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M25/A3 junction closed this weekend for bridge demolition –causing lengthy delays through Hook and Chessington 🚗 🚙 🚗 Closed again 22 & 23 March!

Long queues to leave Sainsbury's car park, caused by too many cars and utility works by Thames Water on Richmond Road. Guessing this will be pretty standard if developers of Canbury Place get to close Kingsgate Road to traffic.

Swedish outdoor and transportation business Thule opened its shop in Kingston this week, at the north-west corner of the market place. For cyclists they sell child bike seats, bike trailers for kids and dogs, panniers and bike racks to fit on cars.

Motorcycles 🏍️ riding across the Market Place in Kingston are SO dangerous. It’s strictly not allowed. And yet so many do it. Aren’t the cameras working? Time to clamp down.

There’s a surprise. The wonderfully effective Lib Dem council continues to run services into the ground and charge us the max increase every year. And when do we get a pool so our kids can learn to swim?! Good luck.

Sainsbury's is looking to open at Kingston station, which means it'll be going head to head with the busy little Tesco just across the road.

Surbiton railway station to get refurbished waiting rooms www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/sur... Network Rail and South West Railways are planning to revamp the indoor waiting rooms at Surbiton station, improving the seating areas and providing automatic opening doors.

Park Road in North Kingston has been taped off by police and is completely closed between Kings Road and New Road (incl pedestrians and cyclists). New Road also taped off.

#Kingston Part of Park Road, by the former pub and next to the school, has been cordoned off by the police This area was a hive of police activity on Tuesday evening We hope it’s not serious but please be aware

Kingston Hospital tells people they are ‘very busy’. — Nextdoor - Nextdoor nextdoor.co.uk/p/HYBYRwSQNt...

Winter mist descending over the Thames in Kingston this evening after another cold day ❄️

Travel news in Kingston: A section of Coombe Lane West has been closed 👇

Local weather stations reporting -6°C this morning in Kingston. Very icy! Promises otherwise to be a sunny but very cold day ahead 🥶

The new Unilever development in Kingston is looking pretty close to finished. Still no sign of any work on the redevelopment of Eden Walk across the road (hopefully that's worked out well for those who took on 'short term' leases back in the mid twenty tens)

Happy New Year to all our friends in Kingston & beyond! 🎉

📢 Big news for Surbiton and Kingston commuters – South Western Railway will be the first operator to be nationalised in May 2025 🚊 www.ft.com/content/9090...

🚨 Surbiton station is closed 🚨 due to emergency incident www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disr...

River very high today!

Richmond and Bushy Parks *closed* all day Sun 24 Nov due to storm. Hampton Court 10km run also postponed. #stormbert

this is welcome - with caveats about protecting public events in the space Kingston First spends too much bandwidth on running this area which, imo, doesn’t represent good value to BID payers (I pay three lots of levy)

Over budget Beset by delays Inconvenience to bus passengers throughout How did TFL allow this to happen The refurbishment of the Cromwell Bus Station cost £16.5m kingstoncourier.co.uk/cromwell-roa...

The Kingston Christmas Fayre — the craft marquee by John Lewis which has been running for 19 (!) years — has not been given permission to return next year. If you think it’s a great tradition worth keeping, there’s now a petition you can sign 👇 www.change.org/p/preserve-t...

A modern makeover revealed for Kingston's bus station ➡️ ianvisits.co.uk/articles/a-m... Almost 30 years after the last one was built, Kingston on Thames has replaced its old bus station with a new one that has drawn mixed comments.

🥶 -2°C overnight in KT1

Damp late autumn vibes and icy rain along the river & Home Park 🍂

Very cold for the next few days. Today remaining cold and damp in #Kingston, highs 4°C, but Wed-Fri looking brilliantly sunny but bitterly cold 🥶 No snow here! ❄️