August 2008 Archives

The United Reformed Church, in Queen's Road, Weybridge, will be opening its doors to the public in September.

On Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 the grade II listed building, which dates from 1865 will let visitors tour the Victorian Gothic style building.

A middle-aged sex pest tried to kiss a 17-year-old girl on board a Woking to Waterloo train shortly after it left Weybridge.

The offender boarded the train at Woking and initially sat opposite the girl, before switching seats to sit beside her.

A new weekends sports school will open in St George's College in September.

Children between the age of six and sixteen will be able to participate in 18 different sports including karate, fencing, archery, and football in a set syllabus.

A chubby white cat has been missing from her owner's house for four weeks.

Beast, a 10 year old female, fled from her garden after being frightened by a dog on August 4 and has not been seen since.

ST John Ambulance volunteers are back behind the wheel of their own ambulance eight months after their previous vehicle was crushed by a 60ft tree.

Art made by patients of the Sam Beare Hospice will be on display at Weybridge Library between September 2-13.

The High Sheriff of Surrey Sally Varah will visit the exhibition on September 5, and will be filled by drawings and paintings made by hospice patients in art sessions.

For more information call 01932 857907.

Relics from the 1920s will be on show at Brooklands Museum on Sunday August 31 in a motorcycle bonanza.

'Brooklands Relived' is the follow up to an event held in April which celebrated 100 years of motorcycle racing at Brooklands.

Pupils were out with adrenaline pumping on the day, as 83% of the year got A* to C in five or more subjects.

LOCAL radio for YOUR town is back full-time as north-west Surrey community station Brooklands FM begins a new 24-hour service on the internet at www.brooklandsfm.co.uk.
With local news, views, interviews, musicians and sport, all based around great popular music, Brooklands FM claims to offer the truly local radio service for Addlestone, Byfleet, Chertsey, Shepperton, Walton, West Byfleet, Weybridge and surrounding towns that the bigger regional stations can't give. The station supports the Sam Beare Hospice, in Weybridge.

A SPATE of bicycle thefts in Weybridge has led to Surrey Police security marking bikes with an ultra-violet pen.

Four bicycles have been stolen from sheds and racks in Radnor Road and Jessamy Road in the past month, and police are appealing for witnesses to come forward.