Following on from the overwhelming success of the Sunbury Ferry’s first season last year, the volunteers are keen to get going again. The 2022 season is due to start operating weekends and Bank Holidays from this Easter, 10.00am to 5.00pm. In the meantime, you may see the ferry out and about, undertaking refresher training for […]
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By Monica Jones Half way there sounds close…but the journey for the Sea Cadets has been a rocky one and they continue to be very challenged. The Sunbury and Walton Sea Cadets (SWSC) have been through a momentous 10 years. Having got planning permission to rebuild their very old training centre, they were badly affected
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5th Sunbury has provided scouting in Sun-bury for around 80 years. We urgently need help if we are to continue. Can you help? The 5th Sunbury has been based at various locations including the old Kennyngton Manor School and is currently at The Jun-gle, Ashridge Way. Over the years we have had up to 2
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by Neil Huntingford This month we take a look at how the Health Centre is beginning to increase the number of patients being seen face-to-face, whilst still complying with NHS Covid guidelines, and utilising technological developments where appropriate. The first thing to remember is that, although the government has lifted Covid restrictions and self-isolating for
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In our comfortable and safe existence in the affluent South East of England we often talk about ‘keeping a roof over our heads’ and we at the Riverside have used that same phrase when attempting to balance our books. But let us spare a thought for those un-fortunate people of the Ukraine to whom that
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By Rory Edwards Rory Edwards is a local parent, teacher of 28 years and a school governor. He offers us an insight into certain dilemmas parents might face throughout the school year. By now, parents who have applied for sec-ondary school places will know if they have been successful or not. Congratulations if you’ve been
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For one night only … We are (we hope) approaching the end of the struggle to keep Kempton Park green. It’s been nine years, can you believe it, since we first found out about The Jockey Club’s plans to put thousands of houses on the Kempton Park estate. Defences against these crass plans for blight-ing
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The poster competition is underway and hope-fully many schools will enter. The closing date is March 11th. The theme for this year is “Platinum Jubilee: 70 years” and is part of the local efforts to celebrate the Queen’s remarkable 70 years on the throne. Organisers have asked that the words “Spelthorne in Bloom” appear in
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We are already used to seeing Netflix filming around Shepperton, as their UK HQ is now based at the studios. Well now, in a further commitment to the UK production industry, Prime Video has announced a landmark multi million pound long term contract with Shep-perton Studios for exclusive use of new pro-duction facilities at the
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By Rory Edwards Rory Edwards is a local parent, teacher of 28 years and a school governor. He offers us an insight into certain dilemmas parents might face throughout the school year. Over my years of teaching Maths, I have (unsurprisingly) privately tutored students in Maths. This leads to many conversations with parents about many
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by Neil Huntingford This month we take a look at how our local health centres can work together, focusing on certain aspects of health care, to improve ser-vices to patients. Sunbury Health Centre is now part of a Pri-mary Care Network (PCN) working collabora-tively on certain projects with Shepperton Medical Practice, Studholme Medical Centre and
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Here we go, here we go…… !! It is a new year and another new beginning at Riverside. Let us hope that this will not be another false start after Covid and that this time we will really return to normality. How wonderful to see audi-ences back in January and February, with very successful Classical
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On Saturday 29th January, repre-sentatives from eight local chari-ties joined members of Shepperton Aurora at The Ferry Coffee Shop, Shepperton Lock to receive cheques from the Club totally over £4,000. The eight local charities, Thames Sailability, Cruse, Purple Angels, the Greeno, the Lourdes group, Paxmead Girl Guides, Cameo and the Black Swan Sea Cadets received
By Monica Jones and with thanks to Andy Hill There is always so much interest from readers when we run anything on D’Oyly Carte Is-land and the Eyot House that sits on it. Those of you who use the towpath and river will have noticed that the moorings around the island are once again filling
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All that was missing was smoke, dancing and-Flapper girls. Otherwise attending the monthly jazz session of the Runnymede Jazz Club was like a throw back to another era. The music vibe was of a black and white film. It was epic. Entertaining us were a magnificent Reeds Unit-ed. They have been playing together for 24
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Appeal for Foot/cycle bridge Funding Fails …For Now Those readers who have been following the progress of our campaign for the con-struction of a foot/cycle bridge connect-ing Lower Sunbury to Walton will be aware of our recent application to YFS (Your Fund Surrey) to bring the cam-paign to fruition. It is therefore disappointing to receive
By Inspector Maxine Cilia, Spelthorne Borough Commander People are now returning to their workplaces after such a long period of time work-ing from home there are a number of crime patterns that have seen a slight in-crease. It is nice to be out and about but that gives the criminals other opportuni-ties too. Burglary is
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