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Greetings!

Not long to go before our Christmas decorations go up - probably around the time you get this! When the children were younger I’d put off getting the tree up as it minimised the amount of time available for it to be knocked over.... but as the decoration collection grew, I joined the line of thinking that if you’re going to go to the trouble of putting it all up, you may as well enjoy it for as ling as possible. And enjoy it we do. They’re not for everyone, but i do LOVE fairy lights (white and warm glow) and now have rather a lot of them. The ones in the kitchen and garden have been up since fireworks party 2012 - we’re now used to them but ducking motion is required if you’re taller than me (not difficult!). The ones winding up the stairs actually went up in November 2011. Brian (the husband) was sent off to Dallas for ‘a couple of weeks’ and the girls and I were home alone - something we’d not done for more than a week at a time until then. I recall saying to a very wise friend how much I hated the ritual of turning the last light off at bedtime, to which she replied ‘why not leave it on then!’ Wise words indeed. And so the rather long string of LED lights went up. The ‘couple of weeks’ turned into five, with Brian just making it home by the skin of his teeth from Dallas on 23rd December. And very pleased to see him we all were too. And when he went back for January and February the lights stayed up and just never came down!

And at this time, let’s try to remember that not everyone is fortunate to have family around them or people living with them. So let’s all see how we can help a neighbour, or member of our community who may not feel so festive and warm at this time of year.

Wishing you all very happy Christmas!

Jenny

Next copy deadline: 12th December jenny@maldenmedia.co.uk Published by Malden Media Limited 36 Rosebery Avenue, KT3 4JS 020 8336 2915 www.wplife.co.uk We also publish Malden’s Village Voice

Jenny Stuart, Editor & publisher

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It’s OUR Worcester Park!

Bill Grimsey, Mary Portas and many others have commented on the death of the British High Street. Many more have commented on the decline of community. What we want to know is what you think.

The people behind the Worcester Park Traders Association (WPTA) have teamed up with some world class retail and marketing professionals to launch Our Worcester Park. Their vision is to see the Our Worcester Park brand become the glue that binds our community together. The start is with our very own high street.

The WPTA is to rebrand as the Our Worcester Park Traders Club, a collective of the best local retailers coming together to share knowledge, share vision and ultimately share in the great possibilities ahead.

The most important part of building our Our Worcester Park initiative is to understand what residents and businesses alike want to see and experience on Worcester Park High Street and beyond.

We have a few questions:

Do you shop on Worcester Park High Street?

If yes, how often and what for?

If not, why not? Where do you go?

If not, when was the last time you visited the High Street?

How do you find out about your retailers of choice?

Where is your favourite place to shop? And why?

Who is your favourite retail brand?

What would you change about Worcester Park High Street?

Do you eat and drink on Worcester Park High Street?

Where? Why? Or Why not?

We also welcome any other comments you have about your High Street and local community. Simply email scott@ourworcesterpark.com with your answers and comments.

Community is about and involves all of us, so get in touch and we will all share in a bright and exciting future for Worcester Park.

Oh and we also look forward to welcoming you on Friday, 6th December for the Worcester Park High Street Christmas Extravaganza, Ho, Ho Hope to see you there.

Scott, Our Worcester Park Team

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History

Pioneers in Boscombe Road This month we visit the area around Clarkes Avenue and Boscombe Road. As in many parts of Worcester Park, development got under way here in the 1920s-30s, but it followed a much more varied pattern, with houses built by many different people, some of whom constructed them in their spare time as their own homes.

Among the earliest, pioneering residents of this area were James Barnard Sanders and his family, who went on to develop the whole plot of land on the corner of Dorchester Road and Boscombe Road. Mr Sanders’s son Brian recalls “My father built the house which became known as The White House [later 5 Boscombe Road, and now replaced by nos. 5-7] and we moved in in 1926. There was no water or electricity in the house, and my mother looked after three children using Primus stoves and oil lamps.

My father some time later dug a trench the length of Clarkes Avenue from the house right down to the London Road in order to put a pipeline in for the water – and one chap half-way down Clarkes Avenue tapped into the water pipe clandestinely.”

Like a number of houses in the area at the time, no. 5 was a colonial-style bungalow, with a veranda at the back covered by a sloping glass roof, and another at the front which “I think was built of the same material as the bungalow, asbestos cement sheeting. He did virtually all the work himself; it was built on top of old railway lines.” Later on, possibly for an extension, another railway line or girder “was being towed up from the London Road where it was left, by a farmer who had a two-wheeled cart; it was tied to the centre of the cart, and it bent the axle, which was a great catastrophe.” The bungalow had a large garage and an attached office, “and that was used as an air-raid warden’s centre in the early part of the war; people came up there to have their gas masks fitted.”

J B Sanders “had quite an eye for property and had a vision that it would become a commuting area, which it did, but I think later than he envisaged.” In the 1930s he began to take advantage of the development of the area, firstly by building, and letting, nos. 1-3 Boscombe Road. Behind these, facing Dorchester Road, he built two lock-up garages, which were converted into small shops. “One was operated as a garage by Eddie Micklewright; and the other one was opened as a tobacconist/confectioner by my father for my uncle, Joe Brophy.” After Mr Brophy moved away, the Sanders

family ran the shop. Brian Sanders recalls that, on many occasions, “I used to open it at 7 before going to school, and my mother [Brigid Sanders] ran it a lot, and we had local people who acted as assistants”; James Sanders continued with his other career as a refrigeration engineer.

Dave Sweetland recalls visiting the sweetshop as a child in the years around 1950; “The sweets were mainly in glass jars, and they used to sell liquorice sticks as well, and there was sherbet powder: you could either have a dip with your finger or you could take it home and make up a glass of lemonade sherbet.”

The Sanders family then opened a grocery shop in a wedge-shaped extension to 1 Boscombe Road, right on the corner of Dorchester Road. All the goods were sold over the counter; Brian Sanders recalls that “Butter and cheese were cut up for the customer and wrapped, and there was a great business during the war of cutting up incredibly small 2 oz chunks for people’s rations. I recall eggs arriving in boxes about 2½ feet long and 18 inches square.” During this time the family continued to run the tobacconist’s in one of the lock-ups; subsequent tenants of the other lock-up included a ladies’ hairdresser, a greengrocer and a watchmaker, Mr Lenham.

Eventually the family transferred their two shops to purpose-built premises at 125-127 Dorchester Road.

Brian Sanders recalls “The shop moved in as Dorchester Stores, with groceries, confectionery and tobacco, and off-licence; we were still running it until my mother died [in 1977], mainly with the assistance of my brother Tony.”

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Dorchester Stores was later run for 27 years, until his death in 2010, by Jayant Nanavati. He had been born in Nairobi, and moved to Britain in 1969 when Kenya began to place restrictions on non-indigenous Kenyans; he was a founder member of the Bhatia Association in the UK, for Kenyan Indians who had moved to Britain.

His daughter Shilpa Nanavati, in an obituary for The Guardian, recalls his commitment to customers: “Years before the supermarkets considered home delivery, my brother and I were often sent out with shopping for elderly local residents (no delivery charge!).” More recently, these shops have been converted to houses, and the convenience store is back in one of the lock-up shops.

