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If you are looking for something to do with your bank holiday, you could do far worse than taking a trip down to the Ifield Conservation Area around The Plough to visit the May Fayre. First run in 1987, the May Fayre capitalises upon the attractive historical quality of the Ifield Village, the fantastic community…
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Labour’s Parliamentary Candidates for Chichester, Crawley, East Grinstead and Uckfield, East Worthing and Shoreham, Mid Sussex and Worthing West have joined together to launch a petition aimed at forcing improvements to road maintenance across the county. With data from Freedom of Information requests revealing that West Sussex now has the third worst record for pothole…
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Peter Lamb, Labour candidate for Crawley, has written to Rishi Sunak to ask if Crawley’s 15,760 pensioners will be made to pay for the cost of his unfunded £46bn tax plan. The letter comes just 18 months after the Conservatives’ disastrous mini-budget crashed the British economy with £45bn worth of unfunded tax cuts. The letter…
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Polling stations are now open and after months of campaigning, voters finally have the chance to go to the polls. Of course, the increasing popularity of postal votes means that much of the population will actually have already cast their vote before today (if you haven’t posted it back yet, scroll down to find out…
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Tomorrow is Election Day, meaning that across Crawley registered voters will have the chance to say who they think should represent them on the council and as Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner. Hopefully everyone now knows they will need to show valid photo ID when they vote. If this comes as news to you, then…
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After 14 years of Tory misery, Rishi Sunak has set out his failed Government’s appalling record for Britain: a failing health system, too many people stuck waiting for mental health treatment and a lack of support for people with health conditions who want to work. Under the Tories, we have the highest ever number of…
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On top of the general increase in knife crime I wrote about several weeks back, figures show that under the Conservatives Sussex Police received reports of 1,030 knife offences last year, equivalent to three knife crimes every day. The increase in knife offences which has taken place under the Conservatives is alarming and clear evidence…
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Today is International Workers’ Memorial Day, which has been marked on 28th April since 1989. The purpose of the day is to think of all those who have faced injury, disability or loss of life in undertaking their work. Every year almost 3m people lose their lives due to work-related diseases or occupational accidents, enough…
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A Freedom of Information request by Sussex Labour has revealed that victims of crime in Sussex have experienced a dramatic increase in waiting times for both police ‘Emergency’ and ‘Priority’ response calls since the last General Election. From 2019 to 2023, victims categorised as ‘Grade 1 – Emergency Response’, a category including calls where there…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 