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GBC Approve First Step For Museum Revamp Project

An application for Lottery Heritage Fund money to help pay for a multi-million pound revamp of Guildford Museum was approved by the Executive of Guildford Borough Council this evening. A…

Riff Raff Diary for February 2012

by Robert Craig Riverbank tales from our local St Catherine’s Lengthsman/Weir-keeper February proved to be another very dry month during which I made only three adjustments to my weirs. With…

Running London Marathon for Guildford YMCA

Guildford YMCA has innovative plans to remodel and extend the basement level of its Bridge Street building to provide new and better facilities for its work with young people. Needing…

Private Health Care for Council Employees Is Not Fair

From Bernard Parke Hon Alderman Shortly the new increased council tax demands will drop through letterboxes despite the advice of the present coalition government. Is it fair? The anti –…

PCSO Nick Sharpe Leaves to Join the CID

After three years, Police Constable Nick Sharpe is leaving his job as a Neighbourhood Specialist Officer (NSO), in the villages to the south of Guildford, to join the CID. Part…

Citizens Speak: Road Safety on the Portsmouth Road

This week citizens speak on a really local issue, road safety in St Catherine’s, following the recent spate of accidents. Do residents think that there is a problem? What can…

‘The Merry Widow’ Yvonne Arnaud

By the Stage Dragon This operetta is supposed to have been Hitler’s favourite. Having read this in the programme I scanned the auditorium. There was a distinct absence of any…

Riff Raff Diary for January 2012

by Robert Craig Riverbank tales from our local St Catherine’s Lengthsman/Weir-keeper Well a busy start to January with some twenty adjustments made to the weirs between the first of the…

Witnesses Sought To Aircraft Collision Over Guildford

By David Rose Can anyone remember the event in 1952 when two military aircraft collided in mid air over Guildford? One crashed near Blackwell Farm, Wood Street, and the other…

Dragon Interview – Michael Jeffery, Guildford Society

As debate about Guildford’s ‘Masterplan’ rages on. What better time to find out more about the chairman of the Guildford Society… Michael Jeffery, Chairman of the Guildford Society interviewed by…