Your life changes forever the day you bring home your little bundle of joy. Whether you give birth naturally, adopt or foster, this little person now depends on you for everything. From now on they come first, you come second, and a poor second at that Being a mother is fabulous, and funny, and frightening. […]
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By Nick Pollard Looking at Sunbury Cross today, it’s perhaps difficult to imagine how different it looked 50-odd years ago. Then, the Jubilee Clock, erected in 1897 to commemorate the 60 years on the throne of our previous longest-reigning monarch, Queen Victoria, stood in the middle of a busy intersection of single carriageway roads. There
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Michelle Tucker and her team provide inclusive access to parenting support for all, to ensure there are little to no barriers to par-ticipants. They encourage communities to come to-gether with the common issue of parenting. They aim to boost the health, wellbeing and confidence of families by nurturing and supporting those that are parenting, provide
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By Monica Jones and with Better Planet Advertorial With soaring energy prices, we are having to look at either putting on extra layers, or find-ing an alternative way of heating our homes in the long term. Furthermore, as govern-ments across the world have committed to making changes to help stop and reverse cli-mate change, including
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Pancake Day is a bit late in 2022. We’ve had to wait until March 1st. This is because the date changes each year because it’s related to Easter, and Easter Day varies annually according to the spring equinox. Shrove Tuesday is celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday, which is 40 days before Easter. This Lent
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Well, it is here again! No sooner have we celebrated the best in Spelthorne than it is time to be inspired and think about entering your business in 2022. The entry start date is April 4th but if you are interested in entering the competition and can’t wait, please email e.development@spelthorne.gov.uk and the link to
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In Shepperton library I am delighted to an-nounce that we are slowly being able to re-start some of the events that we used to run (which we had to stop due to Covid). We have begun our popular Rhymetime again. This runs every Tuesday at 11am. Spaces are VERY limited so if you would like
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The poster competition is underway and hope-fully many schools will enter. The closing date is March 11th. The theme for this year is “Platinum Jubilee: 70 years” and is part of the local efforts to celebrate the Queen’s remarkable 70 years on the throne. Organisers have asked that the words “Spelthorne in Bloom” appear in
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Some years ago the Shepperton Fair committee invested in new history ban-ners, depicting the fair since its inception over 40 years ago. It now wants to create banners for 2020 and 2021, the two missing years. They are asking residents and workers to submit photos which they believe represents Lockdown. These could be directly related
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We are already used to seeing Netflix filming around Shepperton, as their UK HQ is now based at the studios. Well now, in a further commitment to the UK production industry, Prime Video has announced a landmark multi million pound long term contract with Shep-perton Studios for exclusive use of new pro-duction facilities at the
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on the record When the plans first came out, the 900 space new car park was going to be along Studios Road, next to the one we already have, and extending down the field by the residents homes and the reservoir. We fought this as much as we could to get it moved. When we
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On Saturday 29th January, repre-sentatives from eight local chari-ties joined members of Shepperton Aurora at The Ferry Coffee Shop, Shepperton Lock to receive cheques from the Club totally over £4,000. The eight local charities, Thames Sailability, Cruse, Purple Angels, the Greeno, the Lourdes group, Paxmead Girl Guides, Cameo and the Black Swan Sea Cadets received
By Andrea Lewis RRC, Chief Nurse Due to the increase in cases of Covid-19 and the emergence of the Omicron variant, addition-al visiting restrictions are now in place at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals. This is to reduce footfall within our hospital sites and to help minimise the risk of transmission to protect pa-tients and
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By Rachael Leverton Contain your excitement! For me February marks the real beginning of the gardener’s year. Seed sowing starts in earnest, and we can begin to plan to bring the patio pots alive. As a gardener I do raise a lot of my plants from seeds in cold frames and greenhouses. But there is
Hello Shepperton. Welcome to 2022! As we entered the new year, it seems that the High Street was in pretty good shape over the holiday period. Shops and businesses appeared to be doing a brisk trade on the whole and the High street was bubbling along. Our stalwart businesses – the butchers, bakers, greengrocers, Homecare
Although Big Tree Night could not go ahead for 2021 the window dressing competition still took place. The shops in the High Street and around the village encapsulated the spirit of Christmas and the festive season injecting their usual competitive spirits and efforts into what was a splendid array of dressed windows. After much deliberation
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By Monica Jones When we first launched Shepperton Matters, over 10 years ago, I re-member meeting June Barnard, when she was running Shepperton Ladies, a group she is still involved in. She had invited me to the unveil-ing of a bench at Renfree Corner that her group had donated to the community. Well, nothing stops
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Something has to change! Many of us have been involved in the proper-ty game over the past couple of years. Lock-down showed us that we could live life in a different way. Many have moved further out from the metropolis to gain some much need-ed outside space. Some have had a change in family circumstances.
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A joint statement by your local residents associations At a meeting in early in January, Spelthorne’s planning committee approved an application by Shepperton Studios for a backlot on a six acre site within the new development. This site was origi-nally earmarked for a car park so it seemed there was no direct, adverse impact. However
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