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Fairground Car Park. Picture courtesy of Google

Housing and youth hub project stalls again

Cllr James Lawrence, now independent councillor. (Credit: Epsom and Ewell Borough Council)

Lib Dem councillor quits

Cllr Tim Oliver, Surrey County Council leader, making his final address to full council as the outgoing leader. (Credit: Surrey County Council livestream)

Leader accuses MPs of 'cheap political mudslinging' over social care attacks

Dorking Halls, with the adjoining storage area (image Google)

Dorking Halls to get expanded beer options at expense of antique business

Garages in Albert Drive, Sheerwater (image Google)

Abandoned dumping ground to be turned into new housing

Farnborough Airport (image SHBC)

Airport expansion would have ‘immediate and dramatic’ impact on residents’ lives

Hurst Lane, Egham (Image Google)

Plans for Gypsy and Traveller site on former green belt rejected

Access Self Storage fire in West Byfleet (Surrey Fire and Rescue)

Fire destroyed self storage depot where people lost everything to be rebuilt

How the county will look from 2027 as Surrey and its boroughs and districts are dissolved and merged (image SCC)

No promises Surrey will get full devolution and directly elected mayor

Al Pinkerton MP Surrey Heath. (Credit: UK Parliament)

M3 junction roadworks 'paused' after community backlash

Opposition councillors on Reigate & Banstead Borough Council have reacted to the failure – by one vote – of their motion of no confidence in the Conservative council leadership. Picture courtesy of Google

No-confidence motion at council loses by one vote

Jonathan Essex, Green group leader in Reigate & Banstead. Picture contributed

Opposition councillors submit motion of no confidence in Tory council leadership

Cllr Jeffrey Gray has retired. (Credit: Tandridge District Council)

Councillor announces 'difficult' retirement triggering another by-election

Polling station sign. Picture taken by LDR. Permission for use by all partners.

Residents to head to the polls to cast their vote in by-elections

Will Forster, MP for Woking had been a councillor for about 15 years (image Will Forster)

Newly-elected MP gives up councillor roles sparking twin by-elections

New Mole Valley District Council cabinet ,including leader Cllr Bridget Kendrick (front left) and deputy leader Cllr Claire Malcomson (image MVDV)

New council leader appointed

Surrey County Council headquarters. Credit: Emily Coady-Stemp

Council makes apparent U-turn on MPs’ engagement with SEND cases

Surrey Heath car parks need to start generating more income for the council (image Google)

Car parks could be closed or sold off if they don’t start making money

Mole Valley District Council. Credit Surrey Advertiser. Cleared for use

Development management committee reject solar farm

Visual of proposed McDonald's on Portsmouth Road, Cobham. (Credit: McDonald's/ Elmbridge Borough Council planning documents)

Council refuses McDonald's plans

CGI view of proposed block of flats. (Credit: Spelthorne Borough Council/EN-AIM.COM). Permission for use.

Plans for vandalised car park to be transformed into block of flats green-lit

Cllr Julie Morris (left) and Cllr James Lawrence (right). Credit: Epsom and Ewell Borough Council. Approved for use.

Lead Liberal Democrat councillor for nearly 15 years defects

Helen Barnard, director of policy at Trussell

Majority of UK voters (81%) across main political parties agree UK Government is...

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

Councillors react to Government intervention as council looks to manage debt

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

Council on pace to be hit with more than £1m in fines and redress payments

Liberal Democrat MPs across the South East have called on the Government to listen to local communities and scrap plans for expansion at London Gatwick. Picture by Steve Robards

Lib Dem MPs call on Government to ground expansion at Gatwick

9-10 Kirby Close in Ewell, where the proposed development would be built. (Credit: Google Street View)

Planning committee refuses new homes plan for cul-de-sac over bat worries

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MP warns patient safety at risk in Surrey Heath as new hospital delayed

Surrey County Council. Picture courtesy of Google

2025 elections must not be postponed councils and MPs warn

Neighbours sitting on camping chairs on Catherine Drive enjoying the green for a celebration. (Credit: Jason Kiefer)

Neighbours ‘distraught’ as beloved green under threat by six-house development

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

Conservatives table vote of no confidence against Spelthorne leader and deputy

Outside South Street Pharmacy, Dorking, with protest poster in the window. (Credit: Emily Dalton/LDRS)

Pharmacists call for better funding

Contaminated water flooding into Steve Pelham's garden on November 27

Gardens and roads flooded with sewage after overspill at treatment plant

Surrey Heath ward member for Old Dean, Councillor Dave Hough (image SHLD)

Lib Dems win seat from the Tories

Mole Valley District Council. Credit Surrey Advertiser.

Location of where thousands of new homes built in Mole Valley agreed

Woking MP Will Forster outside the Houses of Parliament (image Will Forster)

Getting help with council's debt crisis among top priorities for new MP

Zöe Franklin, the new MP for Guildford, at Guildford Spectrum Leisure Centre. (Credit: Emily Dalton/LDRS)

New Guildford MP draws a line under Conservative rule in acceptance speech

John Milne, Horsham's new Liberal Democrat MP

Political comment: ‘We made a bit of history here tonight’ as John Milne elected...

Esher and Walton count, Monica Harding

Lib Dem Monica Harding becomes Esher and Walton's first non-Tory MP

Candidates waiting for the election result. (From left to right: Labour Sarah Gillinson, Green Sam Peters, Reform UK Dennis Saunders, Conservative Angela Richardson, Lib Dem Zoe Franklin). (Credit: Emily Dalton/LDRS)

Guildford chooses ‘change’ as Liberal Democrats take seat

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Esher and Walton candidates given 100 words to sell themselves to you

Ed McGuinness, Conservative parliamentary candidate for Surrey Heath (Credit: Conservative Press office)

Surrey Conservative candidate responds after being slammed over Airbnb rental

Elizabeth Baldock (image SBC)

By-election set for same day as general election to fill vacant council seat

Cllr Mike Rollings as new leader of Elmbridge Council (middle), deputy council leader Cllr Simon Waugh (right) and Cllr Gill Coates (left). (Credit Elmbridge Borough Council meeting webcast)

New Elmbridge leader announced after former lost seat

CGI for proposed M&S Foodhall in Claygate, from Kilo Properties' website. Credit: Kilo Properties

Elmbridge residents 'punish' council leader for M&S Foodhall as he loses seat

Munira Wilson MP says schoolchildren are so hungry they are ‘eating rubbers’.

Watch: Schoolchildren are so hungry they are ‘eating rubbers’

Voters in Woking will go to the polls on May 2 when 11 seats on the council will be decided. Picture courtesy of Google

Local elections 2024: Woking Borough Council confirms full list of candidates

Facebook post that was ordered to be deleted and reposted without the image after a complaint it could help influence the election in favour of the incumbent

Complaints raised that Twitter and Facebook posts could influence election

Monica Harding And Ed Davey in Esher (Image Chris Caulfield)

‘Tragic’ pollution of Surrey's rivers must end says Lib Dem leader
The Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said people were “angry” over the levels of sewage flowing into rivers and pledged to introduce a new Thames Tsar to help t...

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

These are the candidates who will stand in local elections in Elmbridge

Woking's Conservative MP Jonathan Lord and outgoing council leader Ayesha Azad

Prime Minister 'confident' Conservatives will hold onto Woking

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