The Planet Reigate Podcast
39: The Reigate Summer Festival, Wrayfest, and remembering a well-known Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper... and more
07 Jun 2024
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This is the Planet Reigate Podcast.
Hello Planeteers, this is Podcast Pete with the show exclusively, uniquely and proudly about the hills, the high streets and the heaths of Reigate, Redhill and Merstham, Buckland, Bechworth and Brockham. And this is episode 39. This is how we're reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week.
My guests will be just a few days away from the Reigate Summer Festival, the inaugural event. Hear more about their plans in this week's show. And you can tell it's summer because of all sorts of other local outdoor events, including Rayfest in July. We have a sneak peek about their plans several weeks ahead of that particular event.
They've got live bands and family fun zone and a food village and a maker's market anyway. I'm pre-empting things. Hear more about that a little bit later on in the show. In the news this week, the story of the closure of Marks and Spencer's Red Hill. We have comment and reaction and the date that it will close next. A tech failure at East Surrey Hospital.
I'll tell you what went wrong and how you might be affected. And do you know of a small local site where more houses could be built? Well, there's somebody who would like to know about your local knowledge. I'll make sure you know the details a little bit later on. There's an update to the work at Merstham Rec and I'll let you know why there's a warning for dog walkers in Hookwood.
and odd signs which have been put up in Memorial Park in Redhill that you should be aware of. A man is trying to find a family who used to live in Hawley. I'll give you the details in case you know of that family and you may be able to help. And we remember the shopkeeper who worked in both Redhill and Reigate for many years, who's died at the grand old age of 96.
You may remember him, you may remember his shops, you may have used to go into his shops. I'll spark a few memories for you a little bit later on in the show. In sport, we feature Royal Earlswood FC, Merstham FC and Rygate Lacrosse. And we have the good time guide of events across the area over the next seven days. And job opportunities across the area this week.
Travel and weather and treasure together. Yeah, I'll give you the local roadworks heads up so you can avoid the hold-ups. And I'll tell you the cheapest local petrol in the area as well. Plus, I've got the local forecast and the recent weather stats from our very own Professor Weather. And Julie is here with another rare collectible or cut price bargain.
Hidden treasure from our local charity, the Children's Trust. Plus, Planet Reigate stars are from Woodhatch this week. We start a brand new feature.
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