Woking and Surrey local news

  • Former Councillor Tina Liddington during her time as Woking Mayor (Brooklands Radio)
    Article: Sep 11, 2015

    Tina Liddington is a well established member of the local community and lives in Knaphill. Tina works at the Goldsworth Park Health Centre where she meets local residents regularly.

    Tina Liddington was a Lib Dem Councillor for 13 years and a former Mayor of Woking. Whilst she was a Councillor, Tina was a strong supporter of neighbourhood watch groups and neighbourly care in the community schemes. Tina was a founder member of St Johns Care.

  • James Sanderson - defending a 103 vote majority
    Article: Sep 11, 2015

    James Sanderson grew up in Woking and has lived here most of his life. James is married to Alison and they have four children that attend or have attended Goldsworth Primary School. James is a qualified chartered accountant and works for a financial services company in London.

    James Sanderson has previously served as a local councillor for a London Borough and also has had experience as a primary school governor, treasurer of a bereavement and homeless charity and director of a housing association.

  • New Member every 39 seconds
    Article: May 12, 2015
    By Chris Took

    Membership of the Liberal Democrats is now at more than 55,800

    Since polls closed on Thursday more than 10,000 new members have joined the Liberal Democrats.

    People are joining right across the country, and these are not just people who've been members before.

    We're recruiting people who have never joined a party in the past but want to stand together against the things this Conservative government is already promising to do.

  • Article: May 10, 2015

    Following the agreement of the Federal Executive and the Liberal Democrats' returning officer, the timetable below has been set out ahead of the election of a new leader.

    Opening of nominations

    13th of May 2015

    Close of nominations

    3rd of June 2015

    Dispatch of ballot papers

    24th of June 2015

    Deadline for ballot papers to be returned

    15th of July 2015

    Count and declaration of the winner

    16th of July 2015

  • Article: May 8, 2015
    By Nick Clegg in Email to members

    I always expected this election to be exceptionally difficult for the Liberal Democrats, given the heavy responsibilities we have had to bear in government in the most challenging of circumstances.

    But clearly the results have been immeasurably more crushing and unkind than I could ever have feared.

  • Article: May 8, 2015
    To the 6,047 people who voted for me on Thursday, thank you. I'm sorry that we could not win over enough people to overcome the Conservative dominance that has engulfed Woking since 1950.

    Many more thousands voted for our local council candidates and I am sorry that we lost such tremendous local councillors in Tina Liddington and Louise Morales. Happily Will Forster was re-elected and will continue as our group leader.
  • Chris Took outside St Peter's Hospital
    Article: Apr 29, 2015

    Research published by VoteSmart has shown that Chris Took of the Liberal Democrats has become the only left of centre candidate who can win in Woking.

    With the election in Woking being one of the closest fought in history it has become crucial that voters unite behind a progressive candidate who can defeat the reactionary candidates from UKIP and the Conservative Party.

  • Article: Apr 26, 2015

    Chris Took, the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Woking, has today pledged a commitment to support Women in Prison's Manifesto which calls for a new approach to criminal justice, where the abuse, marginalisation and poverty at the root of so much of women's offending is addressed and custodial sentencing is used as a last resort.

  • Chris Took at Swimathon 2015 - Woking
    Article: Apr 19, 2015
    By Chris Took

    Chris Took, Woking Liberal Democrat's Parliamentary candidate for the forthcoming General Election, took a break from his campaign activity to swim 100 pool lengths (2.5km) in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care.

    Held over the weekend of 17-19 April, Swimathon 2015 welcomed thousands of swimmers to take on the challenge and go that extra length to help support Marie Curie provide care for people with terminal illnesses across the UK with hours of health care and professionals to support themselves and their families go through those tough times.

  • Fracking
    Article: Apr 10, 2015

    Chris Took, the Liberal Democrats candidate for Woking, has promised that he will oppose any future attempts to carry out fracking in his constituency if elected.

    Chris has joined hundreds of election candidates from nearly all the UK's political parties who have pledged to oppose the controversial industry in their constituencies.