Crime

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 couple found their Laleham home being ransacked by a burglar when they returned after an evening out on Sunday September 14.

Fred Wright, 69, and his wife, Brenda, 66, opened the front door of their house in Wrabness Way at about 9.15pm to the sound of banging coming from their conservatory, where the burglar was attempting to smash a window with a chair after hearing them coming.

Firefighters extinguished a blaze in a wheeliebin in Guildford Street, Laleham, on Sunday at about 3am.

The cause is being treated as suspicious.