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Hayes salutes the ‘new normal’0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 11th June 2020
“We’ll roll with the new normal,” pledged Chelsea Women’s manager Emma Hayes, looking ahead to next season after the Blues were declared winners of the last. In an interview via Zoom, the 43-year-old said she was delighted that the FA had decided that “the most appropriate sporting outcome” of the abandoned Women’s Super League season
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02 applies to build phone mast on Green Belt at cricket ground 0
- Environment, News
- 10th June 2020
It seems to be a war of attrition between mobile phone companies wanting to build telephone masts and the residents whose communities will be affected by them. The latest application on The Good Life’s radar is a bid by Telefonica/02 to build a 69ft (21m) mast at Long Ditton Cricket Club. This follows attempts by
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St Matthew’s bells are back!0
- History, News
- 9th June 2020
Hallelujah! The bells are back! After more than a year away being cleaned, restored and tuned at a foundry in Loughborough, the 145-year-old Ellacombe chimes (the hemispherical spheres seen in this picture) and a 56st, 286-year-old service bell were returned to St Matthew’s Church yesterday (Monday). Essential repair work on the tower and spire and
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Plants stolen from pocket park 0
- Environment, Gardening, News
- 8th June 2020
Thieves scaled a fence and stole these newly-planted geraniums (pictured) and begonias from a little piece of heaven by the Thames. Julian Meers, chair of the Queens Promenade Friends, was dismayed to find that the pocket park opposite Raven’s Ait had been ransacked. “The park has been successfully created over the last year by volunteers
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Lockdown song goes viral 0
- Arts, News
- 7th June 2020
Singing teacher Bec Gresson’s video of her family’s spoof lockdown song has gone viral with 62,000 views on Facebook. Bec, of Grand Avenue, Berrylands, and her children Frank, 12, Kit, 10, and Mabel, 7, sang alternative words which had a lockdown theme to the tune of My Favourite Things sung by Julie Andrews in The
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Umpire needed for cricket club 0
- News, Sport
- 6th June 2020
Can you tell a leg bye from a bye and a no ball from a dead ball? If so, Long Ditton Cricket Club would like to hear from you. The club in Stokes Field off Betts Way, Long Ditton, is looking for a new umpire to officiate its matches. “We are looking for a new
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