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  • Punters enjoy pints in the Black Lion’s garden as pub reopens

    Punters enjoy pints in the Black Lion’s garden as pub reopens0

    Mark Sheehy was as pleased as punch. The landlord of the Black Lion was back pulling pints again yesterday (Monday) and the garden of the pub in Brighton Road, Surbiton, was full of people enjoying them. “It has been such a relief – fantastic to open,” said the overjoyed publican. “I was a bit worried

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  • The day that the old buses escaped from the museum

    The day that the old buses escaped from the museum0

    It was the day the bus museum exhibits broke free! With Covid preventing the people attending the annual open day at the London Bus Museum in Brooklands, the old buses decided to take matters into their own hands and return to the people. Routemasters and other grand dames from the golden era of the 40s,

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  • Market organisers can’t wait to see lovers of food and drink

    Market organisers can’t wait to see lovers of food and drink0

    Tolworth market is back tomorrow (Sunday)! The First in Tolworth market, from 11am to 3pm in the sliproad off Tolworth Broadway opposite Our Lady Immaculate Church, will be a food-and-drink-only affair this time, but the organisers hope to welcome back its arts and crafters in May (Covid guidelines permitting). There is plenty of room for

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  • All aboard for a coronavirus test!

    All aboard for a coronavirus test!0

    A coronavirus test is coming to a street near you! Kingston council has new two new Covid-19 testing buses which will be touring the borough. Tomorrow (Friday) one will be stopping outside Tolworth Infant and Nursery School in School Lane off Red Lion Road, while the other will be outside the Hook Centre off Elm

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  • Gardening club grows new shoots

    Gardening club grows new shoots1

    Keen to swap plants and seeds, share gardening tips, and go on outings to stunning gardens? Then why not join a Surbiton-based gardening group? Membership of the English Gardening Club is free and there’s an active WhatsApp group where suggestions for visits to National Garden Scheme, Open Gardens or RHS venues and garden centres are

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  • Brief, but glorious

    Brief, but glorious0

    What a brief, glorious flourish! Surbiton’s magnolia trees bloomed in the last days of March, hit their peak on March 30… yet within days prompted shouts of: ‘Mind where you put your feet, Tarquin, those slimy petals make the pavements slippery.’ This stunning specimen is on the Long Ditton/Surbiton boundary, where Balaclava Road, St Mary’s

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