THE OWNERS of a new Surbiton estate agents are going to donate money to charity for every letting or sale they make.

Jim Akerman and Hammad Afzal, owners of Avenu, in Brighton Road, will give a fixed amount of £50 for every sale and £15 for every letting to their chosen charities, Special Olympics Surrey and Councillor Shiraz Mirza's Pakistan Flood appeal.

The pair want to give something back to the community and are hoping that as the business expands they will be able to donate larger sums to help the two causes.

After 87 years on top of Richmond Hill, the iconic Royal Star and Garter home is moving.

HUNDREDS of postal workers descended on Fairfield Park on Saturday to protest government plans to privatise the Royal Mail.

Flags, banners and placards were on show as workers from all over the country visited the town to oppose the plans, which are being pushed through by postal affairs minister and Kingston and Surbiton MP Ed Davey.

Speakers from the Communications Workers Union (CWU) addressed the crowds before leading the postal workers on a march through the town centre.

TO CELEBRATE their 10th anniversary, a Surbiton osteopath surgery is turning the clocks back to charge customers the prices they were when they first opened.

This year celebrates a decade since Ace Osteopaths opened in Surbiton, and owners Oliver and Kathy O'Callaghan Brown are hoping to reminisce.

As a thank you to their customers, they are changing their prices for one week in February to those that they were charging in 2001.

The long-running campaign for a major new healthcare building on the Surbiton Hospital site could be entering its final stages.

A YOUNGSTER from Ham is looking for local businesses to help her achieve her dreams of becoming a professional gymnast.

Nine year old Jasmine Wildey trains for more than 13 hours a week before and after school as a gymnast at the Heathrow Gymnastic Club.

Her dream is to become a professional and her teachers, including Spelbound star Adam McAssey, believe that she has the potential to achieve this.

However the cost of travel, leotards, tracksuits and competition entrance fees have put a heavy financial strain on her parents Sasha and Lee.

A Witness appeal has been launched following the death of a Surbiton man after he was hit by a motorbike earlier this year.

A PROLIFIC Kingston burglar who preyed on the elderly and the vulnerable has been jailed for six years.

On Tuesday, James Anthony Mark Hall, 34, was sentenced to six years after admitting to five burglaries and and four years after admitting to two attempted burglaries.

The sentences are to run concurrently.

Hall had been targeting elderly residential and warden assisted care homes since 2009 in the Kingston, Surbiton and Wimbledon area.

A Surbiton house that was being used as a cannabis farm went up in flames in the early hours of Monday morning.

NHS Kingston have submitted planning applications to redevelop Surbiton Hospital with a brand new health care centre and primary school.