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Life in Solitary: Use Your Right of Reply
The Lockdown Diary of Tony Edwards Repelling Rip-off “Phone Callers” We’re in the grip of a plague of phoney ‘phone calls if recent posts on the neighbourhood hub “Nextdoor” are…
Comment: We Must Know What Went Wrong With This Parish Council
By Martin Giles The turbulent times of a dispute-torn parish council seem an ugly anachronism in the historic village of Normandy, once home to the illustrious 18th-century reformer William Cobbett,…
XX Notes: Time the Great Healer
Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… “Studied and deliberate cruelty.” This is how Conservative MP, Sir Charles Walker, described the ongoing government response to the pandemic on…
The Worplesdon Witness February 2021
Jan Messinger with her monthly round-up of news from the parish of Worplesdon. Businesses’ temporary closure due to Covid The shop at The Christmas Bakery at Rickford and Fairlands post…
Pushing Pedals: ‘Nothing Compares to the Simple Pleasure of a Bike Ride’
This is the first of what is intended to be a regular column on local cycling. The vision of Guildford Bicycle User Group (G-BUG) is to make cycling in the…
Effingham Eye: Covid Jabs, Unusual Parish Meeting and Threat to Neighbourhood Plan
Chris Dick writes about: a local flood, a parish meeting like no other, lack of vaccination centres and another half-decent wildlife photograph. With more forecast, snow has already caused flooding…
Life in Solitary: Can You Smiz?
The Lockdown Diary of Tony Edwards Let’s All Get ‘Smizing’ Behind the Face Masks I’ve suddenly realised that smiles have effectively been banned from public places now that the law…
Schwesterlich News: Schadenfreude Sums It Up
The next 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…
XX Notes: Debenhams – Once Iconic But Not Immune
Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… Weymouth: sun, sea, sand and… Debenhams. Every summer, until the age of 12, I visited my relatives on the Dorset coast…
Comment: Effingham Doublespeak – Its Ignored Plan Is Really Respected
By Chris Dick What is the point of a Neighbourhood Plan? They take a lot of determination, time, and hard work by those who really care about their community, but…
I'm living well for nothing at all! (See: No Trifling Matter: Magpie Trapped in Godalming Sainsbury’s)
Next stop, Debt Chasm! (See: We Should All Be Outraged About the Failure to Deal with Legacy Debt)
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