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WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESS THIS DECEMBER It’s tough out there in retail and hospitality, as well as in pretty much every other type of business. Our local economy and all our local businesses and charities rely on us all to help them survive, so this Christmas, please go to local gift fairs…

December is always a lovely time in Limpsfield and quite often we have had a little dusting of snow – usually not over Christmas itself, but you never know…! Here’s the low-down of what’s going on this festive month… Launch of The Limpsfield Home Company at Wickham’s Courtyard: Following the departure of the Potting Shed,…

This December, Love Oxted is continuing the Christmas festivities in Oxted with some live music on Saturday afternoons and much more besides!    Festive live music Saturdays: On 7th December, the fabulous “Sing it Out” ladies will be singing their hearts out to festive tunes from 1PM. Did you catch their Fairytale of Oxted last…

Santa, Rudolph and the Titsey Rotary Elves will be back in Oxted, Hurst Green and Limpsfield this month!  Starting on Monday 2 December, Santa Claus and Rudolph will be touring the streets, playing festive songs, distributing sweets to the children and collecting cash for the charities that Titsey Rotary Club supports. Santa will be putting…

The Club held its 46th Annual Charter Celebration with a lunch at Reigate Manor. In attendance was District Governor Lion Steve Carley who gave his usual spirited address complimenting the Club on its activities over the year. Various awards were made including the Lions’ highest honour, a Melvin Jones Fellowship, to Lion Tony Carter in…

With the overwhelmed NHS as it is today, it can be a truly frustrating and stressful experience trying to get seen by a doctor if you’re not feeling well or have a minor injury or pressing health concern. Towns like Oxted used to have cottage hospitals, which were a brilliant filter away from the main…

Staff, residents and families at Barchester’s Windmill Manor care home in Hurst Green marked Alzheimer’s Awareness Month which is took place throughout September by joining together to raise money and awareness for the Alzheimer’s Research UK  Alzheimer’s is a form of dementia, the loss of cognitive functioning – thinking, remembering, reasoning – which can affect…

Get Ready for a “Hoot” of a Halloween at Godstone Farm! The popular family farm park in the Surrey hills is encouraging young families to hold onto their broomsticks and embrace a spellbinding Halloween extravaganza like no udder! The farm is turning into a hauntingly happy haven this October, with a dairy-frightful line-up of activities…

A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Clem Burke is a true American rock legend, having played drums for US giants Blondie since 1975. Away from his time with Debbie Harry and co, which included an appearance on the Pyramid Stage at this year’s Glastonbury, Burke also plays drums for US rock…

The parade will march-off  from Oxted RBL on Church Lane at 08.45 for a service at St Mary’s Church at 09.15.  On completion, the parade will march-off from the church at 10.40 to be at the  Oxted Memorial (Master Park, bottom of Station Road West) in time for the  2-minute silence at 11.00.  There will…