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My windswept memories of the Great Storm
My memories of the 1987 storm are of being awakened by noise and pressure. I lived at that time in 1987 in a flat situated on the seventh floor of a council block, Scholey House, in Grave Street. I had left the living room and bedroom windows open,
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Man caught 'clocking' car
A man who turned back the mileage on a car he sold on the internet was caught when its new owner checked with a hire car company. Anthony Johnson sold a car to Chessington resident Gary Ferguson using the Autotrader website. He claimed the five-year-old
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Ex-Tory councillor unable to pay back stolen cash
Former Tory councillor David Booth has avoided paying back money he stole from an employer because he is £80,000 in debt. Booth, who now lives in Putney, admitted 10 counts of theft and one of attempted theft, totalling nearly £18,000. A confiscation
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Fraudsters pay back half of £3.7m loot
Fraudsters who netted £3.7million from a complicated tax scam have been ordered to pay back less than half of it. In November 2006, Jonathan Bell, of Fairfield South, Kingston, and John Palmer, of Oatlands Drive, Weybridge, were found guilty along
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Chessington Garden Centre 'disappointed' by Ken's decision
Reaction continues to flood in for Chessington Garden Centre, which had plans to expand its Leatherhead Road site revoked by Mayor of London Ken Livingstone. The family-run centre took out an advertising in last week's Kingston and Elmbridge Guardians
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A wheely good idea
A new car club scheme is due to be launched in Surbiton by April next year. Surbiton neighbourhood committee approved a proposal to turn two mixed use parking bays next to the clocktower in Claremont Road into designated car club spaces. Car clubs
