AS residents prepare to vote in the general and local elections on May 7 reassurances have been made to postal voters that their ballot papers will arrive in time.

Postal voters have had their parliamentary and district ballot papers, but not the parish/town ones.

But bosses at East Hampshire District Council said the intention always was to send the two separately as some of the parish and town seats are uncontested.

For full story, see this week's Alton Herald.