Health

Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals have warned the public not to visit A&E unless it is an emergency in the wake of a fortnight of unprecedented levels of activity.

Icy conditions on the roads, coupled with the increased risk of an outbreak of the norovirus in the winter months have put increased strain on hospital staff.

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.

Power was cut to homes in Gaston Way, Shepperton, for nearly 24 hours after a cable was severed by builders on the Rodd Industrial Estate.

Twenty-four properties were left without light, heat and hot water until about midday on Friday (7) and some are furious at how long it took supplier EDF Energy Networks to fix the problem.

Tennis courts in Spelthorne are to be refurbished after the borough council allocated 110,000 over the next three years.

The money will be spent resurfacing the courts in Cedars Park in Lower Sunbury, Clockhouse Lane in Ashford, the Lammas in Staines, Stanwell Recreation Ground, Fordbridge Park in Ashford, Staines Park and Bishop Duppas Park in Shepperton.

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.