Local Authority

Surrey Heath Borough Council has been awarded a £30,000 grant from Defra in an attempt to solve the ongoing flooding issues in Chobham and surrounding areas.

The council will use the money from Defra (Department for environment, food and rural affairs) to work closely with landowners to improve the current network of minor watercourses and to explore the possibilty of installing a new flood relief scheme.

A 29-year-old man who had to be talked down from a roof in Woking has admitted throwing tiles and a kitchen knife into the street below.

Daniel Mason, who lives in Dartmouth Avenue, Sheerwater, was charged with possession of a bladed article, using threatening words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress, and causing criminal damage.

FIREFIGHTERS spent more than four hours tackling a blaze which ravaged a block of flats in Horsell on Monday.

Crews from Woking and Guildford were called just before 11am to Pares Close, where residents were already outside their homes, helplessly watching the flames.

Phase three of an extensive programme intended to "significantly improve" the Shoppers' Car Parks in Woking Town Centre gets underway from Monday March 9.

The programme, which is being carried out in phases over a period of four years, will bring the three town centre parking facilities up to the same high standard as Victoria Way Car Park.

Police have arrested a man in connection with a hit and run incident in Woking which left a 24-year-old man dead.

Luke Millican, of Hermitage Woods Crescent, St John's, was on foot when he was struck by a vehicle in Hermitage Road, outside The Surrey pub, at 11.55pm, on Friday January 30.

Firefighters spent more than five hours battling a fire at a derelict house in Maybury Road, Woking, on New Year's Day.

The blaze is thought to have started under the stairs at the property just before 5pm, and quickly spread through the semi detached house, destroying the ground floor and a garage.

Children are being warned not to set foot on the frozen Basingstoke Canal no matter how safe it may look.

Ian Brown, director of the Basingstoke Canal Authority, said today (January 7) that the ice is in fact quite thin and cannot take the weight of even a small child.

Woking Borough Council has taken action against over 1,500 households in arrears with their council tax payments since 2003, according to newly released data.

The information appeared in The Times on January 7 along with 171 other council's actions, and showed Woking summoned 1,693 households to court, and sent Bailiffs to houses 771 times to collect tax.

Lewis Hamilton was unable to drive his Formula One world championship-winning McLaren car through Woking because security for the event would have cost too much.

Hamilton, who won the title with Woking-based team McLaren in November, was due to share his success with the town's residents at Woking Football Club's Kingfield stadium on December 7.

Baby Marcus was blissfully unaware that he was setting a new trend as he posed in a washable nappy at Woking's Civic Offices on November 11.

The 14-month-old and his mum Jo Woodhouse were the first to receive a free trial pack of the nappies being given away as part of an initiative to encourage parents to ditch the disposable version.