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Prof Kayoss and chums fight climate change from a yurt 0
- Arts, Environment, News
- 6th October 2021
Professor Kayoss will be entertaining children in a Mongolian Yurt on Sunday. The Tolworth-based professor (aka Des Kay) will be performing to crowds as part of Kingston Arts Festival’s Green Zone event. Other activities in the tent on the field in Wheatfield Way next to Kingston Museum include yoga with Joanna Blundell, readings from local
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Ex-Blue Fara is honoured 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 6th October 2021
On the day Chelsea Women face a stern Champions League test against their old rivals Wolfsburg, one of the club’s former trainees has been inducted into football’s hall of fame. Fara Williams joined Chelsea as a pre-teen before going on to become a star for Everton, Liverpool, Arsenal and Reading, and gaining 172 caps for
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Playwriting workshops at the cornerHOUSE in Surbiton 0
- Arts, News
- 5th October 2021
Improve your writing skills with playwright Susannah Finzi. Suzannah is leading a four-part workshop for budding and established playwrights at the cornerHOUSE in Surbiton on four consecutive Mondays from 7-9.30pm starting next week on October 11. “This is not a ‘how to write’ course,” said Susannah who writes for stage and screen. “My view is
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Currying favour 0
- Food
- 5th October 2021
The Surbiton area’s most innovative curry house is on the shortlist for this year’s Asian Restaurant Awards. Saffron Summer, at the Ace of Spades, Hook, is known for dishes such as wild boar vindaloo, pushing the boundaries of Indian cookery. The awards are open to all Asian and Oriental restaurants in the UK, with 100,000
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A match that had the lot 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 4th October 2021
It’s rare that a match has everything – goals, near misses, red and yellow cards, a penalty, reverberating woodwork, VAR drama… and horizontal rain. But last weekend’s monsoon-soaked clash between Chelsea and Southampton will live long in the memory as every box was ticked. It’s just as well that there’s another international break this weekend.
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A book in full sail 0
- Arts, Sport
- 4th October 2021
Magnificently illustrated and exhaustively researched, Mark Laity’s book celebrating 150 years of the Thames Sailing Club in Portsmouth Road (opposite the junction with Grove Road) is a triumph. Princess Anne was guest of honour at the launch (above), her late father Prince Philip having penned a foreword shortly before his death. He had been the
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