New Forest District
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Sep 20, 2026
speaker_7NARRATOR
Thank you.
Ciaran Urry-TuttiettHOST
You're listening to the Eurovision Showcase on Forest FM across East Dorset, West Hampshire and the New Forest on the south coast of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Ciaran Urry-TuttiettHOST
Right, let's go to Milan, Italia.
speaker_0NARRATOR
2022.
Richard FreemanHOST
It is not a separate place, it is many shared parts of an economy, community, jobs.
Richard FreemanHOST
Boundaries don't make sense when you live at the edge of one, and for me, originally I was a Dorset boy, and much of my family are in Dorset, so Hampshire, and the New Forest, and that sort of Southampton, Portsmouth, Gosport coast, is a really beautiful part of the country and a really important part to my journeys back to the motherland.
Richard FreemanHOST
So I think the question that Hannah and I look at is what would happen if the new political structures on either side of the West Sussex-Hampshire boundary worked together? We know that getting from Portsmouth to Brighton can take an absurdly long time.
Richard FreemanHOST
The A27 or the A259 or even by railway can sometimes feel like a slog.
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Richard FreemanHOST
But be useful to know a little bit about what's been the kind of historical relationship between the cities.
Richard FreemanHOST
And the rest of the county, obviously similar to Sussex in the element that we've got coastal, we've got, you know, there's a national park.
Richard FreemanHOST
We share South Downs National Park, but there's also the new forest in Hampshire.
Richard FreemanHOST
You've got the northern, more urban and industrial focused bit, sort of Basingstoke and the sort of M3 corridor there.
Robbie LongGUEST
So Roger Trencher is the head solicitor for Hampshire Police and has been for quite a number of years.
Robbie LongGUEST
He was involved with a teacher in Arnwood School in the New Forest.
Robbie LongGUEST
That paedophile was reported in 2014...
Robbie LongGUEST
They took no action between 2014 and 2016, Hampshire Police, and only because a friend of mine took a private prosecution against Hampshire Police was Tyrone Mark, the now convicted paedophile, convicted.
Steve PorterGUEST
So we just set out to, um, explore how we could use our skill set to, to, to build a business.
Steve PorterGUEST
And we stumbled across, accidentally through connections, a spa down in, um, the New Forest here in the UK, and we went on site to see them, uh, to see their systems, and I kid you not, Windows 95, a system for point of sale, log out, a system for reservations, log out, a system for this, log out.
Steve PorterGUEST
It was ...
Steve PorterGUEST
I, I just couldn't believe it.
Gareth BoyesHOST
We speak to Councillor Nick Adams-King, leader of Hampshire County Council, to hear his reaction to the announcement.
Nick Adams-KingGUEST
Our concern all the way along was that there was no public support for changing the boundaries, either in East Hampshire or across towards the New Forest and Test Valley.
Nick Adams-KingGUEST
But also, more importantly, in doing so, it made that new, enormous Mid Hampshire Council that Petersfield would have been in both unviable and unsustainable and also gave it no financial resilience.
Nick Adams-KingGUEST
One of the tragedies of this is that the County Council estimates that we've spent millions over the last 18 months working at this council.
Damian HallamGUEST
Sorry, I'm from England.
Damian HallamGUEST
So I live in the New Forest in the south of England.
Damian HallamGUEST
But it can be very hugely who I help with their horses from somebody who wants to ride in the countryside, but just have a better riding relationship with their horse to somebody who's at world level, who's trying to find the edge, whatever that looks like, the marginal gain with their horse.
Damian HallamGUEST
But it comes back to a better connection, better harmony, better understanding again and again.
Charlie AllnuttHOST
The entirety of the UK have basically said it.
Marcus BullHOST
When we were in the New Forest, and it was...
Marcus BullHOST
That was the first time it probably started raining a couple of weekends ago.
Charlie AllnuttHOST
Yeah, it was good.
Nick Adams-KingGUEST
As you know, we thought that was absolutely the wrong decision, not least moving Clanfield and Rowlands Castle into a different authority to the rest of East Hampshire.
Nick Adams-KingGUEST
Our concern all the way along was that there was no public support for changing the boundaries, either in East Hampshire or across towards the New Forest and Test Valley.
Nick Adams-KingGUEST
But also, more importantly, in doing so, it made that new, enormous Mid Hampshire Council that Petersfield would have been in both unviable and unsustainable and also gave it no financial resilience.
Nick Adams-KingGUEST
So I'm delighted.
MurphyPANELIST
Born the 7th of June, 1941.
MurphyPANELIST
New Forest, Hampshire.
MurphyPANELIST
32 years with British Airways.
MurphyPANELIST
Retired in 1996 with more than 17,000 hours.
Jamie MatthewsGUEST
These new unitries, pretty much whatever their size, they were going to be struggling from day one.
Jamie MatthewsGUEST
And clearly one of the very sensitive issues for Hampshire was about the separating off of, for us, the southern parishes, Clanfield, Horndean, Rowlands Castle, and over in the New Forest, they had a very vocal, very visible campaign there.
Jamie MatthewsGUEST
not to take the waterside area out of the new forest.
Jamie MatthewsGUEST
And so hopefully it can be a bit more with consent of the community.
Jamie MatthewsGUEST
If we're going to change it, we need to get it right.
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