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With top TV quizmaster Chris Tarrant as its Vice president, it makes perfect sense for Princess Alice Hospice to launch 'LET'S QUIZ'. The charity is calling out to their local community to organise a quiz night event during the coming months.

The Hospice is hosting one of the first quiz nights with a staff fundraising evening, the event will see nurses battling fundraisers and doctors competing with the housekeeping and catering teams for the accolade of the 'Brightest Department'.

Quiz nights are very simple fundraisers, you simply need a venue, be it a pub, school hall or even your dining room and a pack of questions, answers and some competitive guests, the Hospice will provide the quiz pack - including questions sheets, answers, posters for publicising the event, balloons etc - and organisers simply need to find some quizzers.

Four friends who all work in Weybridge have broken a new record and raised over £1,500 by visiting every Premier League ground within 24 hours on Saturday, January 30.

The trip, called 4 Fellas Fantastic Football Odyssey saw Craig Morgan, 28, Dean Roe, 22, James Slade, 27, and Alistair Trump, 24 visit all 20 stadiums in a bid to raise money for the emergency Woking and Sam Beare Hospices appeal.

The quartet who all work at pharmaceutical company IDIS, kicked it all off by driving to Portsmouth's Fratton Park at five in the morning, and working their up, reaching the most northern team, Sunderland then heading back to London.

Four students from St George's College are celebrating offers made to them by the prestigious Oxford and Cambridge universities.

The students from the college, in Weybridge Road, Addlestone, Weybridge, spent months taking part in extra classes and sitting mock interviews with their subject teachers.

Cambridge places have been offered to Lydia Burton, 18, who will read English at Robinson College and to Daniel Fisher, 17, to read Engineering at Christ's College.

Footballer Wayne Bridge's ex was at Weybridge Health Club on Monday with PR guru Max Clifford who is guiding her through what he says is a 'media minefield.'

International record label Universal has signed choirs from Weybridge and Esher in a multi album record deal.

Members of the Weybridge and Esher Rock Choirs will be among the thousands that will feature on the first album, which is due to be released later in 2010.

The concept of Rock Choir is that anyone with a passion for singing can join one without auditioning or being able to read music.

A family fun event is being held at Elmbridge Museum on Saturday, February 13 where children can be an architect for a day.

Children are being invited down to the museum, in Church Street, in Weybridge to make scale models of buildings.

Two free sessions will be held, from 11am to 1pm and from 2pm to 4pm.

Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult.

For more information, contact the museum on 01932 843573.

Ahead of the Surrey Youth Games this summer, Elmbridge council is offering free training sessions for any child who lives or goes to school in the borough.

From March, children will be able to take part in a wide variety of sports including badminton, basketball, boccia, girls cricket, football, hockey, judo, netball, squash, swimming, tag rugby and tennis all for free.

These are called 'Give it a Go!' sessions.

Sunflower of Weybridge has chosen Brooklands College students to create a new logo for the company.

Nineteen students studying on the college's BTEC National Diploma Art and Design course will use their technical knowledge to help rebrand the local print, copy and art shop.

Hamza Sadique, who own the Oatlands Drive business, said: "I am happy to be able to offer this opportunity to the students, real life experience is invaluable at that age and yet it is hard to come by so I hope it will give them some sort of head start on their careers."

In the wake of the snow, hundreds of potholes have sprung up all over Surrey leading the county council to promise £500,000 to be spent on repairing them.

Currently the repair teams are trying to fix at least 200 potholes a day to avoid any vehicle damage to residents.

Due to the extreme weather, potholes have been springing up across Elmbridge, with Oatlands Chase and Seven Hills Road, both in Weybridge and Station Avenue, in Walton being hit particularly badly.

The Brooklands race car was taken on on the road on Friday, January 15 for the Autosport International Exhibition.

Over 100 students from the college in Heath Road, Weybridge visited Europe's biggest motorsport exhibition at the NEC Birmingham to show off the car.

Engineering students where given their own stand and while there saw the latest equipment designed specifically for the motorsport industry.