October 2009 Archives

A Halloween event will take place and Southville Community Centre on Saturday(31) between 4pm and 8pm.

All are welcome at the free event, which will feature live fire acts, face painting, arts and crafts, karaoke competition and food.

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A Feltham four-year-old ran the mini Great South Run on Saturday - his seventh fun run in two years.

James-Tobias Norrington completed the one mile course in just 10minutes 15 seconds - a new record for him - and raised more than £100 for disabled children's charity Get Kids Going in the process.

A Feltham scrap dealer who police believe disposed of a car used in the murder of Milly Dowler has been arrested.

Nirmal Gharu, 40, who used to own an MOT test centre in Hampton Road West, is thought to have disposed of a red Daewoo Nexia car which police think was used to transport the 13-year-old's body.

Amanda Dowler, who was known to family and friends as Milly, vanished while walking home from school in Walton-on-Thames on March 21, 2002. Six months later, her skeletal remains were found 30 miles away by mushroom pickers in Yateley Heath, Hampshire.

Feltham Magistrates Court has been designated as a centre for dealing with domestic violence cases.

The Hanworth Road court has been granted specialist domestic violence status as it meets 12 criteria - including separate entrances and waiting facilities for victims and witnesses, specially trained advisers and dedicated staff, police and prosecutors who are experienced in dealing with domestic violence cases.

A Feltham badminton star launched a set of stamps featuring Olympic sports this week to promote London 2012.

English champion Rajiv Ouseph, who is rated as one of Britain's best badminton hopes for 2012, returned to the British Airways Concorde Centre in Cranford - where he learnt to play as a child - for the launch.

Free Halloween mask-making workshops will be held at The Centre in Feltham on Wednesday(28).

Booking is not necessary for the sessions, which will take place in the Community Rooms near Feltham Library between 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm.

The former Bishop of Truro was a special guest at the Christ Church centenary dinner last week.

Rev Bill Ind, who grew up in Feltham and was later a curate at St Dunstan's Church, met new Methodist pastor Mark Conlon at the meal to celebrate the Hanworth Road church's 100th anniversary.

Then on Sunday October 17th he gave an address at a re-dedication service for the Ecumenical Parish of Feltham.

A man was hit by a bus in one of two accidents just hours apart in the same road last Friday(16).

Hounslow Road in Feltham was shut for much of the afternoon and evening as first a motorcyclist broke his leg in a crash with a car and later a man suffered serious head injuries when he was hit by a bus.

West Thames College has applied to keep its Skills Centre at the current site in Boundaries Road, Feltham until 2012 - the latest blow to plans to relocate to Feltham High Street.

The college obtained planning permission to build on the site of the former People's Centre in the High Street in May but the Government withdrew funding for the project, leaving the future of skills training in the town in the balance.

A 15-year-old girl who shot to fame on Britain's Got Talent has signed a record deal but said 'hands off' to her young male fans because she's got a boyfriend.

More than a million people have watched Demi Bennetts and Megan McKenna's performances as Harmony on the video website Youtube - support that was enough to have record companies vying for their signatures.

They wowed the judges on the ITV show before being eliminated in the semi-finals but last week Demi, of Redford Close, Feltham and pal Megan, from Essex, put pen to paper on a three-album contract with SoundBytes Media.