Thames

Christys Fish Restaurant, 1 Portsmouth Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey

Dine Online (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008

Christy’s Fish Restaurant, 1 Portsmouth Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey Iris Matthews is a happy customer Three of us ate at Christy’s Fish Restaurant last night, 27th August 2008 and we had a superb meal at very reasonable prices. We chose from the fish specials on the board - Two of us had lemon sole, deep fried [...]

Unravelling F1's venomous battle

Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008

Trudy Coughlan wasn’t to know. As far as she was concerned, Document Image Processing Systems, in Wal-ton-on-Thames, Surrey, was just another photocopying shop, staffed by anonymous sales assistants.

Being squeezed

Letchworth Girls' Rugby (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008

First the "Surrey League" swept up pretty much all the clubs in Surrey, Hampshire, Sussex, and Kent (and, for a while, Mid Herts). Then the Thames Valley league took care of rugby in Berks, Bucks, Oxfordshire and (last season) Middesex. And now we hear that the league rugby is coming at us from the north as well. A "Notts, Lincs and Derbyshire" cluster league is starting next season. As with the Thames...

Lateral thinking about the Thames Basin Heathlands SPA

Lightwater (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008

Apologies if this appears a little ‘heavy’, but it needs a certain preamble before my point is understood. Last week at we welcomed Kristoffer Hewitt, Thames Basin Heaths Project Manager for Natural England, at the Leisure and Environment Scrutiny Committee of Surrey Heath Borough Council. He gave an excellent talk, and Councillors questioned him hard on the [...]

Businessman charged with murder of wife

New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008

LONDON - A 51-year-old company director has been charged with the murder of his wife, who disappeared nine years ago, Scotland Yard said on Wednesday. Martin Hale, from Thames Ditton in Surrey, will appear before Kingston magistrates...

The future of the Thames Basin heathlands

Lightwater (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008

Being among 40-50 other people on Thursday evening this week, I attended the Campaign to Protect Rural England’s Runnymede, Surrey Heath, and Woking branch’s joint meeting on ‘The future of the Thames Basin heathlands’. The two keynote speakers were Rob McGibbon of the Surrey Heathland Project, and Jonathan Gasson of Defence Estates, an agency of the Ministry of Defence. Over [...]

Bridge designed to be swan-proof

BBC News (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008

A new bridge spanning the River Thames in Surrey will have special features to stop swans crashing into it.

Hoped for co-ordination

Lightwater (Free subscription) | 24/03/2008

Last week I attended a Leisure and Environment Committee meeting at Surrey Heath. We received an excellent presentation from Thames Water on the flooding of 2006 and 2007, especially on sewer flooding. In their presentation they reported on number of planned investigation and schemes in Surrey Heath, one of which is in Guildford Road, Lightwater, and is [...]

Raids at bookmaker’s shops linked

Just Gambling (Free subscription) | 20/03/2008

Another story from the BBC: Detectives have released more details of an armed robbery attempt on a Surrey bookmaker’s which they say was "extremely distressing" for the staff. Two men threatened customers and the staff of Ladbrokes in The Broadway, Thames Ditton, with a handgun and told them to lie on the ground. They fled without getting any [...]

Counselling and psychotherapy in Walton and Weybridge Surrey

Services & Skills Directory (Free subscription) | 27/02/2008

A counsellor and psychotherapist covering Walton on Thames, Weybridge, Esher, Shepperton, Kingston and Surbiton areas of Surrey providing private and confidential consultations to clients in need of support and students requiring counselling as part of their course requirement for higher qualifications. I am experienced in working with drug and alcohol problems, stress and anxiety, sexual and relationship...

JSH Counselling private and confidential personal therapy

Services & Skills Directory (Free subscription) | 26/02/2008

A counsellor and psychotherapist covering Walton on Thames, Weybridge, Esher, Shepperton, Kingston and Surbiton areas of Surrey providing private and confidential consultations to clients in need of support and students requiring counselling as part of their course requirement for higher qualifications. I am experienced in working with drug and alcohol problems, stress and anxiety, sexual and relationship...

Man arrested on suspicion of cruising murder

PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/02/2008

A 29-year-old man handed himself in at a police station earlier today and has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 50-year-old gay man. The murder suspect will be questioned by detectives about a knife attack in a public toilet in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey yesterday afternoon. The victim was stabbed at 3pm yesterday in toilets near Walton Bridge that police said are "a popular meeting place for...

Gay man murdered at cruising spot

PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/02/2008

Surrey police have launched a murder investigation after a man in his 50s was stabbed at a public toilet in Walton-on-Thames. The victim was discovered near Walton Bridge at 3pm yesterday. He was taken by air ambulance to St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey where he died at 5.30pm. A police spokesperson said the victim was gay and described the toilets where he was attacked as "a popular meeting place...

River Thames overflowing at Richmond, Surrey

Mrs Lemon's Visit to Japan (Free subscription) | 27/12/2007

Appeal over body and car in river

BBC News (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007

The body of a 20-year-old driver is recovered from the River Thames in Surrey along with his car.