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<p>Cllr Andrew Joy is stepping down as HCC member for Alton Town after nearly 17 years.</p>

Retirement Joy as councillor ready to step aside after 17 years

<p>Man caught on CCTV in Four Marks Golf Club burglary</p>

How low can you go? Burglar steals charity cash from golf club

<p>Alton Town Council would like a bigger role as a local voice for Alton after local government reorganisation.</p>

Town council seeks bigger role after reorganisation

<p>Larch wood, by Robin Lees.</p>

Meet the artists at exhibition in Alton

<p>Parking is allowed on the narrow pavement side of Spitalfields Road in Alton, but not on the side with the wider footway and houses with front gardens.</p>

Residents taking sides over parking in Alton road

<p>Jack Palmer receives his chief fire officer's commendation award from Hampshire's assistant chief fire officer Ben Allen.</p>

Boy, 15, given award for saving neighbour with defibrillator

<p>Adrian, left, and his twin brother Rob Good pictured together in July 2016, four years before Adrian’s death in Australia. (Rob Good)</p>

Man backs assisted dying after twin’s death

<p>The site layout of Bellway’s 60-house Mount Royal Gardens estate in Four Marks (Photo: Bellway).
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Building starts on 60-house estate in Four Marks

<p>East Hampshire MP Damian Hinds learns about Dogs for Autism’s training of black Labrador Hobson.</p>

MP learns all about autism assistance dogs

<p>Joanna Travis and Alastair Travis with Joanna’s twin girls Hebe and Celeste.</p>

Woman running London Marathon in honour of her brother

<p>Alan Titchmarsh opened the Freedom Through Expression gallery in Alton in 2024.</p>

Alan Titchmarsh working on a new garden after leaving Holybourne

<p>The Post & Herald came across this pile by the side of the Selborne to East Tisted road, around half a mile south of Newton Valence.</p>

Fly-tippers strike again as pile dumped on road near Selborne

<p>The Say No To Chawton Park Farm protest has been going on for years - members of The Alton Society in Regency dress are pictured campaigning against earlier proposals in September 2021.</p>

Councillor "totally frustrated" by planning system

<p>Froyle Village Hall will be part of Village Halls Week.</p>

Volunteers in Froyle prepare for Village Halls Week

<p>Andy Short is running the London Marathon to help Ukraine.</p>

Runner from Holybourne taking on London Marathon for Ukraine

<p>The Alton Maltings Centre will host the Cardiac Health Big Quiz.</p>

Big quiz to raise funds for Cardiac Health charity

<p>Leaving Basingstoke Magistrates' Court after the sentencing of Ian Crawley are, from left, Adela Crawley's daughter Alicia House, her mother Jackie Bohan, her daughter Clarissa Friend and her friend Carole Blower.</p>

Fire station manager sentenced for assault and stalking

<p>Dexter Olejarka gets ready to cook on the Crane Feasts food truck.</p>

Teenage street food chef serves up message to council

<p>Alton Community Hospital.</p>

Ten beds closed at Alton Community Hospital

<p>Stan and Roma Rickman (Photo: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary).</p>

Four teenagers released from Alton house fire murder investigation

<p>Eggar's School in Holybourne was closed because of a suspected gas leak.</p>

Suspected gas leak shuts Eggar's School in Holybourne

<p>The Binsted Inn closed on November 27 but is waiting for somebody new to open it again.</p>

Chance to buy a village pub - The Binsted Inn is up for sale

<p>Gumbi school teacher Chief Edwin Mponela has described the people of Alton as "very, very special".</p>

Malawian chief thanks Alton's "very, very special" people

<p>This sloping patch of grass outside Treloar's will be the site of a memorial to its infected blood scandal victims (Photo: Treloar's).</p>

Infected blood victims memorial to be built outside Treloar's

<p>The Jane Austen statue in Alton town centre.</p>

Global fight to save Jane Austen's countryside

<p>Pond and river campaigner Sally Ferguson wears her in-the-round painting of the River Wey's northern stretch. </p>

Muddying the water? Farnham rangers wade into Kings Pond debate