May 2009 Archives

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.