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Cobham & Downside Residents Association
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Downside Sports & Social Club is a small and well established club, in the heart of Downside Village, with a lovely Common surrounding it. As a members club you find the prices are very reasonable compared to Pub prices. As a member you can use the club as much as you like and bring guests in with you for a small fee. The club has some facilities, such as, a snooker table, a pool table, dart boards and games machines. Lotto machines, plus TV and Projector showing Sky, So Sports can be seen on a large screen.
The club runs their own snooker and darts team and anyone is welcome to join. You can also join us for quiz nights which are on every Sunday evening and turn out to be a laugh! We also have seasonal bingo with some amazing prizes to be won. Our entertainment team organize monthly events, such as, disco, karaoke, race nights, live music and much more! Current water status (updated 20th April 2012 )On Monday 20 February, the Environment Secretary announced that the South East of England has officially moved into drought status. This is due to the combination of persistent dry weather and the continuing decline in groundwater levels and river flows and increasing the risk to public water supplies, agriculture and the environment. As a result Hampshire, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent, Surrey, London, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and the east of Gloucestershire are now in drought. Current situation Hosepipe bansSeven water companies across southern and eastern England are to introduce customer restrictions such as hosepipe bans. Southern Water, South East Water, Thames Water, Anglian Water, Sutton and East Surrey, Veolia Central and Veolia South East are to enforce restrictions. Some of these restrictions came into force on 5 April 2012. Our drought internet site is at: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/drought Lets hope we will not have to end up on stand pipes by the Summer, if people start doing there bit now and start trying to save water, we might be OK Book Fair at Cobham Village Hall Sat 19th STROLL
Stoke D'Arbernon Residents' Association
Send in a Picture of your Pet or Pets, and we place in our 'Pets Photo Corner' Did you know there's a 'Downside' in Somerset ! & a Downside in Wagga wagga, New South Wales, Australia Downside Village History Coming Soon.(Researching Now) Channel Islands VAT relief scrapped The Chancellor is axing a longstanding relief from VAT for goods valued at less than £15 that has been exploited in the Channel Islands by internet retailers serving the mainland (Telegraph.co.uk) The Treasury is to end the era of cheap DVDs, contact lenses and birthday cards by scrapping an exemption from VAT for low value items dispatched from the Channel Islands. The relief, which is costing the Treasury more than £100m a year and is seen as an unfair advantage by mainland-based UK retailers and distributors that have to pay VAT,will end on April 1st 2012 David Gauke, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, said: “These reforms will ensure that UK companies, especially small and medium sized enterprises, can compete on a level playing field with those larger companies with the resources to set up operations in the Channel Islands." The move will affect the likes of music and games retailer Play.com, which was sold in September for £25m and Moonpig, the online card retailer that has a large operation on Guernsey and was sold by its founder for £120m in July. HMV, Tesco (LSE: TSCO.L - news) and Amazon also have distributions warehouses on the islands. Business groups welcomed the move. The Forum of Private Business said the relief had “put thousands of small, independent traders out of business”. It said: “It means at long last a level playing field in the market, and the remaining independent record shops will be able to compete with the big boys on equal terms again. It’s excellent news for the high street. ”Richard Tyler, 0:16, Wednesday 9 November 2011
Police To Give Drivers On-The-Spot Fines ( By Sophy Ridge, political correspondent | Sky News) 11.5.2011
Police will be able to hand out on-the-spot fines for careless driving under a new strategy to make Britain's roads safer. Motorists who tailgate, undertake or cut up other drivers could be handed an immediate fine of up to £100 rather than being taken to court.The Government says its new road safety strategy aims to shift the focus from penalizing motorists who make minor transgressions and honest mistakes to pursuing persistently reckless and dangerous drivers. There will be a new crackdown on drug-driving and loopholes which allow people to get off drink-driving charges will be closed, said the Department for Transport (DfT). Disqualified drivers will be forced to retrain - and possibly have to take another test - before they regain their licence. And the courts will be encouraged to make more use of their powers to seize vehicles for the most serious offences. The Government is also looking into plans to increase the motorway speed limit to 80mph. In a written statement to MP's today, Transport Secretary Philip Hammond will also announce a new approach to drivers who make genuine mistakes on the roads and extra help for those who have just passed their tests and need to keep improving their skills. A wider range of retraining and education courses will be on offer for low-level offences. And novice drivers will be able to take additional qualifications to reassure insurers that they are safe behind the wheel, in a bid to reverse the steep upward trend in premiums for less experienced motorists. A source close to Mr Hammond told Sky News the new strategy represented a "sea change" from Labour's approach, which relied heavily on speed cameras and failed to differentiate between problem drivers and essentially safe motorists who make an honest mistake. He said it will target genuinely reckless drivers, rather than wasting police and court time by putting generally law-abiding motorists in the dock. The Government has scrapped grants given to councils for speed cameras in a bid to reduce their number. A DfT spokesman said: "The strategy will focus on cracking down on the really reckless drivers through more efficient enforcement. "By giving the police the tools to deal with those who present the greatest danger to others we can make our roads even safer. "While seeking to do everything possible to tackle the most dangerous drivers, the strategy will also help the responsible majority to improve their driving. This is the Government's twin approach to improving road safety." Convictions for offences related to bad driving fell from 125,000 in 1985 to 28,900 in 2006, suggesting that many cases are going unpunished, said the DfT.
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