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Format: 2024-11-26
Format: 2024-11-26

Iceland manager punched by well-meaning shopper while tackling women shoplifters

A supermarket manager was taken to hospital after being attacked by a well-meaning passerby as he challenged shoplifters trying to flee his store.

Tribute to 'character and a half' graffiti artist

Family and friends will remember Dean Roberts at his funeral on Monday.

Decapitated cat sparks fears of pet killer on the loose

A devastated Surbiton woman has spoken of her disgust after her kitten had its head and tail cut off.

Kingston prosecutes its first blue badge cheat

A driver was fined nearly £1,000 after she was caught wrongly using her disabled mother in law’s parking badge.

Farmers’ Market to support sensory garden for local school

Shoppers at Surbiton Farmers’ Market this Saturday will be helping to raise funds for a sensory garden for autistic pupils at St Philip’s School in Chessington.

Lucky escape for Surbiton bus smash cyclist

A cyclist who was hit by a bus in Surbiton this morning is out of hospital and has not suffered serious injury.

Cyclist hospitalised after being hit by bus in Surbiton

A cyclist is recovering in hospital after being hit by a bus this morning.

"Too special" Surbiton's filter beds are a "blue lung for our riverside", says Surbiton MP, Edward Davey.

Surbiton's MP, Edward Davey, has this week confirmed he will be opposing the proposed development of the filter beds site by the Portsmouth Road in Surbiton. He has urged local people to back the campaign being organised by the Friends of Seething Wells, a community group with alternative ideas of how this enviromentally and historically special site can be conserved.

Government minister joins guinea pigs and a bath tub on the slopes for Surbiton Ski Sunday

The "bathtub of doom" was a new addition to the wacky community event which sees skiers with ice cubes strapped to their feet negotiate the washing up liquid lubricated 21 metre slope.

Residents urged to have say over new street lights

A historical society has joined a Surbiton councillor in urging residents to make their voices heard over new street lights in Victoria Road.