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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By Monica Jones With focus on the environment, we all need to look at ways of cutting back on waste. Did you know that 65 million printer cartridges were purchased in the UK last year alone? 85% of disused cartridges will end up in landfill, with chemicals leaking into the earth, and the poly-mer material
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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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The very words “Arts Centre” may strike fear into the minds of some. One could imagine a bastion of upper middle-class people sipping Lapsang Souchong whilst discussing Dostoevsky, or long-haired Bohe-mians splashing paint onto room-sized canvases. Well the Riverside certainly caters very well for such “grown-up” pursuits, but this ‘community’ centre for many hours a
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By Louise Addison As a nation we’re obsessed with ageing. We try to turn the clock back with lotions, potions and sometimes Botox and fillers. Yet some nations seem to have solved this issue without resorting to cosmetics or surgery. These people live in the world’s so-called Blue Zones. The term ‘Blue Zones’ refers to
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Council’s Corporate Plan Gets the Go-ahead After Unanimous Vote Spelthorne Borough Council has launched its new Corporate Plan for 2021-23 following its unanimous approval at a full Council meeting on Thursday 9 De-cember. The plan sets out its ambitions to be a Council led by its communities, un-derpinned by five overarching ‘CARES’ priorities and seven
By Inspector Maxine Cilia, Spelthorne Borough Commander My top tip for February, get to know your local neighbours. I was surprised in some commu-nications from members of the public in the local community that they had never spoken to their neighbours. By knowing your local community you can look after each other’s proper-ty, recognise strangers
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By Jane McKenna It’s very easy to make grand new year’s reso-lutions – the hard bit is sticking to them. If by the time you are reading this your good inten-tions are perilously close to falling by the wayside, have a look through the following 7 ways you can start to develop positive, healthy and
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by Bill Cunningham Out of the Blue a Green Scam We know already, don’t we, that probably any phone call or text or email from a stranger is suspect. In particular if offering a special deal. Like saving a fortune by greening our home. And not with flowers! Scammers live off media articles about grants.
By Nick Pollard The Queen Mary reservoir is a substantial landmark in this area, its embankment towering over the flat Middlesex countryside surrounding it. No doubt some of you will have walked round the top of it, sailed on it, or even flown over it when leaving Heathrow, and have seen what a huge expanse
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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 Neil Huntingford Our update this month is about the prac-tice’s website. Patients may have noticed that there are occasions when we’ve had to pause the appointment request section of the website. Like everywhere else, the Covid pandemic has affected our staffing levels, often at short notice when staff test positive and have to isolate.
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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
Following the success of last year’s TV series ‘Secrets of the Transport Museum’, the sec-ond series of 10 episodes will be aired on Tuesday evenings, starting on 1st February at 8pm. Filming started as soon as lockdown ended last summer and continued until October, featuring the cars, planes, cycles and motor-cycles that were designed, built,
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There must be something in the water in Sunbury. We have another long term resident who is celebrating his 100th birthday. Normal Wells, pictured, will turn 100 on 5th February 2022. He lives in Anvil Road, Sunbury on Thames. He worked at the BP Sunbury for 22 years before re-tiring in 1984. He lived in
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Attention all Shepperton, Sunbury and Halliford Residents: This new proposal by Surrey County Council affects your property By John Douglas Surrey County Council (SCC) are required to draw up a new Minerals and Waste Local Plan (MWLP). They are conducting a public consul-tation running until the beginning of March 2022. They are requesting your views,
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Benefits of Barre Training – could this be for you? Ballero: Barre Classes This month we look at another Sunbury finalist from the recent Spelthorne Busi-ness Awards. Clare Fisher at Ballero believes the 40 plus age group are consistently underserved and under prioritised in terms of the health and wellness industry. ‘As we get older
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Thanks to Joanna Brogan-Higgins for sending this sad photo of the large Lebanon Cedar from Sunbury park, which lost a large branch after heavy rain in January. Lebanon Cedars are typically trees which were planted as a prestige item in large grounds of country houses. Sunbury park was land belonging to the large Sunbury Park
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