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Letter: An Ash Parish ‘No’ That Means It’s None of Your Business

From John Ferns In response to: Residents Rebel Against Total Tory Control of Ash Parish Council On Monday night (October 12) in the slot allocated for questions from the public…

Letter: The 2019 Local Plan Leaves Our Town Centre Open to Undesirable Development

From: Alistair Smith chair, The Guildford Society In response to: Now It Is My Turn to Urge Faster Progress The Guildford Society would like the Town Centre Masterplan developed quickly;…

Letter: Cllr Spooner Is In No Position to Criticise

From: Gordon Bridger hon alderman and former Mayor of Guildford In response to: Now It Is My Turn to Urge Faster Progress It was Paul Spooner’s Conservative party, while in…

Surrey Fire Chiefs Trying to Gag Us on Public Safety Worries, Union Claims

By Julie Armstrong local democracy reporter The Fire Brigades Union has accused Surrey Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) of trying to gag them about their public safety concerns. A council…

‘Lukewarm’ Reception for ‘Independent’ Tory Spooner at Official Party ‘Action Day’

By Martin Giles Conservative Party members out leafletting were joined by the leader of their GBC ‘independent’ group in Burpham last Saturday (October 10). Cllr Paul Spooner’s party status appears…

Queen’s Brian May Leads Fight to Stop Sainsbury’s Destroying Burpham Hedgehog Habitat

Queen superstar Brian May is leading the fight against a bid by grocery giant Sainsbury’s to destroy a wildlife habitat in Guildford, taking back land formerly set aside. When planning…

Letter: Cllr Spooner Should Own Up to the Council’s Failures When He Was Leader

From Bill Stokoe chair, Guildford Vision Group In response to: Now It Is My Turn to Urge Faster Progress Cllr Paul Spooner (now Conservative ‘independent’ group) has a selective memory.…

Letter: We Protect Green Belt, Say Tories, As 20,000 Hectares Surrendered To Developers

From Fiona Curtis In response to: Feeding Developers Green Belt Will Prevent Urban Renewal Having read the latest government report as well as its predecessors (since 2010), I was shocked…

XX Notes: What I Won’t Be Doing…

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… What I Won’t Be Doing This Month This month, I won’t be going to Vienna to see the Modigliani-Picasso exhibition. Just…

Arts Emergency Fund Awards Yvonne Arnaud Theatre £248,000 Lifeline

Guildford’s treasured Yvonne Arnaud theatre has been awarded £248,000 from the Arts Council England Covid Emergency Fund. Director Joanna Read said today: “We are relieved and heartened to receive this…