Thames Ditton

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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Will Aldi get the go-ahead?1
- Food, News
- 11th August 2022
Planners have given Aldi a provisional thumbs up to build a supermarket on the former Guy Salmon Jaguar Landrover showroom site in Portsmouth Road – but it will be left to local councillors on Elmbridge’s planning committee to say whether the scheme can go ahead. Will they give the budget supermarket the nod after the
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Your chance to comment on Aldi’s plans for new supermarket 0
- Food, News
- 9th January 2022
You have until Friday (Jan 14) to submit your comments to Elmbridge Borough Council on Aldi’s plans to build a supermarket on the former Guy Salmon Jaguar Land Rover showroom site in Portsmouth Road. The two-storey building, with warehouse and manager’s office above, and 926 sq m shop below, would have parking for 51 cars
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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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BBQ food delivery launch 0
- Food, News
- 7th July 2020
A Surbiton chef who has worked with Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay is running a barbecued food delivery service for Surbiton… Boxed Local. Richard Hards and wife Kaylie, based in Tolworth Road, sold out in their launch week, and business is booming. “We sell by the box – single, double or big – and
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Scottish pipers lead artist’s funeral cortege 0
- Arts, News
- 29th April 2020
Two Scottish pipers led the hearse carrying the body of artist Roy Mackintosh from St Nicholas’ Church in Thames Ditton past his home in Long Ditton this afternoon (Wednesday). Neighbours lined Effingham Road to pay their respects to the fine art specialist who died on April 12 at the age of 61. Roy, who was
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