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After weeks of columns on Covid-19, I’m giving people a break and changing topics. This year is the first year in decades Crawley has not had to go through local elections. While the pressure of not having to run a campaign has been good for my mental health, particularly after the four sets of elections…
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With greater access to information than ever before, increasingly the problem we face is not a lack of information but finding the ‘right’ information and avoiding misinformation. In daily life this is a big enough problem, with phrases like ‘fake news’ becoming common parlance, but in a crisis the information gap costs lives. As the…
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Crawley Borough Council is urging residents to visit green spaces other than Tilgate Park in a bid to ensure social distancing. During this period of warm weather, Tilgate Park has been extremely busy, making it difficult for visitors to socially distance. Crawley is blessed with a wide range of green spaces across the town so…
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The UK is in lockdown. Even when the UK’s Covid-19 alert level is reduced the UK will still be in lockdown. So long as the UK is in lockdown, we must remain at home as much as possible. If it’s necessary to leave home we have to maintain at least two metres of social distancing…
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Over 40 Labour councillors from local authorities across West Sussex have united to sign an open letter to the Tory-run county council urging it to oppose the Government’s plans to re-open schools in the county on June 1st, citing concerns for the negative impact on public health and the risk of a premature unsafe re-opening…
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Crawley Borough Council’s COVID-19 Economic Recovery Taskforce Executive group met for the first time last week, to great success. The Executive brings together the council, senior business representatives from across the borough, the local MP, a government representative, the Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership and West Sussex County Council, to evaluate the true impact…
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The Government’s guidance is that we need to ‘Stay alert’, that is alert to their five stage Covid-19 alert system. The UK is at level 4, meaning the ‘epidemic is in general circulation; transmission is high or rising exponentially’. Meaning we must: ‘Stay at home as much as possible’, ‘Limit contact with other people’, and…
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The Manor Royal BID has taken its place on the Crawley Economic Taskforce being coordinated by @crawleybc Here's council leader Cllr Peter Lamb asking Manor Royal companies to get involved Please complete the survey at https://t.co/VnRNRBQufA@CllrPetesTweets #ManorRoyal pic.twitter.com/R0lEeBAjYa — Manor Royal BID (@manor_royal) May 19, 2020
Peter Lamb for Crawley 