Archive
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Power failure
From Reg Bottomley SIR. The lack of British selling power in Europe is emphasised by the displacement of considerable numbers of staff at Motorola, Thompson Holidays, Marconi, British Airways, NEC, Anchor, Royal Sun Alliance and 42,000 at Rover's
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Charge unfair
From Bernard Brewer SIR. The London Assembly Lib Dems want drivers of 68 "models" of 4x4 vehicles to pay double the congestion charge because they emit more carbon dioxide than cars (Surrey Comet, June 15). It appears that this number relates to all
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Home Zone has led to damage and hostility
From Annette Koshti-Richman SIR. It has come to my attention that the Cavendish Road and Cromwell Avenue Home Zone in New Malden has won the Local Government News Street Design 2005 competition. I would like to draw your attention to the following
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UKIP for US
From Mark Jennings SIR. One reads the anti-European rants of the UK Independence Party with increasing incredulity. UKIP's limited analysis totally fails to address the clear loss of British sovereignty as a result of the "special relationship" with
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Cycle of theft
From Carol Baily SIR. I cycle to work in Kingston on a regular basis, and have done so for the past four years. Usually I lock my bike at work. Yesterday, however, I decided to go to the gym and shower before going into work. I locked my bike to the
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Parking struggle
From L Willetts SIR. As a resident of Bridge Road, Wallington, am I the only one who is fed up with commuters/shoppers using my road as a car park? They park outside my house all day forcing me, with two young children, to park two roads away from
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Long wait at post
From Frank Gardner SIR. Last Monday morning, as a change from the usual never-ending queue at Wallington Post Office, I tried Sutton Post Office big mistake! At Wallington the queue stretched to the doorway, largely because only three out of eight
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Drive out noise
From M Ellis SIR. Something must be done about the loutish behaviour of motorcycle and scooter riders. Increasingly, it seems at weekends and evenings the air is permeated with their annoying noise. The scooters have that irritating crazy frog' neem-neem
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EU brings peace, progress and prosperity
From Selwyn Courties SIR. I write having read the recent anti-European letters in your newspaper. Britain is, as part of the EU, enjoying an unparalleled period of peace with our neighbours, progress and prosperity. The question anti-Europeans have
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Rose needs boost
From Fred Randall The fact that the Rose now seems to be on track financially is great news and I wish them every success. But if it is to survive as an integral part of Kingston's cultural life, it must have a higher profile and this means putting
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Krispy Kreme to host first chamber breakfast meeting
Kingston Chamber of Commerce will host it's next networking breakfast American- style over doughnuts and coffee at the new Krispy Kreme "diner/drive thru" franchise at Shannon Corner. The break with traditional bacon and eggs is part of a shake up
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Kingston Backs 2012 Bid and urges business to register – only 15 days left
Kingston has backed the Olympic Bid strongly from the start, with support from the civic, business and sporting bodies in the borough and both Kingston University and Kingston College. Thinking is well advanced on what will need to be put in place to
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Omega recognised for its super Integra-tion
A Sutton-based business supplier has scooped a top industry award in recognition of its commitment to Integra, one of the UK's largest buying and marketing groups. MBM Omega won the member of the year initiative award for the directory division, which
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Support for a ban on smoking
A major survey has revealed overwhelming support for a ban on smoking in public places among small business owners. The poll of 8,000 firms by the Forum of Private Business (FPB) found a massive 75 per cent of bosses of small to medium-sized enterprises
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Suzanne BIDs for another success
The woman who helped manage Kingston's pioneering Business Improvement District (BID) is to set up central London's first BID. The Heart of London Business Alliance has announced the appointment of Suzanne Bain as BID operations manager. She will be
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Dinner lady hangs up her apron
A senior school meals assistant is retiring from a Surbiton infants' school after nearly a quarter of a century of dedicated service. Roz Clarke, 64, of Malvern Road, who started work as a dinner lady in 1981, is leaving her job at Maple Infants' School
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Gallery honour
Children from St Luke's Primary School are displaying their work at the National Gallery. The school, in Acre Road, Kingston, has been taking part in the gallery's Take One Picture initiative, which encourages pupils to take inspiration from a painting
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School appeal to G8 leaders
Tolworth Girls students made around 400 paper "buddies" to give to leaders of the world's eight richest countries in a bid to spread the Make Poverty History message. They were urging the leaders who will be attending the G8 summit in Gleneagles on
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Junior gardeners show off work
It was watering cans at the ready as the Claygate Primary School Gardening Club celebrated the first public showing of its horticultural efforts. The 12 children, aged seven to 11 have been cultivating their plants inside and in window boxes since January
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£1.3m grant to extend school
Schools in Kingston have been given a £1.3million boost to take forward the Extended Schools programme. The scheme is designed to use schools as a resource for the whole community, which the Department for Education and Skills praised Kingston for.
