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Traffic scheme and care home to be discussed at Surbiton meeting 0
- Environment, News
- 20th July 2021
Two controversial schemes will be up for discussion at this Thursday’s (22nd) Surbiton Neighbourhood Committee. Councillors will decide whether to keep, remove or modify the low traffic neighbourhood barrier in King Charles Road, near the junction with Beaconsfield Road by Coffee On The Corner (above), after they have heard the views of members of the
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Plan to demolish Victorian care home and build six-storey block 0
- Environment, News
- 31st May 2021
Developers want to bulldoze a two-storey care home in Adelaide Road, Surbiton, and build a six-storey, 60-bed building in its place. Willow Grange Care Home, which offers respite, nursing and dementia care at its base at 1-3 Adelaide Road near the junction with St Mark’s Hill, wants to replace its existing Victorian building (below) built
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Emotional reunions at Royal Star & Garter care home for veterans 0
- News
- 26th March 2021
Residents at the Royal Star & Garter in Surbiton have held hands with loved ones for the first time in a year, with the beginning of indoor visiting, yesterday (Thursday). It marked their first physical contact with relatives since the Covid-19 lockdown began in March last year. New government guidelines permit a single, designated visitor
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Veterans mark Armistice Day with services at care home 0
- History, News
- 11th November 2020
Veterans at the Royal Star & Garter Home in Surbiton have marked Armistice Day today (Wednesday) with services on each of its three floors (to allow for social distancing), tea and cake, and nearby Shrewsbury House School laying a wreath outside the Upper Brighton Road building. On Remembrance Sunday (November 8), veterans watched the annual
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Veterans enjoy a taste of the Caribbean at care home 0
- Food, News
- 27th August 2020
The taste of rum, the smell of delicious seafood and the sound of steelpans were among the exotic treats enjoyed by residents at the Royal Star & Garter in Surbiton during a Caribbean party at the veterans’ care home. The charity’s home in Upper Brighton Road was given a makeover for the celebration, with exotic
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Berrylands solicitor becomes lockdown deputy mayor 0
- News
- 11th May 2020
Berrylands has a new deputy mayor in its midst. Sushila Abraham, who has represented the ward since a by-election in 2013, has replaced Cllr Munir Ravalia in the role. Kingston council’s mayor-making was due to take place tomorrow (Tuesday) but due to the lockdown, the Annual Meeting, at which the mayor and deputy are selected, was
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