This year the Fair will be on Saturday 12th July starting at 12.00

Here is a map of the fairground.

There is a full programme of entertainment throughout the day, kicking off with a popular children’s ‘5-a-side’ football tournament from 10.am in the morning on Moormead. During the afternoon there is a dog show with heats starting at 2.00pm on little Moormead across Hillview road.

The musical entertainment from 12.00 to 7.30 features 8 bands this year. See who they are on our music page. There will be celebrity interviews and music throughout the day from Alan Hardy of Radio West Middlesex.

We have a tea tent and a beer tent organised and staffed by volunteers. The BBQ is run by parents from Orleans Infant School’s PTA – FOOI. Local parents organise a Pimms stall from Orleans Park.

Site stewarding is done by the parents of children at St Stephens Junior School.
And the fair site is kept clean by parents at St Mary’s Junior school

St Stephen’s Church will be reaching out, further into the community, for a fortnight of social action and prayer in and around St Margaret’s from Sunday 29th June to 13th July. They have organised many projects from cleaning gardens to painting Marble Hill Park’s fence, visiting house bound people to quenching the thirst of commuters!

The fortnight will be focussed around ‘Social Action Sunday’ on the 6th July but the events and projects will run throughout. It will all culminate in Marble Hill Park on Sunday 13th July where they will host a Fun day with Face painting, inflatable obstacle courses, magicians and much much more!

And why? St Stephen’s wants to be a blessing to the community and to demonstrate the Good News of God’s love to all people.

No strings, no nonsense, display of love to all!

— from a St Stephen’s press release

Next production from Richmond Shakespeare Society is the traditional outdoor summer show, with this year’s offering of Shakespeare’s Henry V running at York House Gardens on 6 - 12 July.

It’s being staged in association with site-specific theatre company Bard Unbound and directed by Lara Muth, founder of Bard Unbound, in her first RSS directing role. Lara specialises in site-specific Shakespeare projects in heritage and museum settings.

‘I was honoured to be invited to direct for RSS as they approach their 75th anniversary season,’ she says. ‘I joined the Society last year and am impressed by their skill and commitment. York House Gardens is a spectacular and evocative location. It immediately conjured up images of earthworks and trenches from the Great War and commandeered and fortified country houses.’

Her view of the play is ‘essentially tragic’, and WWI retains that collective sense of visceral tragedy. ‘Agincourt was a moral victory rather than a strategic one and earned Henry the resources to return and finish what he started,’ she says. ‘He died on campaign, most likely of dysentery, at the age of 34 and never wore the crown he had so spectacularly achieved.’

“a) the due processes and consultations were flawed, b) the review in 6 months time [should] be open to all the residents who were originally consulted; and that the extent of consultation should not be circumscribed by local councillors and the Transport Consultative Group.”

The Council website says: The decision is currently being reconsidered

— from Christopher Squire

From this week and throughout the year you can now find the St Margarets Fair at www.stmargaretsfair.org. On Saturday the 12^th of July at 12pm the 30^th Fair opens on its usual Moormead site. It still continues to be the largest community and charity event in the area with over £15000 shared between local schools and the charities last year.

To celebrate 30 years on Moormead, and in response to the feedback we had via last year’s website survey, there will be two major differences. We’ve negotiated with all the providers of the children’s fairground rides to reduce their cost to 50% of last year’s prices. Just as importantly we have a new provider of ‘loos’. This year there will be 28 individual unisex units, plus a disabled/baby change unit. These will all be situated near the tennis courts just behind the cricket pavilion and will have an attendant looking after them all day.

We’ve always been very proud of the way we cope with litter during and after the event. Over the past 3 years in conjunction with the LBRUT we’ve made extra special efforts to make the event as recycle friendly as possible. This year we’re putting even more effort in that direction, and as always we really do appreciate your on the day contribution to make the Fair as green an event as possible.

An added attraction this year comes from Twickenham Rowing Club with their dry land rowing machines and expertise. You’ll be able to try out your own rowing ability and then watch the finals of their local competition.

Any finally to really celebrate 30 years of the Fair we’ve had some limited edition high quality T-shirts especially produced. There’s just 200 of them and they will be available ‘on the day’ at the Information Tent for £7 each for all sizes. You can also buy them from the 1st of July at Cutters 28 Crown Road and Real Ale Limited 371 Richmond Road. All profits as usual go to the supported schools and charities.

For all the other Fair information and news you’ll just need to follow this link www.stmargaretsfair.org Starting next year you’ll also be able to book your stall online as well as over the phone.

Friends and family are invited to the Orleans Infant Summer Fair for food, games and music. Come out and support the school.

The fair is on 28th June from 12-3pm.

Our fellow Estate Agents at Phillip Hodges are relocating, and no longer require their premises at 124 St Margarets Road. This has created an opportunity for us to move across the road, with minimal upheaval. We have been keen to find a larger office in St Margarets for some time and this prominent site, opposite St Margarets station, is ideal. We are sure this will enable us to continue to work effectively in a comfortable environment.

We will commence refurbishing our new sales and lettings office very soon, with the aim of opening in early September.

