HAMPSHIRE Police launched a massive hunt for a seven-year-old boy who went missing from a holiday camp in the New Forest last night (August 16).

The boy was reported missing from the Hollands Woods Campsite off the A337 between Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst just after 8.15pm.

Police officers, volunteers and the Hampshire Police helicopters carried out a thorough search of nearby woods last night but nothing was found. The search resumed at first light this morning.

First published: August 17