Faith

Pupils at St Paul's C of E Primary School began laying 1p and 2p coins along the aisle of St Paul's Church in a bid to create a river of coins.

The idea was make a river of coins from the altar to the church door to raise money for safe drinking water for the world's poorest countries.

Albert Road residents stormed out of a Runnymede planning meeting after losing a battle to stop Surrey Islamic Trust from building a mortuary in their street.

Objectors wrote 84 letters of objection against the Trust's plan to add a cold store room, toilet and washroom to its education centre in Albert Road, Addlestone, but councillors voted 14-1 to permit the scheme.

Trustees of a Muslim study centre in Addlestone have hit back at complaints over their plans to build a cold storage room for dead bodies.

Neighbours living close to the centre, in Albert Road, have accused Surrey Islamic Trust of going against promises that the building would only be used as a study centre by holding prayer meetings and applying for planning permission for a mortuary.

But Kamal Yakub, trustee and secretary of the Trust, said members have gone out of their way to accommodate neighbours since the centre opened on the site of St Augustine's Church in early 2005.

Surrey Muslim Centre in Albert Road, Addlestone, has applied for retrospective planning permission for the enlargement and resurfacing of its car park.

This application to Runnymede Council comes a week after the centre applied for an extension which would include a cold storage room for dead bodies.

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