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‘Catapults Must Be Treated Like Knives’ Says Deputy Police Commissioner

By David Reading Surrey’s Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner has called on the Government to tighten up laws on the sale and possession of catapults. Ellie Vesey-Thompson said in a…

Updated: Crop Fire Destroys Wheat Field on the Slopes of the Hog’s Back Near Guildford

By Martin Giles July 15 – 1800 The Surrey Fire & Rescue Service say that: “Due to the size and volume of the fire, the cause has been classified as…

Normandy Housing Plan Reignites Concerns Over ‘Damage To Our Community’

By David Reading  Development company Taylor Wimpey has reintroduced plans to build housing on land at Normandy and Flexford – a scheme that caused outrage among local people when it…

Highways Bulletin: Reimagining Parking with Green Design

The information for this bulletin comes from Surrey County Council and is written by them. See interactive map here. Report potholes and highway issues here. Junction 10, M25 news here.…

SCC Calls on the Government To Protect the Environment

By Emily Dalton local democracy reporter Fears of “irreversible damage” to Surrey’s countryside have prompted calls to change a new planning bill currently going through Parliament. Surrey County Council members…

Lib Dems Easily Hold Three Council Seats in Surrey By-elections

By Chris Caulfield, local democracy reporter and Martin Giles In by-elections, Liberal Democrats have easily held on to two council seats in Woking, one at the borough council and one…

UK Students to Launch International Space Mission

A team of students from the University of Surrey are, with fellow students from Portsmouth and Southampton Universities, working to fit equipment they have designed, made and tested, to a…

Retrofit Planned for Guildford Office Building

A town centre office building is to undergo a major retrofit following planning permission being granted by GBC’s Planning Committee to real estate investment adviser Bradda Capital. The scheme involves…

Museum Shines a Light on Victorian Send, Ripley and Pyrford

The latest exhibition at Ripley Museum shines a light on the Victorian age. Hosted by Send and Ripley History Society, it says this was “a very important period in the…

Conservationists Celebrate Victory As Fast-food Plan At Nature Reserve Is Turned Down

By David Reading The McDonald’s fast food chain has been refused planning permission to open a drive-through restaurant on the edge of the Tice’s Meadow nature reserve, between Tongham and…