Clubs/societies

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.

The spring edition of the Lower Sunbury Residents' Association is now available for download at www.losra.org

The Sunbury Regatta annual meeting will be held on Sunday March 29 at The Kempton Cricket Club, Staines Road East, Sunbury, at 1.30pm and is open to all.

Kempton Park Racecourse in Sunbury is opening its doors for free on Wednesday, February 25 at 8.30am for people to watch leading trainer Nicky Henderson give his Cheltenham Festival contenders some final preperations before next month's showpiece event.

Among horses to be given a spin are Champion Hurdle favourite Binocular a
nd World Hurdle contender Punchestowns.

Egham and Staines Conservation Volunteers has postponed plans to clear scrub from the TP26 linear park in Lower Sunbury on Sunday, March 22.

For more information call 01784 254904.

Alfred Hitchcock's film The Lodger will be played on a screen in St Mary's Church, Church Street, Lower Sunbury, on Saturday, February 21 at 7.30pm to raise money for roof repairs.

Tickets, which cost £8 and include refreshments, are available by calling 01932 232068.

The next meeting of the Sunbury and Shepperton Local History Society takes place on Tuesday, February 24, at Halliford School, Russell Road, Shepperton, at 8pm.

Matthew Piggott will give a talk about searching for family history.

Tickets for non-members cost £1 in the door.

Comedy writer Jan Etherington is holding a two-day course from March 7-8 at the Riverside Arts Centre, Thames Street, Lower Sunbury.

The theme is Make Comedy Count and guest speaker will be comedy and crime writer, radio producer and novelist Simon Brett.

For more details call 0208 133 0110, visit www.comedycourse.biz or email comedycourse@hotmail.co.uk

The Manor Players are putting on a production of the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk from Wednesday January 21 to Saturday January 24 at the Riverside Arts Centre, Thames Street, Lower Sunbury.

Evening performances start at 8pm and there is a matinee on Saturday at 2.30pm. Tickets are available from the box office on 01932 783933.

A fatal crash is "certain to happen" in a Sunbury business park because "lethargic" road chiefs refuse to re-paint lines on dangerous traffic junction.

That's the view of furious firms on the Brooklands Industrial Estate, Brooklands Close, who say Surrey County Council has failed to take action, despite email assurance nearly three months ago.