Lingfield, England News

A village church that was visited by John F Kennedy just months before his assassination is to close on Christmas Day.

CAR windows were smashed as 18 vehicles were targeted over the course of a fortnight in Oxted, Lingfield, Whyteleafe, Caterham, Godstone and other areas.

Recession-battling businesses in the neighbouring Tandridge District Council area have been given a boost with free Saturday parking.

A WOMAN had to be rescued from her car on Monday evening after it slid into a ditch off a flooded road in Lingfield.

A 26-YEAR-OLD man was over the drink-drive limit when the off-road motorcycle he was riding crashed in Lingfield, an inquest into his death has been told.

A 23-YEAR-OLD man who died in a car crash earlier this year was more than two-and-a-half times over the legal alcohol limit, an inquest has heard.

A BLOCK of stables at a farm in Lingfield has been gutted in a fire thought to have been started deliberately.

ONE was more surprised than Chris Gordon when Winning Show took him off the cold trainers' list at Lingfield yesterday.

A driver died when he failed to negotiate a bend and crashed into a tree in Surrey, police said.

"The job now is to keep complaints heading downwards so we'll be using CCWater's report as a guide to target the area most in need of improvement.a Sutton & East Surrey Water saw the second biggest percentage rise of all water companies in terms of the number of complaints it received, up 54.62% from 357 to 552.

Residents in rural areas near Gatwick Airport in West Sussex have stepped up their campaign against aircraft noise.

Racing:Kieren Fallon failed to make a fairytale return from his 18-month suspension at Lingfield as he claimed the runner-up spot aboard Rare Malt in the Withyham Median Auction Maiden Stakes and failed to make an impact in his other two rides so far.

I'M BACK: Former Champion Jockey Kieren Fallon returned to race-riding at Lingfield where he has four mounts.

RECORD crowds flocked to the Edenbridge and Oxted Agricultural Show over the bank holiday weekend.

A PAIR of armed robbers stole a cash till from a petrol station in Felbridge, near Lingfield, in the early hours of Monday.

The Vetting and Barring Scheme has been devised to protect children and other vulnerable adults.

A WOMAN was forced to replace her saddlery days before a horse show after burglars broke into a farm and stole equipment worth A 1,500. Emma Newton went to the stables she rents near Lingfield on Monday evening and found that thieves had forced their way in using a crowbar.

Stable equipment worth about 1,600 has been stolen during two separate burglaries in a Surrey district.

THE average water bill for households in East Surrey could fall by up to 8% under proposals from regulatory body Ofwat.

THE funeral of racing driver Henry Surtees, who was killed in an accident during a Formula Two race last weekend, will be held at a church next to the school where he had studied for his A-levels. Surtees, 18, from Lingfield, was struck by a wheel which came off the car of Effingham's Jack Clarke during the race at Brands Hatch on July 19.