August 2009 Archives

Jools Holland Band musician Derek Nash will be among the performers at the Bagster House Jazz Club, Bagster House, Walton Lane, on Thursday August 27. There will be a barbecue with burgers from £1.60. Call 01784 435 396 for more information.

Furious mothers have blasted yobs who wrecked a popular Shepperton play area for the fourth time this year.

Vandals have once again forced the closure of the pen, at the Gleeneland Gardens recreation ground, after they burned protective cushioning at the foot of swings and daubed graffiti on other equipment.

A long-standing former employee officially opened the revamped Alliance Pharmacy in Shepperton last week.

Helen Webb, who worked at the store for 24 years until she retired last year to look after her husband, cut the ribbon at the new your local Boots pharmacy, a new brand that was created last year when Boots merged with Alliance.

The Probus Club is looking for men over 60, who are retired or semi-retired professionals, to join their get togethers on the first Tuesday of every month at Harrison's, formerly The Ship, in Russell Road.

Each meeting, which can include speakers, music and any number of activities, includes a three-course lunch. Call 01932 241 724 for more information.

The Shepperton Horticultural Society is presenting an autumn flower show at the Village Hall, High Street, on Saturday September 5 at 1.30pm.

Police are stepping up patrols around Watersplash Road after complaints from residents about anti-social scooter riding at unsociable hours.

A record-breaking project to get 1,000,000 children singing in harmony was launched by Spelthorne kids and Britain's Got Talent star Elliot Evans at Sheppeton Studios on Friday (14).

The lucky children, many of whom are in choirs and drama groups, were chosen from schools across the borough to kick off Voice In A Million, a project which aims to raise awareness of the plight of orphans across the globe.

An heroic Shepperton medic has saved the life of an Afghan Soldier on the battlefields of Helmand.

Corporal Sarah Dawleigh, 30, who has been with the Royal Army Medical Corps for seven years, was delivering vital supplies to troops in Sangin when an Afghan soldier drove his vehicle over a land mine.

When most people go to Thorpe Park they scream on the fast rides, but not me.

I was invited down to sample the summer holiday fun at the theme park and I took a good friend of mine who is a bit scared of rides along with me.

A notorious Sunbury off-licence was banned from selling alcohol for the second time after a staff member hatched a plan to get away with selling drink to children.

In evidence read out at a hearing on August 18 into the antics of staff at Bargain Booze, Groveley # Road, it was revealed manager Ravi Masih's father, Wilson, knowingly sold drink to a pair of 16-year-olds, first making sure all other customers were out of the shop and then ordering the youngsters to avoid passing rival stores to further avoid detection.