“Forget Me Not Walks” charity will be holding one of their colourful walks from Teddington Lock on Sunday 2nd May. The 10k walk will take the participants on a picturesque route along the riverside path past Ham House, through historic Richmond and the Old Deer Park of Richmond Palace, along the riverside at Kew Gardens…
Details of strange occurrences at Teddington Studios are listed here on www.ghostdatabase.co.uk. After Auction World set up at the studios in 2001, staff experienced many strange and unexplained events including orbs of light, whispering voices, doors jamming for minutes at a time. One particular event included all studio doors jamming shut for two minutes during…
Lots of correspondence has been exchanged since local residents started to voice their concerns over the new fences at Teddington and the protests are showing no signs of letting up. The Teddington Society has officially written to South West Trains and Network Rail asking for full clarification of the circumstances and reasoning for the new…
The union that represents specialists at NPL is to hold a vote on industrial action after being told by owners Serco that there would be a “pay pause” instead of pay rises. The laboratories have already gone through 24 job losses this year – Vince Cable brought this matter in a debate at Westminster to…
A charity evening at the Anglers is turning out to be an event not to be missed. Buying one of the hottest tickets in town will get you a three course dinner under a river marquee, live music by The Fake Band and entertainment from ventriloquist Paul Zerdin (previously performed at the Royal Variety Performance…
Local cameraman Alan Benns is currently in the process of recording several local video projects – one is documenting aspects of the grade II listed treasure-trove that is Normansfield Theatre. Specifically the recent authentic “Old Time Music Hall” production at the theatre – events such as this help raise funds to keep the theatre in…
It’s certainly a time where air traffic has been on local residents minds. At the end of March, groups protesting against a third runway at Heathrow celebrated their court victory with a conga line at the airport. The surprise ruling means that the decision to expand the airport must now be reconsidered with respect to…
Don’t let the few days of warm spring sunshine fool you, the area is still feeling the effects of the coldest winter in 30 years. Around the country trees are still without leaves despite some species usually having a glorious full bloom by this time each year. As reported by the Daily Mail, until recently…
Want to grill your election candidates about local issues? If so then here is a date for your diary – Thursday 22nd of April. Churches Together in Teddington and Hampton have organised a local hustings for Twickenham candidates at Teddington Baptist Church on this evening (7:30pm). Also Richmond Environmental Information Centre (REIC) is holding a…
Here’s an interesting article from The Guardian about the rise in use of DNA analysis to solve crimes and how LGC (headquartered in Teddington) works with the police & crime enforcement agencies and increasingly private sector companies to provide this service. LGC Forensics has helped solve some high-profile police cases such as the murder of…