Students from the TASIS school researched Romania and its problems in anticipation of the annual Model United Nations in the Hague, Holland.

The program simulates the process and work undertaken by the United Nations and students research global issues ranging from disarmament and international security to social and health related topics.

As part of their research, the students met with staff at Romanian Embassy in London.

A motorist suffered minor injuries after her car was involved in a crash with an HGV on the M25 on Sunday, March 7.

The incident happened on the clockwise carriageway, between junction 12, the Thorpe Interchange and junction 13, Egham, at around 3.22pm.

The female driver of a grey Ford Focus was taken to St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. The carriageway was closed while the road was cleared, and fully reopened shortly after 6.30pm.

Significant traffic congestion was caused inbetween.

A charity jazz concert will take place at Thorpe Park on Friday March 12 in aid of the borough mayor's chosen charities.

All funds raised from the event will go to Runnymede Age Concern, Runnymede Scouts, Surrey Women's Aid and the Rotary Club of Chertsey's Daisy Appeal for an early birth unit at St Peter's Hospital.

Tickets cost £10 per head. For more details contact Mandy Smith on 01932 425502.

Thorpe Children are set to benefit from a new skate park and play area being installed at the Frank Muir Memorial Field.

The £72,000 project comes after more than two years of consultation and planning, with local children first requesting the facilities in 2007.

Much of the funding for the development comes from the government's Play Builder fund, which aims for all children and young people in England to have regular access to free play space.

Egham library is holding African drumming workshop at the end of March.

The event will be hosted on Saturday March 27, which will be led by master percussionists using West African drums.

Participants will then be able to take part in a group finale.

The times are between 9.30-10.30 and 11am-12pm in Egham, and 2-3pm and 3.30-4.30pm in Sunbury, and the cost is £2.

A special charity jazz concert will take place at Thorpe Park on Friday, March 12 at 7pm.

The event is organised by the Mayor of Runnymede, Councillor Paul Tuley, and proceeds will go towards his charities, which include Age Concern Runnymede, Runnymede Scouts and Surrey Women's Aid.

Tickets cost £10 per head. For more details, call Mandy Smith on 01932 425502.

Year 6 children at Thorpe Lea Primary School raised £500 for victims of the Haiti earthquake through a cake sale.

The pupils also held a name-the-teddy competition and had a mufti day wear they wore the colours of the Haiti flag.

The name-the-teddy competition was won by Headteacher Peter Smyth with the name 'Bernard'.

Four men from Spelthorne and north Runnymede have been given more than ten years in jail collectively for their involvement in a street brawl in Staines last year.

Kevin Kurlej, 22, from Cordelia Road, Stanwell, Samuel Tite, 26, of Oakley Mill House, Thorpe, John Murphy, 23, of the Nightingales, Staines and Nicholas Fitzpatrick, 24, of White Hill Place, Virginia Water were given 30, 40, 40, and 18 months in jail respectively for being involved in a mass brawl when they appeared at Guildford Crown Court on Friday (January 5).

A transport collectors fair takes place at the Hythe Centre, Thorpe Road, on Saturday, February 13, from 10.30am until 3.30pm.

The fair will feature collectables for bus, tram, trolleybus, rail and underground. Access is via the vintage bus service 441c from 10.10am via Staines bus station, stand 3.

And also served by First Bus route 71 and travel Surrey route 441. Hot and cold snacks all day. For more details call 01784 455955.

Angry residents packed a church hall to discuss controversial plans to barricade a road to stop speeding motorists.

More than 70 residents filled St Paul's Church Hall, Egham Hythe, to hear more about plans by Surrey County Council to put a barrier in St Paul's Road to prevent it being used as a 'rat run' by speeding motorists, getting from Chertsey Lane to Thorpe Road and vice versa.

The feisty meeting, chaired by borough ward councillor, Gill Warner, involved residents both in favour of the barrier, many from St Paul's Road and the Wapshott and Bowes Road estate. And also numerous residents vehemently opposed to the proposals.