Leading coach, motivational speaker and NLP trainer Jonathan Bowder is teaming up with Cancer research and Claremont Natural Healing Centre in order to deliver a very special event that may change your life, entitled 'Empowering Surbiton'. Jonathan will be delivering a powerful, fast moving and fun blend of motivational teaching and workshops, designed to equip attendees with advanced communication skills as well as allowing them to challenge and eradicate any unhelpful limiting beliefs that are holding them back.

Emergency services accused of heavy handed treatment to casualty in Tolworth.

As well as the Parade and Street Market, there will be lots to do at the YMCA . Take a break from the festivities and pop in for a coffee, snack , fresh salad or hot lunch. Eat in or take away.

Throughout the day there will be activities for the whole family - face painting, a rowing challenge and free physio/massage taster sessions. Upstairs in the gym, we are offering free fitness testing, including body fat analysis.

As always, you are welcome to come in and have a look around the Health & Fitness facilities. If you decide to join on Festival Saturday, you will receive a free month!

Open Day raising awareness on Parkinson's disease with information on latest research on the Parkinson's condition, demonstrations of speech recognition software, information on local service provision and tester session on reflexology, reiki, hand and shoulder massage plus free refreshments.

We bring local people interested in natural, organic & healthy living together with a wide variety of exhibitors offering everything from organically certified fruit & veg box schemes to fair trade goods and yet others that cater for allergy sufferers.

Tolworth Recreation Centre
Fullers Way North (just off A3)
Tolworth
KT6 7LQ

Visit the centre and learn more about our work, find out what it's like to be a volunteer.

Kingston Samaritans
12 St Andrews Rd
Surbiton

Times: slots at 9am, 11am, 1pm and 3pm

Costs: free

Contact: Simon
Telephone: 020 8399 6676
Website: www.samaritans.org/~kingston

Performance at Glenmore House raises awareness of diabetes.

A joint initiative by the Kingston Primary Care Trust with the Kingston Voluntary Group of Diabetes UK and the Pyramid Theatre enabled Shaun McGowan and Philippa Easton to perform 'All Shook Up', a humorous play about an overweight Elvis impersonator.

Read more in the Kingston Guardian...

Double-glazing installed four years ago considered 'harmful' to conservation area.

Bourne House nursing home in Langley Avenue faces a £150,000 bill to replace the uPVC windows.

Jag Grewa, managing director of London Residential Healthcare failed to get planning permission when he installed the new windows in 2002. He has until May to replace them with timber-framed alternatives as the building is in a conservation area with strict planning rules.

"I simply don't have the money to change 70 windows and where would the residents go? This is their home."

Read more in the
Surrey Comet...

Kingston Primary Care Trust will publish a document for debate with stakeholders this month.

A spokesman said, "The paper will look at the range of services and activities which might be put on the redeveloped site, and gives examples of innovative good practice in the delivery of some of these services."

A strategic outline with consultation will be produced by October 2006.

Read more in the Kingston Guardian...

A 45 year-old nurse from Surbiton in Surrey will come before the Nursing and Midwifery council to face charges of misconduct.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) will hear evidence and if found guilty (of misconduct), registered adult nurse Paul Jackson Duncan will be struck off the register and stopped from working as a nurses.

The PCC will hear that on July 22 2004, Duncan came before Horseferrys Magistrates Court charged making a total of fifteen indecent images of children under the age of sixteen. Duncan was also charged with possession of a total of 71 indecent images of children. For these offenses Duncan was convicted of these offensives and sentenced to six months imprisonment to run concurrently and required to sign the sex offender's register for a total of seven years.

Having failed to disclose a criminal conviction Raymond Onwuelo is found guilty of serious professional misconduct.

The GMC Fitness to Practice panel has ruled that his conduct "amounted to a serious departure from the standards of a registered medical practitioner" and has erased him from the register.

Read more in This is Local London...

Despite the massive petition delivered to the House of Commons last month, patients are being relocated next week with staff unsure of their futures.

Most of the Surbiton Hospital patients will be moved to Tolworth Hospital with a few being transferred to Hobkirk House in New Malden. Many nurses are still waiting to be informed of where they will be reposted to and a hospital porter is to be made redundant.

Read more in The Kingston Guardian and This Is Local London...

Doctor Raymond Onwuelo faces a charge of serious professional misconduct.

Having been appointed the position of Clinical Fellow in Anaesthetics at a Redhill hospital for several years, Raymond Onwuelo was brought before the General Medical Council last Monday after failing to disclose a £300 pound fine for shoplifting.

During the ongoing inquest Raleigh Drive resident Onwuelo, denies any wrong-doing.

Read more in icSurreyOnline...

A major campaign is launched by the Surrey Comet to pressure for public consultation.

The local newspaper asserts that the public must be involved in any plans to redevelop the site as the news has 'Horrified local people, many of whom have used the much-loved hospital for generations.'

Their website also has a petition which is available for download.

Visit the Surrey Comet's special campaign web page...

Hospital trust Chairman says maintaining the property is costing too much.

A meeting is taking place at the Kingston Primary Care Trust headquarters, Hollyfield Road 2.00pm today.
A decision will be made whether to move patients out, or patch the roof of the 67 year old hospital before the cold weather sets in.

Read more in This is London or download the PCT board meeting agenda (PDF)...