CAREYS Manor Hotel in Brockenhurst has become one of only four businesses to achieve a gold for excellence in environmental practice from the Green Tourism Business Scheme.

Staff formed their own Green Team, which dreamed up initiatives such as running the company vehicle on environmentally friendly fuel and generating electricity from wind farms.

General manager James Hiley Jones said, "Being surrounded by the New Forest we are fortunate to be reminded on a daily basis of our impact on the environment".