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YouTube broadcast on urban wildlife 0
- Environment, News
- 28th March 2020
Surbiton’s wildlife champion Elliot Newton will be broadcasting live at midday today (Saturday) on the Earth LIVE Lessons YouTube channel. Elliot, who masterminded last summer’s WILD Kingston event at the Rose Theatre, and who spearheads local environmental and conservation projects at Fishponds Park, Berrylands Nature Reserve and Tolworth Court Farm, will be discussing urban nature.
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Season ends for football clubs 0
- News, Sport
- 27th March 2020
Kingstonian and Corinthian-Casuals’ season has come to an abrupt end. The Tolworth-based football clubs, who groundshare at King George’s Field off Hook Rise South, learned yesterday (Thursday) that no further games will take place in the Isthmian League Premier Division in which both teams play. There had been a temporary halt to fixtures since March
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Raab stands by to take charge 0
- News
- 27th March 2020
Long Ditton MP Dominic Raab is standing by to take charge of the coronavirus crisis as acting PM after Downing Street confirmed that the latest Covid-19 victim is Boris Johnson. The prime minister is said to have ‘mild symptoms’ and will self-isolate at No10. “He was tested for coronavirus on the personal advice of England’s
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Rules waived on registering births 0
- News
- 27th March 2020
Parents won’t be penalised if they haven’t registered the birth of their child within 42 days. Kingston Council is waiving the rules during the coronavirus crisis. “Birth registration appointments and Notice of Marriage appointments have been cancelled,” said a spokesman for Kingston Register Office. “Please be assured that parents will not be penalised in these
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Guildhall coup! Leader ousted 4
- News
- 26th March 2020
There’s been a coup at the Guildhall. As the prime minister was ordering the coronavirus lockdown of the nation, Liz Green was being unseated as Kingston Council leader. A councillor for 18 years and local Liberal Democrat leader for seven, Cllr Green was challenged, and narrowly defeated, by former ITN reporter Caroline Kerr, who became
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Playgrounds close in social distancing clampdown 0
- News
- 26th March 2020
Playgrounds in Surbiton, normally full of boisterous and excited children, have fallen silent after Kingston council’s decision to close them all on Monday. “Following the government’s announcement on social distancing and the need to stay indoors, we have decided to close children’s playgrounds in parks and housing estates,” said a Kingston Council spokesperson who added
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