Farnham Mail from Farnham, Surrey, England • 1

FARNHAM MAIL (Incorporating the News and Mail) No 6021 Price lOp TUESDAY JANUARY 12 1988 PAGES OF JOB VACANCIES aiid HOMES AND CARS FOR SALS i mmmmm Marathon trip in a wheelchair Happier time for arcade THREE CLAIM UFO SIGHTINGS IN NIGHT SKY Hs W'jf i by UNDY WARBUWTON A 16-year-old schoolboy plus a woman and her friend have joined the ranks of people who claim to have had a close encounter of the UFO-kind Andrew sighting at Bagshot came just a day after eight policemen and a teenage girl reported seeing grey-green pink-blobbed objects in the skies above Kensington West London Andrew was in the garden of a very large round area which Bogus Scouts prey on old people CONFIDENCE tricksters posing as Scouts have been preying on elderly people knocking on the door with news of raffle prizes and then escaping with money and valuables Police are warning people to be wary of any strangers calling at their homes The three youths believed to be aged 17 or 18 called first at a bungalow in Sandhurst Road Crowthome just after 4 pm last Friday One distracted the elderly occupants by saying he was a Scout and congratulating them saying they had won a prize in a Christmas raffle He also asked for a drink of water The other youths then slipped into the house and stole jewellery cameras cheque books and passports from the bedroom The three raced off in a saloon car WALLET Soon after at about 5 pm they went to a home in Wokingham Road Sandhurst and one told the elderly householder the same story He gave the owner £10 which he said they had won in a Scout raffle But his accomplices had slipped into the house and stolen £40 from a wallet and envelope Their vehicle was parked in Church Road just around the comer Police say the crimes were particularly nasty and are appealing for any witnesses to contact them on Slough 31282 extension 4570 The youth who did the talking is said to be about 17 fair haired fresh faced clean shaven about 5ft 6in tall and wearing a camouflage jacket green beret and jeans He seemed to have a stammer The second youth also about 17 was taller and wore a light anorak jeans and trainers The third was about the same age will go towards providing computers and fax machines to improve communications between the charity's international offices AMBITIOUS desperately need better communications as we have members in Europe Canada and New said Ken who got involved with the club after meeting its founder Mr Harold Wilson Since then he has been actively involved in many fund raising events and his wife Margaret has been company secretary A DISABLED man is aiming to raise million for charity with a unique marathon ride from John to End Mr Ken Teagle (67) of Caswell Close Farnborough is preparing to make the 900-plus mile journey in a wheelchair A victim of spina bifida since birth Ken is United Kingdom vice president of International Aid for the Disabled Travellers' Club a charity dedicated to advising and helping members who want to travel abroad The money he raises through his marathon ride Andrew holding a drawing of the UFO he saw hovering above his home in Yaveriand Drive Bagshot But his electric wheelchair ride is by far most ambitious money-raising idea yet On April I he intends to set out from John Groat's in the latest Fortress Scientific power chair which has been donated by Samson Products of Dorset especially for the event Ken estimates the trip will take 35 days at four miles an hours and he will attend Mayoral receptions all along the way There will also be a backup team of around 10 people supporting him including wife Margaret who also has spinal problems could not do it without her We do everything together If it for Margaret I would not be said Ken The couple have five children and nine grandchildren On Thursday Friday and Saturday Ken and Margaret wiH collect donations and puMicise the event in Kings-mead Farnborough was dark one minute then went pinky red pulsating It got brighter and brighter and then went dark she said Two of the objects were on the right hand side of the sky we had stopped to watch it it started to move and we began to set off again But as it went over the car I looked to my left and saw this very large circular area of glowing pinky-red light I asked David to stop and he stopped again was pulsating It came from nothing fading right out then pinky red then brighter not really bright then fading again After about a second it began Convinced She could see a glow at the back of the third UFO could not have been an aeroplane The glow at the back was the strangest thing It was nothing like the rear of a jet aircraft I couldn't hear any noise but it was noisy by the motorway said Mrs Hodgson a mother of three The sighting was made on December 29 Mrs Hodgson went away immediately afterwards and only on her return thought to contact the to see if anyone else had reported lights in the skv A nurse but at the moment concentrating on bringing up her three children Mrs Hodgson said: may be quite a few people like me who saw it and did not say Mr Myers