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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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  • Plan to demolish Victorian care home and build six-storey block

    Plan to demolish Victorian care home and build six-storey block0

    Developers want to bulldoze a two-storey care home in Adelaide Road, Surbiton, and build a six-storey, 60-bed building in its place. Willow Grange Care Home, which offers respite, nursing and dementia care at its base at 1-3 Adelaide Road near the junction with St Mark’s Hill, wants to replace its existing Victorian building (below) built

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  • Live music and tasty treats launch three-mile scenic walk

    Live music and tasty treats launch three-mile scenic walk0

    Join the launch of a three-mile scenic walk from Tolworth to Chessington this Bank Holiday Monday (31st). From 11am to 4pm the Community Brain will be at the Baking Ideas hub next to Tolworth railway station, giving out information about the scenic route which is part of an ongoing wayfinding project with the 121 Collective.

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  • A weekend of cricket and picnics at Long Ditton’s Stokes Field

    A weekend of cricket and picnics at Long Ditton’s Stokes Field0

    Grab your picnic blanket and head off to the picturesque setting of Stokes Field for a weekend of bank holiday cricket. The Hogs, in the form of the Long Ditton Cricket Club’s 2nd XI, will be hosting Wallington CC at the ground off Betts Way tomorrow (Saturday) 1pm start in a Fuller’s Brewery Surrey County League Division 1 fixture.

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  • Three tower project for Tolworth Broadway is refused by planners

    Three tower project for Tolworth Broadway is refused by planners0

    Plans to add two more high-rise blocks to Tolworth Broadway and build 499 new homes in a scheme which also involved turning the existing Tolworth Tower into flats have hit the buffers as Kingston council threw out the proposal, pictured, by developers Meadow Partners. Ten reasons were cited by planners as to why the application

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