December 2010 Archives

Residents have the chance to raise issues or concerns at a police surgery at at Virginia Water Library from 10.30am until 12noon on Tuesday, January 25, 2011.

The meetings will continue each month, attendded by officers from the local neighbourhood team.

A villager has appealed to the Secretary of State over the borough council's decision to refuse planning permission for building a new bungalow after demolishing the existing property.

John Lerche appealed after his application for the property in Portnall Drive was refused by the Runnymede Council planning committee last autumn.

The date, time and location for the informal hearing are yet to be decided.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of our visitors on behalf of the Surrey Herald.

Wishing you all a safe, happy and enjoyable holidays.

And we look forward to welcoming you back in 2011.

The Trumps Green Womens' Institute will learn about hearing dogs when it meets at the Community Centre, Beechmont Avenue, on Wednesday, December 26 at 7.45pm.

The talk will be delivered by Mr A Murphy.

A quiz night will be held at the Community Centre, Beechmont Avenue, on Saturday, January 29 at 8pm.

The event is organised by the VW Community Association. Nibbles will be provided, bring your own drinks and glasses.

Admission is £4 for members, £5 for non-members. For details and tickets contact Lesley on 01344 843553.

I mean, lets face it, if we had won the honour of staging the World Cup in either 2018 or 2022. Would we have had any better "luck" than we did last time, in South africa?
How, may I ask? will our style, tactics, skills, training, outlook, professionalism, change to meet the standards that will be required within our country to meet the necessary challenge to win the Cup? The thinking pundits all advise that we are too set in our old fashioned ways, we do not take Sport seriously. Our Prime Minister actually went to Zurich to bang the drum for our team, forgetting that his Government has just slashed the schools budget for sports! How can we be taken seriously? Yes we have wonderful stadiums for our premier footballers, but don't ask about facilities for Schools and Youth Teams. The sad truth is that we don't bother with the junior side of things. We are far too busy taking care of the big boys. I wonder why super rich Qatar and Russia got the deal? I wonder if they promised to develope and run the game of Football for their youngsters? Wonderful !!

A MAN who fell to his death on the M3 near Virginia Water on Wednesday had been a patient at the Abraham Cowley Mental Health Unit.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust runs the unit at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey.

A Spokesman for the trust confirmed to the Surrey Herald that the man had been in the unit before Wednesday.