Our photographs this month show The White House standing amidst fields in 1927, and the lock-up shops in Dorchester Road.

This is an edited extract from my book Worcester Park, Old Malden and North Cheam: History at our Feet, published last year – an ideal Christmas present for anyone who lives in KT4, and wants to find out about how the district has developed over the centuries, or for friends and relations who have moved away, or anyone moving into the area. Copies are available for £10 (plus £2 postage if required); please ring (020) 8330 6563 for details.

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Ruth Jemmett Writes

Time for round robins and tender turkeys Ruth Jemmett Gets In The Christmas Spirit

Every Autumn I promise myself that “This year Christmas won’t take me by surprise. I will have my cards written and gifts wrapped well before the end of November”. But somehow I never do the deed. The weeks whizz by, and like most other people, I feel a sense of rising panic as the windows on the Advent Calendar get fewer and fewer. Why do we put ourselves under such pressure, when, with a little forward planning, we could be serene as swans? I suspect it’s because the child in us secretly rather enjoys getting caught up in the heady atmosphere of the maelstrom of mince pies and tinsel that threatens to engulf us in December. I admit to being Catalogue Woman. My many years as a full-time carer made me fairly dependent on those glossy magazines, as the luxury of going out shopping was often an impossibility. I found it a real boon when it came to buying gifts for people on their birthdays or at Christmas. I still receive many of them, but their appeal is wearing thin, as the goods so glamorously displayed within their pages, are often, in reality, of poor quality. Clothing, in particular, can be a major disappointment. Since the time I ordered a Size 12 shrug, and received a huge shapeless monstrosity that would have swamped a small elephant I have begun to prefer going into an actual shop - particularly when it has come to giving gifts to others.

We always seem to forget how long that Christmas list really is. One year my husband watched me feverishly juggling cards and wrapping paper, when he said “If it was up to me, I wouldn’t bother with all of this” - and I think he spoke for a lot of men! I know he thoroughly enjoys The Big Day, but during the weeks leading up to it he really doesn’t care if a particular friend would prefer to be given secateurs rather than a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey. He usually smiles benignly when friends thank him for the gifts we have given them, and it is only a slight twitch of the his face that betrays the fact that he usually hasn’t got the foggiest idea what item they are talking about!

We women make rods for our own backs don’t we? In our hearts we know that we could ease our

load by buying a giant pack of Christmas cards with round robins on them, together with a stack of M & S Vouchers - and whoosh! - it would all be sorted out in one fell swoop, but that would be too easy wouldn’t it?

Firstly we wouldn’t have anything to complain about (come on girls - you know we have martyrdom down to a fine art), and secondly, isn’t it just GREAT seeing all those smiling well-fed faces at Yuletide, and thinking “I’m exhausted, but happy!”? The media tap into our martyrdom complex and feed our maternal instinct even more by making us feel guilty if we don’t make our own Christmas cakes, knit our own Christmas Puddings or crochet our own Christmas crackers. We moan about our December workload, but I think we get a secret pleasure from matching cards and gifts to people. I am very sentimental about keeping cards that other people send to me, and enjoy reading the personal notes they have taken the trouble to write within them well after Christmas has gone.

The trouble is that the cards, which, in reality, are never looked at again, eventually clog up the garage, together with all those half-empty gungy paint tins

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and odd bits of wiring or plastic that “might come in useful one day”.

I really love receiving Christmas cards, but what I DON’T like getting at this time of the year are Round Robins. (And I don’t mean the fluffy kind ….).

You know the sort of thing: “You will be pleased to know that Jeremy gained a First at Oxford, despite having to complete his finals whilst hooked up to a life-support machine” - or, equally: “We hope to have Prunella with us at Christmas, if she has recovered from her haemmorhoid operation in time. We have bought her a goose-feather cushion to sit on. Lots of love from Jane and David.” I scratch my head furiously, wondering “Who on EARTH are these people?”, and then I remember that I met them in a tearoom on the coast thirty years ago. I probably wouldn’t recognise them if I saw them in the street, and certainly don’t wish to know about poor Prunella’s painful predicament.

As Christmas approaches we often glance over our shoulders and take stock of what has happened in the previous few months. If we are lucky, nothing too embarrassing or incriminating will have befallen us.

2013 has changed the face of Salisbury Road, and not only with regard to various people moving in and out.

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that chap was SUCH a good salesman!), and the whole area looks better for it. In our own particular property we decided to have our roof renovated. We recently discovered that all of our ridge tiles were attached by nothing more than thin air. Luckily the repair work was completed just before The Big Storm of 28th October struck. Thankfully the furious gales left local properties in a relatively unscathed condition, in comparison to The Hurricane of 1987, which demolished countless fences in Salisbury Road, giving us one very long garden!

Regular readers will be pleased to know (I’m sounding horribly like a Round Robin letter …!) that my longawaited greenhouse is now burgeoning with cuttings.

Everything that is green in the area is now in danger of being propagated! They say that you never regret your extravagances, and I have to say that I am delighted with my new toy, even if the money spent on it should have been put towards something much more necessary - such as the re-decoration of my drawing room, which has a look of faded splendour about it!

Never mind - it will get done eventually …..

I recently celebrated my 67th birthday in that room, surrounded by the special people in my life. Over the years we have shared all sorts of ups and downs together, and the comfortable lived-in furniture bears witness to having been well-used by countless good friends and neighbours. As we chatted, laughed and shared memories, I don’t think any of them cared that the rug they stood on was hiding a piece of thinning carpet, or that the wallpaper has seen better days.

What really mattered was that we were together.

I hope that when you get together with the special people in YOUR lives this coming Christmas, that they are enjoying themselves far too much to notice the stain on your ceiling or the peeling paint round the doors. May your turkey be tender, your stuffing superb, and if that the irritating relative you HAD to invite, is in your vicinity, may they be on their best behaviour.

Hopefully you will be submerged in an avalanche of thoughtfully penned Christmas cards from those you care about, and will receive gifts that you really like.

With a bit of luck you WON’T get any Round Robins. If you do, you can always retaliate. There will surely be someone out there who will be interested to know about the fact that your giant bunions have been featured in The Guinness Book of Records, and that your parrot can sing Silent Night.

A Very Happy Christmas To You All. Ruth Jemmett is a Member of The Society of Authors

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View from the City

by Justin Urquhart Stewart In 2012, 484,224 new businesses were registered in the UK, up from 440,600 in the previous year and almost a world away from an average of around 150,000 to 180,000 back in the 70’s and 80’s. Something has changed and it appears to be quite a fundamental alteration in the UK economy.

The smaller to medium sized enterprises (SMEs, defined as having less than 250 employees) are actually the life blood of the UK economy, with more employment and investment than the traditional leviathans that we normally hear about.

People, despite the fears from the banks and the nerves of the media, seem to be far more willing than ever before to risk everything, put the house on the line and have a go at running their own business. This is in spite of the failings of the banking system and our structural failing in the UK to financially support start ups effectively (back to my rants on peer to peer lending again). I find this not just remarkable but very encouraging.

