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Lib Dems Handover Borough Council Leadership to R4GV in Planned Move

The leader of Guildford Borough Council announced her expected resignation last night (September 24) at a meeting of the council’s Executive. Under a deal struck between the two largest political…

Complaints and Anger Follow Parish Council Co-Option While Another Vacancy Arises

By David Reading Controversy continues in Ash over the co-option of a Conservative supporter by the all-Tory Parish council. Residents have taken action in a bid to ensure there is…

Letter: Leaf Blower Noise Drives Me Mad

From: Roslyn McMillan In response to: My Lockdown Continues As a Daily Nightmare of Noise From Building Works Power tools in peoples’ gardens can be literally maddening, too. In the…

Council Leader Backtracks on Claim That Government Decision ‘Kills’ Unitary Bid

Council Leader Tim Oliver has today backtracked on his leaked email, reported exclusively by The Guildford Dragon NEWS, in which he said an announcement by Secretary of State Robert Jenrick…

Dragon Interview: SCC Leader on Delayed Unitary Authority Bid

Political leaders get annoyed when their internal communications are leaked but it can lift the curtain on the internal workings of our government, in this case at national and county…

Hasty Failed Power-Grab by County Council Betrays Fear of Opposition Parties

From: Ramsey Nagaty leader of the Guildford Greenbelt Group In response to: SCC Leader’s Bid For One Unitary Authority Torpedoed By Shock Government U-Turn The leaked email confirms the GGG…

230 Arrests as Nine Forces Stage Roads Crackdown on County Lines

Nine police forces have made 230 arrests in a three-day combined Operation Pandilla involving 1,065 officers and using ANPR cameras to tackle county lines drug-dealers and linked violence. “Strike teams”…

Letter: My Lockdown Continues As a Daily Nightmare of Noise From Building Works

From: Name and address supplied I live on Castle Hill and my lockdown has been a nightmare of noise. Throughout the months, three houses have been undergoing extremely noisy building…

Covid-19 Case Rise Leaves Spelthorne As an Official ‘Area of Concern’

Due to a continued rise in local Covid-19 cases, Spelthorne borough, by Heathrow Airport, is now officially a government-designated “area of concern”, the county council has said. The changed status…

SCC Leader’s Bid For One Unitary Authority Torpedoed By Shock Government U-Turn

By Martin Giles In yet another screeching Downing Street U-turn, county council leader Tim Oliver’s power bid for a single Surrey unitary authority has been torpedoed via Local Government Secretary…