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Volunteers Making Positive In-roads On Chitty’s Common

The Friends of Chitty’s Common group is starting to make in-roads into the overgrown meadow area. A dried-up pond on the common at Rydes Hill, Guildford, has now been dug…

Tunsgate Quarter Straw Poll Gives Surprising Results

Talk to people in Guildford about the Tunsgate Quarter and they will probably bemoan the empty shops and the lack of customers. “It’s a white elephant for Guildford” some have…

Did You See Fatal Collision in Compton?

Police are appealing for witnesses after a fatal collision in Compton last night (24 January), involving a silver BMW and a white Ford Transit van. Officers attended the accident at…

Extraordinary Macramé Feat Celebrates 150 Years of the Periodic Table

By Anthony Parker A century and a half after Dmitri Mendeleev devised the periodic table, Surrey graduate Jane Stewart has created her own homage with a macramé version. Her periodic…

Burst Water Main Disrupts Town Centre Traffic

Workmen are struggling this evening (January 24, 2019) to find a broken water main that is disrupting traffic entering the town centre gyratory from Farnham Road. Water was flowing out…

Guildford Lib Dems Reselect Zoe Franklin as Parliamentary Candidate

Guildford Liberal Democrats have reselected Zoe Franklin as the prospective Parliamentary candidate for Guildford, Cranleigh and the Villages. Zoe, a former borough councillor and Guildford resident for nearly 20 years,…

A3 Safety Improvements ‘Failing to Solve Problem of Deadly Junction’

The display featuring the A3 safety improvements for Guildford last weekend (January 18/19), attended by staff from Highways England and its contractor Kier Highways, has been queried by Cllr Bob…

One Santander Bank Branch Closes But Patisserie Valerie Is Saved

By Hugh Coakley Further signs of difficulties for our high streets were announced in the last two days with café chain Patisserie Valerie going into administration and banking group Santander…

New Guildford Street Naming Policy

By Rebecca Curley local democracy reporter Developers are going to be charged for street signs under a new policy around naming roads. Guildford Borough Council will be introducing the charges…

Updated: Inscrutable Progress on Dongying Partnership

By Will Parsons More than a year since signing a controversial partnership deal with Dongying, a city in north-east China, Guildford Borough Council (GBC), the details of progress in the…