For one night only … We are (we hope) approaching the end of the struggle to keep Kempton Park green. It’s been nine years, can you believe it, since we first found out about The Jockey Club’s plans to put thousands of houses on the Kempton Park estate. Defences against these crass plans for blight-ing […]
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Zodiac Musical Society are looking to welcome new members to join us for our October 2022 production of the all-singing, all-dancing, Tony Award-winning, fairy-tale adventure ‘Shrek The Musical’. We are looking for people with strong singing and movement/dance abilities over the age of 16 years of age – especially those of the male variety. The
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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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By Rory Edwards Rory Edwards is a local parent, teacher of 28 years and a school governor. He offers us an insight into certain dilemmas parents might face throughout the school year. Over my years of teaching Maths, I have (unsurprisingly) privately tutored students in Maths. This leads to many conversations with parents about many
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by Neil Huntingford This month we take a look at how our local health centres can work together, focusing on certain aspects of health care, to improve ser-vices to patients. Sunbury Health Centre is now part of a Pri-mary Care Network (PCN) working collabora-tively on certain projects with Shepperton Medical Practice, Studholme Medical Centre and
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Here we go, here we go…… !! It is a new year and another new beginning at Riverside. Let us hope that this will not be another false start after Covid and that this time we will really return to normality. How wonderful to see audi-ences back in January and February, with very successful Classical
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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 Monica Jones and with thanks to Andy Hill There is always so much interest from readers when we run anything on D’Oyly Carte Is-land and the Eyot House that sits on it. Those of you who use the towpath and river will have noticed that the moorings around the island are once again filling
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All that was missing was smoke, dancing and-Flapper girls. Otherwise attending the monthly jazz session of the Runnymede Jazz Club was like a throw back to another era. The music vibe was of a black and white film. It was epic. Entertaining us were a magnificent Reeds Unit-ed. They have been playing together for 24
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Appeal for Foot/cycle bridge Funding Fails …For Now Those readers who have been following the progress of our campaign for the con-struction of a foot/cycle bridge connect-ing Lower Sunbury to Walton will be aware of our recent application to YFS (Your Fund Surrey) to bring the cam-paign to fruition. It is therefore disappointing to receive
By Inspector Maxine Cilia, Spelthorne Borough Commander People are now returning to their workplaces after such a long period of time work-ing from home there are a number of crime patterns that have seen a slight in-crease. It is nice to be out and about but that gives the criminals other opportuni-ties too. Burglary is
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by Bill Cunningham The Pearls or Perils of Buying Online Currently 30% of all we buy is obtained online. So, we should be vigilant about our purchasing for there are many fraudsters earning off online traffic. There’s a lot we should consider before parting with our card details. A lot. The padlock icon in the
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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The NHS was founded in 1948 to provide high-quality health care for all now, and for future generations. Understanding that climate change and human health are in-extricably linked, in October 2020, the NHS became the first in the world to commit to working towards becoming a carbon net zero national health system by 2045. This
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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Riverside Coffee Concert Review by Helen Hurrell Those of you who were at Riv-erside for the Coffee Concert on Saturday February 5th received a real treat, from seeing the charming publicity picture taken in the Britten Theatre of the Royal College of Music, to the end of the all-too-short concert, when we were invited to
Photo Gavin Rendall A local resident in Thames Street is so alarmed at the speed and weight of traffic in our historic centre that he has started a petition. Support has been strong. He is not alone,. But residents have been trying to get Surrey highways and local council to put measures in place for
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You may have read on social media about the planning applica-tion for a huge 5G mast in Lower Sunbury. Sure, we all want and need connectivity these days, but no one in their right mind would think to place this monstrosity overlooking the pictur-esque Rivermead Island. We only found out about it AFTER the February
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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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By Rachael Leverton Super Swiss Chard March means the start of outdoor sowing season in the UK, as the days begin to lengthen and become warmer. I discovered Swiss Chard several years ago when I was looking for something more inter-esting than spinach. It’s rarely found in the super-markets for some reason and is quite
