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Welcome to our

OCTOBER ISSUE It’s that time of year again, when our summer clothes are put away for their winter break and out come the winter woolies again. Although, as I write this, it is still remarkably mild and my washing is drying in the warm autumn breeze outside. So actually, it’s really rather pleasant!

Another fantastic Heritage Day event was enjoyed in Cobham by many local residents back in mid September. I do hope you like our bright and colourful account of the day.

On the same day, Bruce’s Doggie Day Care enjoyed their fun-packed annual open day. What a cute bunch of clients Bruce has! (I mean the dogs, not the owners, by the way!) We are delighted to share some highlights with you within.

Congratulations must go to the Elmbridge Talking Newspaper who wiped the floor clean at a recent awards ceremony event! Such a wonderful service which really deserves this recognition. See pages 20/1 to find out all about it.

And finally, we have a little local history for you to enjoy, a sad little tale, telling the story behind one of our well-loved local gardens. Thanks must go to Natasha Hicks for this delightful contribution.

I h o p e yo u e n j oy o u r O c t o b e r I s s u e Warmest Regards,

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Cobham Heritage Day ........................ 8 Bruce’s Doggy Open Day .................. 12 Music Matters ................................. 19 Talking Newspaper ........................ 20 A little bit of Elmbridge History ....... 26 Audi car review ............................... 30 What’s Cooking? ................................ 32 What’s on in Cobham? ................... 38 Computer Tips ................................. 40 Medical Matters ............................... 46 Gardening Matters ........................... 50

Regular s Sudoku puzzle ...................................46 Word Ladder puzzle ........................ 46 Crossword Puzzle ............................ 34 Puzzle solutions ............................... 69 Transition Cobham .......................... 64 Useful Numbers .............................. 68 Church services ................................ 64 Advertisers’ index ........................... 70

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The sun shone and dogs and owners had great fun on Saturday (13 September) at the annual Bruce’s Doggy Day Care Open Day. Based in Cobham and serving customers in Surrey and London, award-winning dog crèche business, Bruce’s Doggy Day Care, caters for dogs large and small from Bookham and Balham to Walton, Weybridge and Wimbledon.

The invitation-only client event was held at its purpose-built 15-acre site, giving customers the chance to see the fields their beloved pets play in and meet the staff who look after them.

As well as doggy antics and agility activities, the event raised money for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Sponsor a Puppy initiative, with several of their puppies and trainers on site.

Refreshments were also available for hungry hounds and humans, including dog treats, cute cupcakes and a barbecue.

Bruce Casalis, founder and director of Bruce’s Doggy Day Care, said: “It was a fantastic day and I’d like to thank our

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O P E N DAY four-legged and two-legged friends for coming along to share the fun. Our customers are very important to us, and we continually strive to provide an excellent dog care service for them all, as was evidenced by our recent feedback survey which showed 95% of our customers are very satisfied with our service, and 100% are satisfied with our reliability and quality of staff. Great news!”

Bruce added: “I’m also pleased we were able to raise the profile

of the Guide Dogs charity and generate much-needed funds for them. Every little helps and enables them to assist a blind person in gaining the freedom and independence a canine friend can bring.”

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MUSIC MATTERS t’s a funny thing about the Blues. Listening to someone else singing about their own hardships can make us feel better about own problems.

I discovered the Blues when I arrived on these shores back in ’68. It was a time of the Blues Boom and was a great springboard for artists like Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and even Led Zeppelin.

With some great memories in mind, I am delighted to hear that a new wave of guitar slingers is treading the boards up and down the country, and one of the best young prospects is 22 year old Laurence Jones.

I went along to the Half Moon pub in Putney recently to see Laurence and was blown away by this phenomenal talent. Remarkably, he started as a classical guitarist and won a Young Musician of the Year Award.

Usually, classical players can’t make the transition to rock, but Laurence has not only crossed the wide divide, but he also won the prestigious Young Artist of the Year prize in the British Blues Awards a couple of weeks ago.

Despite his age, he’s the foot stompin’ real deal, and if you fancy being energised by a master of his craft and get that life-affirming feeling that great music can bring, just imagine a cross between Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page and that’ll give you some idea of his style.

Check him out online or on CD, better yet see him live and catch him while you can: he’s the perfect antidote to all those antiseptic talent shows that fill TV’s prime time.

