Since our launch in early 2012, we’ve built an excellent relationship with our readers, who tell us they like the fact that we are truly local, we support the area, and that we produce a readable, informative paper which enjoys the humour and unpredictability of life. Many pass the paper on to friends.
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Readable, chatty, lively, different, quirkily shaped
and full of dazzling colour
The Good Life is free, publishing six times a year to 12,200 homes in Surbiton, Tolworth, Berrylands and Long Ditton. We now reach 30,000 readers with our well-written editorial, and our eye-catching adverts.
What makes The Good Life a great newspaper
Experience
We have extensive journalistic experience, a wealth of local knowledge, and all our contributors and distributors live locally. The paper is printed in the Royal Borough.
Community
We support Surbiton’s community events and its independent businesses, especially the Maple Road farmers’ market – the area’s most popular and successful regular community event.
The arts
We are the only publication which offers comprehensive coverage of the arts in the area.
Your stories
We love hearing from anyone staging events, running a club, sharing news and pictures, or recalling Surbiton’s past.
Support your community newspaper
If you enjoy reading The Good Life and would like to keep your neighbours informed about what is going on in the area, then join our little band of volunteers and deliver your community newspaper to your street. The Good Life is published six times a year between March and November. If you think you might be able to help, even if it is just a few times a year, then the editor would love to hear from you.
Please email Tim Harrison at [email protected]
Thank you!
The team
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EDITOR
Tim Harrison
Tim has been a journalist for more than 40 years covering local and national news. Having lived and worked all his life in the Surbiton/Kingston/Long Ditton area, he set up The Good Life with like-minded souls who care about local newspapers and feel they are a vital part of the community. He hopes to entertain and inform, with a smile whenever possible. Tim focuses on news, sport, history and food. He especially likes food!
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DEPUTY
Jane Grove
Jane, assistant editor of The Good Life, has been a journalist for more than 35 years covering local and national news. Having lived and worked all her life in the Surbiton/Kingston/Long Ditton area, she set up The Good Life with like-minded souls who care about local newspapers and feel they are a vital part of the community.
Jane is a woman on a mission - to raise the profile of local arts and champion environmental issues. Jane also covers Chelsea Women football games, and posts regular updates on events and the amusing side of living in Surbiton on The Good Life's Instagram site @thegoodlifesurbiton -
COLUMNIST
Janice Cripps
Janice Cripps is a Surbiton-based garden designer. She trained at the prestigious Garden Design School in Bristol and works on private and commercial projects mainly in Surrey and London but also elsewhere in the UK as well as in Northern France.
For advice, planting plans, or projects – from concept to completion – visit www.janicecripps.co.uk -
COLUMNIST
Becky Mayhew
Columnist and Surbiton resident Becky Mayhew takes a whimsical look at the goings-on in the Queen of the Suburbs.
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The Good Life is free, publishing six times a year to 12,300 homes in Surbiton, Tolworth, Berrylands and Long Ditton. We now reach 30,000 readers with our well-written editorial, and our eye-catching adverts.
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