December 2008 Archives

Planning applications in Elmbridge from Monday December 8.

The Walton postie who lost his leg in a horror crash is walking again.

On Saturday, postman Ed Griffiths, 53, stepped into the George Inn pub for the first time since a collision in which he lost his right leg below the knee.

A Walton man has revealed that he was behind the classic Woolworths advert slogan 'The Wonder of Woolies'.

Norman Clothier, 80, devised the slogan while he worked with top UK advertising agency Masius and Fergusson as a merchandising executive in the 1950s.

Taxis and minicabs in Elmbridge are set to become safer to use with new licence plates which are being introduced by the council.

Bigger square plates are being added to Hackney Carriages and private hire vehicles over the next year, as licences are renewed.

A Surrey County Councillor backs campaigners who are fighting to save recreational space in Walton.
Residents from Kings Road, Kings Close, Sidney Road, and members of Walton and District Allotment and Garden Sociaty launched a campaign to save the former walton Swimming pool site as plans were submitted by Elmbridge Council's estate department for 26 houses and 12 flats.

Walton North's new beat bobby has come up with an innovative way to get teenagers off the streets - by teaching them how to make music.

PC Melanie Sefton has spent the last month taking six 14-15 year olds to Molesey Youth Centre, in Ray Road, West Molesey, where the teenagers have been using a £45,000 recording studio to make a song.

Walton could lose a valued recreational space if Elmbridge Council pushes ahead with plans to build 38 homes.

An application by the council's estates department has been lodged with the planning department for 26 houses and 12 flats on the 1.97-acre site of the now demolished Walton swimming pool, in Kings Close, and the open space surrounding it.

Fears are growing that residential streets could become choked with shop worker's cars once the cost of all-day parking in town centres goes up.

Shop workers may be driven out of town centres once Elmbridge Council increases its the long stay parking charges on January 5, meaning annual season tickets will go up by about £200.