Green hotel with a bicycle-powered TV

A hotel in the New Forest, Hampshire, has installed a bicycle-powered TV as one of its very latest energy-saving schemes.

Guests at Cottage Lodge B&B in Brockenhurst can save the planet, keep fit and watch television all at the same time.

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Earthquake in English Channel - Worthing, West Sussex, shaken and stirred

An earthquake hit the English Channel yesterday, according to the British Geological Survey.

The quake, at magnitude 3.9, was the largest such event to shake the area since a magnitude 4.5 in 1734. It was located about 53 miles (85km) south east of Portsmouth, Hampshire, at a depth of about 6 miles (10km).

Several people in Worthing, West Sussex, reported the quake, which lasted only a few seconds.

Historically, the UK gets an earthquake of this magnitude about once every two years. A 3.6-magnitude quake struck 9km (5.5 miles) north-west of Ripon, North Yorkshire, in January this year.

BGS

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Pony dies - pushed in lake by group of 12 people

A pony has died after being pushed into a lake in Hampshire, according to the BBC.

Police and RSPCA officials are trying to find out why the animal, which was in its trap, was pushed into the lake by a group of about 12 people.

BBC

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Amazing pictures of tame robin - photographer gets bird to eat out of his hand

Mike Walker, Portchester, Hampshire, UK, has taken some brilliant photos of a tame robin that feeds out of his hand.

The photographer told the Daily Mail: "The thing with robins, I was told, is to get mealworms - and he just went mad for them."

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Escaped 'tiger' in field - helicopter scrambled but police find stuffed toy

Spot the tiger: Picture: Hollingsworth, John and Karen, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.







POLICE scrambled a helicopter with thermal imaging equipment after reports of a tiger in a field at Edge End, Hampshire, yesterday afternoon.

A member of the public spotted the 'big cat' through a telephoto lens and a team of officers was sent to investigate. They, too, concluded that it was a tiger.

Reinforcements were sent and a zoo consulted on how to capture the creature.

Yet, thermal imaging revealed no body heat and the 'tiger' simply rolled over in the downdraft from the helicopter.

A police spokesman said: "Everyone who saw it thought it was a real tiger."

There aren't many tigers in Hampshire, so mistaking a cuddly toy for the real thing is, I suppose, understandable.

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