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Surbiton’s field hockey Olympians arrive in Paris ahead of games 0
- News, Sport
- 19th July 2024
Wish them luck. These members of Surbiton Hockey Club, pictured, along with four other teammates, arrived in Paris yesterday (Thursday) to compete in the Olympic Games. The group caught the Eurostar with other members of the GB squad, and are now settling in to the Olympic Village, preparing for their first matches (GB Men on
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Hayes: I miss being me!0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 17th May 2024
I miss being myself, said Chelsea manager Emma Hayes at an emotion-charged press conference on Friday at the training ground as she got her squad ready for her final club game. Next week she jets out to the States to become the USA Women’s national coach, after first trying to steer her team to victory
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Glass half full 0
- Arts
- 19th April 2024
An absorbing revival of Tennessee Williams’ intense family drama The Glass Menagerie offers some strong performances as director Atri Banerjee tries to modernise a dated story. Kingston’s Rose is the venue (until May 4) of this minimalist touring production which builds in tension and focus through a powerful second half to a curiously flat ending.
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100th-minute winner for Blues 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 5th April 2024
I woke on Friday morning in a fuzzy cloud, wondering if I’d dreamt that Cole Palmer had netted a winner for Chelsea against Manchester United the night before in the 100th minute of a bizarre ding-dong game. In six decades of going to Stamford Bridge I thought I’d experienced it all; highs of European victories, lows
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Macbeth’s gory reimagining 0
- Arts
- 13th March 2024
Perplexingly stark, but mesmerizingly watchable, Zinnie Harris’s reworking of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, Macbeth (An Undoing), at Kingston’s Rose (until Mar 23) puts the focus on Lady Macbeth (Nicole Cooper) in a gory exploration of guilt, madness and power shifts. By the end the cast are using mops and buckets to scrub blood from the stage,
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Challenge to Sir Ed: hand your knighthood back, says councillor 0
- News
- 16th January 2024
Sir Ed Davey should hand his knighthood back over the Post Office Horizon scandal says Kingston councillor Yvonne Tracey who has started a petition to remove the Surbiton MP and Lib Dem leader’s gong. It has already gained more than 19,000 signatures. The former deputy postmistress at New Malden Post Office, who represents Green Lane
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