who was visiting this area from his home in Bude Cornwall said: was one of those things where you know whether to say anything or not People can think you are a bit daft but we are convinced we saw He put the time of the sighting at 745 pm and said the objects he only saw two of them were stationary for about five minutes they moved across the motorway and vanished altogether They were very very bright Other people must have seen them we be the only he added Local UFO expert Mr Rex Dutta said he had received a report of a third sighting in the area this time in Blackwater the day before Mrs sighting Rape bid case delay A WARRANT without bail has been isued for the arrest of a man charged with attempted rape The man who as due to be committed to Crown Court failed to turn up for the hearing at Aldershot magistrates' court yesterday The offence is alleged to have taken place at Fam-borough between November 10 and 13 Wife loses baby after burglary A YOUNG woman has lost the baby she was expecting after being crushed by a frightened horse as she and her husband investigated a burglary at their home Plan to turn troubled pub into a hotel AN ambitious £2m plan has been put forward for a 100-bedroom hotel with conference centre and restaurant at The Hero pub in Bagshot It has been submitted by A TROUBLED shopping arcade is on the road to success two and a half years after its opening Boulevards showpiece shopping area could not attract traders to take up the floorspacc At one time six out of 30 units were empty Its dead-end location at the rear of the Wellington Centre meant shoppers often passed it by But the traders bad a profitable Christmas and the complex will soon have 100 per cent occupancy said manager Mr David Hartshorn SUCCESS A ladies' fashion shop will be taking over two units in February and a sports shop there is expanding is turning into a success said Mr Hartshorn are no problems now and traders are much happier always want more customers but that should improve once the refurbishing of the Wellington Centre and the Phase II project are completed the traders seem to have done very well at Mr Hartshorn said matters had improved since Boulevards bad been taken over He believed that service charges and high rents were the reasons why potential traders rejected the arcade previously Firemen free naked man A NAKED and embarrassed young man was released by firemen early on Sunday morning after stag night pranksters shackled him to the Bagshot Memorial in the middle of The Square He was covered in green slime Station Officer Roger Slade said: young man deebned to give his name He was very cold and the last we saw he was running after his his home in Yaveriand Drive on Wednesday at about 925 pm when he looked up and saw an object a flying Nine days earlier Mrs Tri-cia Hodgson and a friend were travelling along the M3 at Lightwater towards London when they spotted unidentified flying objects in the night sky All three are convinced that what they saw were not aeroplanes Andrew a pupil at Colling-wood School Camberley said: was cleaning my pen and looked up There was a gap in the clouds and out of it came a flying saucer shaped thing It was bright white with green lights in the middle of it hovered for about seven to eight seconds making no sound whatsoever Then after I had looked down and then up again it shot across the sky very quickly and disappeared througjh another gap in the clouds could see the glow from its underside as it tracked across the sky I am convinced that what I saw was a spacecraft from another world" Lights brother Peter had only moments before gone back into the house missing the sighting Andrew rushed in to get his camera in the hope the object would return but it did not He said: had a definite shape to it a base and a top like a flying saucer In the middle it had a strip with green lights There were other lights on it as well I think some red ones couldn't see how big it was but it looked bigger than an He added: have always believed in UFOs but I never thought I would actually see one There is no doubt in my mind that what it Mrs Hodgson of Old Pasture Road Frimley was a passenger in a car being driven by Mr David Myers when she spotted three objects in the sky over the motorway All ap-pered to be similar but she paid particular attention to one which she described as "a big bright light on the right of the sky The object had one green light and one silver light on its side and as Mrs Hodgson watched it moved off the back of it there was Accident victim dies AN elderly pedestrian involved in an accident with a car on New Eve died in hospital on Wednesday Retired civil servant Mr George Addison (73) of Montgomery Road Farnborough was taken to Frimley Park Hospital with serious head injuries following a collision with a Mini driven by Mr Stephen Rudd of The Birches Farnborough at the junction of Tower Hill and Cove Road Cove Mr Addison had lived in the area all his life and for 40 years worked for the Inspectorate of Fighting Vehicles when it was based at the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough