Tilly O'Brien
Tilly O'Brien is editor of the Kingston and Teddington edition of Nub News, focusing on entertainment, cultural coverage and practical community reporting that connects residents with what is happening around them. Her work spans live events, creative projects, local businesses and jobs, making her output a regular guide to the area’s cultural and leisure life. She brings a strong local-journalism sensibility, using interviews and service pieces to give space to voices and opportunities that larger outlets overlook.
What's on near Teddington this weekend
A defining strand of O'Brien’s work is her recurring “What’s on near Teddington this weekend” coverage, which packages local entertainment and activities into clear, time-specific guides. These pieces highlight concerts, live music, boat races, charity workshops, puppy training sessions, Christmas sing-alongs and jazz nights, reflecting a broad view of entertainment that includes both ticketed culture and community-led events.
The format is consistent: a brief welcome followed by listings with dates, venues and short descriptions, giving readers enough detail to plan their leisure without over-writing the stories. Across multiple weeks she returns to the same structure, building a rhythm in which her byline becomes associated with knowing what is happening nearby from Friday through Sunday. This series underlines her role as a local entertainment guide grounded in very specific events rather than general lifestyle commentary.
Up Close with local creatives and authors
O'Brien devotes significant space to in-depth profiles of local creatives, treating artistic careers and cultural work as central parts of community life. In her “UP CLOSE: with Teddington-based singer / songwriter Liz Arcane” feature, she traces the musician’s long-standing relationship with music and notes that Arcane began performing professionally as a teenager, using the profile format to show the progression from early gigs to current work. Her piece on the historical novel “The Queen of Bushy House” follows a Teddington-based author bringing the hidden history of Bushy House and its royal residents to life, combining discussion of the book’s premise with biographical notes about the writer and where readers can find the title locally.
Both features use interviews to anchor the narrative, with direct quotes and contextual detail that position creative output as part of the wider cultural fabric rather than isolated personal projects. Alongside her local work, she has written for magazines and newspapers including BUST Magazine, Stylist Magazine and the Liverpool Echo, adding broader media experience to her coverage of creatives and cultural stories.
Jobs available near Teddington right now
Another recurring strand in O'Brien’s coverage is her series of jobs round-ups, where she compiles “awesome” or “amazing” roles available near Teddington at any given time. These articles bring together opportunities at employers such as Cote, Oliver Bonas, The Lensbury, Specsavers, David Lloyd Clubs, Twickenham Libraries and local care organisations, with concise descriptions and clear location information.
The tone is upbeat and practical, positioning employment as part of the area’s everyday life and linking readers with work in hospitality, retail, leisure, libraries and care sectors.
Across several iterations, she maintains a consistent structure - headline promise, short intro, then role-by-role summaries - so these pieces function as a service resource that sits alongside her more overtly entertainment-focused coverage. Her reporting on local businesses also extends to food and hospitality, including coverage of a Teddington fish and chip shop relocating as part of a new collaboration with a Chinese restaurant, tying commercial changes directly to how and where residents spend their time.
Community news, editor's notes and site stewardship
O'Brien’s role extends beyond entertainment listings and features into wider community news and editorial stewardship for the Kingston and Teddington pages of Nub News. In an editor’s note over Christmas, she explains that she has been in post for several months, describes writing breaking news, interviewing locals and covering events, and commits to continuing daily articles while inviting story ideas from readers, signalling a hands-on approach to the site’s news agenda. Her community news reporting includes pieces such as the account of Teddington RNLI joining emergency services in a Thames rescue search, demonstrating that she also covers serious incidents affecting the area.
She has overseen the launch of reader comments in Teddington, using a dedicated “Have Your Say” article to invite residents to share views on what is going on locally, which reinforces her interest in two-way engagement rather than one-direction publishing. Professional profiles describe her as editing the Kingston and Teddington Nub News sites and writing and publishing all articles on them, underlining that her entertainment, culture, jobs and community pieces sit within a broader responsibility for the local news operation.
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