Health

Littleton C of E Infant School, has signed up to a groundbreaking new cycling initiative it hopes will tackle the growing issue of child obesity.

One of the first in the country to join forces with Cycle Solutions, the school hopes the Bikes4School initiative will also make money which will help invest in a better future.

Residents have accused road chiefs and the police of underplaying the danger on a road they say has been the scene of 14 crashes in six years.

Householders in Walton Bridge Road in Shepperton are demanding measures to slow down traffic following the latest accident in October when a car smashed into the garden of Malcolm Atkin.

They say 10 years ago the street was the scene of a fatal motorbike accident and want action taken before someone is killed. However, Surrey Police say they don't have a record of it because the area was under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police at the time.

A woman in her 50s was taken to St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, with a broken ankle after being in collision with a car on Saturday June 21, in Shepperton High Street, at about 4pm.

Police said the incident is being treated as an accident.