A widower with two daughters a son and grandchildren he was a member of a number of clubs including the Cove Ivy Leaf Club The funeral will take place tomorrow at the chapel at Ship Lane Cemetery Farnborough at II am An inquest has been opened and adjourned at Chertsey STAN APPEARS ON TV QUIZ Now the couple say they are determined to move away from the area Mrs Emma Simmonds (20) was taken to Frimley Park Hospital with severe bruising following the accident at the home in Hulfords Lane Hartley Wintney She was crushed against a trailer by the horse The following night as her 3 1 -year-old husband Andy visited her in hospital their home was again burgled all right now but the doctors said there was no way the baby could have been saved I must have been about four to six weeks said Mrs Simmonds TACK been thinking about going to Wales to live for some time now This and the burglaries have made our minds up for us going to sell up and move there About £3000 worth of riding equipment including saddles bridles and other riding tack were taken during the two burglaries at the trailer home The accident happened at about 1 130 pm as the couple who married shortly before Christmas returned from visiting her parents Keith and Catherine Allison of Clarence Road Fleet to find they had been burgled SICK One of their five horses kept in a paddock close to the trailer had become frightened by the intruders and reared up as Mrs Simmonds tried to calm it was winded badly and couldn't she said just kept on being sick I move and thought I had broken my She is now recovering well and hopes to have another baby soon is something definitely be trying she added Rape case man out on £10000 bail A YATELEY man has been committed to stand trial at Crown Court on a charge of rape The 21 year old appeared before Aldershot Court on Friday accused of rape unlawful sex with a girl under 13 indecent assault on a girl under 16 taking indecent photographs of a child under 16 and buggery He was given bail after his father stood £10000 surety on condition that he does not go within ten miles of Yateley lives at an address supplied to the court and does not contact witnesses the coinage of Roman Britain there been a need to earn a living elsewhere I might have liked to have been an said Stan who has been interested in coins since he was 14 He wrote off for an entry form at the end of the last series and recorded his efforts in November at Exeter University with his wife Iris in the audience TERRIFYING think they had 6000 people apply for this series so I was rather honoured to be one of the 64 contestants this time said Stan wont part of all is walking up to the Mack chair it is absolutely terrifying Once you are sitting down the question master Magnus Magnus-son told us to imagine a tunnel with him at one end to help forget about everyone else in the hall and it worked had a really enjoyable said Stan who will not reveal how he faired in the contest will be nice to sit back and watch it at he Galleon Taverns to Surrey Heath Council Miss Sally Wingrove of Galleon Taverns said: has been in our mind for some time The area is crying out for more hotel The plan involves incorporating the present pub into the hotel development Galleon Taverns wants to develop a reasonably priced hotel complex within the financial reach of ordinary businessmen or private clients It would not be in competition with Pennyhill Park which has developed a luxury image on the hotel and leisure market Miss Wingrove said: is a long-term plan It has been put into the hands of the authorities and we know have to see how consultations The idea had the blessing of the tourist board she said have had it in mind for over a year and we wrote asking their STAFF She accepted the authorities might make objections and that there could be problems about access However it was hoped these could be solved At least 100 staff would be needed for the complex and they would be recruited locally The Hero which has recently undergone a change of landlord after a turbulent few months would be retained under the plan Miss Wingrove hinted that there might be the possibibty of obtaining further land Protest due at inquiry VILLAGERS are expected to make a banner-waving protest as a inquiry into the fate of 5 1 1 acres of countryside gets underway at Rotherwick Village Hall at 10 am today The inquiry is into Charles Church appeal against Hart refusal to allow the development of 2000 houses on land between Hook Newnham and Rotherwick It is expected to last four weeks best Kitchens in the County CROOKHAM Village Parish Council chairman Stan Knight Hill take all the derisions by himself on Thursday night as he will not have any of his colleagues to advise him For Stan (66) of The Street Church Crookham Village will be in the dreaded black chair taking part in the BBC quiz Mastermind Stan a retired RAE and MoT aircraft production officer will be answering questions on his specialist subject of Glass smashed TWO windows at Mr Robert house in Harlech Road Blackwater were broken on Wednesday i i.