September 2009 Archives

Christ Church in Ottershaw is holding a harvest festival and parade service on Sunday October 4 at 10.30am.

Visitors to the church in Guildford Road are asked to take tins of food which will be given to the Salvation Army in Addlestone, for their Tin a Week collection.

The Runnymede Alzheimer's Society hosted its first ever Memory Walk on Sunday raising hundreds of pounds for the charity.

The free event drew in between 40 and 50 participants who completed the four and half mile walk around Virginia Water lake.

A man from Ottershaw who had his front teeth knocked out after he drove over a pothole is seeking compensation from West Sussex County Council.

Melvin Bangle, 71, was travelling down to his caravan in Bracklesham Bay when a sudden dip in the road caused him to hit his head on the roof of the car.

A blind woman who gives up her time to help other visually impaired people is in contention for a national inner beauty award.

Brenda Penfold, 52, of Flower Crescent, Ottershaw, has been blind for 20 years and has spent much of her spare time helping people in the same situation learn to adjust to life without vision.

Her daughter Lucy, 22, entered her into the Nivea Inner Beauty Award, and after winning the Greater London award, she is now a contender for the overall national award.