News in Kingston

UK Fast-food giant LEON is opening a restaurant in Kingston town centre and are now on a recruitment drive for staff.

LEON Kingston will be based at 61 Clarence Street, a prime retail unit where the old ManKind shop used to be.

GOOD morning Kingston and welcome to your breakfast briefing for Monday 11 October.

Read below for our local weather report, supermarket opening times and our featured event of the day in Kingston borough.

Kingston business Holland Hahn & Wills are delighted to support a nationwide campaign to offer complimentary personal financial planning sessions by qualified financial planners including CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(TM) (CFP (TM)) professionals.

The aim is to empower consumers throughout the UK by experiencing the support available from financial planning, this includes help with organising finances and guidance in planning how to reach life goals and dreams.

THUGS wielding a machete attacked and robbed an international pro cyclist in Richmond Park yesterday afternoon.

Alexandar Richardson was knocked off his bike by a gang of four men riding motorcycles at around 3pm as he cycled home after finishing training.

Cyclists are exempt from the 20mph speed limit in Richmond Park, police have confirmed, following pressure from cycling campaigners to clarify the rules.

The news comes after a letter from the Royal Parks stated that the current speed limit only applies to motor vehicles but also stressed it was the role of the police to apply them.

Kingston's Bushy Park is best known for its majestic herds of Red and Fallow Deer plus a massive assortment of birds, rabbits and insects.

Now another animal can be added to the list - giant crabs!

Plans to build a 16-storey tower on Kingston riverside are set to be debated again this month.

Proposals for two new blocks of flats in the disused plots by Turks Pier were revealed in July and developers ran a consultation that month.

Welcome to the Kingston Nub News briefing, bringing you local weather, travel news and events in our town today.

The answer to yesterday's trivia quiz is at the end so skip there if that's why you're here!

As more and more events are being organised locally Nub News is launching a new weekly round up of what's on in Kingston each weekend.

Every Thursday we will now bring you our top picks of the events in our town over the weekend.

Visitors to Bushy Park are being warned to stay at least 50 metres from rutting deer after a group of people were videoed getting too close.

Photographers can be seen crowding stags near the park's Heron Pond, in shocking footage shared by park user Stephen Darlington yesterday.