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Surrey gets £446 less from the government per school pupil than the average for London Boroughs bordering the county.
The state gives £4,302 per 4 to 16 year old, less than the £4,748 average for those in London.
It means overall the area loses out on £30.8m of school funding each year
Over £2m was paid out in compensation by GoviaThamesLink, the parent company of Southern Rail in 2015, 50% more than the year before.
While the company received more than £22m from Network Rail to compensate for disruption. This money it says has gone straight to government.
Last December the consumer group Which lodged a ‘Super Complaint’, saying getting compensation from Rail firms was too complicated.
Figures out today also show 3.7m people commute more than 2 hours each day.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has directed Transport for London to provide assistance and support to Councils and Greenpeace’s legal challenge to Heathrow.
The Mayor notable campaigned for extending Gatwick rather than the West London Airport. However at the moment he has not said whether he is proposing this again as an alternative.
Gatwick says it still stands ready to proceed when the times comes.
A man’s in a serious condition after falling off his bike earlier today.
The 70 year old was cycling along Pope’s Lane in Oxted at 10:30 this morning, when he had the accident.
Police believe a woman driver may have seen it happen and are asking her to contact Police immediately.
Complaints about Sussex and Surrey Police dropped last year compared to the year before.
Recorded cases for Sussex Police were down 2.8%, while Surrey Police recorded a 5.6% decrease.
Most recent figures from the Independent Police Complaints Commission also show recorded allegations per 1,000 employees for Surrey Police is 100 – above the national average of 70. Sussex Police is more than half that with 47.