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Mayor bashes balsam and opens boardwalk at Six Acre Meadow 0
- Environment, News
- 7th July 2021
Cllr Sushila Abraham gets stuck in with a spot of Himalayan Balsam bashing. The mayor of Kingston set to work tackling the invasive plant which has a stranglehold on Tolworth’s Six Acre Meadow which borders the Hogsmill River. She was joined by Kingston’s biodiversity officer Elliot Newton, also pictured, as well as Alexandra ward’s Cllr
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Grass in nature reserve is cut using scythes to manage meadow 0
- Environment, News
- 16th May 2021
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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Record-breaking sales as British Heart Foundation opens its doors 0
- News
- 14th April 2021
Charity shops in Surbiton were doing good business on Monday as shoppers hit the stores. The British Heart Foundation in Victoria Road proved particularly popular with an orderly socially distanced queue forming outside for most of the day. Despite some of the charity’s shops in Scotland and all in Northern Ireland remaining closed, BHF, which funds
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Long Ditton is yarn bombed for schools’ Easter fundraiser 0
- Arts, News
- 4th April 2021
Happy Easter! The lychgate at St Mary’s Church, Long Ditton, and other sites around the area have been yarn bombed to raise money for two local schools. The Friends of Long Ditton Infant and Nursery and St Mary’s Junior Schools have organised the yarn bombing by various community groups including parishoners and the local guides
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Try a vegan burger and other treats at Tolworth station pop-up 0
- Food, News
- 1st April 2021
Emma Egerton will be holding her next vegan pop-up takeaway/drive-thru at Tolworth railway station on Saturday (April 3). On the menu at the Baking Ideas community kitchen next to the station is homemade burgers (chickpea masala, mushroom and black rice, black bean), fries and slaw, a hot dish of the day (roasted veg stew with
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Tell community survey what you think of your local green space 0
- Environment, News
- 5th February 2021
The Community Brain – the events and community regeneration group – is asking people to take part in a survey about Tolworth’s green and open spaces. “We’re running a community survey and would love people’s thoughts about what is important to them about the green and open spaces in Tolworth and their ideas for how
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