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Do You Recognise This Mystery Pub?

A plea for help from the National Brewery Centre is hard to resist, there might be free samples, so when the following email message was received we agreed to try…

Letter: The Draft Local Plan Is Not Logical

From Graham Moore The logic of Guildford’s Draft Local Plan is flawed. It is not a plan, it is merely a forecast, an extrapolation of very recent trends, assuming that…

Commonwealth Silver for Surrey Smashers Badminton Stars

Surrey Smashers players Gabby Adcock and Chris Langridge secured their first medals of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games on Monday evening as England took silver in the mixed team event.…

GP Queues? – ‘It’s The Government’s Fault’ Says Labour Candidate

One in five patients in Guildford and Waverley waited seven days or longer to see a GP the last time they tried, a Healthwatch survey has found.  The figures are being highlighted by…

Police Bail For Councillor Extended Again

Cllr Monika Juneja has had her police bail extended for a second time this morning (Jul 29). The bail now runs to August 7th. The extension is understood to have…

Two Charged Following ‘Nottingham Knocker’ Style Offences

Two teenagers have been charged with theft and fraud offences following an incident when they were going door to door selling cleaning goods in Chilworth at the weekend. The 17-year-old…

Cllr John Garrett Dies After Long Illness

Cllr John Garrett (Con, Lovelace) died on Saturday morning (July 26), it was announced in a council communication this morning. In an email message, a council officer wrote: “I regret…

Letter: We Won’t Need A Congestion Charge in Utopian Guildford

From John Robson Do we really need a congestion charge? Surely the residents from the futuristic garden neighbourhoods on the extremity of the town’s urban area will all be walking,…

Letter: Who Is Managing the Guildford Local Plan Now?

From Dr Paul Cragg Having just heard of the precipitate departure of the head of planning, Carole Humphrey, I wanted to address a couple of questions to the council Executive…

Letter: When Will Government Claims That We Need To Build On the Green Belt Stop?

From Diane Maxfield When will any government, of any political flavour, ever really take the bull by the horns and stop claiming that it is necessary to build on the…