A CONTROVERSIAL playground in Barton-on-Sea has been officially opened to the ... “Some children haven’t even got a garden, as some live in flats, and this makes people come together.

The cliff collapsed onto the shore at Barton-on-Sea on Tuesday evening. New Forest District Council said an assessment by its coastal scientists had revealed further movement and another landslip ...

People in Barton-on-Sea and Ashley were woken by howling winds and lashing rain in the early hours of Friday. Homes were damaged, fencing was flattened and a 6ft-high (1.8m) wall was brought down.

The extreme weather hit Barton-on-Sea in the New Forest around 4am this morning. Garden fence panels were hurled out of place in high winds, with one smashing through a glass panel door of an address.

Police are investigating the cause of a fire which ripped through a large house in Barton-on-Sea. More than 40 firefighters from Hampshire and Dorset tackled the blaze which destroyed the property ...