forest roadkill?

11:29am Thursday 1st November 2007

ANIMAL deaths in the Forest will not be eliminated or much reduced by rigid enforcement of the forty mile an hour speed limit, or by lowering it to thirty.

Engines roar as rally comes to Fordingbridge

John Sellwall and Roy Shaw with their Nevader Classics. DB2722P05

8:19am Sunday 9th September 2007

THE streets of Fordingbridge throbbed under the roar of 560 motorcycles on Saturday as the International Twin Rally of the Moto Guzzi Club came to town.

Keeping a watchful eye on the New Forest felling

11:51am Thursday 23rd August 2007

AS an independent and professional arboriculturalist living in the New Forest and working in Dorset, I wonder how many readers are concerned about the number of trees being felled locally (particularly in the Forest).

Stonehenge - problem solved

9:26am Wednesday 14th February 2007

NEVER mind the idea of a camel train at Stonehenge, as one Journal correspondent recently suggested.

Carnival of delights

1:09pm Thursday 28th September 2006

I SINCERELY hope that many Journal readers were able to visit Ringwood last Saturday and see the Carnival procession and all the other events in town during the afternoon and evening of Saturday, September 16.

Lib Dem tax plans

9:50am Tuesday 26th September 2006

IN his letter on Liberal Democrat plans to abolish council tax in favour of a local income tax (Forest Postbag, September 7) Chris Treleaven, the Conservative New Forest district councillor for Ringwood East and Sopley, got it all wrong.

Pace of life

12:19pm Monday 18th September 2006

WE human beings are not meant to be nocturnal - that is, we do not see in the dark.

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