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<p>The fire in a field at Common Hill in Medstead this morning (Photo: Mike Heaney).</p>

Tractor helps firefighters stop three-acre blaze in Medstead field

<p>Staff from Right at Home Alton and Bordon raised £5,000 for Dementia Adventure in a 24-hour exercise marathon.</p>

Home care staff raise £5,000 for dementia charity in exercise marathon

<p>Volunteer Bill Read is remembered with a wreath on the front of the Watercress Line's flagship locomotive Canadian Pacific.</p>

Watercress Line volunteer dies while working at Alresford station

<p>Sarah Tarling, right, at the opening of Bowl Salad or Spud with her daughter Demi.</p>

Bowled over by success of spud and salad bar in Alton

<p>Forty children attending Eggar's School's Year 7 intake summer camp were given free brick phones paid for by a council grant.</p>

Children communicate without distractions thanks to free brick phones

<p>Alton town mayor Cllr Barbara Tansey cuts the ribbon to open Michael and Sue Roberts' Luvbiltong shop in Medstead.</p>

Taste of South Africa finds home in East Hampshire

<p>Alton Town Council clerk Tom Horwood is also a classical music presenter on Wey Valley Radio.</p>

Town clerk by day, DJ by night

<p>Fiona and John Burden on the beach at Hayling Island after their sunrise swim.</p>

Surviving breast cancer inspired Hampshire woman's sunrise swim

<p>Knives and cannabis seized during a drugs raid in Four Marks.</p>

Four Marks man arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs

<p>A big smile from site manager Pete Tarrant last September as Amery Hill School celebrates winning The Sunday Times' Happiest Secondary School in Hampshire award.</p>

Site manager retiring after 35 years at Amery Hill

<p>Planting a tree in the sensory area with pupils Maeve White and Nathaniel St John are, from left, headteacher Richard Mead, East Hampshire MP Damian Hinds, incoming headteacher Stacey Serdet, chair of governors Roisin Pope, Alton Lions Club Santa committee member Marie Spurdle and Alton Lions Club president Paul Taroni.</p>

MP sees headteacher retire as school marks 160th anniversary

<p>From left: Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate Dominic Martin, and Lib Dem councillors Ginny Boxall and Emily Young, at the Environment Agency's Alton Town Gauging Station, which measures river flows, velocities and levels.</p>

MP calls for water companies to be consulted over housing plans

<p>The First Friends Day Nursery on the Wootey schools site is celebrating its Strong Standard rating from Ofsted (Photo: Captured By Claridge).</p>

Praise for nursery from Ofsted inspectors

<p>A computer generated image of the proposed retirement complex and nursery - the nursery is the building on the right.</p>

Plan for retirement complex and nursery at brewery site

<p>Shaun Wallace, The Dark Destroyer from ITV’s The Chase, will give the Cardiac Health Annual Lecture.</p>

Chase star Shaun Wallace to give Cardiac Health lecture

<p>Chris Gardener conducts the Alton Concert Orchestra during a previous Proms in the Park concert held in Alton.</p>

Proms in the Park concert set to return to Alton

<p>Pictured outside the Curtis Museum, from left, are Curtis Museum Community Partnership chair Ian Holliday, Karen Murrell of the Curtis Museum Community Partnership, and Hampshire county councillor Emily Young.</p>

Curtis Museum secures £30,000 grant funding lifeline

<p>Elsie-Marie Moody takes her bow as Young Anna in Frozen - The West End Musical.</p>

Rave reviews for young Frozen star from Four Marks

<p>Amber the cockapoo has been helped by Lumbry Park Veterinary Specialists in Alton.</p>

Pup makes miraculous recovery after road accident

<p>From left: Sarah Weldon, Isobelle Prince, Elaine Drake, Tony Drake, Hatty Stallard and Imogen Cooper.</p>

Hampshire cardiac arrest survivor thanks ambulance staff

<p>Chariya Khattiyot. The MasterChef 2023 winner is looking for someone to take over her Chariya’s Kitchen premises in Alton town centre.</p>

London calling as Masterchef winner steps away from Alton kitchen

<p>Lou Graham and Mike Wilkins are all smiles as Lou completes her winning Diddly Squat Farm cake (Photo: Debbie Herring).</p>

Farm-themed cake wins big competition for Ropley baker

<p>Deputy Alton town mayor Cllr Chris Botten cuts Alton Foodbank's 15th birthday cake (Photo: Sian Mills).</p>

Teen chef cooks at Alton Foodbank's 15th birthday open day

<p>Former councillor Andrew Joy received a framed certificate from Alton Town Council to thank him for his service to the town.</p>

Town council thanks Andrew Joy for his service to Alton

<p>The parade along Alton High Street at the start of last year's Jane Austen Regency Week (Photo: Stephen Lewis).</p>

Ten-day festival celebrating the genius of Jane Austen

<p>The Collective Worship Crusaders at St Lawrence CE Primary School in Alton celebrate its Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools report from the Church of England.</p>

Glowing Church of England report for primary school