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The Weald Action Group is holding a night of awesome music to raise funds for a legal fight against the expansion of oil drilling at Horse Hill.

We are pleased to introduce our candidates for the General Election on 12 December 2019. Jonathan Essex, Reigate constituency Jonathan is a chartered civil engineer and environmentalist, and has served as an active councillor in Redhill since 2010. He says, “I will fight to protect our Green Belt and Surrey countryside, for fairer rail and […]

A Green campaigner has launched a Crowdfunder appeal to raise funds for a judicial review of Surrey County Council’s decision to allow massive expansion of oil drilling at Horse Hill in Surrey. Sarah Finch, a former Green Party Councillor on Reigate and Banstead Council, is looking to raise £25,000 to cover legal costs.

Green MEP, Alex Phillips is visiting Redhill on 25 October 2019. Alex is touring her constituency promoting her new Green New Deal report, which sets out how we can go zero carbon and create more local jobs. On the way, she’s meeting with local Green enterprises, learning about what initiatives are out there and what we […]

“Should residents be offered incentives to recycle?” is the question the Surrey Mirror put to local councillors this week.  Ruth Ritter, Green Councillor for Earlswood & Whitebushes, responded as follows. Recycling is vitally important for conserving the environment and reducing waste. Incentives to recycle for both individual residents and for businesses could well help us […]

Surrey County Council has approved plans for four more oil wells and 25 years of oil drilling at Horse Hill, near Horley, in East Surrey. This would mean a total seven wells (one for water reinjection) – and flies in the face of both Surrey County Council’s and the country’s climate commitments. We need to […]

CND activist, Green MP and anti-nuclear campaigner Caroline Lucas has urged CND members to build broader alliances, including working with other movements, for example Extinction Rebellion, to draw attention to the way both nuclear weapons and the climate crisis pose existential threats to our future. Speaking at an event hosted by Reigate & Redhill Peace […]

Green MP Caroline Lucas will speak at a public meeting on ‘Safety and Security in a Dangerous World’ in Reigate in September. The meeting has been organised by Reigate and Redhill Peace Group and is part of a national tour coordinated by CND. Caroline, who is Vice-President of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) said: […]

On 12 September, Green MP Caroline Lucas will join Join Reigate and Redhill CND at a public meeting on safety and security in a dangerous world. The meeting is from 7-9pm at Friends Meeting House, 47 Reigate Road, RH2 0QT – and is part of CND’s Global Dangers tour.

Climate change is the biggest issue of our time. The scientists’ warnings are getting louder. And the government has taken the first step by setting the long-term target of ending our contribution to climate change. But they need to work faster, and slash our emissions in the short-term to avert the worst impacts. All of […]