Useful Info

A forthcoming talk on manufacturing jewellery could bring out the wannabe goldsmiths of Trumps Green Womens' Institute.

The talk, 'Manufacturing gold and silver jewellery' will be given by Mr G Goddard at the Community Centre, Beechmont Avenue, at 7.45pm on Wednesday, March 24.

For more details, contact Isabel McCallum on 01344 842488

A scooter that had been left unattended for more than a year in Trotsworth Court, Christchurch Road, has now been removed.

A police officer from the Virginia Water Safer Neighbourhood Team removed the scooter, which had only a few miles on the mile-ometer and didn't appear to have been used or registered.

Further checks are being made on where it might have come from.

Firefighters attended a care home after an electrical flood triggered an automatic fire alarm at 2.40am on Wednesday, February 24.

The incident took place at Merlewood Nursing Home, on Hollow Lane.

Firemen had to turn off the mains electricity supply before clearing the water.

A conservation group will be doing coppicing work on Sunday, February 28 from 10am until 1pm.

The Egham & Staines Conservation Volunteers will be undertaking the work at Riverside.

From Station Parade, follow signs for the recycling centre and library and the group will meet in the car park. For more details call Andrew on 0208 977 4675.

Trumps Green Womens' Institute will learn the secrets of handwriting from a talk on Wednesday, February 24.

Mrs S Biddle presents the talk, 'All is revealed in your handwriting' at the Community Centre, Beechmont Avenue, at 7.45pm.

The Adult Social Group of the Christ Church meets for its first social event at the Wheatsheaf Pub, on Saturday, February 6.

For more details call 01344 844946.

The part closure and diversion in Lyne Road ends tomorrow (Friday February 5).

The resurfacing work by by Surrey County Council began on Monday.

The Christ Church has appointed a new church warden.

Jonathan Wicker agreed to become one of the church's two wardens following the previous warden becoming unwell. Mr Wicker will start his role immediately.

The church clergy are also in the process of recruiting a team of deputy wardens to assist the church wardens in their work

A motorcyclist was killed after being involved in a collision with a car on Tuesday (January 19) morning.

The incident took place on Stroude Road, Egham, near the Great Fosters Hotel, around 8.09am when a blue Mercedes A-class car was in collision with a Triumph motorcycle.

The rider of the bike, a man in his fifties, sustained serious injuries as a result of the collision and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Runnymede Council has released an update of council services during the adverse weather conditions.

The new update was released on Wednesday, January 13, but is subject to change daily, depending on the weather. It states that the Met Office predicts that the outbreaks of snow will continue through the first half of the afternoon but could turn to rain by the afternoon.

The evening will see drier conditions but remaining cloudy. Mist and fog patches will form overnight and road surfaces could fall to below freezing. light snowfalls could occur in the South East on Wednesday.

Visit the Met Office web site, www.metoffice.gov.uk for further information.