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n 15th September representatives of Elmbridge and Runnymede Talking Newspaper were delighted to attend the Runnymede Achievement Awards Evening, organised by Runnymede Access Liaison Group.

The awards were introduced

by Chairman, Jonathan Fisher, who is blind and has a guide dog, and the evening was

well attended by disabled and able-bodied representatives of the many organisations offering services and advice to disabled people in the area.

The Charles Babbage Memorial Rosebowl for individual achievement by a disabled person was awarded to Christopher Gilroy, who first joined the Talking Newspaper as Listener Representative in 1999 and was Chairman elected by acclamation at

the Annual General Meeting in 2007.

The Frank Wheeler Memorial Rosebowl was awarded to Mrs. Edna Blowers, who has stood down as a volunteer with the Talking Newspaper after 15 years. During this time, she selected articles from the local papers for the weekly digest and took over the leadership of the registration team, which checks and records the returned pouches from

listeners.

The Bob Davies Award for achievement by a group or service in serving the needs of Disabled People was presented to Elmbridge and Runnymede Talking Newspaper in recognition of its long service to visually impaired people in the Borough.

Elmbridge and Runnymede Talking Newspaper is one of the oldest in the country, having been launched in 1975.

It is funded by the local Rotary Clubs, produced by volunteers

and distributed free of charge to some 120 listeners in the two boroughs. It has been sending recorded digests of the weekly local news throughout 39 years and also produces a monthly magazine edition of items of specific interest to visually impaired people, plus interviews with local celebrities. In November of this year, its 2,00Oth edition will be sent to its many listeners in both boroughs.

If you or someone you know has difficulty reading and misses the local news, please

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A LITTLE BIT OF

ELMBRIDGE HISTORY

We always knew there was something spectacular about Elmbridge. The leafy green trimmings and rolling hills define the quaint and tidy borough we know and love. However, the peace and tranquillity found here entranced people long before us, some of whom were members of the most famous and instrumental family in the country. ineteenth century Esher housed members of the Royal Family for many years, and there is little

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situation, and her father insisted abundantly that she marry William, hereditary Prince of Orange. However, William failed to impress

to wonder once you think of Claremont Gardens with their crisp and vibrant flowers

Charlotte, and whilst her engagement was being arranged, she met and became fixated

which Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold described as ‘a real paradise’. Princess Charlotte was a daughter of King George

upon Leopold I of Belgium. Eventually, she demanded she should be allowed to marry Leopold, and her father gave in to her wishes.

IV and heir to the throne, but lived a life of difficulty and scandal. From adolescence, she

The couple married on May 2nd 1816 and moved in to Claremont House, where they

was scrutinised; her fashion choices were deemed unacceptable, as her ankle-length under drawers were often left on show.

Due to her position to the throne, Charlotte had many complex relationships with men.

Huge pressure surrounded her marital

lived contently until Charlotte’s premature demise.

Surrounded by woodland and vast expanses of greenery still lustrous today, Claremont provided solace and serenity to the couple who were still struggling with the

familial disagreements over their marriage.

Charlotte and Leopold honeymooned at the Duke of York’s Oatlands Palace which stands between Weybridge and Walton-on-Thames.

Unfortunately, there is little remaining of the old building still present today, as it was eventually bought and demolished, with the bricks being sold to Sir Richard Weston of Sutton Place near Guildford to build locks and bridges on the new River Wey Canal.

Other landmarks of the time, such as Nonsuch and Richmond Palaces, were also sold and demolished to pay off debts from the parliament.

Only one year after a happy marriage, Charlotte passed away at the age of 21, due to complications in childbirth. Her death caused nationwide devastation as the entire kingdom went into mourning. It has been said that linen-drapers ran out of black cloth as customers flocked to buy mourning attire.

Devastated and grief-stricken, her husband

Charlotte Augusta & her husband, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfied, by George Dawe

Leopold decided to open Claremont to visitors, allowing everyone to witness the unique beauty his wife had so blissfully enjoyed throughout her short stay at the house. He ordered a mausoleum to be erected in Charlotte’s memory and a small bed of flowers surrounded the tomb. This memorial stood for over a century but was later demolished in 1922 in preparation for

however, thanks to the Camilla Terrace.

Once the standing place of Leopold’s large greenhouse, the terrace is surrounded by vast greenery and blooms, a display of extraordinary flowers between December and mid-May.

