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Opinion: How a Community Asset Lost Its Name

On Thursday (March 25), the latest episode was revealed of the long-running controversy over GBC’s decision to let Burchatts Barn to a commercial organisation. Martin Giles reflects further on what…

Pushing Pedals: Tick-tock, It’s Time to Visit Your Local Bike Shop

This is the second of what is a regular column on local cycling. The vision of Guildford Bicycle User Group (G-BUG) is to make cycling in the borough and surrounding…

XX Notes: Oh How I Want to Break Free

Maria Rayner‘s observational column from a woman’s perspective… Freddie Mercury has been on my mind this week. If you’re familiar with the outrageous Eighties pop icon you’ll recall the song…

Schwesterlich News: Don’t Mention the Vaccine ‘War’

The latest in our regular exchange of news to and from our twin town of Freiburg in south-west Germany. They are open letters between Penny Leube, co-chair of Freiburg’s Anglo-German…

Opinion: Perhaps Cllr Iles and Her Co-Plotters Should Play Their Games Somewhere Else?

By Jan Harwood Lib Dem borough councillor for Merrow and lead for Climate Change At this point in British life, the only national policy I can be sure of is…

Opinion: Kick National Politics Out of Local Politics

By Ramsey Nagaty leader of the Guildford Greenbelt Group (GGG), and borough councillor for Shalford, gives his view on the proposal to review the Guildford’s Local Plan put forward in…

Opinion: Who Can Believe This Desperate Tory Pre-Election Ploy?

By Fiona Davidson Chair, R4GV written in response to the letter from Conservative county Cllr Julie Iles (The Horsleys) Now Tories Demand Review of Their Own 2019 Local Plan) It’s…

Life in Solitary: Beware of Masked, ‘Musical’ Tradesmen

The Lockdown Diary of Tony Edwards My Masked Singer Service Engineer The man who came to fix the washing machine this week had Van Gogh’s ear for music.  I know…

XX Notes: A Female View of Violence Against Women in Guildford

Maria Rayner‘s observational column from a woman’s perspective… The prevalence of violence against women has exploded in the national consciousness. Pictures abound of a murdered woman on the front pages,…

XX Notes: The Long Journey Inward

Maria Rayner‘s fortnightly, observational column from a woman’s perspective… Sunday night tantrums, last-minute homework and checking the pencil-case for pens, pencils, rulers and cute, smelly rubbers. (Or is that last…