Local Authority

Firefighters were called to an undergrowth fire near Bronzefield Prison on Sunday June 21.

Crews from Staines were called to a section of railway track at 3.15pm and spent 10 minutes putting out the fire.

The re-elected Surrey County councillor for Ashford has created a neighbourhood watch for her area.

Cllr Carol Coleman, of Nelson Road, decided to set it up after a burglary happened in the road in May, and is in the final process of sorting out the paperwork.

The aims are to keep the residents vigilant and make them feel safer by notifying Surrey Police when they see suspicious behaviour.

Staines have a new fireman in the form of a local lad who lives in Laleham.

Dave Page, 27, joined the crew at Staines fire station, in Town Lane, Stanwell, on March 27.

The spring round of Spelthorne Council area forums has been cancelled.

The meetings between residents and councillors arranged for March 19 at Matthew Arnold School in Staines, March 31 in Stanwell village hall, April 8 at the Salvation Army Centre in Ashford and April 28 at St Paul's College in Sunbury have been axed due to lack of interest.

The council is considering ways to boost attendance and a recommendation will be presented to the executive committee at its meeting on Wednesday, March 18.

Firefighters doused the flames in a car that caught fire on Wednesday last week (12) in Parkland Grove, Ashford, at about 2.50am.

No one was hurt during the blaze.

Two men are in custody after £4,000 cash was stolen from a woman who had just made a withdrawal from Nationwide bank in Ashford.

Wayne Mark Lavender, 33, of Metcalf Road, Ashford, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to steal on February 1 and appeared before Staines magistrates the following day where he was remanded to appear before Kingston Crown Court on February 10.

A woman has been robbed as she cycled in Ashford by a "dirty" looking thief who leapt out of a car and snatched her handbag.

The victim was at the junction of Normanhurst Road and Feltham Hill Road when a light green Xantia pulled out in front of her causing her to stop.

Burglars have broken into two Ashford homes and tried to raid several more by reaching through the letterbox to open the front door.

And residents are being warned to lock themselves in at night after intruders got into the homes in Avondale Road and Gordon Road that had not been deadlocked on Friday January 23.

Tennis courts in Spelthorne are to be refurbished after the borough council allocated 110,000 over the next three years.

The money will be spent resurfacing the courts in Cedars Park in Lower Sunbury, Clockhouse Lane in Ashford, the Lammas in Staines, Stanwell Recreation Ground, Fordbridge Park in Ashford, Staines Park and Bishop Duppas Park in Shepperton.

Residents were told to stay in their flats after a small fire broke out in a communal hallway in Lud Lodge in London Road, Ashford on Thursday January 15 at about 4pm.

Firefighters were called to put out the blaze on the second floor landing and the area was made safe within 20 minutes.

No one was injured and it is not believed to be suspicious.