Useful Info

THE Weybridge Male Voice Choir is giving a concert at St Mary's Parish Church, in Church Street, Walton, on Saturday February 13 at 7.30pm in aid of the church bell restoration project.

A family fun event is being held at Elmbridge Museum on Saturday, February 13 where children can be an architect for a day.

Children are being invited down to the museum, in Church Street, in Weybridge to make scale models of buildings.

Two free sessions will be held, from 11am to 1pm and from 2pm to 4pm.
Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult.

For more information, contact the museum on 01932 843573.

Ahead of the Surrey Youth Games this summer, Elmbridge council is offering free training sessions for any child who lives or goes to school in the borough.

From March, children will be able to take part in a wide variety of sports including badminton, basketball, boccia, girls cricket, football, hockey, judo, netball, squash, swimming, tag rugby and tennis all for free.

These are called 'Give it a Go!' sessions.

A former councillor has been selected as the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate to stand for Esher and Walton in the forthcoming general election.

Lionel Blackman who represented the Woodcote ward on Epsom and Ewell borough council will be going up against Dominic Raab, the prospective Tory candidate after long standing MP Ian Taylor decided to stand down after 23 years.

The father of two believes that many members of parliament have abused their positions and has promised if elected to not claim for a second home and that no MP for Esher and Walton should have ever done so.

In the wake of the snow, hundreds of potholes have sprung up all over Surrey leading the county council to promise £500,000 to be spent on repairing them.

Currently the repair teams are trying to fix at least 200 potholes a day to avoid any vehicle damage to residents.

Due to the extreme weather, potholes have been springing up across Elmbridge, with Oatlands Chase and Seven Hills Road, both in Weybridge and Station Avenue, in Walton being hit particularly badly.

Walton residents are set to benefit from the rebranding of the Abbey building society as Santander.

The change, which takes place today, gives Abbey customers access to Santander's vast UK network of more than 1,000 branches across the UK.

A talk is being held at the Riverhouse Barn, on Tuesday, January 5, by Tate Britain lecturer Peter Scott on the Italian renaissance artist Mantegna.

Tickets for the talk, at the gallery in Manor Road, cost £5 and are available by phoning the box office on 01932 253354.

The talk starts at 8pm and is being held to promote an exhibition by artist Graham Underhill, who takes influence from Mantegna. Mr Underhill's exhibition will be running at the gallery from Wednesday, January 6 to Sunday, January 24.

For more information on the exhibition, phone 01932 254198.

Extreme weather could have been the reason why scaffolding on a block of Walton flats collapsed in the dead of night.

Just before 1am on Friday, December 18, the scaffolding surrounding the three storey flats in Station Avenue, near Walton station crashed to the ground.

Fire crews and police arrived at the scene to make sure that no one had been injured in what could have been a potentially life threatening incident.

Levi Bellfield, the prime suspect in the Milly Dowler murder case could be charged before the end of the year, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)has revealed.

Convicted serial killer Bellfield was living in Walton at the time of the 13 year old's disappearance in 2002 when she walking home from Walton train station.

Police submitted a dossier filled with thousands of pages of documents and circumstantial evidence against Bellfield to the CPS in August.

They have now revealed that a decision on whether he will be prosecuted should be made before the year is out.

Police are investigating a string of robberies which took place in Walton over the weekend which they believe to be related.

The first attack, which left a 15 year old with minor injuries, took place between midnight and 12.30am on Friday, December 11.

Three suspects approached two male victims after getting out of a black cab in Molesey Road and tried to steal a bag.

The two victims tried to flee the ensuing trouble, but the three men gave chase.