By Neil Huntingford Our update this month is about the prac-tice’s website. Patients may have noticed that there are occasions when we’ve had to pause the appointment request section of the website. Like everywhere else, the Covid pandemic has affected our staffing levels, often at short notice when staff test positive and have to isolate. […]
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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
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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There must be something in the water in Sunbury. We have another long term resident who is celebrating his 100th birthday. Normal Wells, pictured, will turn 100 on 5th February 2022. He lives in Anvil Road, Sunbury on Thames. He worked at the BP Sunbury for 22 years before re-tiring in 1984. He lived in
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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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Benefits of Barre Training – could this be for you? Ballero: Barre Classes This month we look at another Sunbury finalist from the recent Spelthorne Busi-ness Awards. Clare Fisher at Ballero believes the 40 plus age group are consistently underserved and under prioritised in terms of the health and wellness industry. ‘As we get older
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Thanks to Joanna Brogan-Higgins for sending this sad photo of the large Lebanon Cedar from Sunbury park, which lost a large branch after heavy rain in January. Lebanon Cedars are typically trees which were planted as a prestige item in large grounds of country houses. Sunbury park was land belonging to the large Sunbury Park
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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. In the January issue, I wrote about what par-ents can do to help their children revise for the forthcoming exams in the summer:
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How will the community celebrate the Platinum Jubilee? With HRH Queen Elizabeth 2 marking 70 years on the throne this summer, and an extra bank holiday to celebrate, it is time to start thinking about how to mark the occasion as a village. Maybe it is a huge village picnic on Orchard Meadow, or Rivermead
By Nick Pollard We quite often get enquiries about the fragments of buildings, bridges, statues and other masonry that are found along the public park by the River Ash in Littleton. The land was once part of the Littleton Park Estate, owned by the Wood family since the 17th century. After a disastrous fire largely
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Delivery of 611 New Dwellings per year in Spelthorne. Is this set to change? Ministers responsible for housing seem to enjoy the same security of tenure as Premier League football managers. Planning reform remains a hot topic and in addition to his “levelling up” portfolio, Michael Gove the newly appointed housing minister, will have to
By Monica Chard So, maybe you are starting the new year with a resolution to “do something”, to “make a difference, “to meet some more local people”. Well, maybe this will inspire you, because you are needed! Sunbury Neighbours met recently, ostensibly for their first AGM for 2 years, but really this was a chance
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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 Monica Chard We have all heard the headline stories over the past few years; Brexit, Covid, the blocking of the Suez canal, HGV driver shortages etc, and we have all learned about “supply chains” and how they have been affected. We met recently with RIF Worldwide, a Plc with their headquar-ters in Sunbury, and
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By Monica Chard The Sunbury Christmas market this year was considered by many to be the best ever! Maybe it was because we all appreciated it so much more, having had to suspend it last year. There were 30 stalls selling crafts, gifts, hot food and cocktails. There was a fun ride, Santa’s grotto and
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This months front cover shows a beautiful view over the much treasured space that is known as Orchard Meadow. The car park which borders it is a different matter. We have carried reports of antisocial behaviour in the car park before. Drug dealing has been reported and some pretty un-pleasant behaviour. A couple of years
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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
John Maxen, Chair, Friends of Sunbury Park Sunbury Park is fortunate is having an interesting and varied history in terms of land use. Investiga-tions have shown the influence of man and animals for more than one thousand years. Evidence of this early use can still be seen in the patterns of ridge and furrow across
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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 Catherine Hayes Catherine Hayes is one of the winners of this years Spelthorne Business Awards and a run-ner up in the Spelthorne Business competi-tion. She clearly has hit on a great idea. Here she tells us why. There are many good reasons to teach young children the joys of being in the kitchen. Now
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