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Letter: I Have Found Waitrose Careful With Shopper Numbers

From: Sue Warner In response to: Supermarkets Crack Down on Maskless Shoppers But Police Back Away I have always found Waitrose at Guildford (including the garage one in Worplesdon Road)…

Retired Surrey Police Sergeant, 66, Gets 11 Years for Two Rapes

Former Surrey Police sergeant Derek Seekings was jailed for 11 years at Lewes Crown Court yesterday (January 13) for two counts of rape between 1994 and 2000. Seekings, 66, of…

Woking Rejects Plan For Five Giant Town Centre Tower Blocks

By Julie Armstrong local democracy reporter A huge high-rise development that would include Woking’s tallest building and create 929 homes was refused at the town’s planning committee on Thursday (January…

Association Backs Free Parking at Vaccination Centres

As the NHS rapidly increases the number of testing/vaccination centres, the British Parking Association (BPA) is encouraging members to explore free parking and extended grace periods, already in place in…

Opinion: We Need to Stay Strong, Work Together and Protect Each Other

Since February 2020, Assistant Chief Constable Dave Miller has been leading Operation Apollo, Surrey Police and Sussex Police’s Covid-19 response. In this open letter, he shares his Covid experience and…

Local Author Finding Success After Self-publishing

By Alice Fowler Guildford author Maddy Glenn is celebrating the publication of her first novel, On the Edge. Her novel, which she describes as an easy-going fantasy, tells the story…

Supermarkets Crack Down on Maskless Shoppers But Police Back Away

By Martin Giles All the giant supermarkets in England have banned shoppers without masks and those in groups after they were declared “hotspots” for Covid-19 transmission. Anyone without a face…

Letter: We Can’t Build Our Way Out of the Housing Problem in Guildford

From: David Roberts In response to: Check the Reality of the Weyside Allotments, Not the Fiction Cllr Potter paints a heart-rending picture of destitute young borough councillors struggling to get…

The Dragon Says: Officialdom Must Beware of Using Social Media

Social media is a multi-mixed blessing, a mind-blowing maze of misinformation, dubious sources, misleading speculation, sometimes wild, but masquerading as fact with tendrils of truth here and there. At worst,…

Letter: Check the Reality of the Weyside Allotments, Not the Fiction

From: George Potter Lib Dem borough councillor for Burpham In response to: Destroying Century-old, Food-rich Allotments is Council Vandalism I have a lot of sympathy with the allotment holders. It’s…