If you have any queries please contact Michael Peacock on 020 8744 2434 or e-mail to m.peacock@chasebuchanan.co.uk.

— From Chase Buchanan

Details

• Council website for full decision (Public Website)

This decision will come into effect on 30 June 2008

Coincidentally a neighbour pointed out to Pete the landlord at the Crown that their music licence only covered Thursdays through Saturday so as of this Monday 23rd June we are back at the Rising Sun starting soon after 8.00. (Leaving time to blow the plaster dust out of the piano).

The Jazz Showcase’s house band as always will be Ian Anderson on piano, Jeremy Holroyd on drums and Roger Perrin on double bass.

As a special treat we hope to have Sarah Ellen Hughes singing with us this Monday.

Sarah has been the principal singer with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra for the last three years and has appeared with NYJO at the Pizza Express Dean Street, Ronnie Scotts and The Stables at Wavendon and now has a residency at Pizza on the Park on the first Wednesday of each month.

Admission is free

Musical entertainment is being provided and a food tasting courtesy of Greedies of Isleworth is also being laid on. Come on Friday evening and enjoy a glass of Wine courtesy of Camilleri & Associates.

Details

• FRIDAY 6pm-9pm
• SATURDAY 11am-6pm
• SUNDAY 11am-6pm

Redlees Studios, Redlees Park, Worton Road, Isleworth, TW7 6DW

Details on how to get to us can be found on www.redlees.org

If you’re one of those happy souls who likes to remember important dates in social history here’s one to add to your list - July 13^th 1954 when — just up the road from where you are reading this — the fuse was lit on the great British pop music explosion!

The story starts in 1948 when Ken Colyer, an amateur musician living in Hounslow, put together a band to play the old time jazz music of New Orleans. As they had been rehearsing in Cranford on the banks of the River Crane they called themselves the Crane River Jazz Band - and took the jazz standard ‘Down by the Riverside’ as their theme tune. By the summer of 1949 “The Cranes” were confident enough to start their own jazz club in the White Hart pub in Cranford. It was an immediate success. True to the spirit of old New Orleans instead of playing records during the interval Ken bashed out American folk songs on a guitar, accompanied by kazoo, washboard and double bass.

In 1952 Ken Colyer decided to make a pilgrimage to New Orleans to check out his favourite music at first hand. In his absence two of the former ‘Cranes’ - clarinettist Monty Sunshine and guitarist/banjo player Tony ‘Lonnie’ Donegan started a new band with trombonist Chris Barber. Hoping that Ken would join them on his return they continued with Ken’s popular ‘guitar and washboard’ interval sessions. But Ken wasn’t coming back so quickly. He was locked up in New Orleans for not having a work permit!

They have recommended to extend the CPZ only to Bridge and Winchester Roads and a further review in six months.

Here are the highlights of the recommendation and survey results from the report:

But late YESTERDAY we received the news from his agent that SIMON DAY will no longer be appearing at the Twickenham Festival show on Friday, due to filming schedules in Dorset being re-arranged.

This was a shock as you can imagine, but Grahame Limmer our estimable booker got straight on the case and I am DELIGHTED to announce that Mr Day’s place will be filled most admirably by the wonderful OMID DJALILI!

Back from his critically acclaimed National Tour, during which he played 2 double matinee sell-out gigs at the London Palladium, OMID DJALILI is a comedy champion, fighting fit and, due to the great demands on his services will open the show at 8.45pm.

For those who have already booked, of course your tickets are still reserved. For anyone else, to reserve the remaining tickets to this show please reply to this email with your requirements (see the event listing).

The rest of the bill remains as stunning as before as OMID DJALILI is joined by

• Brilliant Royal Variety Ventiloquist PAUL ZERDIN
• Hilarious Country and Western Act WILSON DIXON
• Chav of Chavs LEE “NELSY” NELSON

This Twickenham Festival Show is on FRIDAY (TOMORROW) 13th JUNE 2008.

How to start increasing your distance and pace

1. Start off running slowly, so you keep some energy in reserve. You can always increase your pace at the end of the run. Stay at a pace that you can easily hold a conversation.
2. Often running with upbeat music will help to motivate you and improve your pace. If you are planning a tempo session (which involves several sets of fast running for a set period of time) sort out a playlist which will help to keep you running at your target speed.
3. Running with beautiful scenery will help stimulate you to keep going longer. Running in Richmond Park or down by the river are both ideal.
4. Build up your distance slowly by adding an extra 5-* minutes onto your longer runs. Follow these sessions either by a rest day or an easy jog.

This is to let the residents of Richmond and the surrounding area know that Jack Dee will be filming for the new series of Lead Balloon at Richmond Theatre on Sunday 22^nd June. We would like to invite locals to come along as an audience. Entrance is free and filming should only take 2-3 hours. If you are interested in coming along and being part of the day please get in touch at audience@openmike.co.uk. For those that can’t make it on Sunday 22^nd we are also filming in Shepherds Bush on Monday 23^rd and require an audience that day also.

We very much look forward to hearing from anyone who is interested in coming along.

Many thanks.

Open Mike Productions.