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We’ve been advised by Alex Catterall of the Carshalton South and Clockhouse Neighbourhood Policing Team that they are running a Community Safety Day for Older People.

There are 39 organisations there and giving out information and advice on how to stay safe.

LiveWell will also be there providing free health checks.

When:            Wed 16th Mar – 10.30am to 2.30pm

At:                   Sutton Europa Gallery, Civic Offices, St Nicholas Way, Sutton

Share the word and come along for free information and handouts.

The charge for green garden waste collections for 2016 is:

If you pay by 31 January 2016 you will receive early bird discount.

To pay click on the ‘Pay Now’ link below.
Please have your debit card or credit card to hand

• Click on “Pay now”
• Select ‘green garden waste’ from the list
• Select ‘green garden waste’ again from the second line
• Select your bin size /quantity
• Paying for the service means you agree to the terms and conditions

The price for this year is for 19 collections (2015 was for 13 collections).

Collections will start on Easter Monday 28 March 2016 and finish on 17 December 2016.

Garden waste collections will continue to be fortnightly on the same day as our recycling collections.

Message on behalf of Paul Sharp the SRAGS secretary:

Please see attached a poster for Gardeners Question Time on Monday 19th October at Wallington Town Hall.

One of the speakers is Jim Buttress of telly’s Allotment Challenge.

He is very knowledgeable and very funny with it especially when he teams up with a colleague from London’s Royal Parks

Gardening and Humour  – what could be better  – well worth the money!

So please do come along and support our Chairman and her charity Mencap.

Also don’t forget our own Raffle for a Christmas Hamper and  other prizes to be drawn on the 6th December. Tickets on sale in the Trading Hut

Police in Sutton have received four reports within the last 11 days of young children on their own being offered a lift by strangers in a dark coloured car.

On each occasion, the lifts were declined by the child by either saying ‘no’ or walking away. At no time has there been any physical contact between the occupants in the car and the child.

Also, on each occasion a black male or black female was seen in the vehicle.

Sutton’s Detective Chief Inspector Rachael Porter said it was important that parents remind their children about the importance of saying ‘no’ to strangers. “It’s also important that all such incidents are reported to police so we are in the best position to know what’s happening so we can put a stop to it,” she said.

Police officers have increased their patrols whilst the Met Police trained operators staffing the borough’s CCTV system in the control room at Sutton Police station are remaining vigilant.

Our crime prevention advice to children is to shout ‘no’ or ‘help’ and to move away to a place of safety such as their school or to someone they know and can trust as soon as possible.

If you have any information, contact Sutton Police station on 101. Or call police on 999 in an emergency.