CAFES, pubs, restaurants and takeaways across the New Forest have been handed new food hygiene ratings recently.    

Each week, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) inspects businesses across the country, assessing hygiene and safety, structural compliance and confidence in management.         

Across the UK, every food outlet including convenience stores, restaurants, hospitals and care homes are given a hygiene rating.          

What each hygiene rating means:     

0 - Urgent improvement necessary       

1 - Major improvement necessary        

2 - Some improvement necessary        

3 - Hygiene standards generally satisfactory          

4 - Hygiene standards good        

5 - Hygiene standards very good      

Here is a roundup of scores given by the FSA this week: 

Rated 0:  

Elm Tree in Hightown Road, Hightown, Ringwood was rated on February 10, the Food Standards Agency website says.  

Rated 4: 

Framptons in High Street, Ringwood was handed a four-out-of-five rating after assessment on February 13. 

Fordingbridge Sports Club at Fordingbridge Recreation Ground, Ringwood Road, Fordingbridge was rated on February 10