Useful Info
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.
A selection of directories covering Spelthorne and dating back more than 200 years have gone on public display.
The documents, which are equivalent to today's telephone directories, are available to view at Spelthorne Museum in Elmsleigh Road, Staines.
Firefighters used foam to put out a blazing car on Saturday (17) on the northbound M3 between junction two at Thorpe and one at Sunbury at about 10am.
Firefighters tackled a blaze in a car engine on Monday (12) outside Tesco in Escot Road, Sunbury, at about 3pm.
The fire is not being treated as suspicious.
Recruitment has already begun for this year's Kempton Park Race for Life, run by Cancer Research UK, on Sunday July 12.
Last year the race raised nearly £250,000 at Kempton Park alone and the charity aims to better that total this year.
For more information visit www.cancerresearchuk.org
Firefighters attended a derelict flat on Monday (12) in Green Lane, Sunbury, at about 3pm following reports of flooding and the risk of an electrical blaze.
The crew isolated the power supply to make the building safe.
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