August 2008 Archives

A dog owner claims her beloved poodle died "unnecessarily" as an indirect result of walking through Sunbury Park and getting grass seeds stuck in her paws.

Helen Fairbanks, of Green Street, Lower Sunbury, says her pet Tammy died after failing to come round from an anaesthetic.

The widow of former Shepperton councillor, Rotary Club president and community stalwart Lawrence Collins, has paid tribute to him as a 'clever, kind and loving husband'.

RAF veteran Mr Collins, who died of bowel cancer on August 13, at the age of 87, featured in The Herald & News three years ago when the paper followed him on his search for the Second World War hero who pulled him out of a burning Lancaster bomber after he had been shot down over Norfolk in 1943.

AN ARSON-hit High Street charity shop will reopen on September 19.
Connect was targeted by yobs in February and suffered extensive fire damage both inside and out after the suspects left a lit cigarette on a plastic donation bag outside the front door.

The RSPCA has seized eight dogs which were being kept in a confined space on a boat at Desborough Island, Sheppeprton.

Officials boarded a boat off Walton Lane shortly after midday on Thursday and rescued the dogs, thought to be Staffordshire bull terriers.

Flexible Philip Green waltzed his way to an A* in dance and declared: "Now for the West End!"

Philip, from Shepperton, dreams of being a star both on TV and on the stage, but will first attend the Italia Conti Arts Centre in Guildford to hone his skills.

League tables will show that Halliford School had zero students passing five or more exams, but head Philip Cottam was still smiling.

He explained: "Actually 86% passed but because we do the International GCSEs for maths and sciences, the results don't show up. It's been another successful year."

LOCAL radio for YOUR town is back full-time as north-west Surrey community station Brooklands FM begins a new 24-hour service on the internet at www.brooklandsfm.co.uk.
With local news, views, interviews, musicians and sport, all based around great popular music, Brooklands FM claims to offer the truly local radio service for Addlestone, Byfleet, Chertsey, Shepperton, Walton, West Byfleet, Weybridge and surrounding towns that the bigger regional stations can't give. The station supports the Sam Beare Hospice, in Weybridge.

A 39-year-old woman was robbed of £600 in Shepperton earlier this month, and police are appealing for witnesses.

She was mugged in Church Road on Monday 4 August between 11.30pm and midnight, after being confronted by two white men.

They were both about 40 but the victim did not get a good look at them because it was dark.

The Princess Alice Hospice Therapy Team members are leading by example; they have been building up their fitness levels and getting in some additional training following their registration for the very first, Princess Alice Hospice MIDNIGHT WALK on Saturday 6 September.

The therapy team, led by their manager Kathy Birch has signed up for the 13.1-mile challenge, Kathy has also recruited some of her friends and together they go by the name "Team G N O". They are a group of friends planning a fun "Girls Night Out" whilst at the same time raising vital funds for their local Hospice.

Connect, one of the charity shops in Shepperton High Street, could almost have stood as a symbol of the village.

Run by a team of retired ladies, it was a slow paced, tranquil place, where, like the rest of the village in which it is housed, life was relatively undramatic.

That was until February 8, the day arsonists tried to burn it down by leaving a lit cigarette on a donation bag outside its front door.