Jellyfish, sharks, freezing water, and oil-spewing ships may be some of the obstacles six girl guiders may have to face as they swim the English channel this summer.

Team Twenty Ten are planning to swim 21 miles from the English to French coast in July, to celebrate the Girlguiding Centenary and to raise money for charity Street Child Africa.

A professional film maker has created a four minute movie of Shortwood Infant School to try and move council bosses to keep it open.

James Shanks, 37, created the documentary-style promotional video at the Stanwell New Road school two weeks ago.

Two young friends from Kingscroft Junior in Staines will be running for charity this Sunday (March 21).

Sophie Simpson, 11, and Harrison Kent, 10, who both attend the Park Avenue school, will be running the Sport Relief Mile at Feltham Community College and are hoping to raise £250 to go to vulnerable and needy people.

A theatre group which has been around for more than 50 years is putting on its first play ever which centres around the paranormal.

The Staines Players, who were created in 1952, is putting on 'A Murder Has Been Arranged' in April, which is about a man named Sir Charles Jasper, who stands to inherit a large sum of money if he can survive a night in a haunted house.

Spelthorne Civic Pride volunteers will clean rubbish from the River Thames tow-path on Sunday March 28,

Volunteers will meet in Ferry Lane, Laleham at 10am to pick up the litter.

For more information, contact Jill Stephens on 01932 564543.

Bob Calder will give a talk on the gardens of Japan at the next meeting of the Thames Valley Horticultural Society.

The event will take place on Thursday March 25 in Christ Church Hall, in Kenilworth Gardens, Staines.

Visitors price is £1 and the event starts at 7.45pm.

For more information, ring June Gough on 10784 452 422.

Six Spelthorne schools started a competition on Saturday (6) for the chance to win their very own allotment.

The competition, which is co sponsored by the Staines Informer was launched at The Elmsleigh Shopping Centre and will see pupils competing for a raised bed allotment and seeds, gardening equipment and expert advice on how to get started.

Pupils from Buckland Primary School, in Berrycroft Road, Staines, Kingscroft Junior School, in Park Avenue, Staines, Manorcroft Primary School, in Manorcrofts Road, Egham, Shortwood Infant School, in Stanwell New Road, Staines, Hythe Primary School, in Thorpe Road, Staines and Stanwell Fields School, in Clare Road, Stanwell, will be encouraging people to vote for their schools.

A 10-month-old Beagle saved the day when he alerted his owners to an arson attack in their back yard.

At around 3.30am this morning (Wednesday March 10) fire fighters from Staines and Egham were called to the blaze in Bremer Road, Staines, after arsonists struck at a shed in the back yard of the home of Lee Papworth and his girlfriend Natalie Taylor.

More than hundred people could lose their jobs after workers at Bupa in Staines, Egham, and Ashford were told redundancies were being considered.

Workers at the healthcare company were told on Wednesday March 3 that a three-month consultation period had begun due to a need for the company to restructure their staff.

Staines Town fans raised £1,800 for St Peter's Hospital on Saturday (March 6) as they walked to Woking for their chairman Alan Boon.

Five runners and 11 walkers followed the 11 and a half mile trawl from Staines' ground in Wheatsheaf Lane, through Chertsey, Addlestone, New Haw, before reaching Woking's ground for the local derby between the two sides.