November 2010 Archives

CHERTSEY town centre stood still on Saturday (November 20) to honour the passing of one of its best-loved shopkeepers.

The coffin of Subhash Patel, owner of Chandler's News news agents, was led through Guildford Street in a horse and carriage ahead for four limousines filled with family and friends.

Shopkeepers, including Ray Jones of CJ Smith, closed businesses as the procession went past and about 140 people attended the service at Woking Crematorium, in Hermitage Road.

The service, for 48-year-old Hindu Subhash, was carried out by an Indian priest.

Son Keval, 21, said: "The funeral went really well and it was very emotional time.

"We started with prayers at our home before the coffin was lead to Woking in a horse and carriage.

LEGENDARY crooner Sir Cliff Richard will be on the local airwaves this afternoon when he chats live to Chertsey-based Radio Wey.

The Peter Pan of Pop will be the special guest on The Dance Party, presented by DJ Stuart Jones, and is expected on air at about 4.15pm (Wednesday November 24th).

Thorpe Players present TERRY PRATCHETT'S Discworld® story WYRD SISTERS adapted by STEPHEN BRIGGS. A magical, mystical fantasy - with traces of Lear and Hamlet and The Scottish Play.

Can the three Wyrd Sisters conquer evil, punish the wicked, reward the good and still be back home for tea? Can we stop ourselves laughing long enough to find out? Comic fantasy at it's very best, just in time for Christmas. Performnces wll be in THORPE VILLAGE HALL COLDHARBOUR LANE THORPE TW20 8TE at 8pm on Wednesday 24th to Saturday 27th of November 2010. Tickets are £9 and £10 from the box Office (07923 583295) or on the door.

TRAFFIC heading into London on the M25 is being backed up after an accident involving three cars between juctions 10 and 11

A FAMILY of farmers living near Chertsey Sewage Treatment Works are preparing to fight plans for a 21-month period of extensions of the site.

Charlie Bransden, from Lyne Farm, Lyne Crossing Road, has put in an objection to Surrey County Council against Thames Waters' plans to build a new sludge dewatering and cake storage building, alongside an odour control unit and associated landscaping.

The application was put to Surrey County Council on Friday, October 8, and residents have until tomorrow to submit their objections.

It is understood the work will take almost two years and, at its height, 25 heavy goods vehicles a day will be travelling in and out of the site.

THE son of a much-loved Chertsey businessman who died last Tuesday (November 9) has paid tribute to a 'friendly' and 'family orientated' father.

Sagar Patel, 20, said the death of his dad Subhash has come as a 'complete shock' to the entire town community, many of whom have left cards in the family shop, Chandler's News, in Guildford Street.

Subhash, 48, died at his home in Staines Lane at about 10.15am.

A post mortem examination was carried out on Thursday, November 11. It is believed he had either a heart attack or blood clot in the heart.

Sagar said: "He had just finished having breakfast at home and was about to head to the shop when it happened.

DOCTORS and nurses working at St Peter's Hospital, in Chertsey, could soon be joining patients on a park and ride bus into work.

A request for temporary planning permission has been put into Runnymede Borough Council by Ashford and St Peter's Hosptials Trust, which runs the hospital, to lease 100 car parking spaces at the Abbey Rangers Football Club car park, in Addlestonemoor.

Under the plans, a minibus will run from 7am to 7pm, Monday to Friday, picking up hospital workers on its route taking patients picked up from elsewhere in the region to St Peter's.

A collision between a car and a van has caused delays in St Peter's Way in Chertsey today (Monday).

The accident is blocking one lane and creating delays for traffic trying to get into the town.

An ambulance is on scene.

Updated at 9.15am.

THE first phase of redevelopment at Ottershaw village hall has finally started after fund-raisers collected more than £120,000.

The trustees of the village hall charity collated the money through fund-raising events by local people and businesses as well as grants from Surrey County Council, Runnymede Borough Council and the Chertsey Combined Charity.

The development will see a new toilet block and meeting room built into an extension on the exiting site, in Brox Road.

A grant application is also in for further extension; the result of this is due to be known by the middle of November.

A POPULAR shopkeeper from Ottershaw has died aged 91-years-old.

Amelai 'Mile' Hale, who ran the Handy Shop, in Slade Road, died on Sunday, October 17.

Her funeral was held at Christ Church, in the village, on Friday, October 29, followed by a cremation at Woking Crematorium. The funeral was arranged by Lodge Brothers, of Chertsey.

Ms Hale was born a twin in Cove, in Hampshire, on June 13, 1919.

She came to Chertsey to work as a housekeeper in the old William Perkins building in Windsor Street in 1937.