By Monica Chard | Photos: Nicola Ann Photography It was a night of glitz, glamour and excite-ment. Finally, after two years, we were back and celebrating the cream of Spelthorne business-es at the Spelthorne Business Awards. I know personally how important this event is as a local business, as Village Matters had been crowned both […]
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Shepperton Aurora Rotary Club is very pleased that this year’s Youth Speaks- A Debate compe-tition is able go ahead; the intermediate competition took place on Tuesday 9th November at the Jubilee Centre, Manygate Lane, Shepperton but due to Covid there were fewer teams. The com-petition is in the form of a debate with each team
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For Harvest Festival, The Burlington Care Home in Shepperton has been collecting non-perishable food items in aid of the local food bank, ‘Bags of Food’, affiliated with the Jubilee Church. We would like to thank all of our families and team members who have donated so generously for this really im-portant cause and helping our
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We attended the official opening of the new Woodward Building at Halliford School last month. What a fabulous addition this is. From start to finish the three storey building went up in 21 weeks. The design is modular, cho-sen to be the fastest build with the least im-pact on locals. Named after school Chair of
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Local artist Peggy Pickering was delighted when the painting of poppies at the Tower of London, which she had donated, was auctioned at the Royal British Legion in Sunbury bids started at £200 and in the end it raised £560 which will go to the poppy appeal. How lovely to take the trouble of suggesting
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By Inspector Maxine Cilia With the festive sea-son arriving, we see a rise of some certain crimes. One of those crimes is theft of bi-cycles. Everyone is looking for a bargain, but please don’t be tempted to buy a bi-cycle from a local advert if you do not meet the person at their home address
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by Bill Cunningham What I want for Christmas Please Santa So far I have not spotted a Scamometer for sale for Christmas and if it existed then it would be a scam, not reaching us after pay-ment. If only we could input letters, emails, texts and voice mails to a box and it warned us
Simple Winter Tasks By Rachael Leverton This year’s festive season (at least at time of writing), is shaping up to be a little more ‘normal’, whatever that term now means. While most of us are looking forward to more socialising and togetherness, I’m betting a fair few might think back fondly to last year’s smaller,
Dramatize Tea Room is bringing a little Christmas Spirit to Charlton Village! With community spirit at the heart of this little tea room, the team invite you all to send your letters to Santa in their post box and re-ceive a personalised letter in return. They simply ask for you to include a pre-stamped envelope
Do you have a recipe to share? Food, and preparing and sharing food with our family and friends may express many things about our identity, history, culture, community and lives. Now, to celebrate the joy of food and the im-portance of our gorgeous neighbours we have decided to put together a Shepperton Commu-nity Cookbook. After
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At the time of writing, it would be nearly 4 weeks until Big Tree Night 2021. But sadly, as you all know Big Tree Night is not taking place this year. The committee have been bombarded with the ‘why nots’ and ‘really, we are not in lock-down’ and ‘we have our freedom so what’s the
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Nicola and Sam have been working together for a year to introduce this much needed pro-vision to the local and surrounding communi-ties. In December 2021, Sam answered Nico-la’s phone call, to help support her daughter with the trauma of cyber bullying. It was when they started to discuss their families and the love for their
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Themba is a Shepperton-based amateur youth theatre group which raises money for Compassion UK, a charity which helps to bring children out of poverty. Elf Jr is based on the popular movie Elf but with the addition of song and dance, in a specially-adapted 70 minute show. It is such fun and will definitely leave
With the focus recently on the environment and biodiversity, this is the time to see what we can all do to encourage wildlife at the same time as making our communities beautiful and attrac-tive places to live. Community projects to reclaim unloved land have sprung up and you may have seen wild flowers embellishing previously
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Merry Christmas everyone! Although Big Tree Night was cancelled this year, a small group of volunteers have been hard at work over the last few months – taking orders for Christmas Trees from our High Street traders – so that the street can light up at the beginning of December. CHRISTMAS in Shepperton has not
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By Nick Pollard Halliford School was founded in 1921 as Shepperton Grammar School, and occupied a building in Laleham Road, just by the present junction with Manor Farm Avenue. It provid-ed education for boys and girls from the ages of 5 to 14. The school was founded and owned by the first Headmaster, Alfred Dobree
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Thank you to Laurie Burrell for sharing his experi-ence on November 14th when he had the opportunity to attend the Royal British Legion Cenotaph Parade as a representative of the Soldiers Sailors Airman Family Association (SSAFA) of which he is a Surrey Branch member for Spelthorne and Runnymede. Our instructions for the day from SSAFA
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George Drewett recently turned 100 (5/10/21). The story of his life is an interesting one. George was born in Croydon. He was one of the last children to be sent to the workhouse, before its transition to local authority care. His father came back from soldiering in the Great War with a Military medal and
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By James Slade A year ago I set myself a bucket list of things to do before I’m 40 (I’m 39), and one of the things on my list was to run a full marathon. In the past I’ve run a few half marathons, but straight after each one I’ve always thought to myself, “there’s
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