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‘Wrong’ number scoops woman big lottery win
A Surbiton woman who chose the same lottery numbers every week for 13 years has scooped £82,000 after accidentally filling her lottery slip in wrongly. Karen Cramer, 45, left her glasses at home when she went to buy her ticket from Tesco in New Malden
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Springboard appeal decision falls at first hurdle
A last-ditch attempt to save a centre which has given people with mental health problems a safe place to work has fallen at the first hurdle. Kingston councillor Mary Clark was trying to get the wheels in motion for an appeal to health secretary Alan
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Patients shifted to private lists
Kingston Hospital has been shifting patients on to private lists to meet Government targets on waiting times. Exactly 76 patients were sent to privately-run independent treatment centres during April mainly for eye treatment. The hospital spent
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Rwandan girl gets green light to stay in UK
A victim of persecution in Rwanda who fled to the UK has finally been told she can become a British citizen after taking her fight to the High Court. A senior judge ruled that Phionah Mondo should be allowed to have her passport and rights earlier
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Kingston and Surbiton police stations to be emptied?
The Metropolitan Police are quietly drawing up radical plans to re-deploy hundreds of officers, which could eventually see Kingston and Surbiton police stations sold off. The days of walking into a large old-fashioned police station to report a crime
