ALTON Eastbrooke ward councillor Kevin Stevens has resigned from the Conservative party to join the Liberal Democrats.

Mr Stevens, who gained his seat on Alton Town Council at the 2011 elections, has been unhappy for some time, with his position in the Conservative party and its policies, at both national and local level.

This culminated in his resignation from the local branch committee in the new year, blaming the "untenable, hierarchical dogma" that he had come to associate with "a Big Brother style of politics."

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