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THE New Milton Advertiser and Lymington Times will relaunch in full colour in January to celebrate the newspaper group’s 90th anniversary.

The independent and family-run publications, known collec-tively as the Advertiser and Times (or A&T for short), have in one form or another been an enduring feature of local life in the New F o r e s t a n d C h r i s t -church since 1928.

Published every Friday, the A&T is printed in black and white at the company’s headquarters in New Milton on a 1960s converted Viscount letterpress printing machine powered by a John Deere tractor engine.

As it enters its landmark 90th year, however, the A&T will relaunch as a full-colour broad-sheet printed at the state-of-the-a r t J o h n s t o n P u b l i s h i n g operation in Portsmouth.

The historic last black and white edition will begin to roll off

the old press at 11am on Thurs-day January 18th. The new full-colour A&T will be in the shops on Friday January 26th – still priced at just 50p.

The 90th anniversary celebra-tions in 2018 will continue with the opening of brand new offices featuring a purpose-built news-room at the newspaper’s existing site. The facility is currently under construction and is sched-u l e d f o r c o m p l e t i o n in the summer.

The A&T’s managing director is Eddie Curry (63). He is pictured (right) with David Crow, manag-ing director of Johnston Press PLC Group Services Division Print & Logistics.

Eddie is among the four gen-erations of Currys involved in run-ning the business following his father, 97-year-old proprietor Charles Starr Curry MBE, and late grandfather Charles Townley Curry MBE. Also directors are

Eddie’s niece Marianne Gregory and his sister Caroline Woodford.

Eddie said: “Everyone at the A&T is rightly proud as we approach our 90th year as an independent paper – especially when the wider industry is facing serious challenges. We’ve endured by staying true to our high jour-nalistic standards and traditional, ultra-local focus.

“Going colour is the logical next step to maintain the mate-rial and editorial quality that our loyal readership expects. We’ve worked hard to preserve the A&T’s spirit while making it more accessible, up to date, and attrac-tive to advertisers eager to reach what is an affluent area.

“We’re sad to lose four full-time jobs on the press but are retain-ing two staff in other roles. They have worked wonders to get such results out of a more than 50-year-old black and white press. Sav-ings will be reinvested to develop

NEW FOREST workers risk los-ing their homes if “draconian” Forestry Commission rent rises a r e p u s h e d t h r o u g h , a union has warned.

Unite says around 25 current or former FC employees could be forced to pay up to 80% more to rent properties from the commis-sion over the next two years.

However, the FC has described the claims as “misleading” and “scaremongering”, highlighting the opportunity tenants have had to negotiate with the commission. It said less than 10 households have actually been affected so far.

Unite regional officer Richard White said: “Unfortunately we have not been able, so far, to change the commission’s mind and these draconian rent rises are set to go ahead in the New Year.

“These workers – some of whom are retired – are on modest incomes and won’t be able to afford these increases, so will be forced to give up their homes and seek accommodation elsewhere.”

He continued: “This a travesty as these employees, with many years of dedicated service to the New Forest, are part of the DNA of these ancient woodlands.

“The commission is under pres-sure from the government to charge so-called ‘market rent’, which our members patently can’t afford.”

The FC disputes the figures quoted by Unite, stating that as each individual property has a separate tenancy agreement and negotiations, it is impossible to give a blanket percentage rise.

The commission has also clari-fied that the period of time for the rises to be introduced is four years, rather than the two stated by the union.

New Forest deputy surveyor Bruce Rothnie said: “The figures put forward by the Unite union are misleading. The current increases will be stepped between now and 2021 in order to reduce the immediate financial impact for the tenant.”

He continued: “We understand that any form of rent review might cause uncertainty and we aim to minimise this.

“Reviews include discussions with the tenant and we acknowl-edge that they may require sup-port in these negotiations, so we are working to provide this sup-

POISONING her 87-year-old grandmother before stealing thousands of pounds for luxury hotel stays resulted in a woman be ing ja i led for two -and-a-half years.

Jennie Greaves (37) “stupefied and pacified” Adele Andrews by sneaking anti-depressants into her food and drink, Southampton Crown Court heard.

The vulnerable Beaulieu pen-sioner repeatedly made emergen-cy trips to hospital between June and October 2016 as doctors struggled to work out the cause of her problems, said prosecutor Roderick Blain.

Mrs Andrews described in a statement the effect of the drugs Greaves (pictured) gave her, say-ing: “She made me feel that ill that I could not go on.”

