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Live music and tasty treats launch three-mile scenic walk 0
- Environment, News
- 29th May 2021
Join the launch of a three-mile scenic walk from Tolworth to Chessington this Bank Holiday Monday (31st). From 11am to 4pm the Community Brain will be at the Baking Ideas hub next to Tolworth railway station, giving out information about the scenic route which is part of an ongoing wayfinding project with the 121 Collective.
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A weekend of cricket and picnics at Long Ditton’s Stokes Field 0
- News, Sport
- 28th May 2021
Grab your picnic blanket and head off to the picturesque setting of Stokes Field for a weekend of bank holiday cricket. The Hogs, in the form of the Long Ditton Cricket Club’s 2nd XI, will be hosting Wallington CC at the ground off Betts Way tomorrow (Saturday) 1pm start in a Fuller’s Brewery Surrey County League Division 1 fixture.
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Three tower project for Tolworth Broadway is refused by planners 0
- Environment, News
- 25th May 2021
Plans to add two more high-rise blocks to Tolworth Broadway and build 499 new homes in a scheme which also involved turning the existing Tolworth Tower into flats have hit the buffers as Kingston council threw out the proposal, pictured, by developers Meadow Partners. Ten reasons were cited by planners as to why the application
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Sushila is the borough’s first lady 0
- News
- 21st May 2021
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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Find out more about plan to turn verges into wildflower meadows 0
- Environment, News
- 14th May 2021
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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Take part in planting project to aid reintroduction of water voles 0
- Environment, News
- 12th May 2021
Help make the Hogsmill River water-vole friendly by sifting, sorting and planting marginal, aquatic and bankside plants tomorrow (Thursday). The event is part of Surbiton-based Citizen Zoo’s Water Vole Conservation Project. Meet outside Gate 1 of Thames Water’s Hogsmill Sewage Treatment Works in Lower Marsh Lane at 10am (parking up the road at the Hogsmill
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