Reigate News is an independent site for the borough of Reigate and Banstead. Everything we publish names the document it came from and links to it, so you can always check a claim for yourself.
Documents first
Nothing here starts with a rumour. It starts with an application on the borough planning register, a figure in a set of council accounts, the monthly crime data that police.uk puts out by street, a hygiene rating, a notice in The Gazette. The source is linked in the story so you can go and read the thing itself. Watching all of that by hand would be impossible, so software does the watching and drafts the routine items; what it cannot do is invent a fact, because every one traces back to a document. When something is unresolved, we would rather publish that it is unresolved than tidy it up.
What this site covers
The borough takes in Reigate and Redhill, Banstead, Nork, Woodmansterne and Chipstead in the north, Tadworth, Kingswood, Walton on the Hill and Burgh Heath along the Downs, and Merstham, Earlswood, Meadvale, Woodhatch, Salfords, Nutfield and Horley to the south. The local information pages cover the same ground.
Send us a tip
If you know about a planning row, a closure, a new business or an event worth listing, email hello@reigatenews.co.uk. We handle tips in confidence, and we correct errors promptly and say on the page that we have.
Reigate News is part of the GOB Media Group.