By Ted Young, former editor of The Metro newspaper and Richmond resident. (This article first appeared in the Sunday Telegraph and online) I actually thought it was a bad joke when I heard that, earlier this month, a woman had been hounded and fined £150 by not one but three enforcement officers for…
For many of a certain age and generation the soft, distinctive and reassuring voice of JUSTIN WEBB is the one we wake up to in the mornings between 6am and 9am for Radio Four’s long-running Today programme. Justin, 64, who has worked for the BBC for 41 years will be in conversation with top journalist…
By Tom Bevan A young Teddington man forced out of the British Army on medical grounds died fighting for the foreign legion in Ukraine, an inquest heard today (Tuesday) Jake Waddington, 33, suffered fatal fragment injuries from “either a shell or drone attack” after several months battling the Russian forces on the front line. The…
Thames Water are attending an emergency valve repair and water leak outside number 119 Queens Road, Teddington causing significant tailbacks in both directions. Traffic is being managed by multi-way traffic lights although no work was visible on site today at 10.30am. The work is estimated to take until Friday. For further information please contact Thames Water…
The future of Udney Park playing fields remains uncertain as latest negotiations to acquire the land for community use have hit a brick wall. The Chinese owner of the land, Mr Wu, who had wanted to build badminton courts at the site, is still demanding about £3.5 million to purchase the land, while the historic…
Richmond Council wants to extend Teddington Cemetery onto Shacklegate Lane allotments to meet urgent demand for more burial spaces causing a major local controversy in the borough with local residents claiming the allotments are vital to grow food cheaply and for mental health. Here, local funeral directors White Rose have their say. A BLOG…
PHOTO SPECIAL Hampton Court Palace has been transformed into a spooky haunted house, full of pumpkins and the ghosts of historic figures to mark Halloween. Thousands of visitors – mostly families – turned up at the Palace today to see the ghostly goings-on accompanied by scary music and shadowy images behind windows. Many of the…
Teddington’s Cento Uno Italian restaurant closed with blinds down on Saturday night Despite its prime position Cent Uno faced tough competition Cento Uno opened under the same management as the fine dining restaurant One One Four which closed because of changing eating patterns post COVID The popular family Italian restaurant Cento Uno, opposite the…
A yellow box junction in Kingston is the most lucrative in the UK delivering £450.000 in just eight months and snaring TWENTY SEVEN drivers a day, The Sunday Times reports. Between January and August this year, it generated just over £450,000 from drivers who entered the yellow boxes illegally, often unintentionally and caused by…
At the end of September Teddington Town highlighted an amazing new book called Lifestories which told the fascinating individual stories of some local residents of Teddington giving an insight into what life was like then and the challenges people faced. They are all compelling in their content and recollection. Today, we feature the full story of…
