Planning permission has been granted for the new flood defences along the Allotments and Meadrow which will protect Godalming & Farncombe residents from a repeat of the terrible floods of Christmas 2013.

Green Oak School in Godalming is to remain open for the next year while further options are explored.

The school had received an 'Inadequate' Ofsted report in January 2017 and no Multi-Academy Trust had been identified to take the school on, meaning it was threatened with closure.

Work will soon begin on the Brightwells regeneration scheme in Farnham town centre.

South West Surrey MP Jeremy Hunt has welcomed the announcement by Theresa May of a General Election to be held on 8th June.

From this August the South West Trains franchise will be operated not by Stagecoach, as it has been for the past 21 years, but by FirstGroup and MTR. The agreement is due to run for seven years.

Following campaigning by local Councillors Waverley Borough Council has reopened the public loos on Station Road, Farncombe.

The disabled public loo in the centre of Farncombe has this week been opened as a unisex and disabled loo for a 3 month trial period.

Donal O'Neill, Nicholas Le Gal, Matthew Elliott and Wyatt Ramsdale are standing as your Conservative candidates in Farnham's local by-elections this Thursday.

Don't foget to vote in the Surrey Police & Crime Commissioner Elections.

Godalming Conservatives have chosen Myles Green as their candidate for next month's Town Council by-election.

In February there will be a by-election to choose a new Councillor for the ward of Godalming Central & Ockford - get in touch if you would like to be the Conservative Candidate.