As I have mentioned before, we now have a record number of active companies in the UK (3.1 million), and this is despite the financial environment and a tax regime only marginally conducive to supporting the entrepreneur. I grant that this has improved a little, but as we have a new breed of politicians who have never had a job, and civil servants who have never risked their assets, I suppose that this is hardly surprising.

Going back to the late 90’s we used to have an excellent lunch time television show on BBC2 called Working Lunch, and one of their great highlights was the focus on small and developing businesses. This was done neither in the pseudo drama of Dragon’s Den, nor with the facile game show that is The Apprentice, but rather with real stories of business striving and thriving in and amongst all the economic issues that the businesses had to face.

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Another statistic I found was that start ups and small businesses make up 95% of all companies and employ more than 7 million people, out of a working population of just a tad under 30 million.

Now let’s be realistic.

Around half of these companies will sadly die within three years, but at a rising run rate like this, surely this has to be one of the most supportive pieces of economic and business news we have seen lately. So did this astonishing number reach the headlines? No - barely a mention although page 4 of the Financial Times (at the bottom of the page) had a modest comment.

As Brits we are of course somewhat reluctant to shout about our successes, but on the other hand it’s about time we gave ourselves a dose of confidence that something tangible is being achieved. Oh and please don’t let me hear any politician claiming any thanks for this. They haven’t put up their house, they haven’t stayed awake at night wondering if the business is going to be there in the morning, and I

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wonder if they have ever had that fear of putting your cash card in to the bank machine to find that you are down to your last sous.

Even now I hope that one day we will have a Chancellor that really understands the triggers that can help smaller businesses to get them going, not in give-aways, but sensible incentives for investment and returns, and encouraging capital and investment allowances. The UK has a poor reputation for business investment and anything that can help this has to be a benefit.

So well done entrepreneurs; despite the odds many of you have done it and no doubt will continue to do so.

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Cooking Your Spanish

Your 2014 resolution Have you already listed your resolutions for the new year? Do they include learning a new language or how to be a better cook? Then, you got it! Make Cooking Your Spanish your resolution for 2014: learn Spañish while preparing tapas!

Travel with us to Spain and Latin America through the Hispanic world of food!

Your invitation to our first anniversary party Cooking Your Spanish will be one year old on Thursday 23 January 2014. Come to meet us and our students, and learn more about our different courses meanwhile we enjoy some tapas together. Join us at The Brook (formerly known as Midas Touch) from 7pm. Email us to reserve your free place as space is limited – we have 50 drink vouchers to give away!

Busy year Time flies when you are having fun! It has been almost a year since Cooking Your Spanish started in Worcester Park. After our pilot course we also organised different courses in SCOLA, Sutton, and in Wallington School. The experience was so rewarding and the feedback so great that we decided to open our own “kitchen” in Fitzroy House. Both the beginner and intermediate courses in Autumn were fully booked and our students loved the experience: “This is such a good way to learn. The class very quickly felt like spending a social evening with friends” (David); “I felt so comfortable and more confident in speaking in front of others” (Jenny) New courses in 2014!

When promoting our courses at the Worcester Park fairs and in Waitrose, we had the chance to talk to a lot of you who showed interest in lunch time courses and also, Cooking Your Spanish for the Family. We are pleased to announce that from January we will also organise lunch time courses from 12pm to 1.30pm on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays (see the flyer).

Furthermore, our courses for the family (parents and kids from 8 to 11 years old) will be at lunch time on Sundays. At every session, two new tapas will drive you and your best classmate through the language of Cervantes and Rafa Nadal. Learning together – what an experience! Have a look at our website and book the Sundays that suits you better.

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Open days Join us at anytime from 12pm to 8.30 pm on 17 December or 7 January– your glass of sangría is waiting!

Registration is already open for our winter term – have a look at our flyer and DON’T FORGET our party on 23 January – book your free place soon to avoid disappointment!

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1. Who played the title character in The Runaway Bride, the 2006 Doctor Who Christmas special?

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6. According to the lyrics of the song Frosty The Snowman, what part of Frosty’s face was made from a button or buttons? His eyes, his nose or his mouth?

7. Over a number of years, who received a 50 pence piece, a toothpick and a tissue as Christmas presents from Mr and Mrs Dursley?

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Seasonal recipe Ginger christmas puddings

These fruity mini puds flavoured with stem ginger are much lighter than a traditional rich Christmas pudding and don’t need to be made weeks in advance.

Makes 6 Ready in 1 hour 30 minutes 175g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing 175g self-raising flour ½ tsp baking powder 175g light muscovado sugar 1 tsp each ground mixed spice and ground ginger 3 large eggs 100g dried mixed fruit 50g glace cherries, chopped 50g stem ginger, finely chopped 4 tbsp stem ginger syrup Softly whipped cream or brandy butter, to serve 1 Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas Mark 5. Butter six small pudding basins (each about 200ml capacity) and

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line the bases with circles of baking parchment.

2 Place the butter, flour, baking powder, sugar, spices and eggs in a large mixing bowl and beat together with an electric mixer for 1-2 minutes until pale and creamy. Fold in the dried mixed fruit and two-thirds of the cherries and stem ginger.

3 Divide the mixture evenly between the prepared pudding basins then cover each basin with a circle of greased and pleated baking parchment and secure with string. Cover each basin with pleated foil.

4 Stand the basins in a roasting tin and pour in enough boiling water to come halfway up the sides of the basins. Bake for 45-50 minutes, or until risen, firm to the touch and a skewer inserted into a pudding comes out clean.

5 Leave the puddings to stand for 10 minutes then turn out onto serving plates. Mix the remaining cherries and ginger with the stem ginger syrup and spoon over the puddings. Serve with cream or brandy butter.

Tip For a boozy flavour, gently heat the stem ginger syrup with 1-2 tbsp of rum or brandy then pour over the hot puds just before serving.

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Be the one to book group holidays – you could be given a discount or even a whole holiday for free for yourself.

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Pay yourself first Set up a standing order from your current account to a savings account on the day after your wages are paid. That way it’s like you never had the money in the first place, so now it’s tucked away earning interest in your savings account and you won’t miss it.

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Set up a bad habits box It could be a swear box or a chocolate, fast food or crisps box. Whatever your secret, or not so secret, naughtiness is, fine yourself something when you indulge.

Come up with an amount that suits you – 10p or £1 – and stick it in the bad habits box. Putting the money in the box each time you succumb will help you kick the habit so you can save money and help yourself lose weight at the same time.

Start your own in-house Laundromat Put a jar next to your washing machine (and dryer if you have one) and ‘charge’ yourself every time you use it.

Again, it’s up to you how much you charge but after a few months you should have a decent amount to pour into your savings account.

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Big Band Flip your wig at Kingswood this Christmas with our swinging party night. Put on your stompers and grab your doll dizzy and we’ll see you at the Bar!

Friday 20th December 2013 7.15pm Champagne Reception & Close-Up Entertainer 8pm Three Course Dinner & Live Entertainment by Swing Band “Art Deco”

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The remainder of the bill will need to be settled no less than 2 weeks prior to the event.

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The Better Life The Jolly and the Lively by Derek Thompson

In our village the festive season starts early - though not as early as in some shops. At the beginning of December two trees are set up and festooned with lights. Our Festive Fayre (I’m still not sure why it’s spelt that way) is timed to allow for the vagaries of Royal Mail, and is an event both communal and competitive.

lowered the tone - visually and audibly.

