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29 October 2026
The council has revised its Tolworth Close traffic figures before Tuesday's vote. Plus UKPN's roadworks meeting and Halloween.
Read issue27 October 2026
Councillors decide on Tolworth Close next Tuesday, despite 145 of 165 objecting. Plus Ewell Road signals and Halloween.
Read issue22 October 2026
A yellow wind warning for London and Surrey on Friday, gusts up to 55mph, plus Remembrance and the weekend.
Read issue21 October 2026
Gusts of 48mph on Friday, Kingston Market part-open, two planning refusals and the half-term plan.
Read issue18 October 2026
The Maypole signals aren't UKPN's. Secondaries off for two weeks. Clocks go back Sunday.
Read issue16 October 2026
Works outside the Maypole again. Two sets of signals on Ewell Road. A 48cm boundary row. Next week, day by day.
Read issue15 October 2026
Four days, no explanation. UKPN's Hook Road job now ends 27 November. A new application on Guilford Avenue. The weekend and half-term.
Read issue14 October 2026
What the council says it already has on roadworks. 15% of council homes surveyed. A reader places Saturday's fire. Plus a correction.
Read issue13 October 2026
Nothing links the fire to the diversion yet. Comments on Oak Hill Grove by 28 October. Full Council tonight at 7.30.
Read issue12 October 2026
Kingston Market is closed all week. Hollyfield and Surbiton High break up on Friday. Plus the roads and the week.
Read issue9 October 2026
Hollyfield's cut-off fell to 1.1 miles. Why the order of your six choices doesn't hurt you. Plus the weekend.
Read issue8 October 2026
A reader saw closure signs on Portsmouth Road. The council's list doesn't show them. Plus the weekend weather.
Read issue6 October 2026
A council motion on roadworks, four nights of A3 lane closures, and the week ahead.
Read issue5 October 2026
Ewell Road lights from Saturday, where to take old gadgets, and Ski Sunday on St Mark's Hill.
Read issue3 October 2026
The Fox's new look, a care home, padel courts in Tolworth, and the empty Poundland.
Read issue2 October 2026
One lane at the Ace of Spades, the Post Office's last day, and the weekend.
Read issue1 October 2026
The council's decision on the Fox, a Post Office on Tolworth Broadway, and the week.
Read issue30 September 2026
Two corrections, the Post Office shuts Saturday at 4, and the week.
Read issue28 September 2026
Trains are stopping again, the Victoria Road counter shuts Saturday at 4, and two cable drop-ins.
Read issue26 September 2026
Trains back Monday, Portsmouth Road shut for six weeks from the 5th, and the festival's own money worries.
Read issue25 September 2026
Ten till four tomorrow, the parade at midday, and six bus routes diverted.
Read issue23 September 2026
And Berrylands finally has something like a date.
Read issue21 September 2026
Victoria Road came back early, Viv's buses finally have an end date, and a £30,000 lesson on the pumphouse.
Read issue18 September 2026
Viv was right. Plus no trains from Surbiton into London this weekend, and more places to post a parcel.
Read issue17 September 2026
Two of you had it before the council's list did. Plus the Festival parade finally has a time, and no post office is coming back.
Read issue16 September 2026
The diversion is Victoria Road, not Hook Road, it ends Monday, and there are no trains through New Malden this weekend.
Read issue15 September 2026
Rose Walk residents reply, and the Surbiton filter beds that helped prove what spreads cholera.
Read issue14 September 2026
Plus five bus routes leave Hook Road tomorrow, a back way round the Chiltern Drive hill, and Seething Wells in the London Plan.
Read issue12 September 2026
Monday 28 September - found by a reader before anyone official announced it. Plus five bus routes off Hook Road from Tuesday.
Read issue11 September 2026
It shuts at Brighton Road on Monday for seven days. Plus the Seething Wells railings, straightened out.
Read issue10 September 2026
The company behind it presents to your councillors tonight, and anyone can walk in and ask. Plus three roads closing Monday, and the weekend the trains stop.
Read issue9 September 2026
What the committee was asked to spend last night, why the filter beds campaign is being wound down, and Berrylands gets its station back but not its staircases.
Read issue7 September 2026
Eight o'clock tonight for Claremont Road, the roads committee tomorrow, Kingston parkrun on borrowed time, the Festival three Saturdays away, and Natalija's foxes are fine.
Read issue5 September 2026
Four months shut, the new platforms are in, and not one official source will name a day. Plus the committee that owns your roadworks takes questions on Tuesday, from anyone who walks in.
Read issue4 September 2026
The notice on the Victoria Road tree answers Helen's question. St Mark's Hill is clear. And a Hook Road diversion nobody has told you about.
Read issue3 September 2026
I said this morning I could not find the venue. It was published all along — Elgar Avenue KT5 9JR, 7pm to 8pm tonight.
Read issue3 September 2026
Eight phases, no traffic modelling, and eight streets they expect to take the overflow. Plus the quiz map filled in, and the Black Lion has a new manager.
Read issue2 September 2026
Nine quizzes, checked pub by pub. Two things I printed were wrong. Four pubs compete on a Sunday and nobody runs one on a Friday.
