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This week marked a quarter of a century since the Labour Party introduced the National Minimum Wage. Having emerged from Labour’s 1983 Manifesto, the one joking referred to as the ‘longest suicide note in history’ due to its perceived radicalism, the policy remained a source of vigorous debate right through to its implementation. Yet, under…
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West Sussex County Council are facing calls to make use of almost two million square metres of vacant council land and property to fund improvements to road maintenance across the county. With council budgets increasingly stretched, funding for highways has often played second fiddle to meeting cost pressures in other statutory services, such as Adult…
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This week is World Autism Acceptance Week, highlighting the challenges faced within our society by neurodivergent people, the impact upon those with autism and how we can work together to build a neuroinclusive society. With the rapid growth of autistic spectrum diagnoses over recent decades, it is vital that society adapts to remove the barriers…
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The British and World Marbles Championship returns to the Greyhound today, continuing a tradition at the site with routes as far back as Elizabeth I. While the grandiosity of the title may well not be reflected in the level of public interest, I like to think that there’s a level of town pride in the…
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Last night was Crawley Borough Council’s final meeting of the council year. The day-to-day work of the council and councillors continues year-round, but during the period running into the annual local elections formal council meetings largely cease (with the exception of Planning and any Licensing committees where needed to comply with legislation). While this helps…
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It’s World Theatre Day today, a day first marked in 1961 and which continues to this day as a means of educating decision-makers and the public as to the important role theatre has played in our national life. Earlier this month, the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, gave a widely-reported speech at the Guildhall School of…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 