In my book, winter is a time for thanksgiving, planning next year’s garden and reflection. We check the antifrost fleece around the penstamon, passionflower and mesembryanthemum (try saying all that after a festive glass of port), and also take vulnerable plants and the dahlia bulbs indoors if things become chilly. One lesson we learned the hard way was not to have brussel sprouts and jerusalem artichokes together at the Christmas table. Let’s just leave it at that. Merry Christmas!

Derek Thompson is a writer and humourist based in the West Country.His writing blog can be found at www. alongthewritelines.blogspot.com and he is also a regular at www.strictlywriting.blogspot.com

Alliances and feuds are renewed like wedding vows, with a mixture of enthusiasm and ceremony. Table spaces are as hotly contested as parking spaces, and as arbitrarily assigned by the committee. Stalls include a lot of handicrafts and self-sufficiency - woodturning, preserves, knitwear, cakes, beading and, of course, a profusion of plants and produce, which are silently - and sometimes not so silently - critiqued by villagers and visitors taking a turn.

Still, by the time the mulled wine and mince pies start to circulate, there’s a rosy glow of one kind or another and peace is restored - at least until the village quiz that evening.

Meantime, the raffle is a perfect example of recycling. Some residents on receiving their prizes must immediately plot to gift-wrap them for the following year. This explains the skin lotion we won that was five years past its best before date.

Cometh the hour, cometh the quiz. Few villagers let me forget my first quiz, where, having only recently swapped my townie sensibilities for a straw hat, I’d never heard of need to find a way to relax? potato chitting. Or that I insisted bananas are herbs (look looking for a way to start exercising? it up if you don’t believe me), so technically it’s a fruit and why not try yoga? herb salad. Many of the quiz questions are horticultural, so tough luck if you’re not up to speed in the garden.

Teams can be mixed but are generally based on: family ties, thursday 8pm to 9:30pm neighbourly proximity, previous success, or arriving late and fitting in where you can. It all begins jovially although once £10 drop in the rhubarb wine and other homemade concoctions kick in it can become a little heated and heckly. The difference £45 for 5 classes*, £80 for 10 classes* between pictures of begonias and pelargoniums has never *conditions apply mattered more.

By the time people roll out of the village hall, singing elmcroft community centre songs of joy as they go, the Christmas trees are at their twinkliest. Just as well because we only have two street london road, north cheam lamps in the village. Closer to Christmas Day there is also a surrey, SM3 9AB candlelit procession to the chapel, with a host of glowing (next to Sainsbury’s) jam jars lighting the way. One year someone dressed up as a snowman, but it unnerved the children - and one elderly resident.

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can try our project of the month Cost: £5 per session The Worcester Park Dramatic Society Lynne Singer 020 8330 3590 or is a local amateur drama group of Toni Shepherd 07900 006367 long standing. We stage two major productions a year at the Adrian Mann Theatre in Ewell, in April and Keep Fit Stay Fit every Wednesday 10.15November. We meet every Tuesday 11.15am at Christ Church with St Philip, and most Fridays at 8.15 pm in the Ruskin Road. Come along and give it a try !

Elmcroft Community Centre in North For more information please call Jo Hamilton Cheam, on the Sainsbury’s site. Apart on from play readings, rehearsals and 020 8786 3444. set construction, we have quiz nights The Probus Club of Ewell and various social events. We also Coming up to retirement? Just retired? arrange group outings to amateur Looking to make new friends? Why not and professional theatre productions. join the Probus Club of Ewell? Since it was We welcome new members to help founded 41 years ago, the Probus Club of us stage future productions, anyone Ewell has been attracting businessmen willing to act or work backstage. from Worcester Park and its surrounding If interested, please contact our areas with a broad range of professional membership secretary, Joyce Cranfield, and business backgrounds. We meet on on 020 8337 3317. the first Wednesday of each month, usually “Lunch Break” - a friendly lunch club at Bourne Hall in Ewell Village, for a Lunch for those retired, meeting on a Tuesday followed by a Speaker. In addition to two 12-2pm (term time only) at Worcester Ladies Lunches during the year, there is an Park Baptist Church, The Avenue - free, active social programme for members and but donations invited. Occasional their partners with visits to places of interest speakers. Contact Brian on 020 8224 and West End Shows. If you would like to 6675 or Rowena 07837 941298 know more, please telephone our secretary, NHS Retirement Fellowship- Local Ken Amess, on 020 8337 6241 or visit our Branch Are you retired or about to website: www.ewell-probus.org.uk retire from the NHS? Why not join us on the 1st Tuesday of every month from 10am -12 at Christ Church Hall, Christ East Surrey Family History Society Church Road, Surbiton, KT5 8JJ. We have For those who are interested in finding out speakers, activities, coffee & chat.Other how to investigate their family history the outings & activities are also arranged Sutton Branch of the East Surrey Family during the month. For further details History Society holds meetings on the first please contact Lorna on 020 8337 4121.

Thursday of the month at St Nicholas Church Worcester Park Crafters Hall, Robin Hood Lane. Most months we We meet on the first Tuesday of each have a professional speaker. month in the hall at Christchurch Further details of all our branch meetings, with St Philip, Ruskin Drive, Worcester can be found at Our award winning website park,KT4 8LG. We meet from 7.30pm www.esfhs.org.uk to 9.30pm. For further details please 60+ Social Mixed Single Group We meet in contact Lynne by E mail: lynnesinger@ a local pub every Thursday where we discuss msn.com or phone on:020 8330 5903 outings for the weekends such as meal out, Our aim is to provide a meeting/crafting walking, theatre trips, cinemas and many place for all crafters whatever their craft other things. If you would like to join us or ability. Either bring your own work please ring Maureen: 07761278661. or purchase our kit of the month (small Kingston Phoenix Road Club is a cycling materials cost usually £2), come and club that meets at 8-30pm every Thursday play and chat. (small cost to over hall at Worcester Park Athlete Club, Green Lane, hire and insurance approx £4) Worcester Park. The club was founded in Craft group - We meet at Christ Church 1936 and currently has a membership of 70. with St Philip Ruskin Drive on the first We cater for riders of all ages whether they TUESDAY of the month from 7.30are novices or experienced and our oldest 9.30pm rider is 84 years old who is still racing and A place where all crafters whatever their holds several national age related records. craft or ability can meet, craft, share Malden Emergency First Aid Society ideas and learn from each other. Feel (MEFAS) members meet every Thursday free to bring your own projects or you Please remember to mention Worcester Park Life when you speak to our advertisers

Do you enjoy listening to show tunes, big band music, jazz, light classics etc?

Come along to an evening of live music played by top artistes. We meet on the second Monday of each month at our Banstead venue Banstead Organ & Keyboard Club Church Institute Hall, High Street, Banstead SM7 2NN 9th December – Elizabeth Harrison Doors open 7pm for 7:30pm start.

