Victoria Shipp

Surrey Live • 13th November 2025

Murder of Sara Sharif leads to demands for change to 'weak' homeschooling system used by killers to hide abuse

Woking MP Will Forster has called for immediate changes to the homeschooling system after the tragic murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif.

The schoolgirl was found dead in her home in her Woking home in August 2023, with the following police investigation finding that she had been subject to a campaign of abuse in the weeks before her death .

Surrey Live • 28th October 2025

Surrey council shake up live reaction as 12 councils to be axed in favour of two mega authorities

The Government has confirmed Surrey’s future, announcing what will replace the political system we have known for decades.

The Surrey councils as we know them will disappear, with two mega local authorities created in their place.

Currently Surrey works under a two tier system, meaning we have one County Council and 11 boroughs and districts, such as Guildford, Woking and Mole Valley. But in April 2027, two new unitary councils will come into effect , marking a complete change for how services are delivered across the county.

Surrey Live • 25th October 2025

Tories try to woo Surrey voters as Kemi Badenoch visits Farnham

Kemi Badenoch was making a new pitch to Surrey voters on Friday (October 24) during a visit to Farnham town centre.

The leader of the Conservative Party was speaking to business owners about their finances and other challenges they were facing, as she attempted to convince them that her party had the solutions.

Surrey Live • 1st May 2025

Why are there no Surrey local elections in 2025? Your questions answered

While people across the country are heading to the polls today, that is not the case for the majority of us in Surrey. The county council elections that should have been taking place today have been cancelled. So why?

The reason is that the Government is planning a radical shake up of how our local councils work. The elections on Thursday (May 1) would have been for Surrey County Council, but under these reorganisation plans the county council will soon cease to exist.

Surrey Live • 6th February 2025

Readers raise concerns over postponing Surrey's elections

Thousands of readers want to vote in local elections that will not happen. On Wednesday (February 5) it was announced that elections for Surrey County Council would not take place in May ahead of a massive restructuring of local government.

The changes, put forward by the Labour government, will affect everything from who collects your bins to who makes planning decisions. While specifics of how Surrey will be governed are still to be ironed out, options include a single mega authority with an elected mayor, or two to three smaller regions.

Surrey Live • 23rd December 2024

The Surrey boy left without a school place for January - 'I just want what he deserves'retire in UK

One Surrey couple have said “it is beyond words how cruelly we have been treated” as they search for a school place for their son. The Farnham family have no idea where their son is meant to go in January, after Surrey County Council has struggled to find him a school place.

Grayson Hiscock ,5, is autistic and non verbal. He currently attends pre-school at Challengers, a group that specialise in looking after disabled children. However, Surrey County Council is due to remove his place in January, with no clear idea of where he will go.

Surrey Live • 28th November 2024

'Every bad death is one death too many' say the Surrey women campaigning to legalise assisted dying

“Nobody should have to go through what we went through”, say two Surrey women whose husbands wanted to end their lives as they were left facing an impossibly difficult situation. With assisted dying currently illegal in the UK they looked towards Dignitas to give their loved ones the send off they wanted, but faced a secretive and lonely process. Now they hope others won't have to do the same.

Surrey Live • 5th July 2024

Jeremy Hunt says victory is 'bitter pill to swallow' and vows to 'win back trust' in Godalming and Ash

891 votes have come between Jeremy Hunt and defeat. Opinion polling and the exit poll had led many to assume that the Chancellor would lose his Surrey seat to the Liberal Democrats. However, the Tory grandee held on by the tightest of margins.Read the full results here.

After a night of being told it was too close to call, the shock result was announced in the early hours on Friday to gasps, cheering and tears. The result bucks the nationwide trend which has seen tory MPs such as Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt, Gillian Keegan, Jacob Rees-Mogg loose their seats.

Surrey Live • 24th May 2024

The full story of a Surrey fuel leak that has plagued a village, its residents and businesses for years

A packed village hall, and years of problems. That’s what faced Bramley residents in their continued quest for answers. For years they have felt the effects of a large fuel spill at a nearby petrol station forecourt, polluting streams and causing a stink. Only now may they start to get some answers.

At a public meeting on Wednesday (May 22) there were audible gasps and visible anger as experts from Asda, EPS (environmental consultants) and Thames Water explained what they had found.