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‘Lonely hearts’ list for buildings at risk features Surrey property - Heritage at Risk
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SAVE Britain’s Heritage’s new Dare to Care report features a series of dilapidated properties from around the UK, which the conservation group suggests offer an ‘array of exciting opportunities for restoration-minded buyers’.
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David Bellamy welcomes bugs at RHS Wisley
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Professor David Bellamy visited Wisley last week to open the new research facility. His enthusiasm for all things bug like is infectious and he said he wished he were a student again.
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Living the rural idyll? Grow your own in a Surrey pub garden
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At Surrey Life we enjoy nothing more than highlighting the success stories of our more innovative local pubs.
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Olympic cycling race spectators at Box Hill and Hampton Court Palace face ticket charge
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Spectators will be charged to attend the Olympic cycling events at Box Hill and Hampton Court Palace, with tickets to go on sale from Tuesday May 29, organiser's LOCOG have announced
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The great phone box graveyard of Merstham – something for the jubilee?
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As a consignment of red phone boxes goes on sale for the first time in 25 years from BT (yours from £1,950), many Surrey commuters staring out of train windows while passing Merstham may already noticed what looks very much like a kiosk graveyard.
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James Bond at Hankley Common: Skyfall film set photo update III
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James Bond at Hankley Common: Skyfall film set photo update IV
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The action stepped up at the MOD site near Thursley this weekend, as our man on the ground captured helicopters practising for shooting in the coming weeks. Here's a few action shots...
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Surrey's king of spin Max Clifford on making headlines, The Beatles and Elmbridge
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The undisputed 'king of spin', PR guru Max Clifford knows the secrets of a thousand stars. He's been a Surrey Life columnist since 2007, when editor Caroline Harrap interviewed him at his Burwood Park home. Read the results of that meeting here...
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Surrey Life's Make-up bag with Adele Mitchell - beauty news
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Your round-up of beauty news with award-winning editor Adele Mitchell (abridged for web). With the likes of Marie Claire, Marie Claire Health & Beauty and The Independent on her CV, she always has her finger on the pulse.
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Surrey Life’s The Style Guide with Jo Khan - fashion news
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Welcome to our monthly fashion column with Surrey-based style guru Jo Khan, featuring everything from the best of the county’s boutiques to helpful shopping tips and where to find vintage treasures.
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Surrey’s best tea shops: Parisian pantries to countryside coffee houses
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Every month, Surrey Life magazine showcases one of the area’s best tea shops, from Parisian pantries to countryside coffee houses. Here you'll find abridged versions of Louise Johncox's Tea Shop Trail column...
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Surrey equestrian, Off the Hoof with Alison Bridge, editor-in-chief at Horse&Rider
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Every month, editor-in-chief at Horse&Rider magazine, which is based in Grayshott, Alison Bridge brings Surrey Life readers all the latest from the Surrey horse world...
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Surrey golf - best players, courses and Tales from the 19th
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Every month, sports journalist John Whitbread, of the Surrey Golf Partnership, regales Surrey Life magazine readers with tales from the 19th. Below are abridged cuts from our monthly Surrey golf column...
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Surrey property with independent search agent Simon English
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Every month, independent search agent Simon English shares his top Surrey property tips with Surrey Life magazine readers
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National Trust in Surrey - properties, countryside and conservation
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Discover more about the National Trust's work and events in Surrey every month in their A View from the Trust column in Surrey Life magazine. In the mean time, here's the charity's monthly Surrey events listing
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Surrey Wildlife Trust events diary 2012 - conservation, walks and discovery
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Surrey Wildlife Trust reveal what to keep an eye out for this month and where you can join them for nature related events in Surrey...
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Little Surrey: family friendly things to do in Surrey
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In a new Surrey Life series, Emma Ward searches out the best things to do in our county with the kids
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Your favourite Surrey restaurants and foodie pubs - win Denbies tours, plus wine
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Each month’s star restaurant review scribe wins four vouchers for Denbies indoor sparkling wine experience tours (valued at £12 per person) and a bottle of their award-winning Whitedowns Sparkling Cuvée, £14.99
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Surrey Life Community Heroes
People & Places
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Celebrating the inspiring people who are really making a big difference in our town and village communities, here we bring you the first ever Surrey Life Community Heroes list
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Surrey news and views - Letters (win a meal for two at The William Bray, Shere)
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If you’d like to see your letter printed in Surrey Life magazine, send an e-mail to us at editor@surreylife.co.uk or log-in and comment below
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Help save Surrey's heritage - current campaigns and calls to action
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Around the county, there are constant efforts to preserve Surrey’s natural and man-made heritage that require both voluntary work and philanthropic funding. Here, we bring you a few of the projects in Surrey that you can get involved with today
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Festival of Surrey Life 2012 - a diamond jubilee event
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An early date for your 2012 diary, the Festival of Surrey Life will once again take place at the Fox Revived Pub in Charlwood, this year over the diamond jubilee weekend on Sunday June 3 and Monday June 4
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Surrey Hills Road Race Festival 2012 - an Olympic event at Denbies, Dorking!
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To coincide with this summer's Olympic road race on Saturday July 28 and Sunday July 29, Surrey Life is teaming up with Denbies and the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to host a cycling celebration
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The Queen arrives at Richmond Park
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Two Trees, Newlands Corner
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Bluebells, Gomshall
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Rapeseed Field, Gomshall
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Virginia McKenna and Ron Moody to share stage at Dorking Halls to celebrate Surrey Hills
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Theatre goers will have a unique opportunity to see two legends of stage and screen come together for a one night only performance to raise funds for the Leith Hill Action Group (LHAG).
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The Queen visits Richmond Park for Diamond Jubilee celebration
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Thousands watched on as The Queen braved hail and rain to visit Richmond Park for a Diamond Jubilee wildlife event.
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Banstead: Surrey village life
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Recommended as a resort by London doctors for their patients in the 1600s because of its reputation for ‘wholesome air’, Banstead retains a taste of the country surrounded by lavender fields and woods
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Surrey pubs: what does the future hold for the country pub?
ExpandWith rural pubs closing at an alarming rate these days and supermarket alcohol sales currently outperforming those over the bar for the first time, pub landlords and owners are having to get ever more creative with their offerings
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Fifties Fete at Hatchlands Park, near Guildford
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Based on the original fete held in 1953 by the last owner, Goodhart-Rendel, the National Trust’s Hatchlands Park will host a lavish 1950s style fete on Sunday July 1, 11am to 4pm.
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Nic Fiddian-Green’s The Head of Christ at Watts Gallery, Compton
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Contemporary artist, Nic Fiddian-Green may be best known for his equine sculpture, which has gained international respect, but he also cites inspiration from George Frederic Watts.
Restaurant reviews
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Surrey then and now
Surrey gardens to visit
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Win VVIP tickets to Itchycoo Park Festival - Kenney Jones and friends to perform classic album
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For two days this summer, the open expanses of Hurtwood Park will be transformed into Itchycoo Park, the mythical home of four East End lads who together, were one of the most influential British groups of the 1960s.
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Win a tree top adventure at Go Ape and a Mexican Family Feast with Discovery
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This summer, Discovery Foods and Go Ape have joined forces to offer one Great British Life reader the chance to treat their family to a treetop adventure in the great outdoors...
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