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When the Conservatives brought in photo ID requirements they were warned it would prevent millions from voting, but with those least likely to have valid ID being people unlikely to vote Conservative, they went ahead with it anyway. Don’t let them get away with rigging our democracy, make sure that you have valid ID to…
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Tomorrow is your last chance to register to vote for the General Election. The process takes less than five minutes and you can do it online by going to: https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Even if you choose not to vote, registration means that you always have the choice and it’s the only way anyone would know if you…
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780 years ago, Richard de Wych became Bishop of Chichester. Within a mere nine years of his death he became Saint Richard of Chichester, whose feast day is marked in the Church of England on the 16th June. As the patron saint of Sussex, the date is now also used to mark Sussex Day, a…
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The Household Support Fund is designed to help families hit by the cost of living crisis. Over the last year, the poorest households in West Sussex struggling to make ends meet received support worth £24,351,810.54 to help with food and energy costs, but with the scheme coming to an end these houreholds are now at…
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Fuel poverty, defined as needing to spend 10% or more of a household’s gross income on fuel to achieve an adequate level of heating. In all 4,431 households in Crawley are identified as currently suffering from fuel poverty, 10% of the town’s total population. While the rising cost of energy over the last two years…
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Hopefully the coverage by Spotted and the Crawley Observer has helped to shed a little light on this, but given that I keep being asked about it I thought I’d set out everything in once place I could refer people back to. The very short version The council has a statutory obligation to house recently-arrived…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 