The new Elleray Centre looks ready to open today The new Elleray Centre, which will be the new home of the Elleray Community Association, (ECA) will open for the first time to the public on at 5pm on Thursday, November 27 – the day of the Teddington Lights Up event, it was announced today. A…
The new look Lion Pub will be unveiled before Xmas The external walls have been painted dark grey The Lion will make an appearance at Teddington Lights Up on November 27 How The Lion pub in Wick Road looked before it closed two years ago The Lion Pub in Wick Road, which has been saved…
Park Lane Stables RDA has announced that one of its coaches, Peter Tomlin, has been shortlisted at the UK Coaching Awards 2025. These awards are one of the most prestigious events within the coaching community and celebrate coaches at all levels, from grassroots to elite sport. Peter has been nominated in the Change A Life…
Alan, now 72, worked as the Ticket Office Manager at Teddington Station Alan receiving his MBE from the then Prince Charles 2010 Alan as a choirboy at St Alban’s church choir, Teddington in the 1960s. Working for thirty years as Ticket Office Manager at Teddington Station, I became something of a local celebrity because I…
Arts Richmond has announced details of its annual writing competition for all local young people. The competition is open to all young people who live or attend schools or clubs in the Borough of Richmond upon Thames. There are two themes: ‘My World’ and ‘Something Extraordinary’. Children can write a short story of up…
There was another Remembrance Sunday service this morning at Radnor Gardens commemorating those from Twickenham who died in the First and Second World Wars. Wreaths were laid at the base of the bronze statue, unveiled in 1921 and built of Portland Stone and designed by Mortimer Brown. It is unusual in that it depicts…
Hundreds of people including many children turned out to mark Remembrance Sunday in Teddington with a special service outside the War Memorial cenotaph at Teddington Hospital. The Rev David Cloake from St Mary with St Alban conducted the service attended by local MP Munira Wilson and local councillors as well as many charity and…
Local Lib Dem MP Munira Wilson has given her backing to the local campaign for Bathing Water Designation along the River Thames near Teddington. She says: “Thank you to Ham and Kingston Bathers, Teddington Bluetits & others for their efforts. People deserve to swim, paddle & row in clean, healthy water.” In a letter…
Residents and local councillors celebrate the reopening of the Thames towpath between Kew and Richmond Residents can now enjoy the Thames towpath between Richmond Lock and Kew Gardens today, following its official reopening today after a year-long programme of major riverbank repairs. The opening today marks a major milestone in restoring the popular riverside…
ISSUED BY THE METROPOLITAN POLICE Members of an organised crime group have been jailed at Kingston Crown Court for a total of more than 55 years following a Met Police investigation into a series of robberies at mobile phone shops across London. Between September and November 2024, detectives from the Met’s Flying Squad worked to…
