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    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

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  • Talk on the children of the Titanic

    Talk on the children of the Titanic0

    The haunting face of a survivor. This girl from Leatherhead was one of 112 children aboard the Titanic when it hit an iceberg on April 15, 1912 en route from Southampton to New York. Fifty children perished in the maritime disaster. David Lawson Lean, a drama teacher who researched the fates of those children who

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  • Donkey rides for Palm Sunday

    Donkey rides for Palm Sunday0

    You don’t have to go to a beach for donkey rides. A donkey is coming to a church near you – St Mark’s in Surbiton in fact. At 10am on Sunday (April 10) – after the 9.15am Palm Sunday family service (all welcome) – children will be able to have a ride on a donkey

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  • Bob Barter’s jazz gig for Ukraine

    Bob Barter’s jazz gig for Ukraine0

    Don’t miss the legendary jazz musician Bob Barter who will be playing a gig at The Berrylands on Sunday (April 10) to raise money to support refugees who are fleeing Ukraine. The 94-year-old former Elgar Avenue resident will be tinkling the ivories at the pub in Chiltern Drive with fellow jazz musicians Jimmy Hastings (tenor

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  • Dino hunt in Triassic Tolworth

    Dino hunt in Triassic Tolworth0

    Join in the Tolworth Dino Hunt this weekend (Sat May 2 to Sun May 3). Twelve models of dinosaurs have been strategically placed between Tolworth railway station and the Esso petrol station in Tolworth Broadway. Can you spot them all? As well as this weekend’s hunt, Sunday’s First in Tolworth market, in the slip road

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