MORE than 400 people welcomed Haslemere's new rector, Rev Norman Jones, to the town on Tuesday when he was inducted at St Bartholomew's Church.

The successor to the Rev Clive Edmonds, who left the parish last April to take up a new position in Westbury-on-Severn, Mr Jones has moved to Haslemere with his wife, Sue.

A full version of this story will be found in the Haslemere Herald of February 2, 2001.