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  • Council 'u-turn' sees continued support for charities

    A volunteer-led urban farm in Colliers Wood was spared the axe after its grant was not cut by the council as it had been last year. Proposals to cut Deen City Farm’s cut by another £15,000 this year – on top of a similar cut in last year’s

  • Free parking restored in Wimbledon Village

    Shoppers in Wimbledon Village will once against be able to park for free for 20 minutes after council cutbacks were overturned at this week’s annual budget meeting. A reduction in free parking to 10 minutes was put in place last year by Merton

  • Wimbledon's most successful publishing family

    Exactly 200 years ago tomorrow on 10 March 1812, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the book that made poet Lord Byron a household name, was published by John Murray II (1778-1843), second head of the publishing family that began in the 18th century and