April 2011 Archives

Adults with an urge to show their creative side can now book a place on a craft day set to be held at Chertsey Museum on Friday, May 20.

The day of Fun with Fabric starts at 2pm and finishes at 3.30pm.

It costs £5 per person and to book you can call the Museum in Windsor Street on 01932 565764.

EMERGENCY crews rushed to the River Thames near Chertsey on Wednesday morning after a car was seen submerged in the water.

A dog walker spotted the Land Rover Defender in the river, off Chertsey Bridge Road, just before 8am and initially it was feared that there may be someone inside.

Police and fire crews from Chertsey and Walton were called to the scene and, using the Walton crew's boat, they established that the vehicle was empty.

Chertsey Museum's temporary exhibition over the spring and summer months is Hue and Cry, the history of the Surrey Constabulary.

The exhibition features extensive loans from the Surrey Police Museum together with items from Chertsey Museum's own collections, including the door from Chertsey's gaol. The display traces the history of policing in Surrey from its earliest days up to the present and highlights some of the questionable activities which have taken place locally, such as England's last fatal duel in Egham and the 1951 Clay Corner murder in Chertsey.

A DINER has claimed his evening meal with a friend was ruined by the appearance of river rats at a restaurant in Chertsey.

The man, who spoke to the Herald & News on the condition of anonymity, said he had sat down to eat in the outside area next to the river at The Boat House Restaurant in Bridge Road on Thursday, April 7.

HUNDREDS of pupils could be left stranded by plans to axe two bus services to a Chertsey school.

Six buses which take more than 250 pupils daily to Salesian Roman Catholic School face the chop under Surrey County Council's cost-cutting plan.