April 2009 Archives

Bookworms will be pleased as the Cobham Book Fair comes to the village hall on Saturday May 9.

Thousands of secondhand and antiquarian books will be available at the hall iin Lushington Drive, from 9.15am to 3.30pm.

Free parking is available and admission to the fair costs 40p. For more details call 0208 399 8168.

Five young people were seriously injured when their car lost control and crashed into a tree in Cobham on Sunday 26.

The five travelling in a Black Ford Focus entered the right-hand bend in Sandy Lane about 1.05am.

Walton Firs Activity Centre in Cobham will launch an appeal to raise money to help build new facilities in May.

The centre, in Convent Lane, which specialises in youth camping and activities, and is often used by scout groups, needs a whole new building.

More than 80 tyres were dumped by the side of a country road in Cobham on Tuesday (14).

Ken Purssey spotted the fly-tipping when he left his home, in Pointers Road, on Wednesday morning and called Elmbridge Borough Council straight away.

On Sunday 17 May, at 11:00am more than a thousand walkers are set to trundle down the towpath at the annual event organised by community supporter Margaret Godwin and the Thames Ditton and Walton and Weybridge Friends of Princess Alice Hospice committees to raise funds for the Hospice.

Leading the 17th annual Towpath Trundle, will be Ron Higginson, 85, from Stoneleigh. Ron has completed the 8-mile course every year since the event began in 1993; he first took part to say thank you to the Hospice for the care and support the team provided his wife.

Detectives in Elmbridge are appealing for information to trace a man who was verbally abusive to a women in Esher earlier this month.

The suspicious incident took place in a wooded area opposite the Marquis of Granby pub in Portsmouth Road at about 7.40pm on Friday April 3.

Detectives in Elmbridge are appealing for witnesses after a man exposed himself to two 13-year-old girls in Esher on Wednesday (1).

The two teenage girls were riding their bicycles down a footpath, off Mill Road towards a bridge which goes over the River Mole towards Walton, about 4.15pm.

A 33-year-old woman was sexually assaulted after she got off a train at Thames Ditton train station.

The victim, from Thames Ditton was walking down an alleyway between Longmead Road and Basingfield Road at about 9pm on Friday March 20.

APRIL Fool's Day saw one member of staff from The Princess Alice Hospice in Esher turn from long-haired hippie to rock chick.

Anita Murphy, from Hersham, is a member of the housekeeping team at the hospice in West End Lane.