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Ji hits ton as fans return 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 4th December 2020
Chelsea’s Korean midfielder Ji So-Yun will become the first non-Brit to reach 100 appearances in the Women’s Super League if she’s selected on Sunday lunchtime for the London derby against West Ham… in front of real fans once again. In all, 700 supporters are being allowed into Kingsmeadow, each having to fill in a two-side
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Pop-up Sunday Christmas markets open in new hair salon 0
- Arts, Food, News
- 4th December 2020
Surbiton has two pop-up Christmas markets to look forward to thanks to the high street’s new stylist Andrew Thompson, pictured. Socially distanced stalls will be set out in Salon No13 at 13A Victoria Road this Sunday (December 6) and on Sunday, December 13, noon-4pm, with the hairdressing chairs removed to create the market space. Masks
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E-bike hubs promised at railways stations and shopping centres 0
- Environment, News
- 3rd December 2020
A fleet of electric bikes will be arriving in the borough in January. Kingston’s Sustainable Transport team is working with electric bike provider Human Forest to bring around 100 bikes to the borough, building up to around 500 next spring. The bikes are operated via a smartphone app and the anticipated cost to hire one
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Be part of a virtual Christmas Tree Festival and win a rosette!0
- Arts, News
- 1st December 2020
Take a photo of your decorated Christmas tree – big or small, real or artificial – send it to Maple Village WI and be part of its Virtual Christmas Tree Festival. You could even win a virtual rosette! “We’re sooooo excited to be hosting our first Christmas Tree Festival!” said the president of the WI’s
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The perfect day out?0
- Opinion
- 27th November 2020
Let’s take a moment from the absolute disgrace that is 2020, and focus on the important fact that the Coronation clocktower by the entrance to Waitrose car park is rated on Tripadvisor as the fifth best thing to do in Surbiton. I told you this was important. If you’re surprised by this, then perhaps, like
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Hands of God 0
- Arts
- 27th November 2020
Surbiton’s parlour walls boast many fines works of art… but also this, which graces our landing at home. I painted the footballer (who was buried today in Buenos Aires following his untimely death) a few years after the infamous Hand of God goal, and entered it into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1992, replete
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