Surbiton

Join online meeting on plan to build more towers in Tolworth 0
- Environment, News
- 11th March 2021
Is this how Tolworth will look in 2025? The consultation to discuss multiple towers in The Broadway takes place tonight (Thursday) during an online Surbiton neighbourhood committee meeting. You can see and hear what the developers Meadow Partners propose for the existing 22 storey tower and its proposed new 19 and 15 storey siblings (a
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Trees get lockdown haircuts 0
- Environment, News
- 10th March 2021
At least the trees in Lovelace Road and Lovelace Gardens, Surbiton, have been getting lockdown haircuts this week! Roll on April 12 when hairdressers will be allowed to lop and shape our untamed tresses – coronavirus restrictions permitting!
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Treat your mum to a special cookbook for Mothering Sunday 0
- Arts, Food, News
- 8th March 2021
Stuck deciding what to buy mum for Mother’s Day this coming Sunday? Why not give her a cookbook of fabulous recipes courtesy of the parents and children at two local schools? It’s also a chunk of lockdown history too. The Friends of Long Ditton St Mary’s Infants and Junior Schools have created a Lockdown LOVE
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Interested in the fashion business? Read on…0
- Arts, News
- 7th March 2021
Virginia Grose is one of those people who always looks effortlessly glamorous. Meeting her in Claremont Gardens on a bitterly cold day to talk about her new book was no exception – Virginia oozes style. It’s probably something to do with her 40 years working in the fashion business. The course director of Fashion Business
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Deserted Ted awaits rescue 1
- News
- 6th March 2021
There are few things as sad in life as an abandoned teddy bear. This fellow – once loved, once cuddled – lies by the bins beside flats in St James’ Road, Surbiton. He’s going a bit green round the gills, his stuffing is starting to show, but he still wears the kind of fixed grin
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What makes the global fashion industry tick? New book tells all 0
- Arts, News
- 25th February 2021
Want to know what turns the cogs of the fast-moving, multi-million pound fashion industry? Read Virginia Grose’s book A Practical Guide To The Fashion Industry: Concept to Customer out today (Thursday). This is the second edition of her Basics Fashion Management series containing all-new international case studies, interviews and attention-grabbing images of the catwalk, prêt-à-porter and couture.
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