RUSH-hour commuters had a journey to forget last Thursday after a series of harrowing events between Liss and Portsmouth.

Rail services between Haslemere and Petersfield were suspended at 5pm after a woman was struck by a train on a level-crossing at Sheet.

It was the start of an "unprecedented series of events" that included another fatality in Portsmouth and a bomb hoax at Havant.

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