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This morning, like every Saturday morning, I was out speaking with local residents on the doorstep to identify any local issues or problems we can help them with. On this occasion we were out in Pound Hill and one of the members in my group pointed out that all of the roads we happened to…
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Residents have given their backing to proposals for major redevelopment at the eastern end of The Boulevard in the town centre. The proposals will see the current Town Hall replaced with a new Town Hall with grade A commercial offices, a new public square and public realm improvements. The neighbouring two-storey car park will be…
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Last Saturday, I did Tilgate ParkRun for the first time in almost a year. As you might imagine, I have lost a fair amount of time in that year, but the event itself has lost none of its attractions. ParkRun is a free volunteer-run 5k which takes place in various locations across the UK on…
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Photo credit: @kiran205 Jeremy Corbyn was in Crawley on Monday, the first stop on his post-recess tour of the hyper-marginal seats which will determine the next General Election. This was the second time I have had the pleasure of welcoming Jeremy to Crawley. The first visit had taken place in the wake of the press…
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Healthcare in Crawley has been in the news again this week, as leaks from whistle-blowers have revealed we live in one of fourteen areas at risk of the Capped Expenditure Process, which if implemented will severely restrict the money available for Crawley’s health services. The news follows on from recent revelations that local patients are…
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Catching up with my Twitter feed this morning I noticed that West Sussex had experienced a small earthquake on the coast last night, as Labour won its first seat on Worthing Borough Council in four decades. A huge congratulations to Beccy Cooper for blazing a trail for Labour in Worthing and following her campaign online…
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The Battle of Orgreave took place two years before I was born and yet all these years later we still don’t know the full truth of what happened on the 18th June 2014. It was during the midst of the 84-85 Miners’ Strike that strikers and police found themselves in violent confrontation, with the Police,…
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Like many Crawley residents, I commute to work by train. When I completed my postgraduate education and started work in 2008 the trains were packed, but nothing like to the extent they are now. Because the change has been gradual, year-on-year, what we are willing to put up with has increased over time, as have…
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This week marked fifty years since the homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales, one of all-too-many forgotten achievements of Harold Wilson’s Government which set the UK on course to becoming a much more open society (I don’t like to use the word ‘tolerant’, as it implies there is something wrong you are putting up…
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In a representative democracy, the only chance we voters have to shape Government policy is voting for MPs, doing so on the basis of the manifesto they set before us. That’s why it’s a big deal to u-turn on a manifesto, it’s a broken contract with the electorate, every one is a serious breach of…
