Local Authority

Casualty reduction officer Mike Pritchard will be the special guest a police meeting on Wednesday May 20 at the Greeno Centre, Glebeland Gardens, at 7.30.

Surrey Police's casualty reduction office Mick Pritchard will be the special guest at the next police panel meeting, held at the Greeno Centre, Glebeland Gardens, on Wednesday May 20, at 7.30pm.

Firefighters had to smash a car window to rescue a little girl who had accidentally become trapped in the vehicle on Friday (6) in Studios Road, Shepperton, at about 2.30pm.

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.

Beat bobbies in Spelthorne will be targeting a street in the borough every week in a bid to get to know as many residents as possible.

Every week officers from each of Spelthorne's 10 safer neighbourhood teams will be visiting a street in their area while out on the beat and calling at homes to introduce themselves, leave their contact details and speak to residents about any issues.

AFTER seeing a cyclist injured in a smash with a car, a fence flattened and a wall knocked down all in one journey, a councillor has warned drivers to be careful over the Christmas period.

On her way to Kingston last week, Staines County Councillor Denise Turner-Stewart saw the cyclist hurt in Hampton Court Way, East Molesey, just minutes after seeing the mangled fence in Hurst Road, Walton and a wall turned to rubble in Walton Bridge Road, 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.

Street-savvy youths from Spelthorne signed a petition pledging not to carry knives and presented it to Spelthorne MP, David Wilshire, at the House of Commons last week.

More than 5,000 young people signed the petition, 'Knives Wreck Lives' - organised by the Spelthorne Youth Council - which launched on October 27 and presented their pledges to their local MP on Tuesday, December 9.

A rogue pirate flag boater caught flouting mooring regulations on the River Thames at Desborough Island in Shepperton in the summer was back at the same spot again last week.

We caught the boat - which has no name - at the island in July after it had been moored there for nearly a week, in a clear breach of the 24 hours maximum rule.

Spelthorne Council is set to spend £100,000 on valuation and condition surveys of all the land and buildings it owns.

Approximately £70,000-80,000 has been earmarked by council officers for the condition survey to help decide what work needs doing and between £20,000-30,000 has been set aside to ascertain the rental value of council properties.