£35 Bag Residents' Can Pay, Won't Pay Campaign
The residents of Beddington have become the first in the Borough to stand up to Sutton Council's garden waste tax by ignoring the deadline for paid-for rubbish sacks - costing £35 each - and def...

Lib Dems Slash Free Parking Hours
Your local Conservatives are fighting the Liberal Democrat Council's decision to HALVE the amount of free parking hours for your visitors in the CPZ Controlled Parking Zone in Belmont and Sutton. The ...

Making Cheam Safer - and on-line petition
We read with concern that costs have forced our local Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) to abandon plans to use Cheam Lodge for a dedicated police base in Cheam (Sutton Guardian, 22 May). Police officers...

LibDems - Sometimes the numbers don't add up
Sutton's Conservatives have slammed the Liberal Democrat's education spokesman for shrugging his shoulders and shamelessly declaring "occasionally the numbers don't add up" when it comes to ...

Boris Johnson elected Mayor
Boris Johnson has been elected Mayor of London. He received 1,168,738 first and second preference votes compared with Ken Livingstone's 1,028,966. In his victory speech, he said the election had be...

Steve O'Connell elected as the GLA member for Croydon & Sutton
Steve has been elected as the GLA member for Croydon & Sutton with 76,477 votes. Labour's Shafi Khan came second with 33,812 giving Steve a majority of 42,665. This means that Steve gained 44.08...

Philippa fighting for Social Justice
Philippa appeared on Newsnight at the end of February on the eve of Gordon Brown's announcement about Welfare Reform. Jeremy Paxman didn't need to ask her the same question more than once, never mind ...

Government Is Ripping Off Sutton Council Tenants
Sutton’s social housing tenants are being ripped off by the Labour Government to the tune of £10 million this year to maintain council houses in other parts of the country. Short-changed Sutton tenant...

Fair Deal for Sutton Tenants
On Wednesday, Philippa Stroud, our Parliamentary Candidate in Sutton & Cheam and Cllr. Paul Scully, Conservative Group Leader in Sutton & Cheam, joined with more than fifty supporters of a cam...

Philippa Opens Sutton NSPCC Spring Fair
Philippa Stroud, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, opened the Sutton NSPCC Spring Fair on Saturday 8th March 2008. The fair, held at the Parochial Rooms in Cheam Village is an annual event, well ...

A Fair Fuel Stabiliser

George Osborne has unveiled a radical new plan to soften the impact on families of future fuel price rises.

No more stealth taxes

George Osborne has pledged a major shake-up to "restore trust in the tax system" and end Gordon Brown's stealth tax regime.

02/07/2008 - Brown has failed to protect the public

01/07/2008 - Implementing a Border Protection Service

01/07/2008 - We must act on West Lothian Question

30/06/2008 - NHS has got talent

30/06/2008 - Mugabe has stolen the election

27/06/2008 - Howell wins Henley by-election

27/06/2008 - Polyclinics to be imposed on communities

26/06/2008 - Improving access to urgent care