July Eleven-year-old Jamie Spillard became the fifth member of his family to attain a black belt in karate this month.

The family now has three generations of black belt fighters and often train together.

Jamie started training when he was just five years old, when his parents introduced him to the martial art.

The family of a former Kingston mayor spoke out about their year of hell after their innocent son was charged over a cricket match brawl.

Sharukh Mirza, the son of Councillor Shiraz Mirza, and his team-mate Ali Jaffery were found not guilty at Kingston Crown Court for assault exactly a year after the alleged fight at the match between Wimbledon Park and Catford Wanderers.

August Tragedy marred a warm weekend when the River Thames claimed two lives, sparking urgent calls for greater river safety.

Laurence Newman, 45, died after he got into difficulty swimming in the Thames in Kingston.

William Carus, 17, also died after his boat capsized during Richmond Canoe Club’s annual regatta in Twickenham.

Kingston held its breath as riots swept through the rest of London this summer.

Police stood on high alert as reports of attacks in nearby Croydon, Sutton and Colliers Wood came through.

Mobile phone and electronic stores boarded up their windows and nervous shopkeepers kept watch at their doors, but the rumoured riot time passed without incident.

Gorillas were put through their paces at Chessington World of Adventures as they entered a Big Brother style reality experiment.

The Big Gorilla House fans were then able to view live Facebook news and Twitter updates on their interactions.

Throughout the summer the primates were set a number of challenges to complete in a bid to increase their weekly banana budget.

September The Surrey Comet first launched its Honour the Fallen campaign to help raise money to restore a trashed war memorial monument before Remembrance Day.

Veterans were disgusted to find thieves knocked over the monument at St John the Baptist church in Old Malden.

The thieves climbed the structure to steal a strip of lead worth less than £5.

The future of Zac Goldsmith as a Kingston MP was first put into doubt as a new Boundary Commission proposal suggested a radically redrawn electoral map for the borough.

The Boundary Commission of England report proposed shifting parts of the north Kingston from Richmond Park back into Kingston and Surbiton.

Hundreds flocked to this side of the Thames to watch comedian David Walliams swim through Kingston for Sport Relief.

The Little Britain star who suffered from “Thames tummy” during the epic 140m swim for Sport Relief, was on his penultimate leg of his journey when he splashed through Kingston. He raised £1million.

Read the last instalment online tomorrow.