Monksbridge is a very interesting and private riverside garden in Sunbury on Thames, on Wednesday 10 June from 1:00 to 5:00pm, the gates to the garden will be open for champagne lunches, afternoon teas, jazz on the lawn and some high quality shopping. Entry to this special event is only £3. There is disabled access, free parking and a Parker Cars courtesy shuttle bus between Sunbury Cricket Club and Monksbridge.

Matilda and Pandora are two very pretty pooches who will sadly miss the opportunity to compete in a brand new event at Princess Alice Hospice on Saturday 6 June. For the first time the very popular annual Hospice Summer Fete will feature a fun dog show, classes will include best trick, best veteran, waggiest tail, prettiest pooch and handsome hound to name but a few.

SEVEN physically disabled students from Sunbury Manor School were invited to Ernest Bevin School in Tooting to meet Paralympian runner Tim Predergast and British and Commonwealth Judo competitor Tom Davies.

The students attended a question and answer session, posed for photos and played seated volleyball with students from the college and the athletes themselves.

The day was rounded off with Sunbury Manor suggesting a re-match on home ground with Ernest Bevin students and the athletes and a date is to be confirmed.

Mystery surrounds the disappearance of three cats from the same Sunbury home in seven months.

Owner Sarah Wilson is distraught after the latest disappearance from her home in Spelthorne Grove, which happened last week.

Thousands of pounds worth of laptops and phones were stolen from a business in Sunbury and police are looking for witnesses.

Two burglars drove to the business, in Hanworth Road, in a white transit van and broke in by forcing open a metal door and then smashing into a security cage and stealing a large number of laptops and mobile phones, before driving off.

The Zodiac Musical Society begins a three-day run of its very own musical ZodiacX Factor on Thirsday May 21 at the Riverside Arts Centre, Thames Street.

Performances on all three nights begin at 7.45 and there's a matinee on Saturday at 2.30pm. Tickets for the evening cost £10 and £8 for the matinee. Box office, 01932 220167

The seventh Sunbury Open Gardens Day will be held on Sunday 28th June in aid of the Shooting Star Hospice for children in Hampton and St. Mary's Church.

The event was enjoyed by over 600 people last year and six new gardens will be open to visitors this year.

Lower Sunbury's next police panel meeting takes place in the Manning Room behind St Ignatius Church, Green Street, on Thursday May 28 at 7.30pm.

The Sunbury Poetry Group are meeting at the Riverside Arts Centre, Thames Street, on Thursday May 7, at 8pm. For more information, ring 01932 761241.

A police panel meeting is being held tomorrow (Thursday) in the Manning Room behind St Ignatius Church, Green Street, Lower Sunbury at 7.30pm.

A police surgery will also be held at the parade of shops in The Avenue on Saturday April 11 from 1-3pm.