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BBQ food delivery launch 0
- Food, News
- 7th July 2020
A Surbiton chef who has worked with Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay is running a barbecued food delivery service for Surbiton… Boxed Local. Richard Hards and wife Kaylie, based in Tolworth Road, sold out in their launch week, and business is booming. “We sell by the box – single, double or big – and
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Meet Henrietta, the ladybird!0
- Arts, News
- 6th July 2020
A Surbiton author who writes in rhyming couplets has published a book for under fives about a ladybird’s garden adventures. Ayesha Benson’s vividly illustrated The Adventures of Henrietta: Hello Henrietta! marks her debut. “I’ve lived in Surbiton for nine years with my husband, and we now have a toddler who many will quite likely have
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Na-Na-Na-Na, Bye Ramona!0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 4th July 2020
The Chelsea Women’s player with the best fans’ song has transferred to Paris Saint-Germain. The Blues’ Swiss miss, Ramona Bachmann, has signed a two-year deal with PSG, and is already in training with her new club. The 29-year-old joined Chelsea from VfL Wolfsburg in January 2017, making 88 appearances and scoring 19 goals. Her ‘theme’
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Doorstep portraits raise money for Mind and chronicle history 0
- Arts, News
- 4th July 2020
We are living through history – there is no doubt about it – and photographer Amy Murrell has been capturing what has been keeping us safe in these unprecedented times – our homes. Amy, of Upper Brighton Road, Surbiton, has been taking pictures of local residents on their doorsteps – the place where we stood
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Waste not, want not, but wait ’til we’re open! say charity shops 0
- Environment, News
- 3rd July 2020
‘DO NOT fly-tip outside our shop!!’ reads the notice on the door of the Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation charity shop in Tolworth Broadway. The instruction has gone unheeded. Second-hand clothes are dumped in a huge pile which reaches right up to the letter box of the store which supports disabled people. They aren’t even in bags
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Hunger v smugness 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 2nd July 2020
West Ham, desperate for points and starved of success, overpowered rivals Chelsea who – to their shame – turned up at the London Stadium for this midweek league derby smugly expecting a simple win. On paper, the Blues should have beaten the Irons. Especially as the vast echoing bowl of a stadium lacked a baying
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