December 2010 Archives

POLICE in Runnymede are urging boat owners in Chertsey not to leave valuables on their crafts after a series of break ins over the Christmas period.

Moored boats make an attractive target for thieves as they are often unoccupied and now police are hoping the owners will help them to lower the rate of thefts.

Last month officers have received reports of four incidents involving boats moored off Bridge Road, which all took place between 6pm and 8.30pm on Monday, December 20.

On behalf of myself and everyone at the Herald and News have a very merry Christmas.

CHERTSEY was plunged into darkness on Saturday afternoon as 1,000 homes lost power.

An attempted cable theft in Staines Road cut power to the town, hitting many businesses on their busiest day of the year.

Some businesses were forced to close and other had to turn staff away until UK Power Network restored power to many of the stores in Guildford Street after more than an hour.

Are you ready for Christmas? Is your house prepared for the visit of the big man in red?

Get in touch with the Surrey Herald if you've decked your house in lights and decorations. We can come down, take some photos and get you in the paper.

Or even shame your neighbours if they have leapt past the bounds of good taste.

Let me know at carlgavaghan@trinitysouth.co.uk or call 07795 645 371

A MAN who fell to his death on the M3 near to Chertsey on Wednesday had been a patient at the Abraham Cowley Mental Health Unit prior to him dying.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the unit at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey, confimed the man had been at the facility.