Health

A charity yoga workshop at River Bourne health club raised £380 for the homeless charity Crisis.

Thirty-five people took part in the one and a half hour session at the Chertsey club, which was organised by yoga and pilates instructor Heather George.

A brain tumour patient aged 27 has spoken of the heart-warming battle her friends and family are fighting to raise enough money to save her life.

Melissa Huggins, of Bremer Road, Staines, found out the brain tumour she thought had disappeared after an operation in 2005 had returned in October.

She now has one chance of treatment because the position of the tumour on her spine means her brain can only cope with one dose before other parts of her brain affecting her breathing, heartbeat and nervous system are damaged, and her best chance is proton therapy, a treatment only available in America.

As someone who hated hospital, the way Florence East died echoed one of her worst nightmares.

When the healthy 95-year-old fell and broke her leg on Boxing Day last year, little could she have known she would never leave hospital and would die six weeks later following complications during an unrelated operation.

An inquest heard on Wednesday last week (19), Mrs East, of Westbourne Road, Staines, died at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, after a tiny hole was torn in her throat lining during an endoscopy - an exploratory operation into stomach problems she was having.

A car crashed into the central reservation on the M25 between junctions 13 and 12 on Thursday (2), leading to hour-long traffic jams from 6.20pm.

After hitting the barrier between Staines and Thorpe, the red Mitsubishi Colt blocked two lanes of the carriageway and causing a build up of traffic.

The driver, a woman in her twenties, sustained only minor injuries. The road was cleared and reopened at around 7.15pm.