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Graphic showing Surrey mean income of £62,600, and 28.7% of female ISA subscribers using a Stocks and Shares ISA against 41.4% of male subscribers

Guest column · Mon 21 September 2026 · Surrey

Surrey has some of the UK’s highest incomes. So why are women still less likely to invest?

Surrey tops the HMRC county income table, yet women are far less likely than men to put their ISA money into stocks and shares. Wealth coach Fahmida Rahman on why that gap matters most in your 40s and 50s.

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Surrey Extra graphic reading “keeping a brother and sister together”, alongside a photograph of a young child stacking coloured wooden blocks

Fostering · Tue 25 August 2026 · Surrey

Surrey foster carers needed to keep a brother and sister together

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Flames and thick smoke rise across Caldyne Business Park at night, with an electricity pylon silhouetted against the fire and two firefighters working in the foreground

Fire · Mon 24 August 2026 · Rowfant, West Sussex

Around 140 cars destroyed in fire at a Gatwick holiday parking site near Crawley

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Surrey Extra graphic marking Ethel Caterham of Lightwater turning 117 on 21 August 2026

People · Sat 22 August 2026 · Lightwater

Ethel Caterham, the world’s oldest person, celebrates her 117th birthday in Lightwater

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Surrey Police custody photograph of Clive Siddall, 81, formerly of Oxted, jailed for 12 years

Courts · Sat 22 August 2026 · Guildford Crown Court

Man, 81, formerly of Oxted jailed for 12 years for sexual offences against two girls in the 1980s

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Godstone High Street reopened, with an A25 road sign for Sevenoaks, London and the M25 beside resurfaced carriageway

Godstone · Wed 12 August 2026 · Godstone High Street

Godstone High Street reopens, 18 months after the sinkhole swallowed it

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A black sports car stopped at the roadside behind traffic cones on Esher High Street, with a marked police car in the foreground

Traffic · Mon 10 August 2026 · Esher High Street

Driver arrested for drug driving after being stopped on Esher High Street

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Shelf-scanning robot in the chilled aisle of a Tesco store in Surrey

Local news · Mon 13 July 2026 · Surrey

A robot is now checking the shelves at a Surrey Tesco

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