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Wilde enthusiasm
Oscar Wilde's play "Lady Windermere's Fan", was performed with enthusiasm by Teddington Theatre Club at the Hampton Hill Playhouse last week. Joint directors Mair Graham and John Gilbert chose to use thrust staging, which gave scope for strong dramatic
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Farmers’ market is targeted by thieves
Farmers from Normandy landed in Esher last weekend and although the meat was fine there were some fishy goings-on as thieves made off with 100 posters and two banners promoting the event. Elmbridge councillor David Archer said the scale of disruption
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Dons Diary
What if? Those two words will always haunt AFC Wimbledon after last Saturday's FA Cup tie at St James's Park. Close to 1,500 fans made the game seem more like a home tie, with incessant noise, colour and support for the team in yellow and blue. They
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Service is not a dirty word
I don't know about you, but bad customer service really gets my goat. Being an interested party as far as service is concerned I thought I'd share my views on the subject and see what happens. How many times have you stormed out of a shop vowing never
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Family held up in home siege
A family was held at gunpoint for 15 minutes by robbers who forced their way into their East Molesey home. A 50-year-old woman was with her son and daughter at their home in Feltham Avenue when she heard a knock at the door at 3.15pm on Sunday (October
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Maidstone United 2 Dulwich Hamlet 3
Serendipity - to make discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things not in quest of. The long stroll to Bourne Park does not bore well for the itinerant traveller, rolling through grey industrial sheds purveying their wares to the weekend DIY-er.
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Station suicide verdicts
Inquests into the deaths of four men who died on a stretch of railway between Purley Oaks and Purley were held last week. Croydon Coroner's Court heard last Tuesday that on separate occasions between September 2005 and May this year three men killed
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Festival to replace World Party
The popular World Party which takes place in Croydon every year is to be replaced by a Caribbean and African festival. The event - that marks the 200th anniversary of the Act of Parliament which abolished the slave trade - has been long campaigned for
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Summoning help when there’s trouble on a tram
Further to the letter from T Mundy (Letters, October 11), I would like to clarify the following matters. I can confirm - as many regular tram travellers will be aware - that the trams possess an intercom with the driver with communication buttons at
