Kingston Area Travellers' Association

The campaign to rezone Surbiton and Kingston stations took a further step this week with MP Edward Davey writing to the London mayoral candidates to ask for their support.

Writing to the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and Conservative mayoral candidate Boris Johnson, Mr Davey said: "As a result of being allocated to zone six despite being a zone five distance, Kingston and Surbiton stations saw single and day return ticket prices rise by over 35 per cent.

This is set to get much worse from January 2010, when seasonal tickets from Kingston and Surbiton will move to zonal pricing - so we could see increases of between £400 and £500 in annual rail tickets."

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, starring Daniel Radcliffe as boy wizard Harry, will be on location overnight from Friday to Sunday.

Café Chaud on platforms one and two at the station is reportedly being used in the movie.

Filming for the sixth book in the Harry Potter series, which has made author JK Rowling a multi-millionaire, has only recently begun.

Seargeant Christopher MacKellaich, of the British Transport Police, said: "We will have officers down at the station on Friday, Saturday and Sunday night to assist with any public order issues associated with the filming.

"They are going to be filming overnight from late evening to the early morning and we will have six or seven officers down there each night."