Surbiton Italian asks for extended drinking and dancing.

The Terrazza restaurant in Ewell Road has applied to Kingston Council for extended hours, hoping to increase their licence to 3am at weekends and 2am on weekdays. Concerned local Darren Cairnes says, "This is a residential neighbourhood and as residents we do not want or need this."

A spokesman for the restaurant said, "We have been here a very long time and have been playing music already but nobody came and complained. Yet once people saw the application that was it."

Kingston Council licensing department were considering the application on January 11.

A group of ten repeatedly punched and kicked the 45-year old after leaving the Saucy Kettle pub.

Police believe they will find the assailants using CCTV footage they have. Detective Sergeant Simon Harding of the Metropolitan Police is calling for witnesses to help identify the group of youths, aged between 15 and 17 and said to be both black and white.

Anyone with information to do with the incident should call 020 8247 4945.

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A 45 year-old nurse from Surbiton in Surrey will come before the Nursing and Midwifery council to face charges of misconduct.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) will hear evidence and if found guilty (of misconduct), registered adult nurse Paul Jackson Duncan will be struck off the register and stopped from working as a nurses.

The PCC will hear that on July 22 2004, Duncan came before Horseferrys Magistrates Court charged making a total of fifteen indecent images of children under the age of sixteen. Duncan was also charged with possession of a total of 71 indecent images of children. For these offenses Duncan was convicted of these offensives and sentenced to six months imprisonment to run concurrently and required to sign the sex offender's register for a total of seven years.

Local clergy fly in a South African bishop to ordain gay deacons.

Earlier this month an ordination was conducted in defiance of the Diocese of Southwark's bishop Rt Rev Dr Tom Butler.

On November 2nd, Revd Richard Coekin unofficially ordained his staff in defiance of the local Bishop's wishes, resulting in the revoking of his license. The ordinations are thought to be backed by an evangelical network called Reform, that are know to protest against bishops stance on gay and lesbian people.