PARKING restrictions outside a church and medical centre are due to be changed to create more access to those using the sites.

The decisions were made during a meeting of the Spelthorne local committee of Surrey County Council held at Knowle Green on Monday.

A TEENAGER was robbed in Ashford after three men got out of a car and attacked him in what Surrey Police described as a 'completely unprovoked offence'.

The mugging took place in the B377 Feltham Road, close to the junction with Chattern Road, at around 10.20pm on Saturday.

A SPELTHORNE college with campuses in both Ashford and Weybridge has become the first further education provider in the county to achieve a special status.

Brooklands College was given Investors in Diversity status - a national award recognising organisations that take the issue seriously and that have achieved certain standards. Kwasi Kwarteng, MP for Spelthorne, visited the college to present the award to college principal Maureen Kilminster and Mary Hughes, director of the Ashford campus.

AN Ashford club that looks after the elderly and vulnerable has become one of the first to receive funding from the Sur-viving Winter Appeal.

The Martindale Club, based at St Martin's Court in Kingston Crescent, received £2,500 from the Community Foundation for Surrey. It will use the money to fund adapted transport so its Spelthorne residents can get to the club every week.

A SCHOOL celebrated its Welsh roots at a St David's Day celebration for more than 80 older people last week.

A group of around 40 sixth form boys at the St James Senior Boys' School in Church Road, Ashford put on a tea party and show for the older generation during an afternoon of fun and games on Thursday March 1.

HIS Royal Highness The Prince of Wales invested an Ashford man with an OBE at Buckingham Palace in honour of his 34 years of volunteer service.

Colonel Ian Denison OBE, a former commandant of the Middlesex and North West London Army Cadet Force (ACF), received his New Year's honour on Tuesday last week.

A PILLAR of the community who used to live in Ashford celebrated a century of birthdays with friends at a nursing home in Addlestone.

Peggy Healy commemorated the landmark day surrounded by friends from the home, at a party where more than 30 guests enjoyed birthday cake and music.

The Rotary Club of Ashford was pleased to welcome its new president, Tony Harman, at a special handover evening on Friday (July 1).

Mr Harman takes the reins from Pauline Ealey who was thanked and congratulated on her year as president and for the money she raised for her chosen charities, Home Start and Help for Heroes.

If you are interested in joining Ashford Rotary Club, please contact John Oliver on 01784 252096 or visit at www.ashfordrotary.org.

SPELTHORNE council leader John Packman has been ousted from his seat by a woman he deselected.

Popular former mayor Caroline Spencer ran as an independent after she was deselected as a conservative candidate in September for reasons that remain a mystery to her and the public.

After almost four hours since the count started at Spelthorne Leisure Centre the first election news has been announced.

The electoral turnout for Spelthorne was 41.98 per cent this year while the turnout for the referendum was slightly higher at 42.07 percent.

The break down for the different wards are as follows.