Sunday 21 October 2012

Woking Weekly Round Up

A weekly round up of news from and about Woking

How would you fill Council Tax gap?
Woking Council launched a consultation on plugging the gap left by a cut in government funding for those who can't pay all of their Council Tax bill. How do you think Woking should cover this hole in its finances.  Take part in the consultation.

Recycled nappies anybody?
Down in the south of Surrey the County Council has just started a trial to recycle nappies.  Residents of Mole Valley will be able to recycle used nappies which will then be turned into plastic pellets and cardboard fibres.  BBC News covered the story.



Woking village among best places to bring up children
Sutton Green has been voted one of the top 20 places in England and Wales to raise a child.  According to Family Investments the Woking village with the postcode GU4 is at no. 19 in the chart.  My council colleague Will Forster has the story.

Train like Lewis and Jenson at McLaren
It's not often I admit to reading the Daily Mail but an article in which their motor racing correspondent tries out the McLaren driver training regime made interesting reading.  If you and a friend fancy training like a champion there are details of a competition at the end of the article.

Woking out of FA Cup
You know when you read an article and think that's tempting fate.  This piece on BBC Sport following an interview with Woking Assistant Steve Thompson did it for me.  The article title referrred to Thompson "eyeing an FA Cup run" only for the Cards to lose 1-0 to a very late Ebbsfleet goal on Saturday in the fourth round of the competition.


Call for new water main
After the collapsed water main on the A320 near St. Peter's Hospital the other week Horsell resident and Horsell Common Preservation Society Estates Manager Paul Rimmer has called for the water main to be replaced.  Paul refers to almost annual incidents over the last ten years in a Get Surrey piece.  










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