The Planet Reigate Podcast
47: AquaSports at Mercers, remembering a local war hero … and more
Fri, 02 Aug 2024
Episode 47 “AquaSports at Mercers, remembering a local war hero … and more”For Saturday 3rd August 2024TIMECODE – so you can go straight to what you want to listen to00:00 - What’s in this episode 09:30 - The Good Time Guide: Local places to go and things to do this weekend. 13:00 - GUEST: Aqua Sports is a lake-based watersports centre set in the beautiful Mercers Park, on the doorstep of Redhill and Merstham. I’ve been to talk with Operations Manager, Henry. 24:15 - The Planet Reigate area news 46:50 - Planet Reigate area sport 51:40 - Planet Reigate Stars - thanking local heroes. This week from Reigate. 52:30 - The Good Time Guide: Local things to do and places to go this coming week. 1:00:00 – The story of Redhill’s wartime hero 1:06:00 - The 60-second Soundscape. Reigate and the Priory Park fountain (hopefully it’s not too triggering for you!)If you get value from The Planet Reigate Podcast, please give us value back in return; click here to support us with a small donation: www.buymeacoffee.com/theplanetreigatepodcast or share us with your colleagues. CREDITS:The seven-note Planet Reigate Theme is ©Peter StewartOther music www.Pond5.com:GTG - inspiringaudio Item ID: 116855857NEWS - ThomPie Item ID: 75456323STARS - jwsaudio Item ID: 073206386 SOUNDSCAPE PolkadotFlowersMusic Item ID: 136304431GUITAR - Frogard Item ID: 114324148DRAGON fx https://soundbible.com/ CLASSIC - light orch Victorian - by EaRenTech ID 130569703SAD - pastoral - by RomanAminov ID 056064549 Listen: https://linktr.ee/PlanetReigatePodcastWeb: www.ThePlanetReigatePodcast.comFacebook: www.Facebook.com/ThePlanetReigatePodcastX (Twitter): https://twitter.com/PlanetReigateEmail: Hello@ThePlanetReigatePodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Henry joins me from Aqua Sports at Mercer's Lake, so hear how the group was set up and their big plans for the year ahead. All sorts of water-based sports and Henry's tip for the best sunset view in Surrey. Plus, we have the short story of a proper hero in the very heart of Red Hill, the wartime bravery of Jack Harvey himself.
In the news this week, the location of electric car charging points across the area have been announced. How you can find out where to get free tap water for your water bottle over the summer. An update from the driving instructor concerned about the road layout near the aerodrome. Congratulations to a local cricket club for getting hundreds of thousands of pounds from the County Council.
Have your say on our local parks and open spaces ahead of a series of council decisions. How you could get to decide on the future of local police officers who may have been accused of misconduct. How you can help out and build a new shooting range in Reigate. Yeah, why the RSPCA was able to help a fox in a local garden this week. An eight-year-old girl who has all the makings of being...
An entrepreneur and appearing on TV's The Apprentice Show in the future. Plus, we look at recommendations for shady walks in the area. In sport, we feature a local team after new players and a big open day at a local leisure centre where you can try all sorts of sports in various taster sessions.
we feature local lacrosse as well plus we have the good time guide of events across the area across the week ahead planet reigate stars from reigate and our 60 second soundscape before we go at the end of the show this is the planet reigate podcast with peter stewart
But first of all, we'll start off, as we always do, with looking back at some of the correspondence that we've had during the course of the week. And last week, of course, we featured Sean Lamberth, and he was talking about the course of the second annual...
cyclocross Reigate which is coming to Priory Park next week, it's Friday August the 9th, yeah this coming week and he says thanks so much to the Planet Reigate podcast for inviting us onto your podcast we had a brilliant time, also we had another message from Age Concern Merstam Redhill Reigate who said publicly, listen to this great local podcast.
We get a couple of mentions, as indeed they did last week. The Planet Reigate podcast, of course, covering, yes, Reigate, but also the satellite towns and villages in kind of Reigate's orbit. You get what we kind of go with there. Reigate, Redhill, Merston, Buckland, Betchworth, Brockham. And yes, I had a chat with someone recently who said, do you cover Lye? Yes, we do. Do you cover Charlwood?
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