THE chairman and deputy chairman of New Forest National Park Authority have been unanimously re-elected until next year.

Clive Chatters remains chairman and Barry Rick-man his deputy until the authority's annual meeting in 2008.

The park authority has also made appointments to external bodies. These include Diana Halford as an appointee to the New Forest Court of Verderers for four years, Susan Achmatowitz as a representative on the management group of the New Forest Centre, and Peter Frost as a trustee to the Ninth Century Trust.