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<p>Farnham solicitor and Redgrave Theatre supporter John Draper opens a card from the King and Queen to mark his 100th birthday.</p>

Theatre stalwart and 'avid Farnhamite' celebrates 100th birthday

<p>Does Alton’s Kings Pond pollute the River Wey downstream?</p>

Your letters to the editor: Keep the River Wey flowing

<p>Surrey veteran James Shaw and his son Leon complete the Tough Mudder race.</p>

Surrey RAF veteran completes every single UK Tough Mudder race

<p>A new podcast will explore the life of Hampshire RAF legend Sir John Curtiss.</p>

Remembering the Hampshire RAF legend who shaped history

<p>Stan Vaisey of Alton who was captured by the Japanese in World War 2.</p>

Peeps into the Past: RAF hero Stan Vaisey's POW journey

<p>A Lancaster bomber flies over Amesbury School to honour Dambusters hero.</p>

WATCH: Lancaster bomber flies over school to honour Dambuster hero

<p>A US Curtiss-46 aircraft conducting an aerial evacuation of wounded American troops. A very similar layout to the fateful aircraft that crashed at Hindhead in May 1945</p>

British POW's final journey ends in tragedy

<p>Timber! The former MOD mast at Hogmoor Inclosure came down last week. (Photo by Deadwater Valley Trust)</p>

Timber! Transmission over as tower comes down

<p>The barricaded beaches of Nice, August 1944, where Willi Gerlach (inset) and his unit spent a year reinforcing the defences before being reassigned to Normandy</p>

The remarkable story of German prisoner-of-war who settled in Alton

<p>The former fire station in Station Road, Bordon, next to which a Luftwaffe bomb claimed the life of the unfortunate Alice Emily Chandler at the height of the Battle of Britain in 1940. Latterly an RAF facility, the old fire station has been disused since 2005.</p>

The tragic tale of Alice Emily Chandler

<p>The letter from Edward Cuthbert ‘Johnnie’ Johnson (1912-2002), dated 20, Sept. 1989, in response to the letter to him. It was written on the reverse of the original letter.</p>

Letter from Second World War hero goes to auction

<p>Plane crash</p>

PEEPS FROM THE PAST: The sad demise of Flt Lt Brian Thomas

<p>On February 3, RAF Typhoon FGR4s, supported by Voyager tankers, joined US forces in further strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen</p>

Jeremy Hunt: RAF strikes against Houthi rebels an act of self-defence

<p>Photograph taken on November 5, 1955 and captioned: This picture, showing in the foreground the crater made by the RAF jet fighter aircraft from Odiham which crashed in Kennel Farm Paddock, Frensham, on Thursday week, indicates how narrowly the nearby farm and houses escape destruction. The pilot and his companion landed safely by parachute in the vicinity of the Farnham by-pass road. The aircraft was believed to have been Vampire XD539.</p>

Herald Archive: Near-disaster as abandoned RAF jet crashes in Frensham

<p>Major General Neil Thorpe (REME) was one of several dignitaries and military figures who laid a wreath at the war memorial on Saturday morning</p>

WATCH: Last Post sounded at Whitehill & Bordon Remembrance service

<p>Ken and Sylvia Roberts are disappointed the British Nuclear Medal ceremony will be a low key affair</p>

Royal let down for Nuclear Medal veteran from Petersfield

<p>Ian Morrish</p>

Concert in memory of Bentley’s Ian Morrish at church in Aldershot

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RAF Odiham man raises £3,000 on cycle ride for rugby league legend

<p>A Spitfire from the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight flies over the 50th anniversary Frensham Fayre</p>

Video: Spitfire and RAF helicopter fly-past opens 50th Frensham Fayre

<p>The 80th anniversary of the Dambusters raid has been marked with a special display at the Buriton war memorial</p>

Anniversary of Dambusters raid commemorated at village war memorial