FIREFIGHTERS have been tackling a blaze at a flat in Pyrcroft Road, Chertsey, this afternoon which caused the road to be closed.

Last week we heard another troubling report on the NHS – a third of nurses polled by Age UK fear elderly hospital patients are left to go hungry.

ELMBRIDGE Council say its considering various options for the former Walton Library building but will not reveal exactly what those are.

The number of people who text and phone when they are behind the wheel is on course to reach a three year high in Surrey.

A CUT in visiting hours at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey has been extended until the end of the month.

A WOMAN has been rescued from a house fire in Addlestone by two off-duty firefighters who heard screams.

WAITROSE is to challenge Sainsbury's for customers in Walton after announcing it will open a store in the town centre.

A WOMAN sitting alone in her car was robbed at knifepoint outside a Sunbury cash and carry store on Friday.

A FRUSTRATED Shepperton couple are hoping to bring to a close a four-month wrangle over repairing a broken wall they fear could be dangerous.

AN ASHFORD man who took on a gruelling stage of the Tour de France to raise money for a bowel cancer charity says he is planning to make the ride an annual event.

A NATIONAL ploughing competition on Monday drew hundreds of people to Byfleet.

ELMBRIDGE residents who spot their council's new electric car out and about in the borough will be entered in a prize draw to win a solar-powered DAB radio.

NEW technology will allow police in Surrey to spend more time on the beat and less time on 'bureaucratic' paperwork, it has been announced.

A MERCEDES-BENZ that cost more than £150,000 when it was new has been stolen from a private car park in East Molesey.

JUST two months after claiming they could not justify keeping it open during the school day, Runnymede Borough Council has released figures that show usage at Addlestone Leisure Centre is on the up.

NEWLYWEDS Amy and Brian Daines knew they had a fairway to go when they began planning their wedding.

FRAUD committed at cash machines in Elmbridge has halved in the past year.

CHERTSEY'S Chamber of Commerce is looking to the past to improve the town's economic future.

THE NHS Trust that runs Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals is to resist calls for an independent external inquiry into the rising number of sick days within the organisation.

WITH nothing more than basic workshop tools, a few plumbing parts, a piece of wood and a wheel from a mangle, a Chertsey businessman has made himself a piece of motoring history.