About Woking

Woking is a large town in Surrey in the South East of England, around 23 miles from London. Woking offers first rate shopping with the excellent Peacocks Shopping Centre hosting all the high street favourites and the older Wolsey Place offering a more traditional experience. Local attractions include Woking Palace, Woking Miniature Railway and The Martian, a striking piece of modern sculpture that celebrates Woking being the setting of HG Wells famous novel War Of The Worlds.

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Shop's joke billboards cause stir
A shop owner is visited by the police and council after displaying joke billboards outside his store in West Sussex.

Man charged over jewellery raid
A man from Worthing is charged in connection with a robbery at a jewellers on the Isle of Wight in which watches were stolen.

Woman robbed while walking home
A 22-year-old woman is robbed and attacked while walking home late at night from Surbiton railway station.

Car crashed after police pursuit
A young woman is in hospital with serious injuries in a crash in Sussex after her vehicle was pursued by Kent Police.

Police hope to overturn capping
Surrey Police Authority expects a court hearing in the next few days as it seeks a judicial review of the government's budget cap.

No-build zone shields harbour
An agreement is signed aimed at giving Chichester Harbour greater protection from building or road development pressures.

High Court rules against Foxtons
London and Surrey estate agency Foxtons is told by the High Court that some of the charges it imposes on landlords are unfair.

Three-day festival under way
Surrey's three-day music festival, attended by 20,000 people each day, is getting under way in Guildford.

Bridge works drag on for months
Roadwork delays on the A24 dual carriageway at Dorking are blamed on unforeseen problems and bad weather.

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