PR Week: Jobs (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
£20,000 + benefits: TUI UK Ltd UK's biggest winter sports holiday company seeks an executive to help with the day to day handling of press enquiries and assistance in the running of the press office. Kingston upon Thames
Richmond upon Thames Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
This late evening scene in the Market Square of Kingston upon Thames (next town, 5 miles along from Richmond) shows us 1,000 years of unbroken history and the activities have not changed. The buildings show us a 400 year span, just hidden behind the crowd is a spot where 10th Century Saxon Kings were crowned before the Normans arrived in 1066, and the trading has always been there, with river transport...
Richmond upon Thames Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
A wet, grey day, a slow shutter speed and a market stall about to close: rust on the bottom edge, and a couple of late shoppers rushing by. Kingston upon Thames market square on the last day of September. A few tweaks on the "curves" in post - processing, and conversion to "greyscale" produce a n interesting effect. Perhaps you won't like it. (Kingston is 5 miles up river from Richmond. It's an ancient...
Computer And Video Games (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Kingston Upon Thames is the new Oxford Street. Microsoft is well into prepping tonight's Gears of War 2 launch event in London, where you'll be able to meet Game Studio staff, blag some merchandise and oh yeah, buy Gears of War. Click here to read the full article
Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Kingston upon Thames Seven robbers, whose crime spree ended when their mastermind and his accomplice were shot dead by police, were given long jail terms yesterday.
GamesIndustry.biz (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Kingston Upon Thames store to feature comic book artist and Microsoft staff
The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
It’s the intimacy, for starters. That’s what makes La Cage aux Folles – Herman and Fierstein’s joyously camp musical comedy, which was inspired by the Seventies film – such a fabulous West End transfer.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Charles Spencer finds reward in a more scholarly approach to Shakespeare's wordy comedy.
PETRONA (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Richard Akerman of Science Library Pad draws attention to a crime map (of Ottawa as it happens). If you happen to live in that fair city, you can use the map to see which streets are most popular with criminals. They don't really need to have such a map for Kingston upon Thames as there are only two sites for crime (two "nightclubs", O------ and The W-----), as well as the river itself of course which...
The Stage (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Rose, Kingston-upon-Thames: Four young noblemen of Navarre foreswear the company of females until confronted by an appealing quartet of Aquitainian girls on a state visit. Read the full review
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...
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...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
NEXT month, Billy Elliot The Musical will have two new Billys – 12 year-old Tom Holland from Kingston-upon-Thames from September 8, 2008 and 13 year-old Tanner Pflueger from Norfolk, Nebraska, USA from September 29, 2008.
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...
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).
