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Niku: a bold venue 0
- Food
- 28th November 2019
It’s changed (it was Italian eatery Casa Viva), but now Niku has a fresh, gloriously OTT image, with flower-covered walls, marble tables, party basement, an enticing menu, and warm welcome from the Albanian Zega family, who have upgraded the venue and named it after a favourite uncle. The restaurant/cocktail bar in Ewell Road (just steps
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The holy spirit 0
- Food
- 28th November 2019
Surbiton’s oldest church, St Mark’s, has launched its own gin to help fund organ renovation. Blomfield’s Batch No1, infused with Berrylands nettles, will also benefit the sister church, St Andrew’s in Maple Road. The Rev Robert Stanier hopes it will prove a popular Christmas gift for parishioners. “It costs £200,000 a year to run our
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Crossroads rakes in the cash 0
- News
- 28th November 2019
A crossroads in Surbiton is proving a cash cow for the council as umpteen motorists are ticketed in the stop-start, roadworks-jinxed Ewell Road. The yellow box junction at the Elgar Avenue lights is a champion income generator, pumping tens of thousands of pounds into the local authority’s coffers. From January to the end of September
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Chuffed by youth turnout 0
- News
- 28th November 2019
More youngsters than ever spent the weekend playing trains as Tolworth Showtrain pulled in to Tolworth Recreation Centre on Nov 9 & 10.| “They may have been inspired by The Great Model Railway Challenge series on TV,” said show organiser John Noorani of Hampton Court Model Railway Society which meets at the centre on Sundays.
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Adult education is axed in Surbiton 2
- News
- 28th November 2019
The King Charles Centre, hub of adult education in Surbiton, has been sold off for £3million to become a new free school. Courses will move to Kingston, upsetting many of the centre’s 3,000 users. “It’s terrible news,” one art student told The Good Life. “We love coming here.” Staff are putting a brave face on
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New estate plan is overruled 0
- News
- 28th November 2019
It’s back to the drawing board for the would-be developer of an estate of nine new homes in the Southborough Conservation Area. Councillors rejected Daniel Less’ bid to build four and five-bedroom properties on the site of a large house in Corkran Road, destroyed by fire more than four years ago. Surbiton’s neighbourhood committee turned
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