ONE of Britain's oldest Muslim communities will gather on a 210-acre site at East Worldham, near Alton, this weekend for Jalsa Salana UK 2012.

Britain's biggest annual Islamic convention, the three-day gathering at Hadeeqatul Mahdi (formerly Oaklands Farm), will see up to 30,000 Ahmadi Muslims from around the world come together to "re-affirm their pledge to unequivocally reject violence and extremism, to practice Islam purely as a religion of peace, and to restore it to its true origins as a peaceful faith for all people and for all times".

This is the 46th annual convention (jalsa) but only the sixth on the site at East Worldham.

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