• African open day at the Riverhouse

  By mattcollison at 11:44 on 17/05/13

  

  WALTON'S Riverhouse will be filled with the sights and sounds of Ghanaian culture during an African open day. Food, music and dance African-style comes to the arts venue in Manor Road on Saturday June 29 from 11am. Ghanaian drummng group Kakatsitsi will be teaching basic drum rhythms, chants and dance moves in workshops throughout the day. The open day culminates in a Kakatsitsi drumming performance at 2.30pm. Tickets £8,...

• Sunbury Lock flasher strikes again

  By mattcollison at 11:51 on 16/05/13

  

  A MAN indecently exposing himself to lone women at Sunbury Lock has struck again. Surrey Police issued a public appeal for information last week following an indecent exposure along the towpath at Sunbury Lock on Monday, May 6.  A woman has reported it happening again at the same location at around 9.45am on Sunday May 12.  The victim, a woman in her 20s, was jogging along the towpath when she saw a man looking at her who was...

• Walton school wins prize in Elmbridge flowerbed competition

  By mattcollison at 12:01 on 15/05/13

  

  BUDDING gardeners at Cardinal Newman School in Walton on Thames have won a prize in a flowerbed competition. A total of 122 entries for the Elmbridge horticultural contest had been submitted by pupils at three schools - Bell Farm Primary School in Hersham, St Albans Catholic Primary School in East Molesey and Cardinal Newman School. There were also entries from individual young designers.   The Mayor of Elmbridge, Cllr Janet...

• Three arrested after huge cannabis factory is found in Shepperton

  By mattcollison at 12:19 on 14/05/13

  

  THREE men have been charged after a major cannabis factory was discovered in Shepperton on Friday. Police raided a warehouse in Fairwater Drive, Upper Halliford at around midday where around 4,000 plants worth over ₤1million were subsequently discovered inside. Three men were arrested at the scene and detectives from Staines CID are currently investigating. Daniel Sullivan, 30, from Collingwood Place, Walton-on-Thames, James Scantlebur...

• Teenager arrested after Walton car park brawl

  By mattcollison at 13:22 on 10/05/13

  

  A TEENAGE boy from Esher has been arrested after a gang of men attacked a 21-year-old man in Walton. The victim suffered a fractured eye socket after he was set upon by a group of 11 men in a car park in Thamesmead. The fight happened at 2pm on Tuesday May 7 when the group believed to be in their late teens  and early  twenties attacked the victim who was known to them. The group made off in several cars. The victim was taken...

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