river Thames

Take a punt…0
- Sport
- 13th March 2024
The beautiful varnished boats are works of art in themselves, but Dittons Skiff and Punting Club, in its centenary year, is very much an active sporting enterprise. Based next to The Albany pub in Thames Ditton, its purpose-built clubhouse, gym and boathouse is the envy of other Thames outfits as a new season on the
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Gucci adds style to the Queens Prom pocket park celebrations 0
- Environment, Food, News
- 11th May 2021
Gucci, the seventeen-and-a-half-year-old Pomeranian terrier, was enjoying a day out along the Queens Prom today (Tuesday). He was watching the mayor of Kingston Cllr Margaret Thompson, cut a ribbon to mark the third year of the Queens Promenade Friends’ group and their creation of the colourful pocket park around a formerly disused caretaker’s hut, and
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Enjoy a barbie on the river 0
- Food, News
- 16th April 2021
The smell of burgers, sausages and juicy skewers will be wafting over the Thames today (Friday) and over the weekend. Ravens Ait is holding a barbecue weekend and everyone is invited! The Beer, Bar and BBQ event will run this Friday, Saturday and Sunday (April 16-18) and next weekend (April 23-25) and then on May
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Claim your Eat Out discount at riverside’s Ginger Bees Café 0
- Food, News
- 3rd August 2020
Ginger Bees Café along the Queens Promenade off Portsmouth Road is one of the venues taking part in the government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme. Starting today (Monday) and running until the end of the month, it entitles each person to 50 per cent off their bill (excluding alcohol) up to the value of
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Paddle with Howard on the Surbiton stretch of the Thames on his epic 900-mile circuit 0
- News, Sport
- 2nd August 2020
Look out for this man on the river today (Sunday). Howard Leather is expected to arrive on the Surbiton stretch of the Thames mid afternoon, probably around 3pm. The paddleboard instructor is part of the way through an epic 900-mile circuit of England’s rivers and canals – he has already done well over 300 miles.
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Grey heron goes fishing 0
- Environment, News
- 1st August 2020
This statuesque figure (see picture below) visited the good folk of Ditton Reach the other day. The grey heron, which was strutting its stuff along the riverbank in Long Ditton, was snapped by Good Life deliverer Irene Reece. “The heron lives in Home Park but we have no idea if they have nested as
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