Kingston Trading Standards have taken 4,634 vapes deemed non-compliant to UK safety regulations off the market in the past six months, according to Kingston Council.
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Retail sales: Early-2024 troublesome for some Kingston businesses but optimism remains
Kingston businesses remain optimistic for the rest of 2024 despite the early months bringing issues such as high utility bills and a reduction in consumer
Kingston Council plans to raise parking charges show ‘money grabbing at its worst’, opposition says
Kingston Council’s plans to raise parking charges across the borough by 15% have received a mixed reaction from residents, councillors, and local business. According to
“Now is the time!”: Meet the Kingston locals who started businesses during lockdown
Covid restrictions have decimated many new small businesses. But for three Kingston locals, setting up during a pandemic hasn’t been all bad.
Third lockdown spells trouble for New Malden’s Korean businesses
Businesses in New Malden’s large Korean community are struggling to get through the latest Covid-19 lockdown.
EXCLUSIVE: Staff choose redundancy as new owners take over New Malden Post Office
All members of staff from New Malden Crown Post Office took redundancy when it was franchised to ZCO on April 22 2020, according to the Communications Workers Union (CWU).
Unilever plans to relocate headquarters to Kingston
The plans have been criticised by opposition councillors
Coronavirus: UK job vacancies fall while benefit claims soar
The number of UK job vacancies plummeted and unemployment claims reached a record high in the three months to April 2020, experts revealed. Following
‘We will keep working hard to get through this’: the businesses surviving lockdown in Kingston Upon Thames
The coronavirus pandemic is affecting all areas of life and business is no exception. On 7 May the Bank of England (BoE) warned that the
Kingston students slam university’s £250k for new president
The new president – and former vice-chancellor – of Kingston University, Julius Weinberg, is to have his new position and £251,461 salary investigated by his
