News in Twickenham

More than 1,000 tickets were in Draw 15 of the Richmond community lottery Get Lucky Local and two winners are £25 better off.

Their nominated Good Causes are ETNA Community Centre and Hampton & Richmond Borough Youth FC.

A new Home Bargains opened over the weekend weekend.

The store in Ivybridge Retail Park is occupying the space where Currys PC World used to be.

Tesco in St Margarets reopened this morning after a 16-day closure for a refurbishment.

The Express store has been given a general tidying up and is now looking cleaner and brighter.

Vaping shops in Twickenham are under investigation over the sale of potentially deadly 'Spice vape' liquid.

Spice is highly addictive and sometimes known as the Zombie drug because of the alarming effect on users.

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A new coffee shop has arrived in Twickenham... in the middle of the street.

Amar Cafe is decking out the red phone box on King Street.

He'll need no introduction, but who is the most searched-for person on Wikipedia in Twickenham?

The Pudding created a people map of the UK, replacing town names with their 'most Wikipedia-ed' resident.

A 25-year-old from Twickenham has been jailed after failing to attend court when he was charged with a racially aggravated offence.

The police posted:

The number of new Covid-19 cases locally has fallen by more than half in a week.

There were 178 new cases in the seven days to February 12 across the borough - a 54.7% decrease on the previous week.

Richmond Council has agreed a new housing and homelessness strategy, after concerns more people will be at risk of losing their homes when furlough ends.

Councillors at Wednesday's Adult Social Services, Health and Housing committee (February 16) were told that the council expects "significant numbers of households" in the borough will have lost employment or be furloughed and may be struggling to pay housing costs.