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Claim your Eat Out discount at riverside’s Ginger Bees Café 0
- Food, News
- 3rd August 2020
Ginger Bees Café along the Queens Promenade off Portsmouth Road is one of the venues taking part in the government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme. Starting today (Monday) and running until the end of the month, it entitles each person to 50 per cent off their bill (excluding alcohol) up to the value of
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Blues look to bounce back 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 2nd August 2020
Chelsea revert to European business on Saturday, trying to put FA Cup disappointment behind them. The Blues have the seemingly hopeless task of reversing a three-goal deficit against Bayern Munich to get to the quarter-finals of the Champions League in Saturday’s return leg, delayed by five months. Truth be told, half the players would rather
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Paddle with Howard on the Surbiton stretch of the Thames on his epic 900-mile circuit 0
- News, Sport
- 2nd August 2020
Look out for this man on the river today (Sunday). Howard Leather is expected to arrive on the Surbiton stretch of the Thames mid afternoon, probably around 3pm. The paddleboard instructor is part of the way through an epic 900-mile circuit of England’s rivers and canals – he has already done well over 300 miles.
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Grey heron goes fishing 0
- Environment, News
- 1st August 2020
This statuesque figure (see picture below) visited the good folk of Ditton Reach the other day. The grey heron, which was strutting its stuff along the riverbank in Long Ditton, was snapped by Good Life deliverer Irene Reece. “The heron lives in Home Park but we have no idea if they have nested as
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New battle over phone mast in Victoria Recreation Ground 0
- Environment, News
- 31st July 2020
EE is appealing against Kingston Council’s decision to refuse its bid to build an 82ft (25m) mobile telephone mast in Victoria Rec. The plan to build the mast (the size of two double decker buses standing on end), a large compound around it, and associated paraphernalia in the Surbiton park off Balaclava Road, was thrown
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Poetry sets tone for cup final 0
- Arts, Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 30th July 2020
When Chelsea and Arsenal face each other at the FA Cup final at Wembley on Saturday afternoon, they’ll not only hear Abide By Me – the traditional pre-match hymn – but also verses of poetry. This final will be like no other in the history of the game, with spectators locked out and the event
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