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By Sophie Rudderham on 20/06/2019

Keeping our rural communities safer remains high on my agenda. Recently I given funding to Hampshire Constabulary Country Watch for the following four crime prevention initiatives, which have been recognised as best practice in rural crime prevention: The purchase of thermal imaging machines to enable effective and efficient policing by helping officers in remote rural areas to identify offenders at night. A Dot Peen Property Marking Machine will allow the Country Watch officers to systematically visit repeat victims of burglary/.

By Sophie Rudderham on 11/06/2019

June 2019 The New Forest Agricultural Show Society, organisers of the New Forest and Hampshire County Show welcomed 530 school children to the Showground in Brockenhurst for its annual educational Schools Day on Thursday 6th June. Schools Day is an annual event which supports the Society’s charitable remit to ‘promote and encourage the development of agriculture, forestry, equestrianism and horticulture’. 2019 marked the New Forest Agricultural Show Society’s 3rd Schools Day. Since its launch, Schools Day has continued to grow and expand.

By Sophie Rudderham on 07/06/2019

By Sophie Rudderham on 22/05/2019

The New Forest & Hampshire County Show is an annual event held at the end of July and attracting over 90,000 visitors a year. Visit www.newforestshow.co.uk for more information. The Show is looking to employ two additional groundsman to work with the current team to build the Show from a grass field to the tented village required for the event. The role will run from the 1st June – 5th August with the successful candidate working five days a week.