TWO youths with a ball-bearing "B-B" gun set off a full-scale police alert at Haslemere railway station on Tuesday night.

The youths were spotted with what was believed to be a 9 mm pistol, bringing the railway station to a standstill and a leaving a wide area cordoned off. Police tracked the youths to Haslemere Hotel and questioned them on the matter.

A full version of this story can be found in the Haslemere Herald of November 3.