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Apparently Surrey has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
This is clearly not a bad thing, however it does have one unfortunate side-effect
- dreary local news. You may have noticed that in the absence of anything
of significance occuring, certain free papers attempt to pass off some individual's
petty grievance as front-page news and fill the rest with planning applications
and blatantly sponsored restaurant "news".
OK, maybe that's a little harsh but for those that agree with me, here's
my drivel-filtered recent local news section...
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24.03.04
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Dangerously colourful Woking curry ? |
| According to The
Guardian, the level of artificial colourings in Chicken Tikka Masala (the
nation's favourite dish) were discovered by Trading Standards Officers to be
four times the legal limit at an unnamed Woking Indian
Resturant !! |
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15.03.04
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Spencer helps find homes for cats |
| The web-designer for
the Woking Cats Protection League
site informs us that hits from Spencer's site are directly helping find homes
for cats. Many thanks to those of you that have decided to help out ! |
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04.03.04
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Miserable turn out for by-election |
| Turn-out for the Surrey
County Council Woking West by-election was just 18%. It was won by Liberal
Democrat Mrs Smith with an increased margin over the Conservatives. |
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02.01.04
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Come see the bin roadshow |
| 6000 lucky residents of Goldsworth
Park and Horsell will this month take delivery of new "space-age"
bins ... with wheels ! as part of a futuristic experiment (whereby the council
collects more recyclable materials than just paper in exchange for normal waste
being collect less frequently). Get along to the roadshows (!?!) or see here
for more amazing details... |
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08.11.03
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Beer Contest Winners |
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Each of the 4,000 drinkers attending this weekend's
Woking beer festival were given the oppurtunity to vote for their favourites.
The results were:
- Best Bitter; Alton's Pride
/ T.E.A. (Hog's Back)
- Best Mild; Black Pig (Bazens)
- Best Strong; Chardonnayle
(Red Lion)
- Best Porter; Honey
Porter (Grand Union) - Overall winner
- Best Old Ale; Old Ale (Kings)
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31.10.03
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Traffic Chaos next week |
| You may struggle to believe it, but apparently
Victoria Way will be completely closed Southbound (toward Guildford) next week
for sewer repairs. Expect a torturous and traffic-laden detour plus chaos in
town for those motorists passing through who hence don't know about it. |
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24.10.03
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Concorde for Brooklands ? |
| You would be hard pushed to have missed
the fact that today saw the last commercial flight of Concorde, and since Branson
has been denied a shot with them hopefully Brooklands
museum will at least be successful in their bid to bring one of the 34-year
old wonders to rest with them. |
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23.10.03
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County Hall Exhibition |
| If you live in Horsell, you can't fail to
have heard about the proposals for Surrey County Hall to be moved from Kingston
to the Brewery Road car-park site. Its had local politicians
in a leafleting frenzy with accustaion and counter accustaion. Now you can see
what is really proposed at an exhibition this week in the town centre,
and also at this web-site. |
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17.10.03
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Lockfield Drive disruption ahead |
| Ringway Highway Services will be making
Lockfield Drive single file and closing access to Arthurs Bridge Lane from the
27th of October during installation of new limited movement traffic lights.
The work (and therefore transport misery) is due to carry on until early in
March 2004 ! |
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07.10.03
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Is Woking the crappiest town in the UK
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| That was the proposition by Jeremy Clarkson,
in that quality journal The Sun, at the weekend. Spencer doesn't think
so, but he can see where he's coming from, and so he was asked to go head-to-head
with the council on the Ed Douglas breakfast show on BBC
Southern Counties Radio! There followed a brief text-msg poll that tended
to agree with him. |
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05.10.03
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Favourite Theatre Venue ? |
| Today marks the closing date for an internet-poll
on lastminute.com which included a nomination for the New
Victoria as Favourite Theatre Venue (other contenders include Sadlers
Wells, the Barbican and the Royal Opera House). As one of a handful of out of
London contenders, Woking could clinch it on ... ease of parking ;-) |
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02.05.03
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No change in control of council |
| Following last night's local elections,
there still no overall control in the Woking borough council. The only ward
to change hands was xxxx which was gained by Labour from the Liberal
Democrats. See results. |
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28.04.03
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Mogul wins Woking Currey Chef of Year |
| Mohin Bakth from The
Mogul restuarant in Brookwood beat off competition from six other chef's
to walk away with this year's Curry Chef of the Year title, organised by the
borough's Environmental Health Service. |
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04.03
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Brookwood Junction Finished
!? |
| It seems that the sometimes horrendous queues
at the Brookwood A320 crossroads are finally past us as the "revamping"
of the junction appears to be finally complete. So one year has passed since
the '30-week' roadworks started, and several house demolitions and significant
civil engineering to the canal later we seem to now have ... well much the same
junction as was there before really. Very dubious. |
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10.02.03
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Town center closures |
| There's been no mention in the local papers,
but today I noticed the tragic loss of two town centre institutions. The Sunflower
(alternative hippy) shop on Commercial Way, and the Lotus of Bengal curry-house
on Goldsworth Road. Lets hope someone steps into replace them... |
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02.01.03
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Litten Tree saved |
| Plans to demolish the Victorian listed pub,
the Litten Tree (formerly The Cotteridge private school) to make way for high-rise
flats were rejected by the council on the basis of inappropriate differences
in heights to neigbouring buildings. There were also 73 letters of complaint. |
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07.12.02
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Arms stash found in Knaphill |
| Police uncovered a large weapons cache including
a sub-machine gun and an M16 assault rifle during a drugs raid in Waterer's
Rise in Knaphill. A man and a woman were arrested but have been released on
police bail. |
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02.12.02
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"Trophy Rapist"
suspect arrested |
| A 48-year-old man was arrested on a junction
on a coast-bound Motorway near Ashford, Kent. He was taken to a police station
in Kent for further questioning. He was later charged with 9 rapes. |
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13.11.02
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Firefighters on strike |
| A sign outside Woking firestation saying
"Honk if you give a hoot" was the most obvious indication of the firefighter's
strike action. Fire rescue will be performed by the army's 'green godesses'
during the 48 hour strike, although the retained firefigters (such as those
at Cobham fire station) have said they will turn out if lives are in danger. |
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09.11.02
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28,000 pints of beer downed |
| 5,000 attendees made their way through 28,000
pints of real ale and cider over the two-day 9th annual Woking beer festival. |
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07.11.02
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Rapist CD-fit released |
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A new computer-generated picture of the serial rapist wanted for 10
sex attacks on women and girls across the south east of England, 3 of
which in the Woking area, has been released by police. It was compiled
with the help of his latest victim, a 14-year-old girl.
Det Supt Mark Warwick said that the number of attacks in Woking may
have significance to the investigation.
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