(Visitors £7) Visitors & new members are always welcome to our concerts. Further details from 020 8330 5795, or visit www. bansteadorganclub.co.uk Worcester Parkers Women’s Institute meet on the 3rd Monday of every month 7.45pm to 9.45pm at Christchurch with St Philip Church Hall in Ruskin Drive, Worcester Park. For more information contact Dawn Penn 0208 337 4361 Email dawn.wicontact@gmail.com Cheam Common Art Group Small friendly Art Group who meet at CHRIST CHURCH with ST PHILIP Ruskin Road, Worcester Park on Monday evenings 7.30 – 9.30 p.m.

Welcome new members just to draw and paint in any medium without tuition.

If interested come down for an evening and meet us to see whether this is for you Phone Contact: Brenda Banks 020 8330 0928 Worcester Park Over 60’s Welcome Club meet every Monday from 1pm to 3pm at Christ Church with St Philip Church Hall in Ruskin Drive. Worcester Park.

All over 60’s welcome to join us for a cup of tea and a biscuit or two, plus some outstanding entertainment in the way of singers and musicians. One Monday a month we have Bingo and every Monday we run a raffle. Days outings to the coast are organised throughout the summer months, and mid week holidays are organised two or three times a year.

Come a little earlier and meet up with some friends and have a chat before the entertainment starts. We would love to see you. Contact Joyce on 020 8330 5065.

The ladies After Eight Club meet on the 2nd Monday of every month from 8pm onwards at Christchurch with St Philips church hall. We have interesting speakers, outings and dinners and all are welcome for a small subscription to cover our costs.

Just come along and join in.

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Bartlett House Luncheon Club is a welcoming social club for the retired from work but not from life! Bartlett house, 49-51 The Avenue, Worcester Park,KT4 7HU Catch up with friends every Friday 11am-4pm This fun and friendly club is not for profit ensuring prices are kept to a minimum so it won’t cost the earth!

New members welcome. Transport may be available. Contact us on 01372 720563 or 07807443156 Quest was set up in 1987 to provide a meeting place for people with physical disabilities between the ages of 20 - 60. However, once a member there is no age cut off. The aim of the club is to provide a welcoming, caring atmosphere for the members and allow the carers to have a regular break. Annual subscription. and £2.50 for lunch. We have various social activities and every second month we have a speaker, outings can be arranged if enough people wish to go. The venue is St. Philip Hall, Christchurch with St. Philip, Ruskin Drive, Worcester Park. We meet the 2nd and 4th Fridays in the month from 12.45 to 4p.m Contact June Day, Club Secretary, on 02083301220 RSPB Epsom And Ewell Local Group We meet the 2nd Friday of every month at 7.30, apart from July and August, at All Saints Church Hall Fulford Road, West Ewell with guest speakers who illustrate their enthusiasm on a variety of natural history subjects. There is a small charge for non-members of the RSPB. If you would like more information, please look at our website, www.rspb.org.uk/groups/epsom

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Auriol Bowling Club was established in 1967, and plays on the 6-rink bowling green attached to the pavilion in Auriol Park, Salisbury Road, Worcester Park. It is a mixed club of around 45 men and 25 women, who play outdoors from April to September, with a busy fixture list of league and friendly matches against other clubs, as well as internal club competitions. For further information please contact the club Secretary, David Regan, on 020 8337 8919 or visit the website at www.auriolbowlingclub. com.

Cuddington Bowling Club will always welcome new members. The club is situated in Sandringham Road, Worcester Park and we play on an excellent 6 rink green that has been acclaimed by many of the club’s visitors this year. We are a mixed club with about 60 members and play a range of friendly and league fixtures catering for all abilities. For further information, please contact our Secretary Mike Ridley 02087158326 or our Treasurer Mark Broughton 02083379699.

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Dance December 13th CALL 07903 314276 National Trust - Epsom, Ewell and District Supporters GroupFormed in 1971, we run a varied programme of social eventswhich includes Evening Lectures at Bourne Hall in Ewell, once a month from Oct. to June, Coach Outings which visit historichouses and gardens(not necessarily N.T.),Guided London Walks, and other trips to London e.g.The Magic Circle, The Royal Opera House (backstage tour).Other special events include Coffee Mornings, Holidays and Christmas Lunch.

Newsletters are produced four times a year.If you would like more information please visit our website: www.epsom-ewell-district-nt.co.uk or telephone Paul on 020 87158486 Malden Manor Bowls Club Where: Manor Park, Malden Road.

New members will be made very welcome. Roll ups, league matches, internal and external competition; we offer bowling for all levels of interest and ability. Contact Men’s Secretary John: 020 8337 0084 or Ladies Secretary Pat: 020 8544 9704 Cheam High School.

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Wheezy? Breathless? you are not alone, come and join us at your local friendly support & information group for anyone affected by a lung condition.We meet between 2 - 4 pm on the 3rd. Thursday of every month at St Bedes Conference Centre, St Anthony’s Hospital, London Road, North Cheam. For more information please contact George on 0208 647 7530 Thursday Fellowship. Every Thursday at 2.30pm for men and women, finishing with a cup of tea and biscuits or cakes. A lively, friendly meeting at Worcester Park Baptist church in The Avenue.

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Fruit Planting

by Pippa Greenwood

The garden may be quieter than usual at this time of year, and certainly not likely to be yielding vast quantities of crops, but this near dormant time is perfect for planting fruit.

You can grow fruit trees in surprisingly small spaces, training them to espaliers (so that they have several sets of horizontal arms), cordons (as single main stems grown at an angle), fans (with their branches trained in to a fan shape) or as step-overs, (trained so that they make a neat edging for a bed or border about 45cm or so above ground level). You could also use a fruit tree to create a decorative and later a wonderfully productive arch. At this time of year fruit trees are great value because they are sold ‘bare root’, lifted from a field and not container grown.

I find these establish particularly well and because you usually obtain them from a specialist supplier or nursery, the range of varieties available is second to none. You can either buy one year old ‘maidens’ and train these yourself, or if you want to save time, you can often buy trained or part trained forms.

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When you are choosing fruit trees it’s essential to get them on the right rootstock as this determines the ultimate size and vigour of the tree. Apples are particularly complicated, but as a rule, for step-overs, cordons, dwarf bushes and trees in containers try the extremely dwarfing but somewhat tricky M27 but beware weak varieties or any tree grown on this rootstock in a poor soil as it may well fail. For bush, cordon, espaliers and half-standard try the easier to look after dwarfing rootstock M26 and for a cordon or espalier on a poor soil, for arches and for bush trees try the semi-dwarfing MM106.

You will need to choose the varieties you grow so that they can pollinate each other (if there is no suitable pollinator in the vicinity you will not get fruit) and on the basis of the taste and texture of the fruit and how well it stores and so forth. If you have space, it is good to grow apples for cooking as well as eating, or look out for those described as ‘dual purpose’, meaning they make very passable cookers as well as dessert apples.

As well as tree fruits such as apples, pears and maybe even a medlar or a plum or gorgeous gage, you could also consider some delicious bush fruits. The great thing about these is that they take up even less space and again can often be trained into wacky shapes such as fan-trained or standard bushes, making them all the more ornamental and easier to fit into the smaller garden. Then there are raspberries - on my rather heavy and very alkaline soil I tend to stick to the autumn fruiting varieties such as Autumn Bliss and Joan J, but on freer draining and acidic soils you can try some of the more numerous summer fruiters too.

