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Format: 2024-11-28
Format: 2024-11-28

New name and new image for Surbiton pub

A Surbiton pub has re-opened after a refurbishment under a new name and new management.

Simon Callow, Alex Higgins and Bollywood come to Kingston for Festival of Stories

Humans have been telling stories for hundreds of thousands of years – it’s how we passed down our history and culture, and still do to this day.

Fainting Tolworth teenager completes Three Peak Challenge

A Tolworth teenager who faints up to eight times a day has successfully completed a three-mountains challenge.

Two Surbiton robberies linked, detectives believe

Two robberies in Surbiton - including one where a woman was threatened at knifepoint - could be linked, detectives believe.

Less than green: Tolworth Greenway cypress trees on their last legs

A set of “hardy” trees planted on the controversial Tolworth Greenway appear to be on their last legs – just six months after the regeneration scheme was completed.

'I didn't give up': Mum-of-two still hoped soldier husband was alive after going missing on D-Day

Vi Butler’s husband William – known to her and his friends as Ben, after Big Ben, due to his height – was killed during the landings in Normandy, though she did not find out for sure until a year later.

Man missing from Surbiton

Police are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing 47-year-old man from Surbiton.

Get your feet out for the street

Street Child Africa (SCA), a UK-based charity (SURBITON) is urging people to ‘get their feet out for the street’ on Barefoot Friday (20th June 2014) and take a #footsie (a picture of their bare feet).

New plans for three-storey building and flats on Surbiton vacant lot

Surbiton’s extensive Georgian housing could have a new neighbour if a plan to build new flats is given the go-ahead.

College Roundabout roadworks delayed until Sunday night

Roadworks in Kingston which have caused misery for commuters over the last week will not be completed until Sunday, Kingston Council has said.

Temporary traffic lights at College Roundabout have caused tailbacks along Penrhyn Road and through the one-way system as water pipes are installed at the new 1 Penrhyn Road student flats development. The work was due to finish tomorrow. Kingston Council said today the work would continue until Sunday night, June 8, with new diversions in place to get rid of temporary lights at the roundabout.