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  • Sushila is the borough’s first lady

    Sushila is the borough’s first lady0

    Berrylands ward councillor Sushila Abraham has been made the new mayor of Kingston. Sushila, who was deputy mayor last year, took over from Cllr Margaret Thompson at the annual council meeting on Tuesday. The borough’s 186th mayor is looking forward to her new role especially at a time when people are coming together again after

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  • Learn scything techniques at Fishponds Park this Saturday

    Learn scything techniques at Fishponds Park this Saturday0

    Learn various scything techniques to help manage the meadow at Surbiton’s Fishponds Park. Kingston’s biodiversity officer Elliot Newton will be leading an introduction to scything at the park off Hollyfield Road from 10am on Saturday (22nd). This traditional way of cutting grass and managing hay meadows, minimises the impact on wildlife. Volunteers can also help

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  • International poetry reading features cornerHOUSE poet

    International poetry reading features cornerHOUSE poet0

    Poet Hilary Walker will read her poem We Are One at an international book launch tomorrow (Thursday). Hilary, who is representing the UK, was one of only six poets to be chosen to read their poems at this prestigious online Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2020 event. We Are One is about being connected together as

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  • Stormy weather

    Stormy weather0

    Dramatic stormclouds over Victoria recreation ground in Surbiton suggest that after a dry April we’re about to get a drenching in May. There’s the ghost of a rainbow detectable in the distance… its end seemingly landing near St Mark’s church! It’s rare to see clouds quite so dark and threatening – Surbiton usually seems to

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  • Grass in nature reserve is cut using scythes to manage meadow

    Grass in nature reserve is cut using scythes to manage meadow0

    Scythers set to at Tolworth Court Farm Moated Manor, a nature reserve off Old Kingston Road. Twelve volunteers were given lessons in scything techniques and then worked their way across the 2.4 acre site, skirting around the yellow meadow ant hills which would have been destroyed if heavy machinery was used to mow the grass,

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  • Find out more about plan to turn verges into wildflower meadows

    Find out more about plan to turn verges into wildflower meadows0

    Have your say on a plan to turn verges into ‘meadows’ full of wildflowers at a virtual WildWays drop-in session. Kingston’s biodiversity officer Elliot Newton, pictured, will be talking about the trial to manage the borough’s verges in a different way to encourage wildflowers to grow and attract more pollinators like butterflies and bumblebees. He

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