YOUNG environmental activists staged a sit-in at the WWF headquarters in Woking, protesting that the conservation charity’s work damages the human rights of people in Africa. Twelve people – members of the... Read more »
CHILDREN’S shoes were laid against Woking Town Gate by Extinction Rebellion members on Saturday, in a demand for more action by the borough council to combat global warming. The shoes represented the... Read more »
MEMBERS of Woking Extinction Rebellion took part in a peaceful, socially distanced demonstration in Woking Park last Saturday. The intention was to remind the Government to take the climate and ecological emergency... Read more »
A ‘FOOTPATHS war’ broke out in 1909 when landowner Rupert Guinness, of the Irish brewing dynasty, sought to divert two paths on land at his Pyrford Court Estate. It resulted in mass... Read more »
A GROUP of Woking residents is organising opposition to plans to build 965 flats in blocks up to 40 storeys high in Goldsworth Road. The proposed development would have three blocks on... Read more »
A PEACEFUL protest supporting the Black Lives Matter movement filled out Jubilee Square on Sunday at 2pm. The Woking rally included kneeling in silence for eight minutes and 46 seconds in remembrance... Read more »
SEVERAL Woking residents attended demonstrations in London by Extinction Rebellion calling for the government to declare a climate and ecological emergency. Lizzy Harley, a science journalist who lives in St John’s, was... Read more »