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Thanks to the time involved in printing and distributing ‘Crawley Live’, all the content has to be written some time before each edition is released. So, writing now I have no idea what, if anything, has been agreed with regard to the two issues which will have the biggest impact on our town for at…
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Remembrance Sunday takes place this weekend, the one day a year when we are all expected to spend a little time remembering conflict and the consequences it has for the lives of all those who come into contact with it, whether they’re military or civilians, those on the front-line or those who care for them…
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Leader of Crawley Council and Labour Parliamentary Candidate, Peter Lamb along with 108 candidates from across the political parties, has been endorsed by More United members. More United is crowdfunding to channel funds to their endorsed candidates in the most marginal seats and has recruited a national network of volunteers who will turn out to…
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For the last decade, your local councils, schools, NHS, police and public services of all types have been subject to harsh and continuing austerity. The result in Crawley has been headteachers forced to march on Downing Street to demand the funding they require to provide the basics children need to learn, Crawley’s NHS has been…
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For all the endless talk about Brexit–which will stretch into decades’ worth of negotiations if this deal does go through–you could be forgiven for thinking nothing else was going on in the UK right now, certainly not in the public sector. This is, of course, untrue. Until recent months, most of the public sector had…
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Just imagine it. For years issues with the country has been worrying you. You’ve taken the time to weigh up which option is best for your family. You’ve walked down to your local school or community centre with your polling card and when you’ve got there you’re told you won’t be allowed to use the…
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Two years ago I stood down as a West Sussex County Councillor. I did so for several reasons, but one of the biggest being that I had become convinced that the way the council was run made it impossible for councillors to deliver for residents and that common sense counted for little with the leadership.…
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So, Louise Goldsmith has resigned as Leader of West Sussex County Council following a run of appalling independent reviews of performance at the authority and a little over a year after I called for her to go. While we have not yet seen the latest report which finished her off, the summary presented in the…
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Crawley Borough Council’s Cabinet agreed plans to increase Council Tax rates for empty properties at its meeting last Wednesday (25 September). The decision was made to increase rates to incentivise property owners to bring them back into occupation. Currently, owners of empty properties are required to pay an additional 50 per cent on top of…
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There’s a well-known phrase often attributed to George Orwell: ‘People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.’ While it’s disputed whether he used the exact phrase, it certainly represented the socialist author’s views, expressed both in his works and–more importantly–his actions: taking up…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 