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Guildford in Bloom To Flower Into Virtual Reality This Year
How does your garden grow these days, with all these hours at home? Now, for the 39th year, the borough’s favourite gardening competition Guildford in Bloom (#GiB2020) is scheduled for…
Lack of Testing For Those With No Symptoms Will Cost Lives, Says Care Homes Chief
by Hugh Coakley The lack of Covid-19 testing for those without symptoms will cost lives says David Holmes, chair of the Surrey Care Association (SCA). But he added: “The social…
Council Votes £15 Million Budget to Cover Costs of Combating Coronavirus Emergency
An emergency budget of £15 million was unanimously agreed by councillors to cover the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic at the first online meeting of the Executive on Tuesday (April…
Royal Surrey Staff Applaud as 100th Coronavirus Patient Heads Back Home At Last
Staff at the Royal Surrey lined the hospital exit corridor and broke into applause as their 100th coronavirus patient was wheeled out on his way home. Tim Hall, 37, from…
Guildford Virus Business Grants Worth £15.6 Million ‘Up For Grabs’
By Hugh Coakley The borough council, holding £22 million in government grants for Guildford’s 1,750 eligible businesses in retail, leisure and hospitality, is encountering a slow response. So far, only…
Planning Committee To Launch Guildford’s First Virtual Council Meeting in May
Guildford residents are being invited to share their views on planning applications at 7pm on May 20 when the borough council planning committee launches its first virtual online meeting, authorised…
Village Supermarket and Butcher Count Costs of Mystery Midday Fire
by Chris Dick Shop owners were counting their costs today in the aftermath of the mystery midday fire yesterday (April 21) that struck Effingham’s Village Supermarket, which was also the…
Lib Dems Demand Five-Point ‘Frontline Support Package’ For Those Risking Lives
Zöe Franklin, Guildford’s parliamentary spokesperson, has joined her Westminster colleagues’ call to set up a government five-point “Frontline Support Package” for the NHS and other key workers risking their lives…
Community Project Providing Cooked Meals For Families In Need
The newly formed Stoke Community Support has brought churches, schools and other organisations together to ensure families struggling to cope due to the coronavirus have hot meals. Based in Guildford’s…
Supermarket Blaze Shocks Effingham Shopkeepers – Photos of Damage
report and photos by Chris Dick Firefighters successfully extinguished a blaze that broke out today (April 21) at the rear of Village Supermarket in The Street, Effingham. The alarm was…
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