But while Mrs Andrews was in

hospital, Greaves used her credit card to fund a lavish six-day stay at Careys Manor Hotel in Brock-enhurst worth £2,506.

On Mrs Andrews’ final admis-sion doctors noticed there were traces of anti-depressant amitrip-tyline in her system, Mr Blain said.

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had also confessed to administer-ing the anti-depressant to her grandmother during an appoint-ment with a consultant psychia-t r i s t a t S o u t h a m p t o n General Hospital.

After Greaves was arrested, Mrs Andrews discovered her granddaughter had also made unnecessary cash withdrawals using her credit card.

As part of her bail conditions, Greaves was banned from living at Mrs Andrews’ home. But she again used her grandmother’s credit card to stay at hotels in Lyndhurst and New Milton, the court was told.

Mr Blain explained Greaves had spent part of her childhood in care. She then moved in with her grandparents, Alan and Adele Andrews, at the age of nine and had stayed there ever since.

But by mid-2016 Mr Andrews had moved into a care facility, Mr Blain went on, and Greaves became the sole home carer for her grandmother. In late 2016 Mr Andrews died, the court heard.

In an emotional victim impact statement read to the court, Mrs Andrews said: “I loved her so much, which has just made the pain and hurt worse. I’ve no idea why she’s done what she’s done.”

While on bail, Mr Blain added, through a “friend of a friend” Greaves arranged to stay at the New Forest home of an elderly man, Peter Washbourn.

While she lived there rent-free, she took his credit card and with-drew more than £3,000. She was caught using it at a cashpoint in Lymington on CCTV, the prose-cutor added.

Mr Washbourn told the court: “This betrayal of trust is devastat-

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THE family of a three-year-old girl at the centre of a murder probe have paid an emotional tribute to her.

Bethan Colebourn (pictured) was found in a life-threatening condition on October 19th at her home in Whitsbury Road, Ford-ingbridge, and was later pro-nounced dead at Salisbury District Hospital.

A 35-year-old woman, believed to be her mother Claire Cole-bourn, was arrested by Hamp-shire Police on suspicion of her murder but later released under investigation.

After Bethan’s funeral on Wednesday, the constabulary

r e l e a s e d a s t a t e m e n t from her family.

“Family and friends are devas-tated at our tragic loss,” they said. “Bethan brought so much happiness and joy to so many people’s lives.

“Bethan was a fun loving, adventurous and caring young girl who will be dearly missed.

“She will be in our hearts and minds forever.”

An inquest into Bethan’s death opened at Winchester Coroner’s Court heard the results of a post-mortem examination were still pending further investigation.

A full hearing has been provi-s i o n a l l y s c h e d u l e d f o r

May next year.Hampshire Police continues to

investigate Bethan’s death. At the time of the incident

neighbours told how Bethan and her mother Claire, who is thought to be a former science teacher, shared the property.

However, it is not known whether Cla i re ’s husband Michael, a chartered accountant who recently became CEO of Southampton-based marine inte-riors company Trimline, was liv-ing at the detached bungalow with them at the t ime of the tragedy.

PARENTS in a New Forest village have been warned after a man tried to encourage a child to get into his car.

The Bartley Junior School pupil was walking along Winsor Road to Copythorne Parish Hall on Tues-day when the man beckoned. The child ignored him and the inci-dent was later reported to police.

An email sent by headteacher Karen Stonehouse advised par-ents that staff would be talking to pupils about stranger danger and asked them to support this work at home.

As a precaution, Ms Stone-house also said that staff would line the route to the parish hall

after school to “ensure the safety of all pupils”.

A spokesperson for Hampshire Police said: “We received a report about a suspicious incident in Copythorne.

“It was reported that at around 3.45pm on Tuesday December 5th, a child was walking along Winsor Road when he was asked by a man he did not know to come over to his car.

“Neighbourhood officers have been made aware of this incident and have been conducting patrols in the area.

“Anyone with information about this incident should con-tact police on 101, quoting 44170472957.”

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Greaves, previously of Shrubbs Avenue, Lymington, but who told the court she was of no fixed abode, admitted one charge of administering poison with intent, four of fraud and one of theft. The total she took amounted to over £6,500.

Defending, Lucy Conroy said it was a “sad and difficult case” and the offending occurred because Greaves could not cope with car-i n g f o r h e r g r a n d m o t h e r on her own.

Mrs Conroy said her confession to nurses had shown this and social services had records of G r e a v e s c o m p l a i n i n g s h e was struggling.

