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Reboot your Workout

We all know that staying active, eating well, quality shut-eye and managing stress all contribute to our overall health. However, making the crucial decision to change these habits, is when the real magic happens.

Time Travel

With 25 years’ experience as a travel journalist, Angelina Villa-Clarke shares her top tips to make every journey an easy one.

Schmidt Epsom: Back to business

Meet Asam & Hanisha, the husband and wife design duo at Schmidt who are celebrating the reopening of their Epsom kitchens and interior solutions showroom …

Cycle for Sepp

Hoping to raise £50k for Momentum – a local children’s charity – Sam Hall, 47, Epsom, is attempting a 2,400mile cycle ride from Helsinki to home, in honour of his son, Sepp who died in October last year from a brain tumour.

The Betfred Derby Festival 2023

The countdown is ON! Two unmissable days and right on our doorstep. Here’s the lowdown on racing’s most spectacular festival from where to enjoy the fun to Ladies Day and the big day itself.

The Recycle Revolution

‘Sustainable Fashion’ has been hitting the headlines for some time and rightly so – awareness of the fashion industry’s huge environmental impact is essential.

The Return of the Film Festival

With Oscar and BAFTA winners, premieres and familiar faces from Jane Fonda to Oscar Isaac, come and enjoy the best independent films from around the world.

Club Together

Do you have any hobbies?
I know! Sounds like a question belonging to an era of pen pals and things you listed in a Record of Achievement at secondary school to make you sound like you did more than sit indoors watching Neighbours (twice)!

However, a resurgence is happening. Hobbies are making a comeback!

Back to Life

In a survey by the ONS, the number of people inactive from work, citing problems with their back or neck, rose by 62,000 last year. Local osteopath Tom Ward isn’t surprised and says, “Post-pandemic life has seen big behavioural shifts.

Lets Bake!

Eden’s Little Bakery is one of those ‘silver-lining stories’ that shone a light of hope during the dark days of the pandemic. Now an award-winning bakery in Ewell, the story began when Eden (aged 15 years at the time) and her Dad, Itay made bourekas – a Middle Eastern pastry – for a socially distanced, V-Day street party…

Our past made present

A project at the prestigious King’s College, London exploring the history of mental health treatment in Britain, has been inspired directly by a series of late 19th century, original glass plate negatives – scandalously recovered from a skip and now preserved at the Surrey History Centre – of some 9000 psychiatric ‘patients’ who were given pauper burials, here in Epsom.