Bare root fruit trees, bushes and canes are generally available from about November through until early March, depending on the weather, so don’t delay, start ordering or better still, planting, today.

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Voice for Wildlife

by Carol Williams Many different animals seem to be associated with Christmas - snowy scenes with robins, foxes, deer, owls etc, cute scenes of mice posting cards, cats and dogs wearing Santa hats, roasted birds on festive tables, Nativity tableaux with animals around the manger and so forth.

Therefore, this month, I thought I’d write a bit about 3 of them.

Turkeys It is thought that the name for the domesticated version of the wild turkey is a mistake, a confusion with some Southern Mexican subspecies imported into Europe on ships that passed through Turkey.

Be that as it may, it was first domesticated around 2000 years ago by the indigenous tribes of Mesoamerica.

The preferred habitat for turkeys, which are native to North America and Canada, is forest. They like a mix of hardwood and coniferous, with scattered open spaces. They are omnivorous and forage on the ground or in small trees and climbing shrubs where they will eat a variety of grasses, acorns, nuts, seeds and berries, insects, amphibians and small reptiles such as lizards and snakes.

They will also visit garden feeders, as wild birds do here.

Imagine seeing a turkey perched in the lower branches of your apple tree!

Male turkeys , which are called toms in the US and stags in the UK (?!), are polygamous, mating with as many hens as they can. They display to females by spreading out their tails and dragging their wings, a behaviour often called ‘strutting’. Their heads and necks are brilliantly coloured in blue, red and white, with white being the sign of the greatest excitement. They use gobbling, drumming/ booming and spitting to signal social dominance and to attract females.

Having seen the living conditions for most domesticated turkeys bred for the table, I realise that none of the natural behaviours I have briefly outlined here are possible for any of them. Probably few of us have ever seen a live turkey.

There are reckoned to be about 7 million in the wild today.

Donkeys Mary riding on a donkey, Joseph beside her, slowly travelling to Bethlehem. Little donkey on a dusty road.

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there at his birth and also just before his death, according to the bible accounts.

The ancestors of the modern domesticated donkey are the Nubian and Somalian sub species of African Wild Ass. There are now only 2 species of wild ass left in the world, and both are critically endangered, whereas there are over 40 million domesticated donkeys. The European ass became extinct during the Stone Age and the North African wild ass died out in Roman times.

Donkeys have been used as working animals for over 5000 years. They were first brought to the Americas in 1495 on the ships of Christopher Columbus.

Donkeys have tough and efficient digestive systems and so thrive on poor quality scrub. In temperate climates, which are not their native habitat, forage can be too abundant and donkeys may grow fat from overeating and suffer metabolic disorders. Others who are the livelihood animals of the very poor suffer from insufficient food and overwork.

In the Dynasty IV era of Egypt, between 2675 and 2565 BC, wealthy members of society were known to own over 1000 donkeys for meat and dairy, and as pack animals.

Today, China has the most donkeys, with around 11 million, closely followed by Pakistan, Ethiopia and Mexico..

The behaviour most commonly associated with donkeys is stubbornness, but this is to misunderstand them. They are more alert to danger than horses are and so a lot more cautious; this makes them seem less biddable, when, in fact, they are merely instincitively careful about going forward into possible threats to their survival.

The male is called a jack and the female a jenny or jennet.

Pigs.

I read the book ‘Angela’s Ashes’ a while ago, and in there, the xmas feast for a very poor family was a boiled pig’s head. I imagine they considered themselves very lucky to have even that.

The ancestor of all domestic pigs is the Wild Boar which actually became extinct in Britain in the Middle Ages, through hunting. But after an absence of about 700

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years, they are back, in 2 thriving populations in English woodlands. They have re-established after escapes from wild boar farms which began to grow in popularity here in the 1980s and there are now 300 or more of them living wild again.

Normally they are wary of humans and active during early mornings and after dusk. Adult males are solitary but females and youngsters live in groups of about 20 individuals, called sounders.

Boar are omnivorous scavengers with strong rooting instincts, so, like moles, not very welcome in pastures and on bowling green lawns... Hoglets develop this behaviour at about 2 weeks old, eating worms and grubs they find in the soil and leaf litter of the forest floor. Because of their attractive stripey coats, which are for camouflage in dappled shade, wild boar piglets are sometimes called ‘humbugs’.

You might think of this when you unwrap that tin of mint humbugs from your stocking this year...

But to end this wild ramble, I wish you season’s greetings as you head off on your donkey to the Boar’s Head for your turkey dinner! This year I am looking forward to preparing a huge vegan banquet, my very first, and the only turkey I have ‘bought’ is a live one, on the Adoption list from a farm animal sanctuary.

Peace on earth and goodwill to everyone everywhere and may Santa bring you all you desire.

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Tuesday

Toddling2Church, Christ Church with St Philip 2-3pm Parents, carers and pre-school children are all welcome to join us for songs with percussion instruments, a Bible story simply and sensitively told, a story-related craft activity and, of course, drinks and biscuits.

Wednesday

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Christ Church with St Philip Parent and Toddler Group 9.30 until 11.15am - see Monday Worcester Park Baptist Church 9.30-11.30- see Monday. we have vacancies on a Wednesday

Friday

Worcester Park Baptist Church 9.30-11.30- a lively toddler group, where carers of any kind are welcome to attend and supervise their youngsters. Our age range is from young babies to 3-4 years. Sarah on 020 8393 7299 or email via the church’s website www.wpbc.org.uk Christ Church with St Philip Parent and Toddler Group is a very welcoming and relaxed place to meet new friends for yourself and your toddlers. We are open to all Mums, Dads, Grandparents and Carers. We meet in the Church Hall on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9.30 until 11.15am during term time

Christ Church with St Philip Parent and Toddler Group 9.30 until 11.15am - see Monday

Saturday

Men behaving Dadly, Grace Church - every 3rd Saturday of the month, 9.30 to 11 am, at Green Lane Primary School. For Dads and their pre-school children (0-4). The kids get to play with the toys, the Dads get a bacon roll and coffee, and Mums might possibly get a lie-in... £3 on the door. For more information & contact details, www.gracechurchworcesterpark.org Old Malden Library (Church Road, Worcester Park) Tuesdays, 10.30-11am, Rhyme time aimed at age 0-3 Tuesdays, 2.30-3pm, Story time aimed at age 3+

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What’s on Worcester Park High Street Christmas Extravaganza Friday 6th December - see the advert on page 7

Christmas Extravaganza

Great range of gift & present stalls 1st Cuddington (Warspite) Sea Scout Group, Fancourt Hall, Cunliffe Road, Stoneleigh, KT19 0RJ Saturday 7th December 2013 Admission to the Extravaganza 20p 11.00 a.m. – 2.00p.m.

Real Christmas Trees on sale From 9.00 a.m. till 3.00 p.m.

St Raphaels Fundraising

Please support St Raphael’s Hospice. Here are some of the events taking place in the next few months. For a full list of events as they are available please visit our website straphaels.org.uk 29th Jan 2014 & 12th March 14 – Quiz Evenings @ St Bede’s conference centre (behind the hospice). Table of 8: £72. For more details/book please call: Bob Waters: 020 8337 3134 or Diana 020 8641 3540 Sunday 23rd March 14 - St Raphael’s Hospice Tandem Skydive.

