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  • Challenge to Sir Ed: hand your knighthood back, says councillor

    Challenge to Sir Ed: hand your knighthood back, says councillor1

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    • 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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  • View waste as a resource says Kingston’s green business group

    View waste as a resource says Kingston’s green business group0

    Where there’s muck there’s brass was the takeaway message from a discussion on the circular economy by members of the Kingston Green Business Community. Two panels of local entrepreneurs and innovators from the world of fashion, construction, food and the information and communications technology sectors were quizzed by David Symons of environmental consulting company WSP

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  • Help skier Jolie race to the top

    Help skier Jolie race to the top1

    It’s quite something, hurtling down a precipitous mountain at speeds upwards of 30mph. But that is what 11-year-old ski racer Jolie Welsh loves doing – and is hoping to do more of – if she can get sponsorship this winter. Jolie, of Pine Walk, Berrylands, started skiing when she was just two. Skip forward nine

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  • Cultivating Passiflora is a passion

    Cultivating Passiflora is a passion0

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    • 30th September 2023

    Myles Irvine is a bit of an alchemist. From his home in Lovelace Road, Surbiton, the passion flower expert and commercial breeder creates new hybrids with the aim of producing stunning, free-flowering plants. “Every now and again you get something spectacular – you are just hoping for that,” said Myles who has been growing passion

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  • 50ft mast bid for Burney Triangle

    50ft mast bid for Burney Triangle0

    Funny how proposals to install new mobile phone masts are made during school holidays when many residents are away, isn’t it? The bid to build a 50ft (15m) 5G telecoms mast and additional cabinets in Ferguson Avenue by the Burney Triangle – an area of green space with a stunning new bug hotel and flower beds – was

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  • Bugs at home at the Burney

    Bugs at home at the Burney0

    Biodiversity officer Elliot Newton outlines the planet’s need for bug homes and insect and bird-friendly planting to counter the Earth’s mass extinction ecological crisis. He was speaking after the mayor, Cllr Diane White, officially opened the Burney Bug Hotel in Surbiton, at the Burney Triangle – the green space at the junction of Burney Avenue

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