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 Darren Clarke, Capability Clarke Global Crisis The ink is still drying on the COP 26 statement, Nations have committed to improving the environ-ment by trying to limit global temperature rise. Soon we will be switching away from coal and gas and utilising renewable energy. We need to em-brace this change for the better. Sir
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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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Delivery of 611 New Dwellings per year in Spelthorne. Is this set to change? Ministers responsible for housing seem to enjoy the same security of tenure as Premier League football managers. Planning reform remains a hot topic and in addition to his “levelling up” portfolio, Michael Gove the newly appointed housing minister, will have to
By Ken Battle Lists of Iron Age hoards in Great Britain make reference to the ‘Sunbury’ Hoard, but a more accurate description would have been the Shepperton Hoard. The confusion arose when Mr. A.J. Buttress, the Surveyor for the Sunbury Urban District Council, reported the discovery in April 1950 to the old London Museum, who unfortunately
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By Monica Chard For many years Jacqueline Stanton had her eye on an empty building in Vicarage Road, Sunbury, seeing its potential as a much needed community hub. The former social services building had been empty for close to 10 years. It stood on land which was part of the old Kenyngton Manor school and
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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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By Niamh Brennan and Emma Christmas Waterside Wonderland is a brand-new community Christmas event in Shepperton that aims to bring the community together after a difficult year and a half. Alongside the Christmas Market, the festival features affordable family-friendly activities for all ages including Santa’s Grotto, ice-skating on a lakeside synthetic rink, donkey rides, lanterns
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Congratulations from the Riverside Arts Cen-tre to our very own Kathryn Cameron-Webb, whose company, The KH Dance Acade-my won the top award at a ceremony held on the 11th November 2021 at The Holiday Inn for “The Best Healthy Business” in Spelthorne. Kathryn found our great facility 9 years ago, and seized the opportunity to
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By Kath Sanders and Tom Fidler. Photos: alula.media Sunbury came together to remember the fallen. In dry weather and a change to the normal programme, uniformed groups gathered in Cedars Recreation Ground shortly before the wreath laying ceremony at the War Memorial. The organisers would like to thank all those who contributed to making the
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Neil Huntingford, Chair Patient Participa-tion Group SHC, in conversation with Richard Fryer, Business Manager SHC. The media and the press are quick to high-light issues with the NHS, especially with re-gard to patients having difficulty getting ac-cess to GP surgeries and yet 9 out of 10 NHS Chief Executives have reported that the health service
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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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Sunbury Park and, more recently, Or-chard Meadow and Hawke Park (previously the TP26 Linear Park) are highly valued local amenity assets both appreciated and used by many residents to visit, play, relax, or for dog walking. Together with Spelthorne Council, The Friends of Sunbury Park (FSoP) volun-teer group work to maintain the environ-ment and nature
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
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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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,
By John Taylor | Photo, Laleham Players It’s that time of year, when at theatres throughout the country we hear the sound of “He’s behind you”, “Oh yes it is” and “Oh no it isn’t”. A festive outing for all ages, a visit to a pantomime is great fun. It’s usually a child’s first theatre
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