Words by: Natasha Hicks

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CAR REVIEW

AUDI RS 6 and offers a return for your right foot pressure of mind-blowing magnitude, hitting 62 mph from standstill in under four seconds, and for the size of it, that is some special return. But Audi has been clever with the RS 6. Extra specially so. It has lightened the load compared with its dismally dull Avant predecessors.

Nowadays, bearing in mind its size, you get excellent economy too, and an environmentally sympathetic and more sterile whiff of pollution from a power unit built to satisfy in every sense. The cabin is spacious, and even the longestlegged like me, whether behind the wheel or the driver, may stretch with uncramped ease. As for carrying a family...well...mum and the teenage

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Switch on the engine and, hey presto, a wafer-thin touch screen appears as if by magic in the dead centre of a fascia designed for ease of study and utter convenience. And the whole plot handles superbly well, however daring you are in your arrival at corners. On the open road, having chosen the topmost of the paddle-shift operations and hitting the revs really hard, you remain in a comfort zone ...safe and sound.

Would I buy one? Despite my lack of affection for estate cars, and Trophy Wife’s preference for Porsche sports cars, I could well be tempted. In the light of my sincere appraisal, maybe Milton Keynes-based Audi will now forgive my original sin. Whatever it was... ends.

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I still don’t know why or how, and they never bothered to explain, but Audi fell out with me about a decade ago and banned me from their review car service.

Was it something I wrote? Was I too honest and critical of one of their cars? I guess so. Thankfully, with a wee bit of jiggery-pokery, there are alternatives means of getting my hands on their products.

And, just to show there are no hard feelings, at least on my part, I would commend their latest Avant, a thriller of a five-star performer.

The new RS 6 is an estate car to both excite, entertain and proudly stand its ground in a fiercely competitive arena of wellestablished rivals.

Its RS tag - Rally Sport - could stand for “Really Special”. And that coming from me is rare praise because I am not a fan of family estate cars. They are too often too unwieldy, vast lolloping, shaking, shivering examples of clumsiness on the move, and little short of vanlike looks. Not the RS 6. It is a rare beauty, a winner on first kerb-side sight and a gem of a star fronting a trail of throaty exhaust sound to be envied by any overtaken sports car.

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Ingredients • 150g essential Waitrose Elicoidali or

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Cooked Mackerel Fillets, drained • 25g grated Gruyère

Method Preheat the oven to 200ºC, Gas Mark 6. Cook the pasta in a pan of boiling water for 10 minutes until tender, adding the leeks to the pan for the last 3 minutes of cooking.

Drain the pasta and leeks well and toss with the cheese sauce, mustard and chives. Gently fold in the mackerel.

Spoon into an ovenproof dish, scatter over the Gruyère cheese and bake for 15 minutes until golden brown.

Nutrition: 679kcals/35.9g protein/66.7g carbohydrate/7.9g sugars/29.8g fat/14.4g saturated fat/7.7g fibre/2.5g salt per serving Recipe reproduced by kind permission of Waitrose.

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The Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fenneally In April 1927, the Mississippi River is rising, threatening to flood the town of Hobnob. Deep in the woods, Dixie Clay makes bootleg whiskey, nurses her secret and shoots when she has to. While hunting bootleggers, prohibition agent Ingersoll finds himself unable to abandon an orphaned baby, a child who draws him and Dixie closer together. Meanwhile, Dixieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outlaw husband is playing his own dangerous game, as the waters rise and pressure mounts throughout the South. Wonderfully atmospheric and thrilling, this novel has an emotional depth that lingers in the mind.

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton Nella Oortman arrives at a grand house in Amsterdam as the 18 year old bride of illustrious trader Johannes Brandt. Her presence in the house is set to disturb the balance of power of its current chatelaine, Marin, Johannesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; elder irascible sister. When Nella is presented with a cabinet-sized replica of her home as a wedding gift from her largely absent husband, she starts to uncover a set of household secrets which threaten to disturb the equilibrium of the house forever. Magical & atmospheric - a beautifully told debut.

