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Comment: In Homage to Our Hospital, My Unexpected Week as a Royal Surrey Patient

By Ailsa Vincent Monday, January 4, 5.20pm In the dark, in the soft, gentle rain, I lie on the ground beside my car, considering my position. My mind is crystal-clear.…

XX Notes: Travel in the Time of Corona

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… I’ve been travelling around quite a bit lately. At the weekend I enjoyed a gastronomic retreat in Argentina, and now I’m…

Effingham Eye: Conservation Area Under Threat, Special Needs Centre…

Chris Dick writes about: a threat to the conservation area and Neighbourhood Plan, a new special needs centre, one local club that is facing an uncertain financial future and, quite separately,…

Opinion: We Need to Stay Strong, Work Together and Protect Each Other

Since February 2020, Assistant Chief Constable Dave Miller has been leading Operation Apollo, Surrey Police and Sussex Police’s Covid-19 response. In this open letter, he shares his Covid experience and…

The Dragon Says: Officialdom Must Beware of Using Social Media

Social media is a multi-mixed blessing, a mind-blowing maze of misinformation, dubious sources, misleading speculation, sometimes wild, but masquerading as fact with tendrils of truth here and there. At worst,…

The Worplesdon Witness January 2021

Jan Messinger with her round up of news and pictures from the parish of Worplesdon. New year’s honour Wood Street Village resident Pamela Hypher received the British Empire Medal in…

Opinion: This Lethal Virus is No Respecter of Softly, Softly Policing

By Martin Giles Some of us will die because a few refuse to comply with pandemic regulations, the statistics clearly show. Soaring Covid infections transmute into more hospital admissions and…

Comment: Tories Must Not Cut Support For Families Suffering the Worst

By Brian Creese chair, Guildford Labour Party When this crisis started, we were assured we were “all in it together”. But time has revealed that those who have the least…

Opinion: I Have a Little List…

By Martin Giles Taking my cue from Koko, the Lord High Executioner, in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Mikado, I have, at the beginning of this new year, drawn up my own…

XX Notes: The Year in Books

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… Three months to read one book? Anyone who’s been in a book group with me wouldn’t believe this fact, but that…