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Watching B-movies in lockdown 0
- Environment, Gardening
- 31st May 2020
There’s a buzz in the garden in Surbiton this weekend as visiting bumblebees queue up to enjoy our flowering bottlebrush plant. When the callistemon is blooming and the sun is shining, the pollen collectors are out in force… often hanging upside-down on the flower heads – presumably because the species originated in Australia. No lockdown
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Evie, 15, is finalist in national songwriting contest 0
- Arts, News
- 30th May 2020
Tolworth Girls’ School pupil Evie Burnett has reached the finals of a national songwriting contest. Evie, 15, who writes under the name of Lilith Bee [Lilith is her middle name, and Bee as her nickname is Evie B] is down to the top ten out of 700 entrants. The top three in the Song Academy’s
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Online fair for lockdown crafters 0
- Arts, Environment, News
- 29th May 2020
Local crafters are coming together this weekend (in a virtual way!) to sell their wares and raise money for two local charities which have been making a difference during the pandemic. The KT Online Craft Fair which runs over four days from today (Friday) until Monday will showcase the work of craft-makers from all over
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Have you a story to tell?0
- Arts, News
- 28th May 2020
What are your thoughts on lockdown? How has it been for you – frustrating, therapeutic, emotional, draining, isolating, lonely, inspiring, energising, revelatory…? Are you now seeing things in a new light? Has anything happened to you be it funny or sad that you want to get off your chest? Surbiton TV documentary maker Dan Howell,
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So, when did Maple Road become a trendy ‘village’?4
- Food, History
- 27th May 2020
Tree-lined, elegant, stylish and, of course, the home of Surbiton’s hugely popular farmers’ market, Maple Road has had its own distinctive identity for a century and a half. But when did it gain the ‘Maple village’ tag so beloved of estate agents, and adopted by the busy Maple Village WI? Here’s a look back in
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Residents object to phone mast on village green 0
- Environment, News
- 26th May 2020
A proposal to build a 49ft mobile telephone mast on the village green opposite a junior school has brought a deluge of objections from Long Ditton residents. So far 165 objections to the proposal to build the 15 metre EE mast on the green space opposite Long Ditton St Mary’s Junior School and near to
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