October 2009 Archives

A special van giving advise on saving energy will be showing visitors to Thorpe Park how to be more engery efficient.

The visit from Runnymede Council's Energy Explorer exhibition is part of national Energy Saving Week and will be at the park on Saturday, October 24 from 10am until 5pm.

This exhibition vehicle has free information about more efficient in the use of energy in households. 

An extremely rare brown shrike was spotted on Staines Moor prompting thousands of birdwatchers to drop everything and flock to the beauty spot over the last ten days to catch a view of the small brown spectacle. Herald & News reporter Russell Butt donned his wellies and grabbed his binoculars to see what all the fuss was about.

There's not many things more frustrating than when your holiday plans go awry.
So imagine the surprise of one small, brown bird who should be heading from Siberia to South East Asia for the winter, but has found himself perched atop a hawthorn bush in Staines.

Imagine its further surprise to instantly achieve celebrity status on arrival, with more camera lenses being pointed at it than Kate Moss gets stumbling out of a Soho nightclub.

Children get design their own frightening outfits during a special Halloween-themed event on Tuesday, October 27.

The Halloween Costume Making and Scary Fashion Show is a free event organised by Runnymede Council's ROAR children's activity scheme and takes place in the Village Hall on Coldharbour Lane.

For more details contact Emma Parnell on 01932 425677, or email emma.parnell@runnymede.gov.uk.

Firefighters recovered a man from the bottom of a grass embankment alongside the M3 after he slipped and hurt his ankle.

The incident happened around 5am on Sunday, October 11, when it is believed the motorist, a man in his sixties, had parked his car on the hard shoulder between junctions 2 and 3 of the southbound M3 to go to the toilet, but slipped down the grass bank.

Ambulance crews called the fire service for help after they were unable to retrieve the man. The fire service then winched the man to safety.

The cast of a charitable circus were bitterly disappointed at Thorpe Park after staff refused to let them park their caravans in the car park.

Members of senior management at the theme park in Thorpe told Happy's Circus that they couldn't park in the coach bays because it was against their terms and conditions, despite the fact that on another occasion the circus had been allowed to park at the attraction without complaint.

Conservation-minded pupils will get the chance to build bird-boxes as part of an ecological awareness project on Friday, October 16.

The pupils are making the boxes as part Thorpe Infant School's Eco-schools programme which covers the recycling and re-use of wood.