New Forest coast ranger is back

Leanne Atkinson has returned for a second season as a Coastal Ranger on the New Forest National Park coastline. But this time the joint-funded post between the New Forest National Park Authority and Hampshire County Council will run for 12 months, thanks to extra support from ExxonMobil at the Fawley Refinery. Most of the officer’s [...]

Goats at Boscombe and maybe a wind farm

I spent Easter Bank Holiday Monday morning on the path walking slowly between the Bournemouth cliff lift and Boscombe. It was a fantastic day and I thought of both Disraeli and Henry James writing about the fantastic view of the Isle of Wight. The view is unchanged in over a century and a half even [...]