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Art schools
Congratulations to all the schools which took part in Big Arts Week 2005. Dozens of local schools have been working on art projects and producing their own creations throughout the week.
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Rowing result
A crew of rowers from Hampton School won the coxed-four category of the Schools' National Rowing Regatta this month. Matt Owen, Tim Chalk, Adam McDuff, Jason Paul and Charlie Linacre crossed the line ahead of St Paul's to lift the trophy.
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Top trump teachers
Students at Hampton School in Hanworth Road have created a version of popular card game Top Trumps using their teachers' faces. The packs cost £3.20 each and pit the teachers against each other in a variety of categories in keeping with the game. All
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School fun day
Weekend festivities were also afoot at St Philip's School in Harrow Close, Chessington, where there was line dancing, a territorial army assault course and target practice, tombola and silent auction. The Bill star John Bowler, who plays Roger Valentine
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Clowns raise cash
All the fun of the circus came to Tolworth infant and junior schools on Saturday. Happy's Circus attracted hundreds of families to the big top and all the money raised will go towards new equipment for both schools.
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Surrey ale is voted top of the hops
Kingston Camra man Dave Morgan raises a glass to yet another successful Kingston Beer Festival. A Surrey ale was voted top of the hops by punters at this year's event, held in the Surrey County Staff Club, Penrhyn Road, on Friday and Saturday. Around
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Redundancies for Rose staff unless £3m arrives
Staff at Kingston's new theatre will be made redundant on Tuesday unless £3million pledged by the council's executive is released by then, writes Hannah Summers. That was the stark warning from the Liberal Democrat Leader of the Council, Councillor Derek
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Award for Home Zone residents call ‘a farce’
A New Malden "home zone" has been branded a farce and an insult, just days before it was to receive a national award. Residents from Cavendish Road and Cromwell Avenue claim they live at risk from speeding traffic, dangerous parking and abuse from drivers
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‘Travellers must go’
Kingston County Court made a final order for travellers illegally parked on land in Surbiton to vacate the premises. A spokesman for St George's Mental Health Trust, which owns the site at 21 Brighton Road, said the travellers must leave the site by
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A Korea opportunity
Culture secretary Tessa Jowell spoke to New Malden's Korean community as part of a UK tour to drum up support for London's 2012 Olympic bid. She visited Korean community leaders on Saturday, June 18, and watched a taekwondo display before heading off
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£3.5k cash boost for Victim Support
A Kingston charity supporting victims of crime received a cash boost to buy a much-needed photocopier from The Gannett Foundation, the charitable arm of the Surrey Comet's owners, Gannett. The Kingston branch of Victim Support was thrilled to receive
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Church bells ring out to mark end
The Ministry of Defence has asked that church bells throughout the UK should ring out together at 5pm on July 10 the national day of commemoration for the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. The ringers at Kingston Parish church will contribute
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Children hurt in church rituals, claims race leader
A Kingston race equality pioneer went undercover to help police in a high-profile investigation into child sacrifices in London churches. John Azah, director of the Kingston Racial Equality Council (KREC), was an independent adviser to the Metropolitan
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Enjoy later shopping at the Bentall Centre
The Bentall Centre will allow shoppers to take advantage of the long summer days by extending its late night opening times on Thursdays. From Thursday, July 9, the centre in Clarence Street, Kingston closes at 9pm. Marketing manager Heather Lugton said
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Banding against poverty
Youngsters from St John the Evangelist church in Kingston have been creating their own Make Poverty History bands to take to Britain's biggest ever rally against poverty at the weekend. Members of the church, in Grove Lane, Kingston are set to join tens
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Tenants vote for council-run homes
