RideLondon’s £350,000 boost for Surrey charity
A Surrey charity has been awarded £350,000 thanks to the county’s role in the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey events. YMCA East Surrey received the sum to help fund a new sports facility for people with...
View ArticleTrading standards uncovers suffocation risk from packaging on 200 toy playsets
Surrey trading standards officers have uncovered a batch of 200 toy playsets destined to be sold as Christmas presents despite packaging which poses a suffocation risk. Officers ordered safety tests on...
View ArticleROUND UP: MP pays Surrey fire service a visit; New community hub for Caterham...
MP pays Surrey fire service a visit Minister Brandon Lewis visited Surrey Fire and Rescue Service’s headquarters to find out more about joint working between the emergency services in Surrey and...
View ArticlePrudential RideLondon raises £12 million for charity
The organisers of Prudential RideLondon have announced that cyclists have raised more than £41 million for charity over the first four years of the world’s greatest festival of cycling. This year...
View ArticleTrading standards warns over labelling of popular baby products
Shops and online retailers are selling two popular baby products without safety warnings despite a series of deaths from suffocation, a trading standards investigation has found. Buckinghamshire and...
View ArticleSurrey trader who laundered cash in driveway repair scam must pay back...
A Surrey trader who laundered cash from a driveway repair scam has been ordered to repay £15,000 to two vulnerable residents. Charles Smailes, 22, of Stone Hill Road, Ottershaw was given a suspended...
View ArticleRideLondon’s £245,000 Surrey boost
Three organisations have secured a total of nearly £245,000 thanks to Surrey’s role in the Prudential RideLondon cycling festival – taking the sum handed to groups and charities in the county since the...
View ArticleSurrey company director who laundered cash must pay back scam victims
A Surrey company director who laundered cash from a double scam has been ordered to pay back almost a quarter of a million pounds. Gary Booker, of Queens Avenue, Byfleet, was convicted of money...
View ArticleNicola Adams inspires young riders to take up 46-mile challenge
Two-time Olympic boxing champion Nicola Adams OBE today joined students and teachers from Teach First, the social mobility charity tackling educational inequality, at the Lee Valley VeloPark for the...
View ArticleROUND UP: Surrey book award shortlist revealed; Consultation on boundary...
Surrey book award shortlist revealed The shortlist for an annual book award which is decided by children from 10 Surrey primary schools has been revealed by the county council’s library service. The...
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