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(Pictured Above: Edward Norman presenting Sue Whitaker with her prize)   A Girl Guide leader – who joined the movement as an eight-year-old – has been recognised for her services to Surrey’s communities after winning the first Roger Coupe Star Award. Sue Whitaker scooped the community ...

As it is the month of January, most gardens will need protecting from frosts, winds, and rain, so you’ll need to maintain stakes, ties, fleeces, and other supports for damage. Also consider moving plants to sunnier positions to give them more light, and moving potted plants nearer to the house ...

There’s a knock at the door, and my heart drops into my stomach. I knew, with it being Christmas, that she’d have to come round at some point, feel obliged even, to grace us with her own unique brand of season’s greetings and goodwill to all men. But what I wouldn’t give to avoid another visit. ...

Imaginative, creative play and make-believe are the cornerstones of good Early Years education and link to the prime areas of communication and language, physical development, and personal, social and emotional development. To learn effectively, young children need to play in order to have ...

Walking along the road to work or school we often look up at the blue sky, the sun, the stars, or the moon and wonder . . . at the awesome beauty of the universe! The Aurora is an incredible light show caused by collisions between electrically charged particles that is thrilling to watch. This can ...

European Bee-eaters Birders are listless again when the bells sound out at midnight on a New Year’s Eve. Many have kept a list of every bird they have seen over the preceding year, just for fun. In time they build up a useful record of birds in their garden, local area or ‘patch’, county, and ...