'The challenge is now to keep them playing'
IF YOU think you can achieve, you will find a way to do it.That was the message from Olympic bronze medal winner Karen Brown when she returned to Oxted School where her hockey journey began.Her visit...
View ArticleOval to host cup rematch
FOOTBALL: A rematch of the first ever FA Cup final will be held at Surrey County Cricket Club next week.Royal Engineers will take on Wanderers at the Oval on Wednesday, October 7 in a recreation of the...
View ArticleEpsom's Christmas lights to be switched on by competition winner
A LUCKY girl or boy could win the opportunity to help switch on the Christmas lights in the Market Place, Epsom, on Thursday, November 22. Children aged 5 - 11 have to design a festive poster of Epsom...
View ArticleEpsom & Ewell residents receive Police and Crime Commissioner election booklets
EPSOM & Ewell residents have started to receive booklets to raise awareness of the Police and Crime Commissioner elections. The Electoral Commission launched this campaign last week and 21 million...
View ArticleSurrey Police and Crime Commissioner: Live election debate
A DEBATE is being held tonight between the candidates hoping to become Surrey's first directly-elected Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC). You can follow the coverage live below, and get involved by...
View ArticleSummoned for Council Tax Arrears...?
It's approaching that time again when Reigate and Banstead Borough Council next apply to the Magistrates' court for Council Tax liability orders. This is only one of several applications made to the...
View ArticleChaldon wins battle over voting boundaries
RELIEF and delight has followed the news that Chaldon is to remain in the East Surrey Parliamentary constituency.A Boundary Commission shake-up proposed earlier this year recommended that the village...
View ArticleNSPCC calls for action on images of child abuse
A CHILDREN'S charity is calling for action to stamp out the trade of child abuse images after figures revealed that 81 arrests were made in Surrey last year.In response to a Freedom of Information Act...
View ArticleEpsom and St Helier donates 28 beds to sick people in Africa and Asia
HOSPITAL staff have donated beds to a charity working with sick people in Africa and Asia.The 28 beds were donated by staff at Epsom and St Helier hospitals to Aid to Hospitals Worldwide, a social...
View Article300 jobs to go as ING Lease closes Redhill office
A REDHILL office is to close, leaving 300 people jobless.ING Lease, an asset finance wing of the Dutch banking corporation, will stop taking on new business at the end of the month, when about 150...
View ArticlePeter Pan pantomime at Dorking Halls this Christmas
THE stars of this year's Dorking pantomime gathered to launch the show ahead of its Christmas run.Peter Pan, starring CBBC's Olly Pike and CBeebies' Andrew Crawford, will run at Dorking Halls from...
View ArticleVillage Inn gets new landlord
A NEW era has begun at a once-troubled Caterham pub.Brian O'Rourke took over as landlord of The Village Inn in Coulsdon Road last week and has vowed to turn the pub around after its "horrendous"...
View ArticleMissed appointments cost Epsom and St Helier £4.5million
MISSED appointments cost a local NHS trust more than £4.5 million in the last year.Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust, which runs Epsom hospital, treated 558,000 out-patients in the 2011-12 financial year,...
View ArticleCaterham car wash raises money for youth cafe
ENTERPRISING youngsters made a cash splash when they staged a fundraising car wash on Saturday.They battled through the afternoon's rain to raise £241 in the Tesco supermarket car park off Coulsdon...
View ArticleDormans Park house row to be settled by inspector
A DISPUTE over the replacement for a fire-ravaged house on an exclusive estate is to be settled by an independent inspector.The row centres on a six-bedroom property called Nantucket, in Lake View,...
View ArticleBuilding of 1,500 new homes set to begin in Horley
WORK on a new neighbourhood of more than 1,500 homes could begin after five years of delay.Planning permission was granted for the Horley North West sector in 2007, but developers, landowners and the...
View ArticleStatistics reveal use of Asbos in Surrey
FIGURES released by the Home Office show a total of 204 antisocial behaviour orders (Asbos) have been issued in Surrey since the scheme was introduced.Earlier this year Home Secretary Theresa May...
View ArticleSurrey Police promise tough approach on drink and drugs at Brockham Bonfire
POLICE have promised to take a tough stance on young people found with alcohol or illegal drugs at this weekend's Brockham Bonfire.The event, billed as the largest display in the UK, takes place on...
View ArticleGraves in Redhill churchyard to be exhumed for hall to be built
GRAVES which have been in a churchyard for 150 years will be exhumed to make way for a new church hall.Part of the graveyard at St John's Church in Redhill will be dug up for the new building, which...
View ArticleAshtead family in mourning after sudden death of girl, nine
A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl whose radiant smile "could light up a room" has died suddenly.Salma Jura, a pupil at Brooklands special school in Reigate, had severe cerebral palsy after being starved of oxygen...
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