T h e d e f e n d a n t h a d f e l t “trapped”, Mrs Conroy said, and pointed out her client told police she had not wanted to kill her grandmother but make her go to “sleep” because it made “her life easier”.

Greaves has dyslexia, mild learning difficulties and suffers from social isolation, Mrs Conroy added. She also has clinical depression, is asthmatic and a haemophiliac.

Greaves had experienced a

“very difficult childhood” which had seen her physically abused by her stepfather who ended up before the courts, Mrs Con-roy continued.

The defence barrister said her client was vulnerable and would struggle in custody. “This is not a callous individual who has set out to do harm,” she argued.

Sending her down, Judge Gary Burrell acknowledged Greaves had been “at her wit’s end” and

“struggling” to cope with caring for Mrs Andrews, but told her: “ T h a t d o e s n o t e x c u s e what you did.”

The judge went on: “What you did was to administer poison in order to stupefy your grandmoth-er and pacify or keep her calm and that was for your own benefit n o t f o r y o u r g r a n d m o t h -er’s benefit.

“Doing that was simply unfair to your grandmother and it risked

causing her serious injury. She was a frail and vulnerable old lady but you continued to give her amitriptyline when you should not have been doing so. What you did was very, very serious.”

DC Martin Timmis, from Hampshire Police, said after-wards: “The case brought an end to this abuse of trust and shows our determination to tackle crim-inals who prey on older and vul-nerable people.”

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“I am disappointed to read the scaremongering information from the Unite union that does not help our discussions with them a n d o u r t e n a n t s i n t h e New Forest.”

It is understood that other ten-ants who rent from the FC, including commoners and agis-ters, are covered by historic provi-sions under the 1992 Illingworth Report. This states they should have access to FC housing that is not required for the commission’s staff, on condition they turn out livestock.

Tenants under these agree-ments lease properties at a rental value equal to 15% of their basic pay or income. Discussions regarding the future of these agreements are currently taking place between the FC and the C o m m o n e r s D e f e n c e A s -sociation (CDA).

CDA chair Tony Hockley said: “These are two separate issues, but obviously both are due to the financial pressures on the FC.

“A recent parliamentary ques-tion by [New Forest West MP] Desmond Swayne obtained con-firmation from ministers that any change to this policy would be subject to local consultation, potentially leading to a recom-

mendation to ministers if any change is required.

“This is what we had asked for in our first meeting with the FC. The FC is also bound by the min-ister’s mandate to support the c u l t u r a l h e r i t a g e o f t h e New Forest.”

Dr Hockley added: “The FC intends to review the earlier assessment of the value to the New Forest of providing afforda-ble smallholdings to commoners. In the 1990s there was a clear con-clusion that letting to commoners was the most effective and least costly way of ensuring that the entirety of the New Forest contin-ues to be grazed.

“We are confident that this case is even stronger today, as the gap between property values and incomes has widened to more than 15:1. In the meantime, exist-ing policy set out in the Illing-worth Report on New Forest grazing continues to apply.”

A spokesperson for New Forest East MP Julian Lewis confirmed that he would shortly be meeting with Dr Hockley to discuss the issue, as well as local Unite rep-resentatives.

He said: “Dr Lewis has been consistently sympathetic to this issue and is more than willing to continue making representations on the matter.”

further plans that we intend to announce next year.”

The new-look A&T will be print-ed on higher quality newsprint in a slightly smaller size, similar to the proportions of the Dai-ly Telegraph.

Eddie added: “In the coming weeks, we will be explaining to local people what changes to the newspaper they can expect, lis-tening carefully to how they r e s p o n d , a n d a d j u s t i n g where necessary.”

A&T commercial development manager Alison Thomas said: “We’ve listened to local and national advertisers and I think they will embrace our new full-colour pages.

“This is a real opportunity for eye-catching designs and cam-paigns to reach thousands of cus-tomers in the New Forest and Christchurch.”

Mr Crow, said: “We are delight-ed here at Johnston Press Ports-mouth Web to win this new business and to be a part of the exciting new venture for the New Milton Advertiser and Lymington Times as it moves into the world of full-colour printing and value-added products for its advertisers and customers.”

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‘By the way, grandpa is dead’In a victim impact statement Adele Andrews said Greaves gave her late husband Alan a “cheap funeral” following his death in October 2016.

Revealing her hurt, Mrs Andrews explained she was in hospital at the time of his death because she was recovering from one of Greaves’ attempts to poison her.

