November 2008 Archives

Award-winning local drama group, Ottershaw Players, are presenting a version of Charles Dickens' story of 'Oliver Twist' in Woking next week.

The play, written by Jeremy Brock and directed by Matthew Horton, follows the tale of little orphan Oliver, who is brought up in the workhouse, before escaping to London.

The Goldsworth Park neighbourhood police team will be manning a crime prevention stand at Waitrose on Tuesday 25 November from 10am to 6pm.

PC Richard Martin, together with PCSOs Hannah Newman, Lee Sawkins and Dino Gomez will be giving out leaflets, property marking pens, police goodies and providing crime prevention advice to shoppers on how to keep their property safe this winter.

Office workers at software solutions firm Paradigm shaved beards and - in some cases their heads - to raise an £1,300 for Children in Need.

The staff, who are based at Chobham House Woking next to Woking's council offices, went "all out to raise money".

Baby Marcus was blissfully unaware that he was setting a new trend as he posed in a washable nappy at Woking's Civic Offices on November 11.

The 14-month-old and his mum Jo Woodhouse were the first to receive a free trial pack of the nappies being given away as part of an initiative to encourage parents to ditch the disposable version.

Woking Council has defended its decision to travel to Northumberland to buy a Christmas tree for the Town Square.

The 40ft spruce was selected by officers during a visit to Kielder Forest during the summer and was due to be in place before the festive lights were switched on during a ceremony at The Peacocks shopping centre on Thursday November 13.

A woman was jailed for stealing a purse from a handbag in Woking town centre when she appeared at Staines Magistrates Court on November 15.

Zvezditsa Petrova, 26, was sentenced to two months in prison for theft after being arrested in Woking on Thursday last week along with three other women.

The group, all Bulgarian nationals living in London, were discovered by an eagle-eyed police investigator working in the CCTV room in the Wolsey Place shopping centre.

Five executives are back at their desks after taking part in a weekend's exercise with the Army at Sandhurst army training academy.

Two people from Swiftcover.com in Woking and three from the Mouchel Group in West Byfleet joined more than 100 others from across the south for the Exercise Executive Stretch.

Woking's New Victoria Theatre will be almost filled with a special audience for a performance of the pantomime Aladdin next month.

The Children with Special Needs Foundation has booked 1,302 seats, taking up the entire auditorium, for the evening show on Friday December 12.

Woking Football club stars and their mascot KC Kat were mobbed by pupils at the launch of the newly named Barnsbury Primary School.

The special day, marking the merger of the infant and junior schools, began with the planting of a tree in the grounds of the site in Almond Avenue by Woking Mayor Cllr Peter Ankers, followed by an assembly.

Workers throughout Woking will be taking part in counter terrorist training next week to prepare for the emergency of a bomb attack.

The free courses, part of the Project Griffin initiative, are aimed at all ground floor staff in town centre businesses, including security guards, car park attendants, cinema and theatre staff.