The Children Act by Ian McEwan Fiona Maye is a high court judge in the family court, respected and admired. Her professional life is well organised and she is noted for the balanced, considered nature of her rulings. This is not reflected in the turmoil of her personal life. Almost sixty and childless, she is feeling a growing regret for this state. When her husband suddenly announces he wants to indulge in an affair, she is devastated. Jack leaves their home and Fiona throws herself into her work. She is tasked with a highly sensitive case of a beautiful young man and his faith-based refusal of lifesaving medical treatment. Having visited him in hospital, Fiona becomes personally involved with far-reaching consequences.

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GARDENING MATTERS And here we are, back with gardening matters after the summer break. This month, plants with the Latin name of an animal somewhere in their name, and it’s not hard to see likenesses if you let your mind run a weeny bit wild…

Sometimes, part of the plant will be reminiscent of an animal: the furry leaves of the forget-menot resemble a mouse’s ears, thus the reason for its botanical name, myosotis, from the Latin (from the original Greek) for ‘mouse ear’.

The butterfly-shaped flowers of the Amaryllis papilio and Gladiolus papilio are reflected in the second part of their name, ‘butterfly-flowered’ in Latin.

The bulbs of Erythronium dens-canis (the dog-tooth violet) are the perfect shape of a dog’s canine, although as they are underground, that connection won’t necessarily be immediately obvious.

And whilst not having a Latin animal name - it is simply ‘taraxacum’ - the dandelion’s name comes from the French ‘dent de lion’, meaning ‘lion’s tooth’, and refers to the coarsely-toothed leaves.

Indeed, when researching this article, I found that sometimes, especially when discussing its use in herbal medicine, it’s referred to as Leotodon taraxacum, ‘leotodon’ being the Greek for ‘lion’s tooth’. The aquilegia’s name comes from the Latin for ‘eagle’, but its common name,‘columbine’, comes from the Latin for dove, because upside down, its flower resembles five doves snuggled together.

Elsewhere, it will be a feature of a plant, such as stripes, which gives it an animal association

in its name: any plant with ‘tigrinus’ in its name will be stripy to a greater or lesser extent. Some names will give you an indicator about their appearance, even if they’re unknown to you.

For example, it won’t be your best decision to choose anything with ‘elephantum’ in its name if you have a teeny tiny garden, as it’s almost certainly going to be big when fully grown. And anything with ‘hystrix’ will be prickly, as the word means ‘porcupine-like’.

In other cases, it’s difficult to see how the plant acquired its particular animal label: for example, with Salix caprea, or goat willow, I can only assume that the catkins have been considered to resemble a little goat, ‘caprea’ meaning ‘goatlike’. And ‘arcturus’ means ‘bear’s tail’, but the flowers of Verbascum arcturus don’t seem to bear (hoho) any resemblance to a bear’s tail.

Other examples of Latin words found in plant names, sometimes quite rarely, include ‘apifer’ or ‘bee-bearing’ – presumably a plant with copious amounts of pollen? – ‘murinus’ or ‘mouse-like’ and ‘equinus’ or ‘of horses’. From this, there is also ‘equisetum’, from the Latin ‘equus’ (horse) and ‘seta’ (bristle), as in that most hated of perennial weeds Equisetum arvense, ‘mare’s/horse tail’. The foliage of this vile beast was thought to resemble a horse’s tail. There is also ‘equisetifolia’, meaning ‘with leaves like horsetail’, as in the Australian pine Casuarina equisetifolia.

So much information, so little room to expand.

Next time, plants named after… erm… plants.

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STATE PENSION SOON?

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A series of articles discussing various areas of current legislation Putting off taking your State Pension The state pension starts at ages varying from 60 to 68 depending on your date of birth and whether you are male or female. Even though this is often much older than we thought when we started working, for many of us it is still earlier than the date we can afford to stop working.

Instead of taking the state pension at the official state retirement age you can defer your state pension and not take it until you want to – normally when you stop working. This is particularly useful for those who would be pushed into a higher tax bracket by receiving the state pension on top of their earnings.

When you start to take your deferred state pension you have a choice – you can have an increased pension or you can take a lump sum. The increased pension will be taxed in the same way as any other income, but the lump sum has special rules: • Unlike pension lump sums from other pension schemes it is taxable; • It is not simply treated as income; • It has its own income tax charge worked out at your highest tax rate.

These rules are designed to ensure that the lump sum doesn’t take a basic rate taxpayer into higher-rate tax just because they have received the lump sum.

However, you can do better than that.

