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Tip reopens but you need to book 3
- Environment, News
- 12th May 2020
Villiers Road tip is reopening tomorrow (Wednesday) but you have to book a slot otherwise you will be turned away. Kingston council’s ‘household reuse and recycle centre’ as the panjandrums call it (!) will be open for essential visits and only if you have pre-booked. It will also be operating under revised times. In accordance
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Berrylands solicitor becomes lockdown deputy mayor 0
- News
- 11th May 2020
Berrylands has a new deputy mayor in its midst. Sushila Abraham, who has represented the ward since a by-election in 2013, has replaced Cllr Munir Ravalia in the role. Kingston council’s mayor-making was due to take place tomorrow (Tuesday) but due to the lockdown, the Annual Meeting, at which the mayor and deputy are selected, was
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The French Tarte reopens for takeaways and collection 0
- Food, News
- 9th May 2020
People queued patiently in Maple Road this morning (Saturday) to buy bread, croissants, cakes and coffee from The French Tarte. The Surbiton café-pâtisserie-boulangerie is now open from Wednesdays to Saturdays, 9.30am to 2pm, much to the delight of its regulars and those who are looking forward to treating themselves to some quality bakes during these
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Berrylands Belles’ Zoom tribute to VE Day’s 75th anniversary 0
- Arts, News
- 8th May 2020
Vera Lynn sang it. The Queen said it. And now the Berrylands Belles have Zoomed it. We’ll Meet Again, the song with which armed forces sweetheart Dame Vera serenaded the troops in World War II, has been recorded by the 50-strong, Surbiton-based, all-women choir while in lockdown. Their rendition of the wartime morale booster is
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Emma Hayes is crowned queen 0
- Chelsea FC Women, News, Sport
- 8th May 2020
Chelsea Women’s gaffer Emma Hayes has been crowned queen of the WSL after winning most fan nominations in a manager-of-the-season and team-of-the-season poll organised by the BBC at the tail end of this strange, truncated footballing year. Blues players Beth England, Magda Eriksson and Millie Bright feature in the team of the year, alongside a
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Artist sketches her lockdown life 0
- Arts, News
- 7th May 2020
Artist Jo Kheir has turned her hand to chronicling her life in lockdown through daily sketches. Jo, who was about to hold her first exhibition of oil paintings, prints, photos, and life drawings in Surbiton, when events were axed because of the coronavirus crisis, is now getting out her sketchpad and producing doodles on things
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