Cobham News and Mail from Cobham, Surrey, England • 1

Incorporating the Leatherhead Reporter COBHAM NEWS MAIL Circulating in Cobham Stoke Downside and Oxshott (SURBITON! HIGH SCHOOL NEW BUS ROUTES FROM YOUR AREA FOR A LEAFLET RING 0181-546-5245 Wednesday October 22 1997 No 3199 Price 28p Dermot to keep out Spurs THE Elmbridge Inside your NEWS MAIL the local's choice this week: Opposition goalkeeper for the big Mike Laversuch New York marathon runner Steve Mcnally and Molesey Community Church player Tony Kelly The strike force comprises Chandlers Field School Governor Mike Ray and Thames FM roving reporter Mike Crump A penalty-taking competition is being staged before the game at lpm any teams interested to taking part should call Home-Start on 0181-224-9777 Entry fee to watch the match is £3 for adults and £1 for under-16s game will be Dermot McCann landlord of the Europa pub in Walton Road Molesey with Rydens School teacher Martin Stringer as reserve keeper Providing the defence are Walton resident and football coach Graeme Johnson Steve Brice from Sandown Park Racecourse to Esher and Molesey residents Alan Bishop and Paul Morris The midfield will include Molesey residents Sean Ellis and Community Team that will face Spars Legends on Sunday November 23 is beginning to take shape The match wiU be played at Moiescy Football Club in Walton Road Moksey in aid of Elmbridge charity Home-Start Despite the Spurs Legends team containing din such as Martin Cithers and Mark Falco there hate been many players eager for a go against these internationals of old EMERGENCIES INCREASE PROMPTS OPS DELAY Four cutics cast a spell SEND A GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT OVERSEAS friends get together to launch appeal THE friends and family of a wheelchair-bound Cobham girl have banded together and launched an appeal to raise funds for a specially adapted bathroom in her home Ten-year-old Jodi Lambdin (below) of Tartar Road has an inoperable brain tumour and is unable to use the upstairs bathroom in her family home unaided A stair-lift or other adaptations to the house proved unsuitable so friends of the family and Cobham resi bv Joanna Jones NEWS Strain on hospital services causes 100 postponements is fast approaching and local witches have their preparations well in hand Selecting their creepy crawlies and picking their pumpkins in the fields at Garson Farm were (from left) Emily Hoy Hannah Sims Sarah Dolman and Claudia Berenson all aged 4 These four little sorcerers are from the Transition class at Rowan School in Claygate A week today the fund-raising group is holding a special evening at in Portsmouth Road The event will start at 830pm when Small Faces sounda-likes The Fake Faces will be playing live For those who enjoy a good sing-a-long there will also be karoake as well as a chance to win see On EPSOM General Hospital revealed this week that more than 100 booked admissions and operations have been postponed as sharp increases in emergency admissions put pressure on its Accident and Emergency department Figures just released show an increase of 11 per cent in the number of emergency medical cases in comparison with last year The marked increase coupled with many of the patients admitted being elderly is putting a strain on hospital services The pressure on hospital beds has led to 117 booked admissions and operations being postponed and an increase in workload for the department Dr Graham Gardner consultant in at Epsom commented: last year our facilities have been improved and expanded and we are continuously trying to find ways of developing the service further Nevertheless that pressure on us is undoubtedly increasing would like to assure everyone that the care of emergency patients will continue to be our top priority Our staff worked very face of these pressures to ensure that the Accident Emergency Department stays open and maintains a local Epsom Health Care NHS Trust has also complained that it is losing by postponing booked admissions Spokesman for the Trust Marcel Markan who puts the increase down to an ageing population said: are more elderly people being admitted and many of theses people may have been carers themselves at one time We would only receive additional funding from the Health Authority if there was a very large increase in numbers of medical emergencies but meanwhile we risk losing funding if we postpone He told the News Mail that some of the postponed admissions would be urgent than but confirmed the Trust had a commitment to re-admit patients within one month He added the Trust recognised that postponing operations particularly essential operations caused disruption and upset in lives Further anticipated increases in emergency admissions with the onset of winter paint a bleak picture for Epsom Hospital in the coming months But said Mr Markan talks with the Health Authority and Social Services about how to cope with the extra pressures that winter would bring were already underway Sian Carter spokesman for East Surrey Health Authority told the News Mail Health Authority is very concerned that the Trust is experiencing pressures at the moment and we are trying to develop ways to deal with this some cases this means looking at ways to try to prevent or avert emergency admissions in the first place especially with the Ms Carter pointed to the £300 million chsh injection promised by the Government to help health authorities deal with so-called winter emergencies She added: there are 100 health authorities the country and we do not yet know how this money will be distributed we do know we will be working together the Trust to look at to deal with the increased pressures on Cat burglar is caught at last A NOTORIOUS cat burglar responsible for more than 30 break-ins in the south-west of London including Cobham and Claygate has finally been caught by dents decided to launch a Bathroom Appeal for Jodi a pupil at St School to raise funds to build a bathroom downstairs Fundraisers have already secured some donations and practical help from local companies but say donations of any kind are 'still welcome Helping with building work and materials for th bathroom which