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The Square Car Park savings

The Square Camberley and Surrey Heath Borough Council partner to deliver parking...

Spelthorne Borough Council offices in Knowle Green, Staines. Credit: Emily Coady-Stemp

Council still in deep trouble and must take 'urgent action'

Surrey Heath Borough Council office (Image Google)

Financial 'mess' could become new council's problem

Waverley Borough Council

Urgent action needed to tackle unauthorised traveller sites say Conservatives

Elmbridge Civic Centre, where Elmbridge Borough Council is based. Photo credit Emily Coady-Stemp, LDR.

Over £400k spent on Surrey council office plans despite 'little to show for it'

Household

Surrey households can now apply for up to £525 in cost-of-living support

Leader of Spelthorne Borough Council, Ashford East councillor Joanne Sexton, at the council building in Knowle Green, Staines. Credit: Emily Coady-Stemp

'We will stand up for Spelthorne' - Council leader outlines goals for 2026

Horley Remembrance Day Parade and Service

Political opinion: Chris advocates for local accessibility and pays tribute at H...

Dorking Halls (image Google)

Closure dates confirmed for financial ‘black hole’ Dorking Halls refurbishment

Hopescourt School under construction

Nearly 500 new specialist school places across Surrey thanks to investment

Local communities across Surrey are being empowered to take action for nature, thanks to a new £50,000 grant programme from Surrey County Council. Picture courtesy of Surrey County Council

County council launches £50,000 nature recovery fund for communities

Langshott Manor

Hotel owner handed £80k fine for serious breaches of food hygiene legislation

Outside of The Winning Horse pub in Claygate. (Credit: Google Street View)

Former pub set to be transformed into houses despite community backlash

Chris and Marco on Massetts Road

Political opinion: Chris Coghlan MP: Surrey County Council's 'accident waiting t...

Sussex Weald Chief Executive Corinna Bishopp, HDC Leader Cllr Martin Boffey, HDC Cabinet Member for Housing and Communities Cllr Sam Raby and HDC Chief Executive Jane Eaton

Local partners unite to address housing challenges in Horsham District

Chris Coghlan MP

A year in review: sewage dumping, road safety concerns and parking problems

Outside Guildford Borough Council's HQ, Millmead House. (Credit: Guildford Borough Council)

Guildford could get town council over fears of 'democratic deficit'

Discarded electronic cigarette vapes that have been collected from roads and pavements shot over a pale concrete slab background

How to handle battery waste safely: Tips from skip hire expert

New for 2025 will be the Filmmaking Workshops, where budding filmmakers can get hands-on experience using industry-standard equipment and try their hand at directing, acting, and filming scenes for ‘Another Dimension – The Movie’.

Council launches most varied school holiday programme yet

Plans submitted for 42 affordable homes in Caterham

Plans submitted for 42 affordable homes in Caterham

Close view down Fairview Road, Epsom. (Credit: Emily Dalton/LDRS)

Dispute over street goes to Land Registry

New Surrey County Council HQ, Woodhatch Place on Cockshot Hill, Reigate. Credit Surrey County Council

Two parents refused help to take daughter to college

Aerial shot of houses.

Find out how much your council tax will go up from April 1

Rubbish piled up on Beach Road in Sparkhill Birmingham

Watch: Rubbish piles up in streets as bin strike enters third week

'Council spent £16m on a bridge to nowhere. It's a dangerous mess'

£16m bridge leads to 'dangerous' deep mud...it looks like a warzone

A car dealer must pay more than £9,000 in fines and costs after a visitor to his premises was seriously injured when he fell down an unprotected drop.

Man falls down 6ft drop and gets 'seriously' injured at car dealership

Surrey Recycling Centre. Credit Surrey County Council. Cleared for use

Plans for new recycling centre on the cards

A road left so badly damaged by a landslip it was closed to cars can't be fixed properly - as it's still moving a YEAR later.

