By Rachael Leverton Contain your excitement! For me February marks the real beginning of the gardener’s year. Seed sowing starts in earnest, and we can begin to plan to bring the patio pots alive. As a gardener I do raise a lot of my plants from seeds in cold frames and greenhouses. But there is […]
Hello Shepperton. Welcome to 2022! As we entered the new year, it seems that the High Street was in pretty good shape over the holiday period. Shops and businesses appeared to be doing a brisk trade on the whole and the High street was bubbling along. Our stalwart businesses – the butchers, bakers, greengrocers, Homecare
Although Big Tree Night could not go ahead for 2021 the window dressing competition still took place. The shops in the High Street and around the village encapsulated the spirit of Christmas and the festive season injecting their usual competitive spirits and efforts into what was a splendid array of dressed windows. After much deliberation
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By Monica Jones When we first launched Shepperton Matters, over 10 years ago, I re-member meeting June Barnard, when she was running Shepperton Ladies, a group she is still involved in. She had invited me to the unveil-ing of a bench at Renfree Corner that her group had donated to the community. Well, nothing stops
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Something has to change! Many of us have been involved in the proper-ty game over the past couple of years. Lock-down showed us that we could live life in a different way. Many have moved further out from the metropolis to gain some much need-ed outside space. Some have had a change in family circumstances.
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A joint statement by your local residents associations At a meeting in early in January, Spelthorne’s planning committee approved an application by Shepperton Studios for a backlot on a six acre site within the new development. This site was origi-nally earmarked for a car park so it seemed there was no direct, adverse impact. However
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We need to hear from a wider range of people. Can you help? The Patient Participation Group (PPG) aims to contribute to ‘service design’ at Shepperton Medical Practice and to collate patients’ expe-rience of how that service is delivered. We haven’t had much chance to be involved in design in 2021 as staff have been
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By Nick Pollard The Queen Mary reservoir is a substantial landmark in this area, its embankment towering over the flat Middlesex countryside surrounding it. No doubt some of you will have walked round the top of it, sailed on it, or even flown over it when leaving Heathrow, and have seen what a huge expanse
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Following the success of last year’s TV series ‘Secrets of the Transport Museum’, the sec-ond series of 10 episodes will be aired on Tuesday evenings, starting on 1st February at 8pm. Filming started as soon as lockdown ended last summer and continued until October, featuring the cars, planes, cycles and motor-cycles that were designed, built,
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Attention all Shepperton, Sunbury and Halliford Residents: This new proposal by Surrey County Council affects your property By John Douglas Surrey County Council (SCC) are required to draw up a new Minerals and Waste Local Plan (MWLP). They are conducting a public consul-tation running until the beginning of March 2022. They are requesting your views,
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By Monica Jones Shepperton Studios has just launched a new community fund. It is open to local organisa-tions or individuals, non-profit and voluntary organisations including charities, social enter-prises, and community groups. This is a great chance for many areas of the community to apply for a much needed cash injection. The fund is a not
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By Louise Addison As a nation we’re obsessed with ageing. We try to turn the clock back with lotions, potions and sometimes Botox and fillers. Yet some nations seem to have solved this issue without resorting to cosmetics or surgery. These people live in the world’s so-called Blue Zones. The term ‘Blue Zones’ refers to
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By Inspector Maxine Cilia, Spelthorne Borough Commander My top tip for February, get to know your local neighbours. I was surprised in some commu-nications from members of the public in the local community that they had never spoken to their neighbours. By knowing your local community you can look after each other’s proper-ty, recognise strangers
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by Bill Cunningham Out of the Blue a Green Scam We know already, don’t we, that probably any phone call or text or email from a stranger is suspect. In particular if offering a special deal. Like saving a fortune by greening our home. And not with flowers! Scammers live off media articles about grants.
By Inspector Maxine Cilia I hope that you all had a good Christmas or festive celebra-tion, and I would like to start this by wishing everyone a happy and safe new year. I always hope that your new year resolutions will include things such as “I must join my local neighbourhood watch group”, or “how
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by Bill Cunningham It’s Not a Panto and Not Really a Laugh Though we may no longer attend a pantomime as our standard seasonal entertainment we may still recall our participation in them. Let’s use our experience of then to respond to scam-mers who approach us. On the phoned approach to us they will firstly
By Mary Hammond, Chertsey Life We are all aware of climate change and the effect it is having on our environment with chang-ing temperatures effecting all kinds of life as we know it. There is no doubt, we are not going to be able to walk back the problems we are facing in a short
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By Rachael Leverton Plants as Air Purifiers A friend recently asked me whether there are any plants which might help with the humidity and mould problem in the bathroom and back bedroom of her Victorian house. It’s a problem that actually affects many British households. Many of our homes are old, and in our damp
Barbara Unsworth – Secretary Big Tree Night As you walk or drive around our village you cannot help but notice the festive array of trees lit in all their glory in the High Street, 57 to be exact! And let’s not forget Big Tree itself! Unlike almost any other High Street locally, including Staines and
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from Shepperton PPG It is unlikely that the advent of social media made human nature more horrible, but quite plausi-ble that the discovery of other people being as nasty as oneself encouraged the unpleasant be-haviour daily to be discovered there. Probably very few of the anti-vaccine, anti-face mask bri-gade have no access to social media;
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