If you have stopped working and have little other income, it is possible that your total income in the tax year might be less than the personal allowance (currently £10,000). This is easier to arrange if your state pension is taken late in the tax year (say February or March) so that there is little state pension to include. If your total income for the year is less than the personal allowance, you do not pay income tax. Your highest rate of tax is zero and this is what is charged on the lump sum.

You have to be very careful with this as total income of £10,000 this year means no tax on a lump sum taken this year, but total income of £10,001 means tax of 20% on the lump sum.

There are a lot of other considerations to take into account when considering deferring or taking your state pension over and above the tax ones, including complications that can arise if you are unlucky enough to die before taking the deferred pension, but the tax opportunity (literally ‘once in a lifetime’) should not be ignored.

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Christmas at Oatlands

Relax and enjoy our warm welcome…

Whether you are planning a festive dinner for 10 or a banquet for 200, we’ll make sure you have a Christmas to remember.

Bring friends or family to our ‘Join a Party’ nights, hold your own ‘Exclusive Party’, enjoy a superb traditional Christmas Day lunch or a festive Boxing Day buffet.

Don’t miss our exciting New Year’s Eve Visit our website to download our Christmas 70s Party! brochure or call us for more information.

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Empowerment At Transition Cobham, we want people to get more involved with our community and to feel empowered to change things for the better.

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St Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church, Cobham October 2014

Sunday 5th October 10.00am Family Worship - Harvest Festival

Saturday 12th / 19th / 26th October 10.00am Parish Cmonnunoin with Kids on Sunday

Every Sunday in October 6.00pm SAY its Sunday Youth Club

Every Wednesday in September 10.30am Baby Talk

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Painshill in October 2014 Crystal Grotto and Historic Tour

Date: Tuesday 7th October Time: 11.00am – 12.30pm

Our Historic Tour, featuring the fully restored Crystal Grotto, is now available for individual bookings. Learn all about how the Grotto was created and experience the dazzling stalactites. Discover more about the other magical follies and the historic plantings.

Cost: Adult £10 (members £5) Child £7 (members £3) Under 5s FREE Advanced booking required. Please book online or call 01932 868113

Pit Firing Pottery Workshop (adults only)

Date: Saturday 11th, Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th October

Experience hand-building ceramic pots and the unique method of pit-firing pottery with this three day course (suitable for beginners and intermediate potters). The workshop will be led by Mary Kaun-English, a ceramic artist.

Cost: £75 (members £65) Advanced booking required. Please book online or call 01932 868113

Fungi Foray

Date: Sunday 19th October Time: Guided forays at 11.00am & 2.00pm

Join our expert Dr Brian Spooner for a stroll in the landscape, looking at fungi.

Cost: Adults £10 (members £5) children under 16 yrs £5 (members £2).

Advanced booking required. Please book online or call 01932 868113

Wild Halloween Camp

Date: Monday 27th - 31st October

Time: 9.00am – 4.30pm

Have a wild time this Halloween with den building, woodland craft, campfires, treasure hunts and extreme adventures. For children aged 8-13 years.

Monday 27th – Den in the Woods Tuesday 28th – Monster Madness Wednesday 29th – Wild Journeys Thursday 30th – Wild Dens Halloween Special Friday 31st – Happy Halloween Cost: £35 per day or £150 for 5 days

Advanced booking required: Please book online or call 01932 868113

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To report local incidents..................................101 Surrey Bus Services...................01483 506919 Train information.......................0845 748 4950 Dentists Dental Surgery of Cobham.......01932 863416 National Rail Enquiries.............0845 748 4950 Beech House Dental Surgery.. 01932 862290 Schools Hollyhedge Dental...................... 01932 865888 ACS Cobham International School 01932 867251 ABC Dental Surgery...................01932 589888 Claremont Fan Court School .... 01372 473624 Danes Hill School.......................01932 842509 Village Halls Cobham Village Hall..................01932 868905 Feltonfleet School......................01932 862264 United Reformed .......................01932 864769 Notre Dame School...................01932 869991 Downside Village Hall................01932 865414 Parkside School..........................01932 862749 Stoke d’Abernon Guide Hut..... 01372 843046 Reed’s School..............................01932 869044 Stoke d’Abernon..........................01932 864166 St Andrew’s Primary School....01932 863452 St Matthew’s C of E Infant Sch......01932 863212 Councils and Services St Teresa’s Junior.......................01372 452037 Elmbridge Borough Council.....01372 474474 St Teresa’s Senior.......................01372 452037 Surrey County Council...............08456 009009 Yehudi Menuhin School of Music ... 01932 864739 Cobham Library.........................08456 009 009 Cobham Free School ............... 03303 300237 Local Storage............................... 01372 457855 Medical Citizens’ Advice Bureau..............01372 464770 Cobham Day Surgery ...............01932 588400 Veterinary SurgeonsOnsite & St Peter’s A&E.............................01932 872000 John Ball & Associates..............01932 868786 Royal Surrey Hospital................01483 464002 Henderson Keywood & Ptners....01932 864671 NHS Direct............................................ 0845 4647 Cobham Veterinary Centre......01932 868786 St John Ambulance .................. 01932 867606 Cobham Park Veterinary Clinic01932 590022 Churches Beech House Veterinary Centre01932 868688 Cobham Methodist Church...... 01932 586988

