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When I was at Holy Trinity, every year History and German students would have the chance to go on a school trip to Berlin, a city which as much as any other has the history of the past century written on its streets. As part of that trip we would be taken to visit the…
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Last Thursday marked 73 years since Crawley New Town was founded. In 1947, the post-war Labour Government which created our NHS decided Crawley would form part of their plan to end the UK’s housing crisis by becoming a New Town. It was an ambitious project, they wouldn’t just seek to create housing but to do…
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Crawley Borough Council and property investment and development firm Westrock have started a major mixed-use scheme that will help regenerate the town centre and provide much-needed new housing and office space. The public private partnership between Crawley Borough Council and Westrock will ultimately see the current Town Hall replaced. Once finished, the redevelopment at the…
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Not a day goes by without at least one headline raising the issue of climate change. With increasingly frequent and destructive natural disasters taking place around the world, from flooding in the UK to fires in Australia, it’s not hard to see why. The public seem roughly divided into four camps on this. There are…
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A Happy New Year to all readers. Since I started writing this column, I have typically used the New Year’s edition to take a look back over the past year to sum up the key moments of the year in the town and at the council. Much as I would like to do so again,…
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Nature is highly competitive. Species and civilisations have been shaped by the competition for limited resources. While we now live in a world far less harsh than that of our ancestors, where the rule of law, welfare state, and various social contracts ensure our lives aren’t nasty, brutish and short, competition remains. While we perhaps…
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Geraint Thomas was one of the kindest, most dedicated men I’ve ever met. He was committed to his principles, to his town, but most of all to his family. The grief expressed across the community since his passing is testament to the void he leaves in Crawley, the town he lived in his entire life.…
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With MRI scanners unfit for purpose, hospitals unable to afford maintenance of priority medical equipment, theatres with unclean air – NHS boards warn of “extreme” risks across South East hospitals Labour pledges a relentless focus on the NHS in its first 100 days in government as new research reveals hundreds of “extreme” risks to patient…
