Photos credit: Tracey Franklin.  Photos show NatWest Bank in Oxted which closed its doors last week.  The old ‘Westminster Bank Limited’ wording is just about legible on the wood beam above the ground floor windows.

Both Reigate and Oxted will both soon be without a high street bank. 

The Oxted branch of NatWest closed its doors last week.   Once HSBC closes in Reigate in August, and in Oxted at a date still to be announced later in the year, there will no longer be a bank in either town.  Santander, Lloyds, Barclays and now NatWest have closed in both towns in recent years. 

Residents are concerned about the accessibility of banking facilities meaning a journey to Redhill or Sevenoaks for face to face transactions. 

The banks have separately identified the increased use of mobile banking as the reason for closing so many of their branches.

Photo credit: Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS)

The Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance took its first delivery of blood from SERV in February 2013.

SERV is a charity that provides emergency courier services to transport blood products. All of SERV’s couriers are volunteers.

Almost 150 patients attended to by the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance, have received blood or plasma in the last year alone. Many would not have survived without receiving this time-critical treatment at the scene, or in transit to hospital.

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Photo credit: Redhill Corps of Drums and Band.  Photo shows band members who joined The National Marching Band at Birmingham International Tattoo.

The Redhill Corps of Drums performed at The Birmingham International Tattoo at the weekend; joining the National Marching Band and performing as part of the Massed International Bands. 

Photo taken by an audience member.  Photo shows The National Marching Band 2023

Photo above Susy Radio’s Neil Munday who performed at the Tattoo with the Redhill Corps of Drums, together with colleague, Glen.

The event is Britain’s largest indoor tattoo featuring marching bands, pipes and drums, and even dog racing.

The Redhill Corps of Drums played a part in the Grand Finale with over 1,000 performers.

Photo credit above: The Birmingham International Tattoo – the Grand Finale

Photo credit: Neil Munday