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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.

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.

A graphics shop in Weybridge has set college students the task of redesigning its shop front as part of their coursework.

As a new initiative, design students at Brooklands College, in Heath Road, Weybridge will be working on creating a new frontage for Sunflower Graphics.

Not only will the best design be implemented by the shop, but if successful then design students could be redesigning the shop front in Oatlands Drive on an annual basis.

Employees from a Weybridge based accountancy firm are taking part in a green government initiative which sees them cycling to work.

TWP Accounting, which is based in Church Street, has been taking part in the Cycle to Work programme, where employees make regular payments through their salaries until the cost of a brand new bike is complete.

Due to the money coming from gross pay, savings are made on National Insurance contributions and Income Tax.

The winner of the Friends of Weybridge Hospital's Christmas Raffle has been announced as Mrs Joy Burton.

The charity, which raises money for Weybridge Hospital, in Church Street, awarded Mrs Burton the winner and gave her the prize of a festive hamper on Monday, December 21.

The raffle raised £850 for the hospital.

Throughout the year, the charity has been raising money for the hospital and in September a new reception area was opened with funds raised raised by the group.

Police are appealing for information about a missing Essex man who was last seen in Weybridge in October.

Kevin Coyler, 58, of Marine Parade East was reported missing by his landlord on Friday, October 16, but it is believed he had not been seen for about four weeks prior to the report being made.

He was last seen on CCTV withdrawing money from the Lloyds Bank in High Street, on Monday, October 12.

Tributes have come in for one of the founding members of the Weybridge Mariners Club after he passed away on Sunday, December 6.

Terry Tappin, a Weybridge man for more than 60 years died at St Peter's Hospital, in Guildford Road, Chertsey aged 84 after suffering from a stroke.

Born in Kingston in 1925, he moved to Yorkshire aged five with his parents Bob and Nora and it was in this time that he developed a passion for model building and boating.

Just as the second World War was starting, Terry, aged 16 was hired by a boat yard to assemble boats to be sent to Dunkirk.

A brother and sister from St George's College Junior School have won a competition to have their pumpkin soup recipe printed on a restaurant menu.

Isabella, 9, and Isaac,7, Rodrigues-Mendes entered the competition to have their recipe included at the Royal Horticulture Society's The Savill Gardens restaurant in Wick Lane, Englefield Green.

The siblings who attend the school in Thames Street, Weybridge were awarded with a giant pumpkin as well as a meal for four at the restaurant.

They donated the giant pumpkin to the school kitchen so that all their friends could enjoy their delicious pumpkin soup recipe.

They also wish to share their recipe with Elmbridge residents.