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Index of Advertisers Able Roofing................................................ 58 AL Services................................................... 69 Andy’s Garden Services............................... 47 Antiques & Fine Arts Fair.............................53 Ashtead Hospital................................ 31/42/65 Beckley Automotive.................................... 56 Belly Funk Fusion Dance............................. 67 Bocketts Farm............................................. 54 Bonnie Dogs ............................................... 54 Bookham Physiotherapy............................. 60 Boyall’s Ironmongery and Doors.................. 4 Brighter Care................................................35 Bruces Doggie Day Care............................ 12/3 Casselden’s Shoes....................................... 59 Challenge Windows....................................... 6 Chiropody- Melissa Bennett........................19 Claremont Fan Court School .........................3 Cleanability.................................................. 54 Cleaneasy..................................................... 60 Cobham Beauty & Laser.............................. 45 Cobham Bookshop...................................... 44 Cobham Village Stiches............................... 65 Computer Fix................................................53 Connect & Support....................................... 31 Continual Care............................................. 48 DB Garden Services..................................... 39 Dog Behaviour – Lauren Walters.................52 DPB Pristine Oven Cleaning........................ 63 Elite Tree Services........................................16 Emberhurst School...................................... 29 Englishmen’s Castle.................................... 49 Estates Direct.............................................. 62 Extra Clean....................................................24 F & S Heating & Plumbing Services............ 56 Falcon Services............................................ 59 Felicity Heath Art Classes............................ 48 Fine Fettle.......................................................7 Hanging Space ........................................... 11 Hollyhedge Dental........................................10 HRS Roofing Services.................................. 45 iPhone Repairs .............................................57 James Thomas Funeral Directors................25

Keith Michael Insurance................................2 Leatherhead Motor Company.....................23 Lodge Brothers............................................ 71 MacDonald& Sons Fencing......................... 28 Mango Studio Photography....................... 63 Marks Plastering.......................................... 47 MD Edwards & Sons.....................................33 Meejana Lebanese Restaurant ................... 14 Michelle Davis Chiropody............................16 Molesey Pest Control.................................. 63 MPS Garden & Estate Machinery .............. 39 Nick Ricks Decorating................................. 48 Oatlands Park Hotel ................................. 55 Orchard Cottage Dental Practice................22 Out on a Limb.............................................. 58 Polsden Lacey...............................................61 P&B Tree Services ...................................... 57 Roofing & Guttering.....................................55 Roots & Shoots............................................72 Roxley Modles.............................................. 13 Silver Arrows............................................... 60 Sir William Perkins School............................ 15 Skin Talk Skin Treatment Clinic.................... 14 SMC Renault............................................ 18/61 Smith Pearman Chartered Accountants..... 51 Solution Family Mediation.......................... 48 St Andrews Primary School ....................... 49 Steve’s Gardening & Landscaping.............. 69 Surrey Cleaning Services..............................18 Surrey Hills Fencing .....................................52 Sykes & Sykes Decorating........................... 59 Tec Res Computer Solutions ....................40/1 The Cobham Massage Clinic....................... 43 The Leatherhead Theatre............................ 17 The Prestige Flooring Company ................ 43 The Vineries Garden Centre..................... 36/7 Trestle Decorators....................................... 60 Willow Landscapes.......................................19 Zigger Web Design.......................................57 © Look Local Magazine 2014 Designed and set by Kirsty Hamilton

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