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Treat your mum to a special cookbook for Mothering Sunday 0
- Arts, Food, News
- 8th March 2021
Stuck deciding what to buy mum for Mother’s Day this coming Sunday? Why not give her a cookbook of fabulous recipes courtesy of the parents and children at two local schools? It’s also a chunk of lockdown history too. The Friends of Long Ditton St Mary’s Infants and Junior Schools have created a Lockdown LOVE
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Interested in the fashion business? Read on…0
- Arts, News
- 7th March 2021
Virginia Grose is one of those people who always looks effortlessly glamorous. Meeting her in Claremont Gardens on a bitterly cold day to talk about her new book was no exception – Virginia oozes style. It’s probably something to do with her 40 years working in the fashion business. The course director of Fashion Business
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Deserted Ted awaits rescue 1
- News
- 6th March 2021
There are few things as sad in life as an abandoned teddy bear. This fellow – once loved, once cuddled – lies by the bins beside flats in St James’ Road, Surbiton. He’s going a bit green round the gills, his stuffing is starting to show, but he still wears the kind of fixed grin
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It’s showtime at the cornerHOUSE online!0
- Arts, News
- 3rd March 2021
A stunning bedroom version of the Stones’ anthem Honky Tonk Woman is one of the acts in an online variety night organised by Surbiton’s cornerHOUSE arts centre this Friday. The hour-long show, which includes recordings of poetry, comedy and stage drama, is available from 7.30pm… and it’s free. All you have to do is reserve
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Support young talent and join dance and disco fundraisers 0
- Arts, News
- 26th February 2021
Three dance classes and a disco will take place on Sunday afternoon (Feb 28) via Zoom to raise money to support young artistic talent. The event is a fundraiser for Kingston-based Creative Youth’s talent programme which identifies and nurtures young and emerging artists and companies. Jason Piper (former lead swan in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake)
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What makes the global fashion industry tick? New book tells all 0
- Arts, News
- 25th February 2021
Want to know what turns the cogs of the fast-moving, multi-million pound fashion industry? Read Virginia Grose’s book A Practical Guide To The Fashion Industry: Concept to Customer out today (Thursday). This is the second edition of her Basics Fashion Management series containing all-new international case studies, interviews and attention-grabbing images of the catwalk, prêt-à-porter and couture.
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