November 2009 Archives

A youth football organisation has hit out at yobs that completely destroyed their training facilities and left them unable to play matches.

Staines Albion cater for 177 boys aged between six and 16, but will be unable to play league games for the foreseeable future due to the £30-£40,000 worth of damage done to Long Lane Recreation Ground's pavilion, in Cordelia Gardens, Stanwell.

Volunteer gardeners from British Gas have made the lives of two elderly residents better.

Sixteen workers from the company were given paid leave for two days each to cut shrubs, build fences, and paint shed in the gardens of two elderly people in their 80s in Stanwell and Staines.

An extra 200 police officers could be seen walking around the streets of Surrey in the near future.

Chief constable of Surrey Police Mark Rowley has said the force are looking to close police stations, make cuts of senior officers and lower bureaucracy as part of radical plans due to be discussed on December 10 with Surrey Police Authority.

Mindless vandals broke into a council owned sports facility at the weekend and completely destroyed the place.

Representatives of Spelthorne Council have talked out at their disgust over the thousands of pounds worth of damage caused to the Long Lane Recreation Ground, off Cambria Gardens, in Stanwell.

A hopefull band will be launching their debut EP at a promotional gig in Staines in December.

On December 12, the Dirty Crawlers, whose four members are from Ashford, Staines, and Chertsey, will be performing at The Hobgoblin, in Church Street, to promote their first EP Bottleneck.

Horrendous winds caused havoc over the weekend, nearly causing scaffolding to topple over.

Residents also reported a large tree that had fallen into the grounds of Ashford Tennis Club, and Spelthorne commuters had to find alternative transport after a train bridge in Feltham collapsed.

MP David Wilshire opened four refurbished wards at Ashford Hospital on Monday November 16.

The Spelthorne MP, who will stand down at the next general election following revelations he paid more than £100,000 in expenses to a fake company, officially re-opened wards Chaucer, Wordsworth, Dickens, and Fielding.

A neighbourhood watch co-ordinator and a police officer from Spelthorne have been given awards by the Prime Minister for their work in the borough.

Vicki Kapoor Sood, of Hadfield Road, Stanwell, and crime reduction officer Vic Smith visited ten Downing Street on November 4 to be given separate certificates by Gordon Brown at the community crime fighters award.

POLICE are hunting for a 19-year-old Stanwell man who has failed to check in with them while on bail.

Nicholas Little, of Yeoman Drive, is being sought because he didn't answer bail in connection with an assault in Staines Road West, Sunbury, in July.

A decision to build five houses on a public car park in Stanwell has been rejected to the joy of residents.

At a Spelthorne Council planning meeting on Wednesday November 11 councillors voted six to three to reject an A2Dominion application to build 14 homes in Park Road.