By Nick Pollard We quite often get enquiries about the fragments of buildings, bridges, statues and other masonry that are found along the public park by the River Ash in Littleton. The land was once part of the Littleton Park Estate, owned by the Wood family since the 17th century. After a disastrous fire largely […]
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To most, it seems like the most obvious way to improve their home and solve frustrating space problems is just to add extra space. Most believe that they need a loft conversion or house extension. But before launching into major building works we advise clients to take a step back and ask an im-portant question.
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Barbara Unsworth – Secretary Big Tree Night As you walk or drive around our village you cannot help but notice the festive array of trees lit in all their glory in the High Street, 57 to be exact! And let’s not forget Big Tree itself! Unlike almost any other High Street locally, including Staines and
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Shepperton Aurora Rotary Club held the sec-ond Youth Speaks competitions on November 23rd at the Jubilee Centre, Manygate Lane, Shepperton. This time the students taking part were from Years 10 and above. Once again, Covid 19 affected the number of teams taking part. There were four secondary schools repre-sented on the evening and all the
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By Monica Chard Our usual activities may have been curtailed in these new times of Covid, but one thing that is still alive and well is our ability to get out and enjoy our borough. So said leader of Spelthorne council Lawrence Nichols at the Capture Spelthorne competition event recent-ly. It is the 4th year
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from Shepperton PPG It is unlikely that the advent of social media made human nature more horrible, but quite plausi-ble that the discovery of other people being as nasty as oneself encouraged the unpleasant be-haviour daily to be discovered there. Probably very few of the anti-vaccine, anti-face mask bri-gade have no access to social media;
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By Monica Chard We have all heard the headline stories over the past few years; Brexit, Covid, the blocking of the Suez canal, HGV driver shortages etc, and we have all learned about “supply chains” and how they have been affected. We met recently with RIF Worldwide, a Plc with their headquar-ters in Sunbury, and
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Coffin Clubs are popping up all over the UK and it certainly provides a great way of getting people to talk about end of life and know the options. The founders of Coffin Club UK are passionate about funerals being a celebration of someone’s life and a personalised occasion. The Brigitte Trust has affiliated to
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By Mary Hammond, Chertsey Life We are all aware of climate change and the effect it is having on our environment with chang-ing temperatures effecting all kinds of life as we know it. There is no doubt, we are not going to be able to walk back the problems we are facing in a short
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By Catherine Hayes Catherine Hayes is one of the winners of this years Spelthorne Business Awards and a run-ner up in the Spelthorne Business competi-tion. She clearly has hit on a great idea. Here she tells us why. There are many good reasons to teach young children the joys of being in the kitchen. Now
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By Inspector Maxine Cilia I hope that you all had a good Christmas or festive celebra-tion, and I would like to start this by wishing everyone a happy and safe new year. I always hope that your new year resolutions will include things such as “I must join my local neighbourhood watch group”, or “how
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Spelthorne Borough Council are committed to supporting our most vulnerable households and, over the winter, we are providing finan-cial assistance via the government’s House-hold Support Fund (HSF) grant scheme. The Council will be providing funds via one-off payments ranging from £50 to £80, de-pending on the household’s situation, as de-tailed below: £50 per household for
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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
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,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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
