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After weeks of closely-fought competition, we can now announce that the winner of Kingston's Best Bartender is Luke McConvey from The Willoughby Arms.

Kingston Council's chief has earned nearly £170,000 a whopping 12 per cent pay increase on last year.

A convicted murderer who tortured and killed a young girl in 1979 has been jailed for life for trying to kidnap a 19-year-old student while out on licence.

More than 20 years after the musical play The Ragged Child was premiered at Tiffin School,its original director is returning to Kingston and is offering local children the opportunity to take a starring role.

A set of antique furniture linked to the last Tsar of Russia has turned up in a Tolworth charity shop.

Christmas has come early for one elderly donkey who has been rehomed in a luxury donkey centre in Surrey after years of grazing in the cold.

A set of antique furniture crafted by a cabinet maker who helped make a similar set for the last Tsar of Russia in 1916 has been discovered in a charity shop in Tolworth.

A boxer who killed a mum-of-two during a botched burglary had been released two months early from a previous detention order.

"The difference between being on the stage and being a judge is not all that big. It is a very theatrical life with lots of interesting characters, albeit plenty of flawed ones too."

Weeks after another application for a hotel on Kingston's Skerne Road site was rejected, a Tamil television station has its sights set on building Kingston's first major hotel.