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30 Most Recent News Stories
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Sun 7th Feb 2010
The long-awaited Planning Application for the West Park site on the hospital cluster has at last been registered with the council. A total of 373 new homes are proposed, though two parts of the site would still be retained by the NHS.
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Read "West Park Planning Application" in full
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Sun 7th Feb 2010
Liberal Democrat councillors have tabled a Motion to the next meeting of the whole council on 16th February demanding that councillors pay for their meals at civic functions.
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Read "Free Dinners are on the Agenda" in full
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Wed 3rd Feb 2010
The Liberal Democrats have announced a major funding commitment that would boost education in Surrey. Nick Clegg has given a Liberal Democrat manifesto commitment for a Pupil Premium that would mean investing around £ 25m of extra cash in Surrey schools, raising the funding for disadvantaged pupils to private school levels.
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Read "Liberal Democrats pledge £ 25m extra for Surrey schools" in full
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Tue 2nd Feb 2010
According to a Tesco survey, most people don't bother to recycle aerosol cans but Epsom & Ewell Borough Council takes them away with your cans and bottles.
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Read "Recycling Aerosol Cans" in full
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Tue 26th Jan 2010
E-waste is the term for discarded computer equipment, e.g. monitors, printers, hard drives and circuit boards. They contain toxic substances and shouldn't be thrown out with household rubbish.
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Read "Recycling e-waste" in full
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Thu 14th Jan 2010
The borough council's Planning Committee will NOT debate the Tesco proposals at their meeting on Thursday 21st January, as previously publicised.
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Read "Tesco Decision Delayed" in full
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Tue 5th Jan 2010
The start of another year and at least some improvement in the recycling service offered by our borough council as they continue to bring flats on-stream with the new collection service for plastics and cardboard. Each week we will be posting a "tip of the week", starting off with some fairly obvious strategies but moving on to some of the most inventive recycling done by our councillors, members and supporters. Let your local councillor know of any interesting ways of recycling which you think could be publicised more widely.
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Read "Recycling Tip of the Week" in full
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Mon 4th Jan 2010
If you have felt that you wanted to give something back to your community, help young people from falling into a life of crime or anti-social behaviour or wanted to offer young people support and guidance, then the borough council would like to hear from you.
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Read "Do you have what it takes to be a Youth Mentor?" in full
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Fri 1st Jan 2010
The Surrey Police Authority has recently approved a seven point plan for Surrey Police in order to address their anticipated funding shortfall over the next three years to increase front-line police officers and further improve policing. This initiative has been supported by the Lib Dem members of the Police Authority.
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Read "Surrey Police Seven Point Plan" in full
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Mon 21st Dec 2009
Lib Dem MEP Sharon Bowles has called for an overhaul of Eurostar following weekend failures of its service which left thousands of passengers trapped in the Channel Tunnel and up to 60,000 people stranded. Sharon Bowles said: "Having seen the distress of people who were trapped in the Channel Tunnel over the weekend, some for up to seven hours, it is imperative that Eurostar gets its act together."
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Read "South East MEP Sharon Bowles Calls for Eurostar Overhaul" in full
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Wed 16th Dec 2009
Solum Regeneration has now replied to Cllr Julie Morris with their answers to the questions asked by members of the public at the public meeting held at the Phoenix Club on 30th November. Their replies have been distributed to those who gave us an e-mail address and have now been posted on this website.
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Read "Epsom Station - Replies from Solum" in full
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Mon 14th Dec 2009
The expected Planning Application for the regeneration of Epsom Station has now been registered by Epsom & Ewell Borough Council under the reference number 09/00824/FUL. This differs from the plans exhibited by the developers Solum Regeneration recently by including a new car park in Horsley Close.
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Read "Epsom Station - Planning Application Goes Live" in full
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Wed 9th Dec 2009
The Audit Commission has today published a report rating Surrey County Council's performance as merely "adequate". The Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) rated the performance of the organisation with scores from 1 to 4 for managing performance, use of resources, managing finances, governing the business and managing resources. The County Council only achieved a score of 2 out of 4 which means that it meets only minimum requirements and only performs adequately.
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Read "Surrey County Council Rated "Adequate" by Audit Commission" in full
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