She learned of his death, the court heard, on one of Greaves’ visits when she told her: “Oh, by the way, grandpa is dead.” While Mrs Andrews remained in hospi-tal, she had no say in her hus-band’s funera l as i t was organised by Greaves and another woman.

Other relatives were not informed, she said, but found out and attended, while she had to get a taxi there and be escort-ed by a nurse.

Mrs Andrews did not have a place in the funeral car, was not able to walk behind the coffin, and had to “ask around” to get a lift to the crematorium and an invitation to the wake in a Milford hotel.

“The day should not have gone like this,” Mrs Andrews added. “Alan was a proud, well-respected and smart man who was well known. I do not believe they gave him the funeral he deserved. Alan would not have wanted a cheap funeral

but that was what he got.”The grandmother said she was

“hurt” to learn, while she was in hospital, Greaves had also used her car – despite not having a driving licence. Mrs Andrews claimed Greaves crashed the car and paid to have it fixed using her grandmother’s credit card.

She also said that during her hospital stays she had struggled to understand what was happen-ing and Jennie had stopped vis-iting her, which “hurt” the most.

Mrs Andrews explained she had since tried to block out 2016 and sometimes had to get others to repeat the events to her because she was still coming to terms with it.

GOING colour will be one of the biggest developments at the A&T since it was founded as the New Milton Advertiser in 1928.

The title was acquired in 1930 by Charles Townley Curry, a for-mer editor of the Canadian Daily Record and local Christchurch

Times, before he added to it in 1932 by launching the Lym-ington Times.

On the death of Charles Town-ley Curry in 1966, his son Charles Starr Curry took over, running the company as editor and proprietor. In 2012 he handed over to his son,

‘A quality of print to match the quality of journalism’DEAR READER,In 2018 your newspaper will step into its ninth decade of reporting local news from the New Forest and Christchurch as a proudly local, independent and family-run publication.

Throughout, it has been our job to hold local politicians to account, give you the informa-tion you need to know, and every week try to reveal a little bit more about the community where you live, work and visit.

It is that traditionally high standard of coverage that we are working to uphold by making the exciting change from black and white to full colour.

Don’t worry, the price will remain at 50p and we’re staying put where we are in New Milton.

But instead of grey pictures (and sometimes inky fingers), readers and advertisers will enjoy eye-catching coverage,

higher quality paper, and a more convenient size.

The aim is for a modern stand-ard of print to match the modern standard of our journalism – which today is delivered by a

newsroom of qualified, profes-sional reporters who are out and about in your communi -ty every day.

Next summer we will also be opening brand new offices which are currently under construction behind our existing site at 66 Old Milton Road.

Amid the ongoing cutbacks and challenges facing the news-paper industry, we are proud to remain an independent, trusted publication that stands out as an increasingly rare blessing for local people.

When we relaunch on January 26th next year, please let us know what you think to help us continue to serve the New For-est, Waterside and Christchurch with a top-quality newspaper l o o k i n g f o r w a r d t o i t s next 90 years.

Yours faithfully,Eddie Curry,

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Ninety years serving the New Forest and ChristchurchEddie Curry, the current manag-ing director.

The A&T covers the borough of Christchurch and the whole of the New Forest District Council area, including the national park.

The patch ranges from Fording-bridge in the north-west to Tot-ton in the north-east; and from Calshot in the south-east to H e n g i s t b u r y H e a d i n t h e south-west.

The current audited circulation of the A&T is 15,590 – delivering a c o m b i n e d r e a d e r s h i p o f about 45,000.

It is sold throughout the New Forest and Christchurch, as well as more widely in the Southamp-ton and Bournemouth areas. Its 50-strong staff includes 10 experi-enced journalists led by news edi-tor Andy Sherwood.

New-look A&T relaunching in 2018 (left) and the first 1928 edition

A PRIVATE landlord company will be set up by New Forest Dis-trict Council and handed millions of pounds to purchase housing for local people.

The property investment strat-egy is part of the authority’s plan to tackle the local housing crisis. The new company will operate as a private sector landlord wholly owned by and accountable to the council.

A board of directors comprising two cabinet members and two senior officers will be handed an initial £10m to invest.

The money will be available to buy privately owned properties that are vacant or have existing tenants, and the company has the power to build homes on sites it owns or acquires to provide a range of housing types including private rented, shared-ownership and starter homes for sale.

NFDC officers predict the ini-tiative will generate the authority £350,000 per year which will also help maintain frontline services.