Don’t miss the experience of a lifetime! A chance to join a group – the ultimate adventure! Minimum sponsorship £395.

For more details contact: Kerry Thomas T: 020 8254 2465, email: Kerry.thomas@straphaelshospice.org.uk Sunday 10th Aug 14 - Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100, starting at the Olympic Park in London and finishing at The Mall. We have guaranteed places available. Minimum sponsorship of £450. For an application form contact: Kerry Thomas T: 020 8254 2465, email: Kerry.thomas@ straphaelshospice.org.uk

Local Markets

Craft & Gift Fair

Saturday 14th December.

10:30 - 4:00, Trinity Hall, Hill Road, Sutton (next to Wetherspoons) A great choice of handmade and unusual gift ideas for all.

Handcrafted glass, handmade dollshouse miniatures, local

The Picture Frame Warehouse FOr all your framing needs 41 burlington Road, new malden, surrey, kt3 4lp

Cheam Village Friday Market Small indoor market with 28 stalls held in Cheam Parochial Rooms, The Broadway, Cheam Village, Surrey.

Helping the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Market Days: Friday North Cheam Farmers’ Market – 3rd Saturday of every month, 9.30am-1.30pm, North Cheam Crossroads outside the Post Office, KT4 8SG. Christmas Market: Saturday 21st December Worcester Park Local Produce and Craft Market –,Sun 1st December, 10am-4pm, Central Road Sutton Local Produce and Craft Market, Sat 30th November, 10am-4pm, Town Square, Sutton High Street New Malden Farmer’s Market 1st Saturday of the month Georges Square (by New Malden Train Station) 9am to 2pm Surbiton Farmers Market Maple Road 3rd Saturday of the month 9am-1pm

Nonsuch News

BBC2 has a season on Tudor history; the V & A has an exhibition of Tudor Art and Buckingham Palace is showing portraits exploring Tudor fashion. The local resident, however, does not need to travel to London to appreciate some of Tudor history. An amazing model of the original Nonsuch Palace, built by Henry VIII to celebrate the birth of his son Edward – so important to the Tudor dynasty – is on view every every Sunday in the winter 11 – 2 p.m in the Gallery of the Mansion, Service Wing entrance, Nonsuch Park. The site is marked on the Northern side of the Park by three tall pillars which now stand as the only physical evidence of this amazing building. They are as three sentries guarding a bygone age.

In addition, a unique and important collection of stained glass amassed by Samuel Farmer, owner of the present Mansion in the early 1800’s, features one particular panel commemorating the marriage of Jane Seymour to Henry VIII – only 11 days after the execution of Anne Boleyn! These are just a few of the treasures on view in the Nonsuch Mansion Service Wing Museum open on 2nd & 4th Sundays in the month (9th and 23rd) 2 – 5 p.m. Combined entry to Gallery & Museum £3.00, Concessions £2.00. Friends of Nonsuch Members & Children under 16 free. Entry only to Gallery £2.50. Last entry 4.30 p.m. www.friendsofnonsuch.co.uk”

“National media focus on the Tudors/local interest in Tudor history on our doorstep in Nonsuch Park.

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produce, natural handmade toiletries, cards, jewellery, scarves, bags, hand knitted hats and much more. Give your friends and family a treat this Christmas and support small, local businesses!

Bourne Hall Museum Kids Victorian Christmas Saturday 14 December 1pm - 2.30pm

Go back to a time before Father Christmas wore red and celebrate Christmas with Queen Victoria and her family. Discover which traditions were brought to England by Prince Albert and are now firmly part Expert local care of our modern-day festivities. Find out if Victoria sent any Christmas cards or enjoyed eating roast turkey on Christmas day. Decide if you think if Queen Victoria was amused by all the pine needles dropping from the Christmas tree onto the carpet.

Epsom Playhouse,

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Chris Dean’s Syd Lawrence Orchestra 3 December 2013 8pm - Need some relief from today’s economic gloom and doom? Once again, Chris Dean’s Syd Lawrence Orchestra have struck gold bringing you a robustly enjoyable evening of tuneful entertainment.

Catch this humdinger of a night, sprightly and joyous but remarkably Warm-hearted. These musicians are sure to please long time fans of Big Band music while staking out their own territory.

Remember When at Christmas 4 December 2013 2.30pm Start Christmas in Style with this delightful and unforgettable festive trip down memory lane back to a time when Christmas really was so special. We can all be dreaming of a White Christmas and watching Chestnuts Roasting on an open fire, with Neil Sands and his brilliant cast of West End performers who will have you singing along to all your festive favourites.

The Fabulous Shadows with Jimmy Jemain 5 December 2013 8pm The Fabulous Shadows together with Jimmy Jemain will bring you all of Cliff’s hits from 1958 including Move It, Living Doll, The Young Ones, Summer Holiday with The Shadows classic hits Apache, Wonderful Land and Kon Tiki Jeremy Hardy 6 December 2013 8pm Jeremy Hardy has been a stand-up comic since 1984 and will be one until he dies or wins the lottery. Jeremy is best known for his work on Radio 4, notably News Quiz, I’m Sorry I Haven’t Got A clue and Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation. In 2010, he published a book, My Family and Other Strangers, chronicling his desperate search for interesting ancestors.

Santa Claus & The Christmas Adventure 6 Dec 2013 - 24 Dec 2013 times vary Do you believe in Santa Claus? Well if you do, head down to the Epsom Playhouse for this fun filled show in the

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Peter Pan 13 Dec 2013 - 5 Jan 2014 times vary The fabulous annual pantomime starring children’s TV star Martin Clark and Mark Sell as Captain Hook. Peter Pan is the boy who never grew up. Befriended by the Darling family, and with the help of the fairy, Tinkerbell, he takes them on a magical flight to Never Never Land, where Peter and his gang of runaways battle the evil Captain Hook

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KING GEORGE FIELD INDOOR BOWLS CLUB

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Christmas Services in Worcester Park

St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church

201 Cheam Common Road, Worcester Park www. saintmatthias.co.uk Wednesday 18th December 7.30pm Family Carol Concert led by the Choir of Richard Challoner School Tuesday 24th December CHRISTMAS EVE First Masses of Christmas 4.00pm: Children’s Mass with Fr. Kevan Mass: 7.00pm (carols) ‘Midnight Mass’ now at 10.00pm Carols will be sung from 9.30pm Wednesday 25th December CHRISTMAS DAY Mass:7.30am - quiet Mass, no homily or carols.