Read issue1 September 2026
Eight days at the Brighton Road junction, and I cannot find it reported anywhere. Plus a date I got wrong yesterday, and Helen has caught me out on a pub quiz.
Read issue31 August 2026
Two of you asked when the roadworks finish. I got you a date, and it's three jobs not one. Plus the K4 verdict and a Post Office closing a day early.
Read issue28 August 2026
One hour, £85 fines — and a reader found the proof. Plus a warning near Red Lion Road, and the whole of September.
Read issue27 August 2026
TfL's own word for the new signals: faulty. Cobham line bused Sat and Sun; Waterloo fine. Monday is the dry day.
Read issue26 August 2026
Two readers checked by teatime, with photos. And a K4 correction: TfL extended it to Friday.
Read issue25 August 2026
Margaret watched them go up yesterday. Nobody has said they are there until 18 September.
Read issue24 August 2026
418 votes from 99 of you. Every count published, including the seven I threw out.
Read issue21 August 2026
What you ask for, where you are, and what you sent us. Plus: the vote closes Sunday night.
Read issue20 August 2026
Answered in a day: the crossroads earthworks, and why your K4 has vanished. Plus voting closes Sunday.
Read issue19 August 2026
Voting closes Sunday night. Plus: the K3 is back, Thursday looks drier than promised, and a mystery dig on St Marks Hill.
Read issue18 August 2026
One vote per email, eight categories, closes Sunday night. Also: a sinkhole in Claygate has the K3 on diversion.
Read issue15 August 2026
Nominations close tomorrow night. Plus the amber alert is gone, the yellow one runs to Tuesday, and there are still no trains to Guildford.
Read issue14 August 2026
Extended through to 10am Saturday. Plus 38.1C at Kew, the full awards ballot so far, and no trains to Guildford all weekend.
Read issue13 August 2026
The amber warning runs until 11pm, it breaks on Saturday, and three award categories are still completely empty.
Read issue12 August 2026
Where to stand, how not to hurt your eyes, 36 degrees tomorrow, and Best of Surbiton nominations open.
Read issue11 August 2026
An amber warning for extreme heat on Thursday, the K2 is back, and a photograph from the croquet.
Read issue10 August 2026
Four permit breaches at the sewage works that treats ours - and England won a world title on Alexandra Drive.
Read issue7 August 2026
No train to Hampton Court all day Sunday. Plus: no Kingston Carnival this year, and free bike repairs this morning.
Read issue6 August 2026
Four readers found the evidence in a day. Plus: it closes 3 October, not the 23rd.
Read issue5 August 2026
Apologies - this went to the website this morning but not your inbox. Here it is properly.
Read issue5 August 2026
The route data backs Tim up. Plus free world-championship croquet on Alexandra Drive, and there are now 500 of us.
Read issue4 August 2026
Hollyfield Road is shut and it isn't on the list. Plus: the people who hear this newsletter read out loud, and free world-championship croquet from tomorrow.
Read issue3 August 2026
Plus: The Berry's Thursday quiz found at the end of it, a flat route to the Hogsmill that almost exists, and 32°C at 5pm.
Read issue2 August 2026
Prim sat the Prince of Wales quiz herself. Four quizzes tonight, the K2 comes home Monday, and free hockey for local kids.
Read issue1 August 2026
Plus: the complete Surbiton quiz map, today's last-ever Fairfield litter pick, and a number I got wrong.
Read issue31 July 2026
The Talking Newspaper for the Blind wants our bus alerts, the Hook Rise verdict, fountains off, and Surbiton's planning corner
Read issue30 July 2026
Buses back Monday 8pm, a Hook Road correction, a free kids' camp with lunch included, and your bone-dry weekend
Read issue29 July 2026
The K2's gone until Monday, a reader maps five quiz nights a week, and 34C this afternoon
Read issue28 July 2026
Tuesday 28 July — a 16-storey decision, crime down 14%, and a properly full fortnight: Bob Marley, jazz, the farmers' market and the Local Plan
Read issue27 July 2026
Monday 27 July — two new sections you asked for, plus today's road changes and a warm week ahead
Read issue26 July 2026
Sunday 26 July — Pilates at Charter Quay, the roads that change Monday, and free things for the kids
Read issue25 July 2026
Plus: the 281's diversion has lifted, new lights towards Chessington, and Sunday's rain arrives about 10am.
Read issue24 July 2026
The hosepipe ban explained, the Blake mosaics story, and your weekend
Read issue23 July 2026
Plus the 281's diversion ends early, a reader's Blake-mosaics question, and 26C today.
Read issue22 July 2026
Plus a summer-holidays list to sort the kids, tonight's open mic, and 28C today.
Read issue21 July 2026
A local MP vs. Thames Water, the real Berrylands station reopening date, and a reader tip I had to correct on air.
Read issue17 July 2026
Your weekend guide: 40 market stalls, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and the heat finally easing
Read issue16 July 2026
Plus: two Surbiton kids taking on a riverside 10K for charity, and tomorrow's weather
Read issue15 July 2026
Plus: bollards go up in Manor Park, and where to catch live music this week
Read issue14 July 2026
Plus: a roads box you can actually read
Read issue13 July 2026
You asked for roadworks updates, they start today
Read issue12 July 2026
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