Tenants have opted to keep their homes under council control, despite only a tiny proportion of residents bothering to cast a vote. Housing chiefs at Kingston Council said they would now embark on the challenge of bringing council homes up to the Government's
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Gay couples await council
Gay couples getting married in Kingston are waiting to see if they will be offered the same services as heterosexual couples, when same-sex unions are legalised later this year. Adele Bowen, 27, from Surbiton, and her partner, who does not wish to be
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Redcap families furious as army’s Iraq cover-up memo is unearthed
The families of six army redcaps killed in Iraq have reacted angrily to a recently unearthed memo which suggested some of their loved-ones could have been rescued. Chessington Sergeant Simon Hamilton-Jewell, 41, was one of the men killed by a 300-strong
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MRSA infection at Kingston doubles
Cases of the killer bug MRSA have more than doubled within Kingston Hospital NHS Trust since 2001, according to Department of Health figures released last week. The increase in infections was the third worst of any general trust in the country, with
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Elmbridge wins first prize in youth games
Elmbridge youngsters are officially the best athletes in the county after being crowned overall winners in the Surrey Youth Games. The team fought off competition from 10 Surrey boroughs to be crowned champion at the ninth annual games, finishing 14
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Young Cobham coffee fans to enjoy a late latte
Cobham youngsters could soon be enjoying a late-night cappuccino in their own space, thanks to a high street coffee shop. Costa Coffee is planning to open its doors to people under the age of 18 from 6pm to 9pm every Monday night. Police and staff believe
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Benz reunited at leisure park
Sir Stirling Moss and Jochen Mass were at Brooklands last week to help Mercedes-Benz name its £45m, 155-acre development Mercedes-Benz World. Wilfried Steffen, president and chief executive officer of DaimlerChrysler UK said: "Mercedes-Benz World at
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Charity event for children after sister’s sudden death
A Worcester Park woman caring for her late sister's five children is organising a charity evening next month to help raise funds for the orphans' welfare. Priscilla McManus, who has three daughters of her own, took in her sister Sylvia's children after
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Two injured in double pub raids
Twin raids on a Worcester Park pub, believed by police to be an organised campaign of violence, have left two men seriously injured and customers too scared to give evidence. On the evenings of Friday June 10, and Saturday, June 11 the Huntsman Hall
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£300 raised for hospice
Members of the Sutton Fujian White Crane Martial Arts club raised more than £300 last week, as part of a global two-hour Punchathon. Proceeds from the event, held at the Sutton Junior Tennis Centre in Rosehill, will go towards setting up a new children's
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Regatta weekend promises fast pace and international line-up
Kingston Regatta is set to return on Saturday, July 9, and it again promises to be a great weekend on the river. There will be more than 300 races between 400 rowers, equating to a race every four minutes over two days of watery fun from 9am to 7pm each
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Young achiever wins award for success against odds
When falling off a bike the only way to overcome the fear of cycling again is to get straight back on. It was that attitude which helped earn 14-year-old Joshua Peck the recognition he deserved in this year's Youth Achievement Awards. Joshua, who attends
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Carjack cousins were ‘armed and on lookout for trouble’
Two cousins jailed for a car-jacking and shooting in Kingston came to the borough armed and looking to commit a serious crime, a court heard. Nico Codner, 19, and policewoman's son Duraney Kavanaugh, 21, were sentenced to a total of 19 years behind bars
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F1 driver gets bad reception
Red Bull Racing driver Vitantonio Liuzzi was booed by Oceana clubbers following the Formula One fiasco in Indianapolis earlier this month. Liuzzi was making a guest appearance for the Red Bull Roadshow on Wednesday, June 22, but when he was called up
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Smart recycling bins part of new ‘go-green’ drive
A user-friendly recycling facility was launched in Kingston this week, as part of a drive to get people thinking green. Valpak bins, in which paper, plastic, glass, cans and cartons can be deposited, have been installed in Sainsbury's Sury Basin branch
