September 2009 Archives

An ex-Millwall player collapsed in Sainsbury's car park on Thursday dying later that day at St. Peter's Hospital.

Denis Pacey, 79, was outside the store in Heriot Road at about 8.15am on September 23, when he collapsed from an aneurysm.

Up-and-coming racing star Bruno Senna, nephew of the triple Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna, was at Thorpe Park on Saturday to race in the virtual world against computer gamers.

He took time out to speak to Surrey Herald reporter Emma Heseltine about his career, his hopes for next season and his famous uncle.

A 25-year-old man from Chertsey has been charged with dangerous driving after his car was in collision with a house last month.

Dominic Tamblyn, of Barker Road, Chertsey, has also been charged with driving without a licence, driving without insurance and failing to stop following an accident, when he answered bail on Tuesday (29).

Tamblyn was arrested following a collision in St Ann's Road on Monday August 17, when a green BMW left the road and collided with the garage wall of a house.

He is due to appear at Woking Magistrates Court on October 15.

The budget-busting salaries of bosses at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals were revealed at a meeting last week.

Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust held its first AGM since applying for foundation trust status, on Thursday September 24 and revealed the details of its accounts from March 2008 to April 2009 to those attending.

The financial reports revealed that Paul Bentley was paid more than £145,000 as acting chief executive, a role which he filled until January 4, and received a further £25,000 as director of strategy, which he took up on January 22.

Patients have now hit out at the salaries, claiming the trust should be spending that money on patient care rather than on behind-the-scenes employees.

Police entered a home in Guildford Street last Tuesday in response to a call made by a woman who claimed she had been assaulted by a man that was known to her.

Police arrested a 37-year-old man from Chertsey.

He has been bailed until October while enquires continue.

AFTER being short staffed since March the Chertsey police team is back up to four officers.

The two new officers PCSO Josh Bleasby and PCSO Michaela Vasilova have joined PC David Stockle and PC Michael James.

News has 'leek-ed' of a great new place to buy your veg.

Doreen Clark, 67, who lives in Almners Road in Chertsey sells home grown vegetables outside her home every Friday and Saturday.

THE police will remove a bench from Green Lane in Chertsey if no objections are made.

It has been claimed that the bench attracts gathering youths that leave litter and make noise until the early hours of the morning.

Chertsey Museum's new fashion display An Image of Itself opened on Saturday 19 September.

Featuring key pieces from the Olive Matthews Collection of Costume, this exhibition explores the way in which fashion is constantly influenced by the styles of the past. The display invites the visitor to draw fascinating and surprising comparisons though the careful juxtaposition of garments, sometimes centuries apart in date.

The family of a war hero are paying £1,450 to get his name on a memorial which should have been included in 1945 after he died in World War Two.

Private William Melville Field who lived in Lasswade Road in Chertsey, was 16 when he joined the army illegally in 1937 claiming that he was 18.