What's On

Halliford Folk Dancers meet on Wednesday (November 10) at Shepperton Village Hall in the High Street, from 10am-12noon.

Admission costs £1.50, which includes coffee.

The famous Shepperton super sleigh will kick off its tour of the area on Monday (December 8) and will be visiting a street near you sometime over the remainder of the week.

Run by the rotary clubs of the village, the Rotary Club of Shepperton and the Rotary Club of Shepperton Aurora, Santa will be collecting funds for local charities and hopes householders will give generously.

After visiting Charlton Village and the Studios Road estate on Monday (December 8) and streets between Squires Bridge Road and Watersplash Road the following day, Santa will hit Old Charlton Road, the train station and Gaston Way between 5.30pm-8.30pm on Wednesday; Gaston Bridge Road, Walton Bridge Road and its surrounding areas on Thursday at the same times; and the area to the west of the High Street and Old Shepperton on Friday, again between the same hours.

Rainbows, brownies and guides from the village are holding a Christmas Bazaar on Saturday, November 29 at Shepperton Village Hall, High Street, from 10am-12noon.

Attractions include childrens' games, homemade cakes, gifts, a toy tombola, raffle and a visit from Santa. Entrance is 30p.

St Nicholas Church is holding its winter fair on Saturday November 22 at Shepperton Village Hall in the High Street, between 10am-12.30pm.
Coffee, mince pies, face painting, and gifts for sale will be among the attractions.

Hospital Radio Wey's presenter John Charman presents his 1000th programme on Sunday 21st September at the North Surrey Radio Station's studios at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey.

John has been presenting The Big Band Hour, every Sunday from 2-4pm and has charmed listeners with his authoritative and entertaining style.

The regulator OFCOM have granted the hard working volunteers of Hospital Radio Wey an FM channel to broadcast their superb variety of music & local information programmes.

With a strong commitment to the local community and a passion to broadcast information that is relevant to listeners across the area the Chertsey based radio station will be pulling out all the stops from 16 October through to 12 November.

Here's your chance to be part of an exciting new local radio service for Shepperton and nearby towns.

Popular local radio station Brooklands FM will soon be launching full-time internet broadcasting with local news, views, interviews, sport, traffic and weather, all built around great popular music old and new.

Former Herald reporter and Docket Eddy Lane resident Dan Murdoch has published his first book.

Dan has written about his adventures travelling from Germany to Cambodia in a Soviet-era Trabant, widely believed to be one of the world's worst ever cars.

It draws crowds of thousands of spectators each year and is arguably the biggest community event in Spelthorne's calendar.

Herald photographer Bill Beminster was at this year's event on June 14 and you can see some of the pictures he took in our picture and video pages.

In addition Shepperton Village Fair Committee has hundreds more photos on its website - including an archive of pics from previous year's events. Go to - http://www.shepperton-fair.org

Spelthorne Civic Pride Volunteers are paying a visit to the Funky Footprints nature reserve in School Lane, Shepperton, on Saturday, July 5 for an open day between 1pm-5pm.
The group will be strolling through the meadow to listen to birds and crickets and learn more about the reserve and its wildlife which, at the last count, had 89 species of bird.
To join in call Jill Stephens on 01932 564543.