Fire rages at garden centre
- Environment, Gardening, News
- 17th July 2020
Surbiton has another pop-up Christmas market to look forward to tomorrow (Sunday). Socially distanced stalls will be set out in Salon No13 at 13A Victoria Road on December 13 from noon-4pm, with the hairdressing chairs removed to create the market space. Local arts and crafts businesses showing off their wares this Sunday include That’s Sew Phee,
READ MOREA 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
READ MOREThis remarkably chatty crow, seen here in silhouette against the autumnal colours of Claremont Gardens, shared my company (and a cinnamon bun from the station’s Feeka coffee takeaway), so I thought I’d test out its knowledge. Well, I wasn’t disappointed, and I’m now thinking of putting him (or her) forward as a future Mastermind contender.
READ MOREBerrylands-based Citizen Zoo has raised £18,250 to bring water voles back to the Hogsmill River. The rewilding group’s fundraiser smashed its original £12,000 target. The extra money will now help recruit a dedicated water vole officer to manage the scheme and scale the project beyond the Hogsmill River to the Thames. The next two years will
READ MOREDoes this look like a gathering of Coprinus comatus to you? Or do you know them by any of their other names – shaggy ink cap, lawyer’s wig or shaggy mane? They were spotted by one of our Good Life deliverers in a front garden in Woodstock Lane North, Long Ditton. The fungi, a gilled
READ MOREThis was the bountiful haul when volunteers cleared the dense undergrowth around the tennis courts in Victoria recreation ground; 50 lost balls (some slightly chewed). The community rallied to spruce up Victoria rec, trim unruly foliage, pick up litter and dramatically improve the Victoria Avenue entrance’s flowerbeds. Twenty five volunteers from the Friends group used
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