Unanimously approved by NFDC’s ruling Conservative cabi-net at its latest meeting, it follows the council’s cabinet member for finance, Cllr Jeremy Heron, cham-pioning investment in property because of the district’s growing p o p u l a t i o n a n d h o u s -ing shortages.

To fund the initial investment the council is likely to put in up to a third – around £3m – of its gen-eral reserves, while the other two-thirds will be borrowed from internal reserve balances or at a low rate of interest from the Pub-lic Works Loan Board.

The council will “retain the dis-cretion” to invest in property out-side the district. The new company will be kept in check by the council’s corporate overview and scrutiny panel and its busi-ness plans and performance over-

s e e n b y t h e f u l l c o u n c i l every six months.

NFDC will get a financial return via the interest charges levied on the debt finance issued to the company (which will be set on commercial terms), plus dividend payments when the availability of funds allow.

It will also charge a manage-ment fee per property to the com-pany and levy commercial charges for legal and professional services. It has pledged the charges will not be excessive to avoid affecting the company’s potential solvency.

A report revealed NFDC’s pro-jected cumulative budget short-fall to 2022 is just under £1.4m. The scheme would help the coun-cil become “more self-sufficient”, the report added, and deliver a more diverse range of housing.

But it acknowledged there were a “number of risks”. These includ-ed the development of inappro-priate dwellings, cost overruns, an inability to find tenants or sell properties, and changes to gov-ernment policy that may stop the strategy being delivered.

Mitigation measures will be put in place, the report added, and the council will maintain an ade-quate level of reserves and bal-ances in case it had to manage a “ d o w n t u r n ” i n t h e property market.

It stressed: “All forms of invest-ment carry an element of risk and the acceptance of a risk factor is rewarded by the potential for a financial return.

“The council will be investing from the public purse and will therefore be seeking investments at the more secure end of the risk spectrum.”

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Residential & Commercial Installation of log burning stovesRoofing Repairs and Lead Work ¤ Weddings

Fully insured01590 610221 – 07879 865922

BARRY C-B & SON,7a FAIRLEA ROAD, LYMINGTON aw2

CITY & GUILDSQUALIFIED

iRoberts CarsAffordable Luxury Private Hire Cars

Mercedes Cars or 8 Passenger MPVwww.irobertscars.co.uk ianrob05@btinternet.com

01425 613989

Airports Business Travel Cruise Ships Holiday/Ski Groups Eurostar Sports/Social Occasions

t.c.

CHIMNEY SWEEPExperienced and Insured Brush and Vacuum.

01425 614973 · 07785 575381

OCEANCARS

Long distance specialistAirports / Docks

Stations / HospitalsLady driver on request

Any destinationHampshire vouchers

acceptedSALOONS / ESTATES /

MPVs / 8 SEATER

Telephone: 01425 61221131 Carisbrooke Court [c-t.c.]

OCEANCARS

Telephone: 01590 678325Lhotse, Forward Drive, Pennington

Home James TaxisNew Forest and beyond

Bournemouth airport............... £35Southampton airport............... £35Heathrow airport..................... £90Gatwick airport....................... £95Stansted airport.................... £120Luton airport......................... £130London drop off................... £120London half day.....................£150London full day......................£200

All other area local and long distance covered. Call James

on 07805 712275. Email jameshickling192@

hotmail.com

NEW FORESTTAXIS

Airport transfer specialists

All Airports/DocksAny distance & destination

Wheelchair accessibleStations/Hospitals

Local area tours

24 hour service (pre booked)

01425 600 222Mob: 07788 822 549

1For your local and long

distance, 24 hour,bookable,

Private Hire Car Service.Airports/Docks/Stations/Doctors/

Dentists/Hospitals/Shops/Forest Drives

01425 61992207976 587968BELLE VUE, STEM LANE, NEW MILTON

ST CHOICEPRIVATE HIRE

t.c.

FOREST MINI SKIPSLYMINGTON

SKIPHIRE

(01590) 67651212 Fairlea Road, Lymington.

t.c.

ANTIQUEENGAGEMENT RINGS

for

DISTINCTION, QUALITYand VALUE

BARRY PAPWORTHANTIQUE RING SPECIALIST

28 ST. THOMAS’ STREETLYMINGTON SO41 9NE

Tel. (01590) 676422 t.c.

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MASTERCHIMNEY SWEEP

Over 45 years’ experienceBrush & Vac. – Fully Insured

IMMEDIATE ATTENTION

B. R. EARWICKERNEW MILTON 618196

31 MARRYAT ROAD t.c.