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Sim’s exhibition sparkles 0
- Arts, News
- 3rd February 2020
Stained-glass artist Simone Kay has launched an exhibition of her one-a-day pictures at the Rose Theatre in style. Fresh from refurbishing the stained-glass windows of St Andrew’s church in Maple Road, Surbiton, Sim opened the show of her largely local paintings and drawings with a party which also marked her 60th birthday. One particularly special
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We were relentless: Hayes 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 3rd February 2020
It’s hard to imagine two more starkly contrasting reactions after the Blues’ 8-0 win over the Hammers at the weekend. Chelsea Women’s manager Emma Hayes was fighting the urge to grin like a Cheshire cat, while her predecessor, West Ham coach Matt Beard, looked like he’d lost a winning lottery ticket. But it’s not in
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After Eight, anyone?0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 2nd February 2020
Chelsea didn’t so much blow West Ham away as annihilate them. Eight goals were hammered home against the Hammers, with none in reply, and it could have been worse for the Irons in this dramatic east/west clash. Not that the afternoon’s visitors to Kingsmeadow were bad or sloppy or careless. Chelsea Women were simply superb
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Surbiton is a sport leader 0
- News, Sport
- 2nd February 2020
A Surbiton school is not only top 10 for sport, but top 20 for everything! Surbiton High School is the sixth leading independent girls’ senior school in the country for sport, with 70 teams and 3,500 pupil sessions a week. It is also 18th overall in the top 100 independent schools, says School Sport magazine.
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Blues grind out a point 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 1st February 2020
In the end, it was Brendan Rodgers, the Leicester manager, who was most disappointed at the final whistle as the duel against Chelsea, the club where he helped develop many of today’s youth stars, ended in a 2-2 draw. It means that in 14 meetings at the helm of different clubs, Rodgers has still not
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Favourite haunt closes 0
- Food, News
- 31st January 2020
So, farewell then, Surbiton Brasserie, which has closed down. The Victoria Road diner opposite the station (sandwiched between the carpet shop and Headmasters) has been a favourite haunt of Surbitonians since it opened in 2011, especially on mild Saturday mornings when the outside tables would be full of the town’s literati, glitterati and intelligentsia, putting
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