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  • Woking Woman Wins Surrey Adult Learner Award

    By Ladywordsmith at 15:36 on 18/05/12
    Award Winner Amanda McFadden receives her award from Kevin Delf and Simon Beer
    Amanda McFadden from Woking was awarded the overall Surrey Adult Learner Award Winner at a Ceremony organised by NIACE (National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education) in London on Thursday 17 May as part of Adult Learners Week 12-17 May 2012. Amanda who was presented with the award by Kevin Delf from Surrey Lifelong Learning Partnership, who sponsored the award, was nominated by her tutors at Brooklands College. She had left...
  • Woking Hero Returns to Lands End to Carry Olympic Flame

    By Ladywordsmith at 15:18 on 18/05/12
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    By Marcus Williamson   Woking resident, Eric Smith, a hero of one of the most sensational of Cornish sea rescues will be returning to Land's End tomorrow to carry the Olympic torch – 50 years after he helped pluck fishermen from death's jaws. Eric will carry the flame at Land's End on May 19 – the first day of the relay's 8000-mile route. With him on the Cornish visit will be his wife Jean, family and friends. A...
  • FREE SELF DEFENCE COURSE FOR WOMEN IN SHEERWATER

    By Ladywordsmith at 16:16 on 03/05/12
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    Parents and Grandparents of Children Under 5 Who live in Maybury and Sheerwater can attend the SELF DEFENCE COURSE FOR WOMEN on Fridays, 9.30am-11am being run by Woking Sure Start Children's Centre at The Parkview Centre next door in Blackmore Crescent Woking, Surrey, GU21 5NZ There is a  free Creche but places MUST be booked in advance. Please call or email Clare Jones to book your place. 01483 730517. clarej@caringdaycare.co.u...
  • Looking For a Prom Dress?

    By Ladywordsmith at 18:54 on 13/04/12
    The shorter style proving popular in recent years
    Easter Holidays are the time when schools are urging their students to use the time wisely revising for their all important GCSE's exams which start about a month after schools return from the break. After the GCSE's (mid work experience week? ha ha a bittersweet treat) most schools will be staging a Prom and, it seems, Easter holidays are fast becoming the time that parents need to be digging deep to pay for that first major special...
  • LOCAL LOYALTY GIVES INDEPENDENTS ROOM TO GROW BUT TRANSPORT & PARKING STILL LETTING TOWNS DOWN

    By Ladywordsmith at 20:58 on 05/04/12
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    The results are in from the first Town Survey conducted by localpeople.co.uk which polled over 5,000 locals across their network of 165 community sites to find what the nation thinks of their towns. Whilst London's transport and roads have been bolstered by a £6.5bn investment ahead of the Olympics, locals across the country feel their roads are plagued with potholes.   The Town Survey also reveals locals are restricted by...

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