Long Ditton

Fox is in flower 0
- Environment, Food
- 15th July 2021
Just as a long sunny weekend looms, the Limping Fox has brightened up its frontage with a display of colourful hanging baskets. The Long Ditton pub has a huge garden at the back, but is now also bright and inviting at the front as well.
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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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Stormy weather 0
- Environment, News
- 18th May 2021
Dramatic stormclouds over Victoria recreation ground in Surbiton suggest that after a dry April we’re about to get a drenching in May. There’s the ghost of a rainbow detectable in the distance… its end seemingly landing near St Mark’s church! It’s rare to see clouds quite so dark and threatening – Surbiton usually seems to
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Scissors out as Salon No. 13 chops those lockdown locks 0
- News
- 15th April 2021
Andrew Thompson is beaming from ear to ear. The hair stylist who runs Salon No. 13 is back to what he does best – trimming, cutting and shaping the locks of locals. What did he feel about being open again after months of lockdown? “Overjoyed and overwhelmed by the support that we have received from
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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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Punters enjoy pints in the Black Lion’s garden as pub reopens 0
- Food, News
- 13th April 2021
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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