New Forest Lapland shuts down

4:30pm Thursday 4th December 2008

THE CONTROVERSIAL Lapland New Forest has closed. A sign outside the entrance to the park says New Forest Lapland has closed and urges customers to contact the organisations website.

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Overturned lorry shuts Hampshire motorway

6:10pm Thursday 4th December 2008

ONE of the main routes into Southampton was closed this afternoon after a lorry overturned spilling diesel and oil on the road.

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New Forest Lapland boss - 'Don't blame us'

4:30pm Thursday 4th December 2008

The man behind the doomed Lapland New Forest theme park has released a statement revelaing why the site at Matchams Lane near Ringwood was closed earlier today.

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Row as nuclear submarine heads for city

2:18pm Thursday 4th December 2008

CONTROVERSIAL nuclear submarine HMS Trafalgar is due to arrive in Southampton tomorrow.

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Shannon Matthews' mother guilty of kidnapping her

12:56pm Thursday 4th December 2008

The mother of Shannon Matthews was found guilty today of kidnapping her own daughter.

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Police call on Vietnamese community to help identify body

4:01pm Thursday 4th December 2008

DETECTIVES investigating the discovery of a man’s body in the back of a lorry on the M3 are calling on the Vietnamese community to help identify him.

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Another 1 per cent slashed from interest rates

12:10pm Thursday 4th December 2008

The Bank of England slashed interest rates by another 1% today as policymakers stepped up their battle to stave off a deep recession.

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Growing mountain of rubbish prompts anger from residents

8:45am Thursday 4th December 2008

IT started as a row over two sacks of rubbish and has developed into a mountain of mess.

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Lapland New Forest owner is convicted fraudster

3:20pm Thursday 4th December 2008

THE owner of the controversial Lapland New Forest is as a convicted fraudster who served time in jail for tax evasion.

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Plan to spend £500 of taxpayers’ money on umbrellas slammed

3:25pm Thursday 4th December 2008

HOSPITAL bosses are set to spend hundreds of pounds buying staff unbrellas in a bid to get them to walk to work.

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Rowdy final debate on issue of fluoride

4:12pm Thursday 4th December 2008

THE debate could have run and run.

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New Forest Lapland tries new tack to lure in customers

8:02am Thursday 4th December 2008

ORGANISERS of the controversial Lapland New Forest have relaunched their website with a new marketing ploy telling visitors: “It’s you that makes it beautiful.”

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Crack crime number four on our Christmas countdown

4:27pm Thursday 4th December 2008

DO YOU know where this man is? That is the question being asked by Hampshire police as they try to trace Leslie Prince who should be spending Christmas in prison - instead he is on the run.

Double inquest set for mums who died after giving birth

4:08pm Thursday 4th December 2008

THE inquest into the deaths of two women who died shortly after giving birth at a Hampshire maternity unit will be held next February.

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Elf lifts lid on Lapland New Forest

12:08pm Thursday 4th December 2008

A FORMER worker at Lapland New Forest has lifted the lid on what went on behind the scenes at the troubled Christmas theme park.

A shocking toll of motorcyclists death and injury

7:20am Thursday 4th December 2008

SHOCKING new figures, showing that almost 200 motorcyclists have been killed or seriously injured on Hampshire’s roads, have sparked a safety campaign.

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