August 2009 Archives

Ashford children became traffic cops on Wednesday August 12 as part of A2 Dominion's summer youth project.

Around 19 youngsters aged between five and 14 worked with police officers and carried out speed checks along Chertsey Road, Ashford.

A businessman from Ashford has been left devastated after burglars stole nearly £100,000 of his possessions.

Finance director Paul Rust, 43, was on holiday when theives raided a detached home he shares with his parents on Monday July 6, after forcing a kitchen window and opening a back door.

Members of a half-century-old church social club have been left stunned after it was closed without warning.

The club, which belongs to St Michael's Church in Fordbridge Road, Ashford and which has a 300-strong membership, closed on Monday last week, becoming the latest victim of the recession, according to Major Jim Overton, the priest.

A family is living in fear after petrol bombers set fire to their camper van outside their home in Ashford.

Cheryl Sibley, her husband Stephen, and their grown-up son Thomas, were asleep in their home in Beards Avenue on July 7 when somebody placed a lit can of petrol under a camper van in their driveway.

An Ashford based band are due to release their second album next week with the help of an Ashford based music company.

Eskimo Project, which is run by Paul Bassett, are releasing 'Once Around the Sun' on Monday September 7, and are in talks with HMV in Staines to get the album sold there.

Copper piping was stolen from a van parked in a residential road on Monday August 10.

Between 12.15am and 1.15am a white panel van was broken into by thieves in Townsend Road, Ashford.

Bicycles and tools were stolen during a four strong spate of burglaries at the weekend.

Police believe the burglaries, which occurred in sheds and garages in Ashford, took place sometime between Friday July 31 to Sunday August 2.