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New figures, based on a Freedom of Information request, reveal the staggering waits facing people at Crawley’s nearest A&E, with some 14% of patients waited more than 12 hours – the target is for 95% of patients to be seen within four hours. Across the country in November more than 150,000 people waited more than…
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A few weeks back, I was sent a link to this blog in a WhatsApp group of my old school friends in which Mr Henry Smith, Crawley’s voice in the House of Commons, asked Parliamentary questions relating to the importing and exporting of reindeer, the consequence of which being that we now know that the…
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Even the title of the day may sounds a little boring, but the reality is that school governors are vital to keeping our education system running and there aren’t currently enough of them. Despite our country being one of the most centralised in the world, most public services in the UK have lay positions for…
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As frequent readers have no doubt noticed, I’m generally inspired to write by current affairs taking place in Crawley or nationally, new data releases and what the figures suggest about our town, or key festivals and other scheduled events. One such event kicks off today, which is what I’d like to write about today: National…
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Research from the Resolution Foundation, reveals the staggering impact of the cost of living crisis to the local economy, with Crawley facing a combined £96m real-terms cut in our incomes. Families are set to be £2,100 worse off at the end of two years of soaring inflation and falling wages – a period the independent…
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As part of a series of releases analysing the data coming out of the 2021 Census, this week the House of Commons Library has published a breakdown of central heating data by constituency. As a whole, we do rely more on gas than the regional or UK average. This difference is largely due to the…
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It’s hard to believe that a year has now passed since Russian tanks crossed the border and began their approach on Kyiv. Whatever people may say now, I suspect that very few of us believed that Ukraine had a chance against a country of Russia’s size and military might, let alone that a year on…
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As the football white paper is published this week, Labour is calling on the Government to bring in a regulator as quickly as possible. While the publication of the white paper is welcome, it is already long overdue. In the 15 months it’s taken the Government to re-word the fan-led review, Derby County nearly went…
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New analysis from Crawley Labour, based on research from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR), reveals the staggering impact of the cost of living crisis on families in Crawley. 11,375 households – 1 in 4 – are expected to be unable to cover their planned energy and food bills from the post-tax…
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Today is Crawley Borough Council’s Budget Meeting (free for all to attend, from 7.30pm in the new Town Hall). It will be an interesting experience for me, having stepped down as Council Leader last May this will be the first budget in over a decade which I have neither been directly responsible for producing or…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 