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  • Take a punt…
    Take a punt…0
    • 13th March 2024

    The beautiful varnished boats are works of art in themselves, but Dittons Skiff and Punting Club, in its centenary year, is very much an active sporting enterprise. Based next to The Albany pub in Thames Ditton, its purpose-built clubhouse, gym and boathouse is the envy of other Thames outfits as a new season on the

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Arts

  • Macbeth’s gory reimagining
    Macbeth’s gory reimagining0
    • 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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Food

  • Dipping into Fridays
    Dipping into Fridays0
    • 11th December 2022

    Megan’s restaurant has introduced a new twist to its menu with the launch of Fondue Fridays at the Surbiton restaurant in the old post office building opposite Sainsbury’s. New festive flavours have been added to the straightforward ‘original’ fondue, and the deal is for a shared fondue, plus dipping bread, plus bottle of house wine

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Environment

  • View waste as a resource says Kingston’s green business group
    View waste as a resource says Kingston’s green business group0
    • 30th November 2023

    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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Gardening

  • Bugs at home at the Burney
    Bugs at home at the Burney0
    • 11th July 2023

    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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History

  • Tolworth goalie dies at 82
    Tolworth goalie dies at 820
    • 30th December 2022

    Tributes have been paid to a Tolworth goalkeeper who has died at the age of 82. Memorably, he played just the once in the shadow of Tolworth Tower, in a warm-up game at the Decca sports ground, across the road from the bowling alley. But he did also win three World Cups. Footballing legend Pele,

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Notable Surbitonians

  • The 999 man of Elgar Ave
    The 999 man of Elgar Ave0
    • 14th September 2020

    The man who helped devise the UK’s best-known telephone number lived in Elgar Avenue. Though humble about the role he played, Tom Fallon takes much of the credit for setting up 999. Born in London’s Docklands at the turn of the 20th century, he joined the police after serving in the Royal Navy in the

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Opinion

  • The perfect day out?
    The perfect day out?0
    • 27th November 2020

    Let’s take a moment from the absolute disgrace that is 2020, and focus on the important fact that the Coronation clocktower by the entrance to Waitrose car park is rated on Tripadvisor as the fifth best thing to do in Surbiton. I told you this was important. If you’re surprised by this, then perhaps, like

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Poetry Cheese

  • 100 words to sum up Covid-19
    100 words to sum up Covid-190
    • 21st July 2020

    Surbitonians were invited to sum up their coronavirus thoughts and experiences in 100 words, with the resulting scrapbook of entries being turned into an online flipbook by the web team at the cornerHOUSE arts centre in Douglas Road, Tolworth. This submission was written by Simon Hancock, summing up the contradiction of between being able to

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