starts construction this week are Skilton Brothers of Cobham Berkeley Homes Manor Maintenance and Warwick Design Construction Other donations and sponsorship support have come from: Jarvis of Cobham Jaytee Seafood Group Executive Carriage Company The Running Mare Howard Catering and Pizza Express as well as The Plough at Downside The organisers To buy tickets for a minimum donation of £5 or to pledge your support for the Jodi Lambdin Bathroom Appeal contact Sarah Currie on 0421-533652 or Sue Hancock on 01932-863139 Cricketers at Downside The Fake Faces Croft Maitland Curchods Estate Agents John Baxter Hill Hairdressers have hard in the increasing in leaving no sign of his presence He has no recollection of where it came from despite being driven round the area by police is a Waltham Traveller a half-hunter pocket watch made of nine carat gold We just want to return it to its rightful said DC Bysouth of Wandsworth Police The loser should contact DC Bysouth on 0181 247 8248 or the News Mail on 01372 463553 and Wandsworth Police They now have the tricky task of returning his swag to the owners Unfor-tunately he cannot re-member where most of it came from! In particular DC Barry Bysouth of Wandsworth Police is appealing to the Cobham household who have been missing a £600 pocket watch since June The thief stole it through an open window with Nathalie wraps it up with a hamper A COBHAM woman received 1 free hamper filled with foil-wrapped food by winning a prize draw at Sainsbury in Bridge Way Cobham recently Nathalie Reno of Ashcroft Park won the draw run by the run how Open Sunday 1030 to 430 Lottie shuts the 9 DAY WONDER book on 1 8 years Levington Aluminium Foil Recycling Campaign as part of a promotion to encourage people in Surrey to recycle their aluminium foil in recycling banks located at stores Ail the money raised from the sale of foil for recycling goes to the Surrey Community Recycling and Plat Project (SCRAPP) and Surrey Springboard FREE guided walks are being offered to visitors to 18th century landscape garden Painshill Park from this Saturday until November 2 The walks which focus on the rich display of autumn colours in the historic gardens will take place at 11am and 2pm each day Admission prices are adults £350 concessions £3 and children 5-16 years £1 LOTTIE Kratt wife of the late Kenneth Kratt owner of Bookmark in Anyards Road Cobham announced her Slip in for a clip free Paddy-Wags Dog Grooming services based in Hamilton Avenue is offering free dog or cat nail-clipping today in return for a donation to the National Canine Defence League Paddy-Wags the animal charity by sponsoring a dog called Tulip who is unsuitable be found a home and is therefore looked after fulltime at one of the centres For more information contact Paddy-Wags 01932-865-033 AUTUMN EXTRA £699 retirement last week after being in business for 18 years supports Mrs Kratt of East Horsley is pictured here in front of manageress shop Picture: Mike Jones Associates the shop with Andrew Swanson managing director of Methvens 100 Sq to family and I are delighted to welcome Methvens Pic as new owners of Mrs Kratt commented on her retirement NCDL She thanked staff past and present and the customers for their loyal support especially over the past year Mrs Kratt confirmed that Anita Marshall and Dawn on Roberts will continue as manageress and assistant at the To celebrate Halloween we have the widest selection of pumpkmand squashes around Every size shape and colour to cook or simply to scare your neighbours! Growing since 1871 ESHER ROAD HERSHAM ESHER HOSPICE ST PETER CHURCH Carson Farin' Plenty of free parking Church Js Farm Church Farm Burhill Road Hersham Farm Shop: 01932 242212 Garson Farm Winterdown Road West End Esher Farm Shop: 01372 464389 Garden Centre: 01372 460181 scheme to save planners Arthur Bower's DECORATIVE BARK CHIPS 80 Litre £499 or 5 tor £20 Murphy Multi-Purpose Compost 80 litres £399 or 3 for £999 All offers subject to availability Read instructions before using garden chemicals Winter Pansies Now in Stock by Among the developments which frighten Mrs Gaskell and her neighbours are: A recently-built Berkeley Home house which is out of character and makes a tremendous impact on the Planning consent for two large homes where a bungalow stood Plans for a very large house no particular architectural merit and out of scale with surrounding which will replace very well-maintained and appointed bungalow with a beautifully landscaped An application to demolish a family home of and build in its stead two large homes and garages which are unsympathetic to the road both in design and A further proposal to put in two or three houses on the grounds of a family house which is of the original houses in this every large plot is developed by replacing existing viable houses with characterless massive structures the character will be lost forever together with the history and variation in architectural Mrs Gaskell went on would be a sad reflection on our society if financial gain is the only driving factor road does not need this indiscriminate development and it should be stopped before it is too late Road is a very special and unique road in this area due to its tranquil and rural quality and therefore is surely worth concluded Mrs Gaskell RESIDENTS of Woodside Road on the CobhamOxshott borders have got together to save their from the clutches of developers The majority of the people living in the road which adjoins Oxshott Heath attended a meeting on Sunday and they agreed to lobby Elm-bridge Council to stave off the threat of developers road is a private cul-de-sac partially owned by residents with a mixture of new and old properties large and small all set in natural woodland said one resident Jenny Gaskell the past a number of developments took she added over the last few years due to developers moving in for a quick profit our road is being threatened Squire's Garden Centres Hersham Burwood Road 01932-247579 Twickenham Sixth Cross Road 0181-977 9241 West Horsley Epsom Road (A246) 01483-28291 1 Open Mon to Sat 9am 6pm Sun 1030am 433pm NEWS MAIL: Out every Wednesday enquiries Tel Esher (01372) 463553 Vf.