Woman suffers burns after Crawley chip pan fire
FIREFIGHTERS are highlighting the dangers of tackling chip pan fires after a woman was badly burned in Crawley yesterday (Thursday). West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service was called to the ground floor...
View ArticleBoiling with excitement over steam engine find
EXCITEMENT reached boiling point after a clearance team working in the garden at a council-owned property uncovered what appeared to be part of an old steam engine.The team, from Crawley Homes,...
View ArticleCabinet will discuss pay, park and verges
A CRAWLEY Borough Council Cabinet meeting is being held tonight (Wednesday January 11) at the town hall.Cabinet members will be discussing its long service pay scheme, Worth Park restoration and...
View ArticlePolice receive grant for hi-tech scanning kit
SUSSEX Police has been allocated more than £150,000 to spend on 3D laser scanning technology aimed at reducing traffic delays following crashes on the county’s motorways.Sussex is one of 27 police...
View ArticleLions raise thousands for charities
CHARITIES will benefit to the tune of £4,000 thanks to the hard work of the Crawley Lions and the generosity of Christmas shoppers.Lion Gary Davies hailed this year’s festive fundraising effort at...
View ArticleGym to open in Queens Square
SHOPPERS will not have far to go to keep fit after planning permission was given for a gym to be opened in Queens Square.An application went before Crawley Borough Council’s development control...
View ArticleCharity fundraisers looking for canoes
SIX fundraisers who plan to canoe 100 miles along the River Thames are looking for people to hire or lend them canoes.The group hope to raise around £2,500 in their charitable mission for Ifield...
View ArticleTwo people injured after scooter and car crash
TWO people were taken to hospital following a collision between a car and a scooter.Police and emergency services were called to the scene around 6.25pm on Tuesday (January 3) in Worth Park Avenue,...
View ArticleNearly 200 arrested during Christmas drink-drive campaign
One hundred and ninety two people were arrested during Sussex Police’s Christmas drink-drive campaign.A total of 7,253 were breathalysed from 14 November until the new year.During the same campaign...
View ArticleVideo: parents advised on what to do if child chokes
SUSSEX parents and their relatives and friends are being targeted in a campaign to make them aware of what to do if a child starts to choke.Last year 15,000 under-fives were admitted to A&E because...
View ArticleCrawley feature film premiere
CRAWLEY-based film Little District premieres at The Hawth this weekend.The feature film is the work Crawley director Callum Johnston and includes local acting and musical talent.The self-financed...
View ArticleGatwick response as Malaysia’s AirAsia X withdraws services
FOLLOWING AirAsia X’s decsion to withdraw services from Gatwick after just three months, the airport has expressed its disappoinment at the move. A spokesperson said: “We are very disappointed to be...
View ArticleFundraising success for League of Friends
THE Crawley Hospital League of Friends have been celebrating a successful Christmas fundraising season during which thousands of pounds poured into the coffers.Maria Haines and her fellow friends have...
View ArticleNew clubhouse at Tilgate golf course
TILGATE Golf Club has been given planning permission to build a new club house to replace the one destroyed in a fire last year.The application went before a meeting of Crawley Borough Council’s...
View ArticlePolice officers’ criminal records
TWENTY-ONE officers with criminal convictions are serving at Sussex Police, it has emerged.Speeding, dangerous driving, drink-driving and vandalism are among the crimes committed by those who help make...
View ArticleA diamond anniversary for a “diamond couple”
A LOVING and compassionate couple have celebrated 60 years of marriage together.Peter, 84, and Margaret Perry, 83, of Ifield, got married in Kennington, London on January 5 1952.The couple now have six...
View ArticleWoman in 90s rescued after wheat bag fire
AN ELDERLY woman was rescued by firefighters after she accidentally set fire to a wheat bag and filled her home with acrid smoke.The therapeutic bag caught fire as the woman, in her nineties, tried to...
View ArticleWorkshop for ‘green’ Crawley companies
Companies which produce low carbon, resource and water efficient products and technologies are being invited to a free workshop this week.The Sustainable Building Products and Technologies workshop,...
View ArticleYour generosity helped make appeals a success
LOCAL charities will benefit to the tune of £7,000 thanks to the generosity of Observer readers in Crawley and Horley.Over Christmas more than 8,500 books, CDs, DVDs and mobile phones were donated to...
View ArticleMan wanted in connection with assault on police officer
Police are appealing for help to trace a man wanted on suspicion of assaulting a police officer and failing to appear in court. Darren O’Donnell, 30, is believed to be in the Crawley area. His address...
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