October 2009 Archives

Two people were arrested on suspicion of theft of a car after failing to stop by the police during a motoring campaign.

Surrey Police held an operation as part of their year-long Drive SMART campaign with Surrey County Council to cut down on anti-social behaviour around Spelthorne on Friday October 23.

Staines Brass are holding a Christmas concert on December 17.

The band are hosting the night to get everyone in the festive spirit, and will feature sing along carols and and hymns.

The event will take place in St Peter's Church, in Laleham.

An extremely rare brown shrike was spotted on Staines Moor prompting thousands of birdwatchers to drop everything and flock to the beauty spot over the last ten days to catch a view of the small brown spectacle. Herald & News reporter Russell Butt donned his wellies and grabbed his binoculars to see what all the fuss was about.

There's not many things more frustrating than when your holiday plans go awry.
So imagine the surprise of one small, brown bird who should be heading from Siberia to South East Asia for the winter, but has found himself perched atop a hawthorn bush in Staines.

Imagine its further surprise to instantly achieve celebrity status on arrival, with more camera lenses being pointed at it than Kate Moss gets stumbling out of a Soho nightclub.

Anti-social behaviour on a Staines estate has led one councillor to start a youth club for the children in the area.

Denise Turner-Stewart, who is the Surrey County Councillor for Staines South and Ashford West ward has been in talks with Laleham Methodist Church, in Edinburgh Drive, to set up a seven night a week youth club for kids to go to.

Around £16,000 has been raised by a Spelthorne councillor in memory of a teenager who died this year.

Riverside and Laleham councillor Isobel Napper held the event at the Great Fosters Hotel on Monday October 12 in Egham, in memory of 17-year-old Matthew Lyne, of Staines, who died in March of Leukaemia.

The cast of a charitable circus were bitterly disappointed at Thorpe Park after staff refused to let them park their caravans in the car park.

Members of senior management at the theme park in Thorpe told Happy's Circus that they couldn't park in the coach bays because it was against their terms and conditions, despite the fact that on another occasion the circus had been allowed to park at the attraction without complaint.

A new councillor has been elected for the Laleham and Shepperton Green ward.

Tory Steve Fairfax, a hairdresser, was elected with 814 votes at a by-electionon Thursday night (October 1)