Mass:9.30am (carols) Mass:11.15am (carols) There is no evening Mass today Saturday 28th December 2013 Mass:11.30am Mass:6.30pm First Mass of Sunday Sunday 29th December The Holy Family Masses at 9.30am, 11.15am and 5.30pm Wednesday 1st January 2014 The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God Mass:10am

St John’s, Old Malden

Church Road www.stjohnthebaptistmalden.org.uk 22 December 18.30 Nine Lessons and Carols 24 December 15.00 Children’s Crib Service 23.30 Midnight Communion 25 December 8.00 Said Eucharist 9.45 Sung Eucharist

Christ Church with St Philip

Corner of Cheam Common Road & Ruskin Drive www.xcsp.org.uk Sunday 22nd December 6.30pm Carol Service Rev Paul Timmis Christmas Eve 4.00pm Crib Service Rev Paul Timmis Christmas Eve 5.30pm Crib Service Rev Charlotte Elvey Christmas Eve 8.00pm Carols by Candlelight Rev Carol Rowles Christmas Eve 11.30pm Midnight Communion Rev Carol Rowles and Rev Charlotte Elvey Christmas Day 8.00am Eucharist Rev Charlotte Elvey Christmas Day 10.00am Christmas Morning Worship Rev Charlotte Elvey and Rev Carol Rowles

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Worcester Park Baptist Church

The Avenue, Worcester Park www.wpbc.org.uk Sunday 15th December Nativity Service for 0-11 year olds 4.00pm Wednesday 18th December ‘Carols for Commuters’ on the green outside the church from 6.00pm with mince pies and drinks Sunday 22nd December ‘Carols by Candlelight’ 6.30pm (followed by coffee and mince pies) CHRISTMAS DAY – Service for all the family 9.30am – 10.15am (Children are invited to bring one of their presents to show)

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Safer Neighbourhoods The ‘Bank Courier Scam’

by PCSO Gary Weaving

Detectives in Sutton are asking residents to help protect their elderly and vulnerable neighbours against the ‘bank courier scam’ following 29 reports to police over the last three weeks.

The scam involves residents receiving a telephone call from someone pretending to be from their bank, the police or the Serious Fraud Office.

The caller will say there is problem with their bank card. They will ask the resident for their bank details and PIN - and will arrange to collect the card by courier, such as a local cab or taxi firm. The tricksters’ purpose is to steal cash and savings.

Such calls are a scam because these organisations would never ask for bank details. Banks would have this information already and would never ask for old cards to be returned.

One of the most recent cases reported to police was a 74-year-old woman, who was tricked out of £2,940 after she received a phone call at her Sutton home on Friday, 8 November at 5.20pm.

She was told her bank account had been used fraudulently to purchase two computers. She put the phone down and immediately called her local Safer Neighbourhoods Team - not realising that she hadn’t allowed time for the telephone line to clear - and unwittingly found herself talking to the original caller who had deliberately stayed on the line. She then spoke to someone who was pretending to a police officer who stated her card had been used fraudulently.

The resident was asked to confirm her PIN using the telephone keypad - again not realising that the sounds made for each digit can be decoded to obtain the number.

She was instructed to wrap her card and the £140 cash she had at home in a toilet roll, put it in a plastic bag, and wrap sticky tape around the back to disguise its contents. A courier then arrived to collect the package.

The following morning - Saturday, 9 November - she received a call from a man pretending to be a police officer. She was asked to withdraw £4,000 because her bank was being investigated for counterfeit currency - and they needed to check the notes. She agreed to withdraw £2,500. She was asked not to speak to her bank about this as it might be involved in the counterfeit racket.

The resident withdrew £2,500, which she wrapped up as the previous parcel, which was collected by courier.

She found out later that her card had been used to withdraw £300.

Detective Inspector Sarah Rees, who leads Sutton CID team, said all the reports were being investigated. “The perpetrators are cruel and heartless individuals who set out to trick and confuse people who are elderly and vulnerable. We want residents to talk to their elderly neighbours and make them aware of this scam so they don’t get tricked out of their money.”

Crime prevention advice from police includes: - Don’t reveal your bank details including PIN to anyone - banks will already have these details and will never ask for your old card back - Don’t give your bank cards to strangers whatever reason they may give you to part with them - If a caller asks for your card and PIN, hang up - When you hang up, use a different line to report it to police on 101 or allow at least five minutes for the line to automatically clear - If a courier is already coming around to your home call police on 999 immediately.

In Sutton, officers have had crime prevention roadshows in High Street locations, given talks to local groups, visited residents in sheltered accommodation and undertaken door-to-door visits to raise crime prevention advice. These initiatives will continue. Police are also working with Sutton Council’s carer’s network, the Meals on Wheels Service, Age UK, Sutton Council for Voluntary Services and Neighbourhood Watch to raise awareness of the scam.

Many thousands of residents have fallen victim to this scam across London and around the country. In London, the average loss has been £4,000 each time.

Take care everyone and look after each other this Christmas and all through 2014.

Thank you.

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DGAS 19

Beauty

Glitz’n’Glamour Lisa’s Body Shaping

Care

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Abbeyfield Wendover House 52 Classic Home Care 13 Nail Cutting 6 SureCare 13 True Blue Nurses 54

Car hire, maintenance & repair Elmwood Vehicles 39 K&P Tyres 10 Shelly Motors 45

Carpets & Flooring Carpets 4 U

Cleaning services

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Bits and Bobs

44 GES Clean 14 Lions of London 25 Ovenclean 18 Ovens’n’stuff 61 Time 4 You 15 Computing Megabyte 19

Counsellling & Hypnotherapy

Brett Hinson Hypnotherapy Stella Warriner Counselling

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Merton Education The Study School Westbury House

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Education & classes

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Events

North Cheam Farmer’s Market Worcester Park Christmas Shopping Extravaganda

Food & Drink

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The Brook 64 Kingswood Golf Club 32 Nicky’s 27 North Cheam Social Club 11

Funeral Directors Evershed Brothers

Home, gardening, decorating

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Andy Reeve Plumber Bathroom Refurbishment Dreamdoors Kitchens PPS Plumbing Suplies Smith & Byford

AMS Optician 47 R Woodfall 56

Picture Frames

Picture Frame Warehouse

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Fresh Printing

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Jackson Noon

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Printing

Property Repairs

Suddies 26

Shopping

Able2Build 50 Central Locksmiths 23 Cypress Gardening 16 Elegant Curtains 28 Greg Building Services 47 Mould Growth Consultants 17 PE Contractors 3 PBT Electrical 36 Robinson & Son painters & decorators 58 RJ Trees 40 SKC Electrical 24 TSD Building 5

Kitchens, bathroom & plumbing

Opticians

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Alexandras 48 Best Price Beds 41 Hamseys matresses 21 Tudor Williams 63 Unilet Sound & Vision 29

Sport and Leisure

Cycle Power 42 King George Indoor Bowls Club 57 Royal British Legion 57 Yoga 37 Walkfit 47

Windows

Cheam Windows 30 Kingsbridge Local 12 Warmlite 8

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MASSIVE pre-Christmas Ex-Display Clearance Event NOW ON Need new furniture in time for Christmas? FREE DELIVERY IN THE LOCAL AREA

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Alstons Essex Range 3-seater

£3.95 PER + Chair + Banquet Stool VISIT, WAS: £1947 INCLUDES A CLEARANCE PRICE: £1649 SPECIAL GIFT

Hereford Furniture Ascot solid oak 5’0 bedstead with Relyon Matisse mattress.

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These genuine bargains and doxens of others are available now in our Beds and Furniture department on the 2nd floor - but hurry, strictly while stocksone last!voucher per customer

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If you are a local, living in KT4 you can sign up to receive this privilege card in order to receive 20% off FOOD! Space still available for Christmas Parties, but call us soon!

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