An OAP had to be rescued by firemen on Wednesday June 24 after being stuck in a toilet.

The incident happened at around 3.30pm in the toilets next to Laleham Camping Club in Laleham Park.

The elderly man, who was thought to be in his 70s, used a key to get in, but upon leaving, found he couldn't get out.

Firefighters from Staines then turned up and used a crowbar to open the door.

A concert will be held on Saturday July 4 to celebrate America's Independence day.

Spelthorne Choral Society will be hosting the event at St Matthew's Church, in Church Road, by playing classical American music inspired by the day.

The event is being sponsored by Ashford Rotary Club, and the start time is 7.30pm.

Tickets cost £10 and can be booked by ringing 01784 211944.

The annual general meeting of Laleham Village Hall Management Committee will be held on Wednesday June 24.

At 7.30pm the meeting will be held to discuss the village hall, in The Broadway, and residents and users of the hall are invited.

The meeting will be held in the committee room at the back of the hall.

A camping site in Laleham has increased its security measures after two caravans were stolen from its ground.

Laleham Camping Club, in Laleham Park, had two of the vehicles taken on Sunday May 31 and Wednesday May 27, so on the first weekend in June, staff shut off the entrance to a neighbouring car park completely.

A trampoline and a children's bicycle were lost during a fire on Wednesday 3.

The blaze, which is being treated as suspicious, started in a shed at 4.40pm in Hengrove Crescent.

Firefighters from Staines took around an hour and half dousing the flames, and although no one was injured, the shed and the items inside were lost.

A mother has expressed her pride on completing an all night walk with her 13-year-old daughter.
Sarah Hutchings, of Vicarage Lane, Laleham, completed the 26.2 mile Playtex London Moonwalk with her daughter Emma on Saturday May 16 in seven hours and 25 minutes.

Cricketers had to move the boundaries of their game on Saturday May 16 after a big gaping hole was left on their field after a grenade explosion.

The three feet deep hole, which measured about half a metre in diameter was the result of an army controlled explosion in Staines and Laleham Cricket Club's ground in Worple Road, Staines.

A huge plume of smoke billowed over Laleham and Shepperton on the evening of Saturday May 16.

Police closed Littleton Lane in Shepperton to traffic while firefighters battled a massive blaze at an industrial site just off the road.

Planes landing at Heathrow Airport were also affected by smoke from the fire which started
at about 6.50pm.

A spokeswoman for Surrey Fire and Rescue Service said: "The fire is at a range of buildings which are full of rubbish, lorries, tyres and things like that.

"There is a lot of smoke damage and there is the chance that it is of suspicious origin.

"A lot of black smoke was caused, which has affected planes trying to land at Heathrow."

Eyewitnesses reported seeing four ambulances rushing to the scene, but no one is thought to have been injured.

Fiture Dixieland musicians are in the making at Buckland Primary School in Laleham.

Year five pupils in the Berryscroft Road School have been undertaking cornet lessons after a music teacher called Susan Blandford was given 16 of the instruments by children's charity Operation Happy Child.

Staines have a new fireman in the form of a local lad who lives in Laleham.

Dave Page, 27, joined the crew at Staines fire station, in Town Lane, Stanwell, on March 27.