December 2011 Archives

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THE Independent Police Complaints Commission has said it does not need to investigate an incident in which a BMW driver crashed and died on the M25 shortly after police had tried to stop him.

The victim's car collided with the back of an articulated lorry on the clockwise carriageway near Chertsey.

The motorway was closed for several hours between junctions 10 and 11 following the crash at around 11.55pm on Monday (December 19).

POLITICAL heavyweights stepped into the ring for real last week to celebrate the success of an award winning boxing club.

They were joined by the High Sheriff of Surrey, professor Michael Joy, who officially presented the club's members with a shield they won at the end of November recognising The Biz as the sports project of the year in Surrey.

TWINS from Virginia Water have been offered the opportunity to attend the prestigious Yale University in America.

The private university, which is an Ivy League school based in New Haven, Connecticut, north-east of New York, is widely regarded as one of the best college's in the world.

THE speed limit around a notorious Chertsey accident blackspot is to be reduced from 70mph to 50mph.

The A320 Staines Road, which runs from Chertsey and past Thorpe Park, will be given its new limit next year after the move was approved by Surrey County Council's local committee for Runnymede on Monday.

The road has been the scene of a number of crashes over the years, particularly at its junction with St Ann's Road. Earlier this year a car collided with the wall of a bungalow.