POLICE are investigating an arson and assault on a police officer in a New Forest village this morning.
Officers from Lymington and Hythe police stations detained two people at around 6am when attending an arson in Blackfield.
It comes as a house near the junction of Walkers Lane North and Saxon Road, Blackfield, has been cordoned off with police tape.
But it is currently unknown whether the two are connected.
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