MORE than 20 cub scouts and beavers helped to give Byfleet a spring clean last Saturday afternoon.

The event was organised by the village's amenities group, with volunteers meeting on Plough Green before heading off in separate directions, bin bags in hand.

NEW signs designed to drum up more support for Byfleet Village Hall were unveiled during a ceremony on Saturday.

The signs were possible thanks to Richmonds estate agents, based in High Road, which paid to have them made, delivered and erected.

AS a mouse, she is quite a big cheese, but she took time out of her busy schedule to scurry into West Byfleet library to entertain the children with a morning of fun and games.

Maisy Mouse, whose books have been published in 28 languages and have sold more than 25 million copies across the world, scampered along to the library on The Corner just off Old Woking Road on Thursday March 29.

YOUNG patients will no longer have to occupy the 'no man's land' between adult and children's wards, thanks to the generosity of Procter & Gamble.

A brand new Young People's Unit (YPU), opened at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey last Friday, is a dedicated inpatient area for teenagers.

DEL Boy, Rodney and Uncle Albert stood shoulder to shoulder with The Beatles as Byfleet Art Group's exhibition caught the public's imagination on Saturday.

The exhibition at the Catholic Church Hall in Madeira Road featured some dazzling original paintings to view and buy.

SHE may use more shampoo than your average canine but Gem has proved she is definitely worth it.

The 15-month-old Coton de Tuléar, famous for their snow white coats, won first place in her class at Crufts, the world's largest dog show.

BYFLEET has been named as one of the worst digital television blackspots inside the M25 - but viewers should not have to put up with glitchy pictures and jumping dialogue for too much longer.

Digital UK, the body in charge of the TV switchover which will see analogue television abolished and replaced entirely by digital signals, announced on Monday the 10 most dismal locations for watching your favourite programmes.

MOTORISTS who live within 100 metres of the Olympic cycling road race and time trial routes will be told to move their cars or face having them towed.

Parking will be suspended on the race route which passes through Byfleet, Walton and Weybridge to make room for the athletes and their support vehicles.

AN invite to a wedding in West Byfleet in 1949 has just turned up... in a second hand book shop in Herefordshire.

The invitation fell out of a book bought at a shop in Ledbury by the daughter of local resident Debbie Benjamin.

BORIS Johnson believes Surrey is 'doing a great job' in the run up to the Olympics and is confident the cycling road race which will travel through Byfleet before heading to Box Hill will be 'one of the greats'.

The Mayor of London met up with the local authority's cabinet member for community services and the 2012 Games Denise Saliagopoulos last week and was effusive with his praise for the county.