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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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Bring on the She Wolves 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 4th October 2021
Posing for a selfie with a fan at the Chelsea v Brighton game are Lauren James and Maren Mjelde. “I’ll be back soon,” Mjelde told the supporter when asked about her return to fitness Brighton were exactly the kind of challenging opposition Chelsea Women needed ahead of the all-important hosting of Wolfsburg in the
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We’re singing in the rain 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 3rd October 2021
Picture: Chelsea FC It’s a rare day when Chelsea’s women and men BOTH win 3-1 at home, on the same afternoon and in the kind of incessant monsoon rain that shrieks ‘climate change’. But it happened on Saturday, with the women’s kick-off time against Hope Powell’s Brighton & Hove Albion brought forward to 11.30am
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Blues face City in the cup 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 30th September 2021
Chelsea have been drawn away to Manchester City in one of the semi-finals of the (delayed) FA Cup from last season, with the tie due to take place on Halloween. In the other cup semi, Arsenal have a seemingly easier home tie against Brighton. At stake, a place in the final at Wembley on December
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