Nominate your environmental champions for Love Where You Live Awards

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Do you know someone, or a local group, who litter-picks their local area, makes a special contribution to conserving the borough’s landscape or works hard to improve the local environment for the benefit of everyone? Then why not nominate them for a Love Where You Live Award? The biennial awards scheme run by Reigate & […]

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Fancy saving energy, water and money? Join a local Eco Team

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Local Eco Teams are supported by Reigate & Banstead Borough Council, Raven Housing Trust and Sutton & East Surrey Water Company, and are a sociable way to help you save money on your household bills. You can find out more at the next meeting on 22nd September at 7.30pm, at Redhill Methodist Centre. See the […]

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Council helps young people into work

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Fourteen young unemployed people from the borough have been given the chance to gain real skills and work experience thanks to a partnership between Reigate & Banstead, Surrey County Council and Job Centre Plus. The new recruits who started six month work placements at the end of July will be gaining a range of experience […]

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Calling Redhill’s train passengers - have your say before it’s too late

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Passengers who use Redhill station are being urged to say what they would most like to see happen from a list of proposed improvements. This will help Southern Railway, the rail operator and manager of the station, to prioritise changes to the station which are due to start towards the end of this year. The […]

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New 424 bus service to start from end of August

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Southdown PSV has announced that the new 424 bus service, which replaces and improves upon the existing 324 service, will start from Saturday 28th August. The new route will operate Monday – Saturday between Copthorne and Redhill via Horley, Salfords, East Surrey Hospital, Meadvale, Woodhatch, Reigate & Batts Hill. The new route will run every half hour […]

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Restored Wray Common sign back in place

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After intensive restoration work brought about by a partnership between local residents, a local blacksmith and Borough Councillors, the well known signpost on Wray Common has been reinstalled, in a ceremony overseen by the Mayor. The sign had been severely damaged, with one arm missing and another having been knocked off, probably by a passing […]

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Surrey leader pledges an additional million pounds for roads

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Surrey County Council leader Dr Andrew Povey has pledged £1 million towards improving the county’s roads in response to residents’ feedback. Each of the 11 local committees will be asked how and where the extra money should be spent, enabling residents to influence what improvements are carried out in their communities. Dr Povey said: “It […]

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