Effingham Junction News Today

Nearly 800 homes in Woking are without power, while residents across Surrey are reporting outages.

Most rail operators in Britain have a partially reduced service or replacement buses planned for this weekend as a raft of improvement projects take place on mainline routes.

Planned engineering work will take place on certain Southeastern Railway lines this weekend resulting in reduced services running on some lines.

Blooming beautiful railway stations were celebrated at a special awards ceremony.

Blooming beautiful railway stations were celebrated at a special awards ceremony.

Powerful gusts of wind ripped down trees and foliage in north London, while videos shared across social media saw flash flooding completely submerge pavements and some roads in Peckham.

TOM UTLEY: How many of us can put our hands on our hearts and swear that weve never been guilty of offering imaginative excuses for the inexcusable? I certainly cant

London movers have driven up prices in some commuter belt villages by 10pc year-on-year The pandemic has revolutionised homebuyers priorities. In this new series, we have found the best places to relocate to for a hybrid commute, working between home and a London office. First, we looked at where to buy with a budget of £300,000, £500,000 and £700,000. Now, heres what you can get for £1m Clive Moon, of Savills estate agents in Farnham, Surrey, said: "The higher the value of the property...

An ordinary bloke: Leonard Rossiter as Reginald Perrin Credit: BBC “Mother rang – she wants to know if we’re going to see her on Sunday.” Cue the image of a hippopotamus trotting through the mud. The best-remembered gag from The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is – almost 45 years since it first aired – still very funny. Sure, that hippo trots right into the category of standard Seventies mother-in-law material, but there’s really nothing standard about The Fall and Rise of Regin...

RAIL passengers on South Western Railway services across the south west, including the Weymouth to London Waterloo line, are being warned of major disruption today. There is currently a severely reduced South Western Railway service running between Woking and Surbiton, due to a power surge in the track circuit system earlier today. Services that would normally run from Weymouth to London Waterloo have been affected, with services only going as far as Southampton and then back to Weymouth....