Britain's 'wonkiest road' destroyed by landslip finally set to reopen

View of Epsom and Ewell town hall. (Credit: Google Street View)

Calls for council to be more open after report finds 'culture of secrecy'

Land Rover driver rams workman after ignoring road closure

Land Rover driver rams workman and sends him 'flying into a bush'

Between January 2023 and June 2024, nearly 5,000 dogs and over 20,000 cats were reported missing.

How to find a missing dog: 6 tips on what to do if your dog gets lost

Worcester City Council insists the tree in Columbia Drive poses no immediate risk and has issued a protection order for it. Inset: Chris Davis

'Menacing' 100ft tree could crush my home but council won't chop it

Peter and Patricia Clarke outside their home in Grange Park, Swindon, which has been flooded 20 times over the past three years.

Our home has flooded 20 times...it's like Niagara Falls when it rains

Outside Runnymede Borough Council. (Credit: Google Street View)

Council accounts yet to be signed off

Elmbridge Civic Centre, Esher. Taken by LDR and cleared for use by LDRS partners.

Council denied extension and told to start again

Before-and-after pictures show how a house of horrors which was turned into a makeshift dump has finally been cleared of rubbish after more than a year.

Makeshift tip FINALLY cleared as nightmare neighbour evicted

View of Epsom and Ewell town hall. (Credit: Google Street View)

Council given one-off grant to buy homes to relieve nightly accommodation

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Nightmare tenant with rubbish dump in front garden gets EVICTED

Pictures taken by Joe Massey as he walked the route Surrey County Council recommended his children take to school after cancelling their free bus access (image Joe Massey)

School children lose free bus service

The aftermath of the blaze at the Bristol Avenue tip

Video shows devastating tip blaze caused by a single e-bike battery

Phil Austin has built a lighthouse in the middle of Salford - 30 miles away from the nearest coast.

I was refused planning permission for a home...so I built a LIGHTHOUSE

Furious resident Douglas Debnam on Whitebarns Lane in the village of Furneaux Phelham in Hertfordshire, is embroiled in Britain's longest running pothole row.

Our council want £100k to fix road with 32 potholes...we're furious!

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Next door has a rubbish dump in the garden...it's making our kids sick

Betty Calloway (90) from Stirchley, who has issues with an overgrown council hedge that has turned her dream move into a nightmare.

Overgrown hedge is 'swallowing' my garden...I'm fuming

Retired bank worker, Nick Wisniewski, 66, is the last person living on 'Britain's loneliest street' which is all due to be knocked down - but he's refusing to move.

'I'm not moving!' Council move to evict man on derelict estate

School classroom.

Watch: School absence fines rise details explained

Video grab of a rat infested alleyway off Franciscan Road in Tooting, south London. October 2 2024.

I passed a swarm of rats on the school run...it was disgusting!

The Armed Forces Covenant gold award

Gold award shows commitment to armed forces

West Sussex landscaper Harry Smith-Haggett, 22, has been filling in Horsham's potholes with flowers dubbed 'pretty potholes'.

'I made my roads pretty!' Pothole flowerbed service goes viral
A landscape gardener became so fed up with the pothole-riddled roads in his town, he has taken to the streets to fill them with flowers – and has shared his ‘pr...

Surrey County Council headquarters. Credit: Emily Coady-Stemp

Surrey SEND child misses two years of education due to 'excessive' delays

Marshal Craig, one of the last remaining residents on Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow which is almost deserted.

'I'm not moving!' - Man refuses to leave derelict 'Chernobyl' estate

A desperate man claims a council is doing "nothing" after his mould-ridden flat left a relative hospitalised.

Inside our mould-ridden council flat which left a relative in hospital

Muktar Singh, 55

Huge mountain of fly-tipped rubbish attracts 'rats the size of cats'

Cllr Charu Sood at Pride Cllr John Cope. (Credit: Cllr John Cope)

Weybridge councillor who served her community for over six years dies

Surrey County Council headquarters. Credit: Emily Coady-Stemp

Girl taught online for 13 hours a week and missed term after 'service failure'

(Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

Thousands of households to receive £500 summer holidays payment

Rent increases are impacting the saving powers of four in 10 private tenants and now a third of these can't afford to put any cash aside as a result.

62% of UK renters put aside £100 or less each month

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