August 2008 Archives

Nine youngsters from St Johns Estate spent the day checking out the new equipment and filming their opinions inside a Big Brother-style POD.

The event on Tuesday (26) was part of a surprise task for the Stamp Out Boredom initiative, a four week campaign to give youngsters aged between 10 and 18 something to do over the summer holidays.

Mayor of Elmbridge Nigel Cooper helped raise an Olympic handover flag for Elmbridge on Sunday August 26 at the Xcel Leisure Centre in Waterside Drive.

Accompanying the event was free swimming, a basketball tournament, torch making, and a re-enactment of the London Olympics in 1908.

A girl aged 16 was the victim of an attempted robbery when three males on BMX bicycles stopped her in Rydens Road, Walton.

The gang demanded she hand over a mobile phone and cash and claimed one of them was carrying a knife, although no weapon was produced during the incident.

A lonely woman who died of liver disease brought on by alcoholism could have lain dead in her Walton flat for more than a week.

Celia Jayne Jones, 59, of Wellington Close (pictured with her granddaughter Jenna in 1997), was last seen alive on April 22 this year and was found dead by a neighbour on May 2, Woking Coroner's Court heard on August 14.

Students at Rydens School were seeing stars and lots of them on Thursday (21) as they picked up their GCSE results.

A new police surgery is being launched in Walton to give residents the chance to speak to their local safer neighbourhood team.

LOCAL radio for YOUR town is back full-time as north-west Surrey community station Brooklands FM begins a new 24-hour service on the internet at www.brooklandsfm.co.uk.
With local news, views, interviews, musicians and sport, all based around great popular music, Brooklands FM claims to offer the truly local radio service for Addlestone, Byfleet, Chertsey, Shepperton, Walton, West Byfleet, Weybridge and surrounding towns that the bigger regional stations can't give. The station supports the Sam Beare Hospice, in Weybridge.

Yobs have wreaked havoc in a flat above a Walton newsagent's shop by leaving taps running and breaking gas pipes.

Intruders broke into Walton News in St Johns Drive at 10.30pm on Tuesday August 19 while the owner, Kumar Sivakumaran, was at his family home in Hayes.

They broke gas and water pipes, causing the lights to stop working, ruining stock in the shop, and leaving the carpet sodden.

A mum is organising a fundraising wedding ball in memory of her pregnant daughter who died from meningitis.

Alice Austin, 68, is staging the event for her daughter Gillian Redman, of Green Lane, Hersham, who died in March 2004 aged 31. She was 26 weeks pregnant and her baby, called Grace, died a short while afterwards when her lungs failed.

The ball is being held at the Gold Cup Suite, at Sandown Park Race Course, on September 27, and gives women the chance to dust off their wedding dresses and wear them again.

Elderly residents of Bradshaw House, a retirement home in Bishop Hill, have finally had their lift fixed after a 54-day wait.

People living in 31 flats in the Elmbridge Housing Trust-owned building, were made to wait for a part to be delivered from America.