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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES, England, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Scuba divers retrieved war medals Saturday from the bottom of the Thames River outside London after they were lost by a World War II veteran. Charles Brown, a 93-year-old veteran of the Dunkirk evacuation and the Normandy invasion, was on an Association of Dunkirk Little Ships cruise on the Thames last Sunday. The medals fell from his pocket as he boarded...
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Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
The joy of league tables - this one comes courtesy of the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management. Kingston upon Thames has ranked 4th in the UK and 1st in the South East . However, Stoke, South Lanarkshire and East Cheshire beat us, and Carlisle, Peterborough and Cardiff are running us close. Of course it is a serious issue - I've had mixed experiences over the years with the traumas of organising...
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Blood & Treasure (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
158 years later, Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) is the most troublesome of Britain’s invasive species. According to John Bailey, a biologist at Leicester University, the shrub was on sale in Kingston-upon-Thames (six miles from Kew) by 1854 and was then...
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Park, Park & Park (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
We registered D's birth today. Since she was born at Kingston Hospital, D needs to be registered at Kingston Town Hall. Which is in the Royal Borough of Kingston-Upon-Thames . It was just as glamorous as C's registration in Chelsea way back when. On the official record, she now has two middle names- Ann is the second (from my Mother).
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Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
From the Mail : Ronnie Wood has left his wife of 23 years for an 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress, it was claimed today. The Rolling Stone, 61, is said to have taken Ekaterina Ivanova to his home in Ireland, leaving his wife Jo behind at the family home in Kingston upon Thames. Wood, an alcoholic who is said to have 'fallen off the wagon', met her three months ago after the Leicester Square premiere...
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nearlylegal (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
On the back of tonight’s Panorama on the BBC about the impact of the mortgage/price housing market problems (available for the next week on iplayer), the Beeb has an interview with and tips from DJ Stephen Gould of Kingston-upon-Thames County Court. All sensible stuff for someone facing a repossession claim.
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Kiss And Makeup (Free subscription) | 30/05/2008
Following Susi's cutting edge (pun intended!) new hairdo at William Thomas Hair Studio , I headed to Kingston-Upon-Thames to visit another team that's made it to Monday's L'Oréal Professionnel Colour Trophy final - Zoe and Rachel at Headquarters. During the regional finals, I'd spotted the winning look from these girls and secretly decided they were the ones I wanted to visit, so full of anticipation,...
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The ARCH Blog (Free subscription) | 17/05/2008
We blogged about the Integrated Children's System last month. Now, the head of prevention and safeguarding for learning and children's services at Kingston-upon-Thames (no, I didn't just make that up) has been singing its praises: “We are not asking staff to be IT bods, we are asking them to learn to use a tool to enhance [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/04/2008
Dave Hill looks at the hotly contested, Tory-held constituency which comprises the leafy boroughs of Richmond upon Thames, Kingston upon Thames and Hounslow
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Mark Carnaby (Free subscription) | 17/03/2008
Im gonna be doing a 60’s night down The Ram, Kingston upon Thames next Saturday night, expect to witness some good ol’ rock & roll dancing, bopping & swinging!! 8pm till late’s (more info give me a shout), hopefully see some of you dudes/dudettes there, and just remember ‘It dont mean a thing if it [...]
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World Architecture News (Free subscription) | 17/03/2008
The practice was granted planning permission in the Coombe Hill Conservation Area of Kingston upon Thames, Surrey following appeal after the scheme for Q Developments was refused planning permission last summer, despite positive feedback from the Kingston Design Review Panel. Two new interlocking houses, each with its own central courtyard, have been sited around a number of mature trees already on...
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Dexigner Design Portal (Free subscription) | 16/03/2008
Terry Pawson Architects has received planning permission for a development of 2 new private houses in the Coombe Hill Conservation Area of Kingston upon Thames. The practice was granted planning permission following appeal after the scheme for Q D
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dezeen (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Terry Pawson Architects have won approval to build two private houses in a conservation area at Kingston Upon Thames near London.
