November 2008 Archives

Award-winning local drama group, Ottershaw Players, are presenting a version of Charles Dickens' story of 'Oliver Twist' in Woking next week.

The play, written by Jeremy Brock and directed by Matthew Horton, follows the tale of little orphan Oliver, who is brought up in the workhouse, before escaping to London.

Workers at Woolworths stores in Elmbridge, Runnymede and Spelthorne are facing job loss fears as the company goes into administration.

A pensioner targeted by fraudsters is warning residents to be on their guard after he received a scam letter telling him he had won a Euromillions jackpot worth £500,000.

Douglas Burden, 79, of Sandlewood Avenue, Chertsey, received the letter through the post on November 18 asking him for all his personal details so that he could claim his cash prize.

Here's a question for you: What has New York got in common with Chertsey?

The answer is they are both home to the big apple! In our case its a crop of unfeasably large fruit growing on a tree in the garden of Bev Harris, 60, of Fordwater Road.

Local drama group, Thorpe Players, is looking to the future with its next production.

The play, "Comic Potential", is set a few years hence, when daytime TV soaps are even further down the scale than they are now. Actors are not always Humans any more, some of them are Androids.

Chertsey councillor Derek Cotty is hoping to raise £1,000 to save a elderly woman's Christmas after she was burgled for the fourth time in five years.

He is recruiting members of a charity he is involved in to help with fundraising, but says the charity prefers to remain nameless!

A new breakfast club for school children in Chertsey has been launched this week.

Club 326, who have been running after school clubs for children aged between four and 11 since April 2004, have now extended the club to accept children before school.

Parents can now drop their children off at the club in the grounds of Stepgates School from 8am and then staff will walk the children to school.

Reporter Hannah Webster talks to a Chertsey Territorial Army member about his recent seven month tour of duty in Afghanistan.

I am about to ask Gary McVeigh the question everybody wants to know when they meet a soldier when he stops me short.

"Don't ask it," the 29-year-old tells me, which is what he says to anyone who asks if he has killed anyone during his time in Afghanistan.

Chertsey Museum's latest exhibition, Reverent Runnymede, marks the 200th anniversary of the rebuilding of St Peter's Church in Chertsey.

The exhibition looks not only at Chertsey's parish church but also at various other churches in Runnymede. Photographs, paintings and objects from the Museum's collection are on display, together with a number of items on loan from St Peter's Church.

The exhibition is on view until Saturday 3 January 2009.

In response to popular demand Chertsey Museum is again selling cards for good causes. The Christmas cards are on sale in the Museum shop during opening hours until 22 December.

For further information, please contact Chertsey Museum on
01932 565764