ARMY Cadet Lance Corporal Talha Pirzada set his sights high this summer.
The 14-year-old was ordered to overrun a mock enemy position at a special camp.
And he succeeded in his mission - with the help of his squad of sharp-shooters from 239 St James School Detachment (Para).

TALK about making a splash in the world of fashion!

These schoolgirls hit the headlines by modelling dresses made from newspapers for a very special catwalk show.

A CHARITY shop is asking readers "to bounce about ideas" to raise money for a new van after thieves stole their old one.

Well-wishers have lent Charity at Home in Ashford a delivery van since their "battered old" Ford Transit was swiped six weeks ago.

SIX girl guides will be attempting the epic journey across the channel this weekend in order to honour the girlguiding centenary.

All leaders with Surrey West Girlguiding UK, the women aged 16 to 33 were selected from an original 16 contenders.

A LOTTERY winner from Ashford, joined other Lottery Millionaires to don gardening gloves and wellies in order to spruce up the gardens at St Elizabeth's Centre for Epilepsy in Hertfordshire this month.

Barbara Derry, 37, who scooped £2.3m in December 2000, joined forces with National Lottery winners, worth more than £50m combined, on Tuesday July 6 to get their hands dirty and spend the day volunteering at the Centre, located just outside Much Hadham near Bishop's Stortford.

A YOUNGSTERS variety show organised by an Ashford hairdresser was a huge success when it took place on Saturday.

Numerous youth acts from all over Spelthorne entertained the borough's elderly at the Ashford Community Centre in Woodthorpe Road on July 10.

AN Ashford author will be at Waterstones in Staines on Saturday signing his new book.
Alan Gallop a part time teacher, of Ashford Crescent, has previously written five history books.

His new text Victoria's Children of the Dark is about the role of children and women toiling in Britain's coal mines in the Victorian era.

A shed mysteriously caught fire this week to the confusion of the owners.

Fire engines from Staines were called to the address in Hensworth Road at about 3am on Tuesday July 6.

No one was injured and the fire was extinguished quickly.

WITH unemployment still high, and people on benefits under pressure to take more active steps to find work, Spelthorne Citizens Advice Bureau has warned residents to take care with training courses promising marketable qualifications or even a job on completion.

New figures show that Citizens Advice Bureaux nationwide saw problems with training courses shoot up by 49% in 2009 compared with 2008. In the last three months of the year they leapt by two-thirds (66%) compared with the same period the previous year.

EVIDENCE of civilisation that dates back to 3000BC has been found during an excavation of a street in Ashford.

An archaeological dig of St Michael's Road where housing company The Leadbitter Group are undertaking the redevelopment of a row of 1950's houses recovered remains that indicate Ashford is far older than previously thought.