September 2008 Archives

Staines Lammas Brass Band are playing a concert at St Matthew's Church in Church Road, Ashford on Saturday October 18 at 7pm in aid of the British Heart Foundation.

Tickets cost £7 for adults, £6 for senior citizens and £3.50 for children and are available from organiser and former heart patient June Ross on 01784 458944.

CELEBRATING 1000 SHOWS ON HOSPITAL RADIO

Hospital Radio Wey's presenter John Charman presents his 1000th programme on Sunday 21st September at the North Surrey Radio Station's studios at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey. John has been presenting The Big Band Hour, every Sunday from 2-4pm and has charmed listeners with his authoritative and entertaining style.

John joined Radio Wey on 17th May 1972 and retired 19 years ago after a fascinating career, including 20 years as a pilot instructor in the RAF. He now spends time indulging his passion to Big Band and British Dance music. He enjoys swing, dance and big band music and helps run the West Surrey Big Band Society, which has developed a reputation as the best in the UK and has taken him all over the country.

You can listen to John's celebration show via internet streaming on www.radiowey.co.uk.

Spelthorne Council stepped up its efforts to bring council tax evaders to justice this month.

The borough council has employed a specialist bailiff to serve arrest warrants granted by magistrates courts.

The council says cases are only passed to the bailiff when all previous attempts to resolve the arrears have failed.

A voluntary group which provides help to the elderly and disabled is holding its annual general meeting on October 15 at St Martins Hall in Kingston Crescent, Ashford, which Mayor of Spelthorne Cllr Sooryadeo Bhadye will attend.

All are welcome to the meeting of Ashford Helping Hands, which helps less-able people go shopping and get to doctor and dentist appointments, which will start at 2.30pm.

Photographers belonging to Ashford Camera Club will meet at St Matthew's Church Hall in Ashford on October 21.

The group will meet at 7.45pm at the Muncaster Close hall. For more information call Brian Pluthgro on 01784 250240.

RADIO WEY goes FM across the local area on 87.9 . . .

The regulator OFCOM have granted the hard working volunteers of Hospital Radio Wey an FM channel to broadcast their superb variety of music & local information programmes. With a strong commitment to the local community and a passion to broadcast information that is relevant to listeners across the area the Chertsey based radio station will be pulling out all the stops from 16 October through to 12 November. The Restricted Service Licence is the latest step taken by this fast growing radio station towards a full Community Radio Licence. Radio Wey is constantly updating its facilities to meet its increasing listener base and this special broadcasting period will be a powerful mix of entertainment. There will be 'Live' acoustic 'local' bands & musicians in the studios and a live link up's with local events. Celebrity phone-ins and visits and input from your local newspaper to provide up to date news from across the region. You will be able to hear live commentary and up-dates from your local teams and phone in for the chance to win some of the many CD's and prizes on offer. Watch out for the flyers and posters. If you wish to get involved in this great occasion, either by coming in for a chat about your organization, or to promote your club or business, call Keith Tunnicliffe on 01784 464234 or visit www.radiowey.co.uk

The controversial 170-flat development on the site of Ashford Hospital has hit the buffers after the housebuilder withdrew its planning application.

Inland Homes Ltd had been granted planning permission to bulldoze the former West Wing of the hospital and build on the site but wrote to Spelthorne Council this week announcing its intention to to pull out of the development.

A 17-year-old girl was seriously injured after a crash at the junction of Kenilworth Road and Avondale Road in Ashford on Monday.

She was a passenger in a black Ford Ka which collided with a white van at about 12.25pm and had to be airlifted to Royal London Hospital where she is now in a stable condition.

Anti-social behaviour in an Ashford block of flats has become so bad that police have been given keycodes to get in and tackle loitering gangs of youths.

Residents of Dencliffe, in Church Road, have become so fed up with teenage gangs congregating in the stairwells of their block that they have given beat bobby PC Dave Lambert the code to get through their secure doors.

They are as different as chalk and cheese but two relics from Staines and Ashford's manufacturing past have attracted attention from collectors.

A Doctor Who rubber dalek toy made in Ashford in 1965 was bought for more than £1,500 last week, while a Lagonda sports car built in Staines in 1931 is expected to fetch more than £50,000 at auction later this month.