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February 21, 2015, 6:45 am

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DOG and cat owners are being encouraged to attend a microchipping event in Manor Royal to protect their pets from being lost or stolen.Pets at Home, based in County Oak Retail Park, is offering a discount rate for owners who drop in anytime on Saturday, February 28 or Sunday, March 1.From next month it becomes law in Wales that all dogs have to be microchipped by eight weeks old.This law will be introduced in England in April 2016.People who get their pet microchipped next weekend will have to...

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February 21, 2015, 6:52 am

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ONE of the drivers involved in a head-on collision in Ifield last night was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving but required immediate hospital treatment.Two cars collided in Sharpthorne Close, just off Rusper Road and police were called at 8.17pm. Two crews from Crawley Fire Station were then called at 8.24pm and the ambulance service was also in attendance.One of the drivers was arrested but needed treatment, so was taken to hospital. It is unclear from police logs whether anyone else...

Host of Crawley businesses nominated for awards

February 21, 2015, 7:45 am

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MORE than a dozen Crawley-based firms have been named as finalists at this year's Gatwick Diamond Business Awards.The top three in each of the 14 categories for the annual awards were confirmed on Thursday.Each year the event celebrates achievements of companies and individuals who have shown innovation and inspiration in their work and made a commitment to the region.The Gatwick Diamond region stretches from Brighton to Croydon and as far as Guildford to the west and Tunbridge Wells to the...

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February 21, 2015, 9:15 pm

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BEWBUSH resident Sabrina Jean has revealed how she and 50 members of her family are planning to leave Crawley to start a new life on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.Mrs Jean is determined to move to the Chagos Islands, where her father was born – despite only having been there once.She has been fighting for 25 years for members of the Chagossian community to be given the right to return to their homeland.And she has been cheered by the confirmation that there are no "legal...

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February 21, 2015, 11:45 pm

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WHETHER you prefer relaxing on your own over a quiet pint, getting into the spirit of watching sport on a big screen with friends or going out with the family for Sunday lunch there is nothing quite like the British tradition of going to the pub.But with so many to choose from in Crawley and its surrounding villages, visiting them all on a pub crawl to find your favourite would be far too time consuming (and probably leave you in hospital).So we decided to give you a helping hand and asked...

22-year-old accused of attack on man at Gatwick Airport

February 22, 2015, 3:21 am

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A MAN will go on trial accused of assaulting another man at Gatwick Airport.Mohammed Mukit appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court last Wednesday charged with assault by beating.The 22-year-old is accused of carrying out the attack at the airport on January 18.Mukit pleaded not guilty to the charge.Magistrates set a date of May 7 for a trial at Horsham Magistrates' Court.Mukit, from Haverstock Hill, in London, was released on unconditional bail.

66 new small businesses launched in Crawley over last five years

February 22, 2015, 4:00 am

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HENRY Smith has announced that 66 small businesses have been launched in Crawley since 2010 thanks to a government scheme.Crawley's MP has hailed new figures showing that the Government's start-up loans scheme has helped dozens of people in the town.He said: "These figures demonstrate further how this Government is on the side of up-and-coming businesses and hard-working people."I am pleased that 66 people in our town have received funding to set up their own business through this...

Tributes paid after death of legendary Crawley politician

February 22, 2015, 4:15 am

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THE longest serving councillor in Crawley's history who retired in 2012 after 58 years of representing West Green, has died.Bert Crane started his political career in Crawley before the town even had its own council and when he was first elected Winston Churchill was still Prime Minister.The 87-year-old died at East Surrey Hospital on Tuesday night last week.Tributes have poured in from both sides of the council chamber for the political stalwart, who was dubbed the "father of the...

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PICTURE OF THE WEEK: Swan pictured swimming in Tilgate Park

February 22, 2015, 6:15 am

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IT IS often said that you shouldn't get too close to swans, given their fiery temperament. But reader Joe Matthew showed no fear to get a close up of this beautiful bird. Or perhaps his camera just has a really good zoom on it. The photo was taken in Tilgate Park while he was feeding the swans with his son.Your photo could be next week's Picture of the Week. Send your snaps to editor@crawleynews.co.uk

Martial arts training centre set to be built in Tilgate

February 22, 2015, 8:30 am

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PLANS to build a new martial arts training centre in Tilgate are progressing after the council approved an amendment to its design.Permission had already been given to construct the facility at Tilgate Forest Recreation Centre, on the site of a building that burnt down in February 2004.The facility will feature a main hall, showers and changing rooms, and amendments approved last Thursday mean it will also have a kitchen, a disabled toilet, a store and a meeting room.Since the fire, the site...

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February 22, 2015, 9:30 pm

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FOUR of Crawley's smartest pupils have been offered places at one of the world's most prestigious universities.Among them are two Holy Trinity School students who were told the good news last month that they had been accepted at Cambridge University.Now they just have to achieve certain grades in their A levels this summer for their places to be confirmed.Sabrina Crow, 18, of Chiddingly Close, Furnace Green, has been offered a place to study law at King's College, Cambridge.Sabrina, who is...

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February 22, 2015, 11:00 pm

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A COUNCILLOR has questioned why a guide designed to help council tenants manage their budgets suggests they work out how much money they spend on court fines.The latest edition of Crawley Borough Council's Homelink magazine – a quarterly publication for council tenants – features an article entitled "Take control of your money".The article suggests that tenants make a list of their out-goings if they have problems keeping to a budget.It advises them to write down in a table...

Emergency services called to reports of collision between...

February 23, 2015, 3:13 am

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POLICE and paramedics have been called to reports of a man "walking into side of a moving car" in Southgate.Sussex Police and a crew from South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) were called to Malthouse Road at 9.38pm last night (Sunday, February 22).A Sussex Police spokesman said officers responded to calls a "man had walked off the pavement into the side of a moving car."The spokesman added the pedestrian told police and ambulance paramedics he did not want medical...

Gifted musical student hits all the right notes for production of...

February 23, 2015, 4:00 am

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WHEN school students put on a play, usually it is a case of choosing from the long list scripts and scores which have already been performed and made famous by the theatre's brightest actors, writers and composers.But that is not the way students at Michael Hall school in Forest Row have approached their annual Year 12 play.The talented bunch at the school on Priory Road have not only penned their own adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic tale The Wind in the Willows – but one of their...

Dates announced for Crawley baby and child of the year competitio...

February 23, 2015, 4:30 am

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THE town's cutest babies and children are being sought for our annual contest which seeks to find the most adorable tots in and around Crawley – and it is now open to older children than before.Baby and Child of the Year – formerly known as Baby of the Year – now features a category for children and siblings up to the age of 11.The usual categories of under 12 months, 13 to 24 months and two to five years will still feature.There will be a winner named in each category after a...

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February 23, 2015, 12:44 am

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Pound Hill school considering becoming an academy

February 23, 2015, 5:15 am

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THE desire of an "outstanding" Pound Hill school to improve even further and a loss of resources following government cuts has led it to consider becoming an academy.Pound Hill Infants was rated as "outstanding" by Ofsted and has won a national award for its development of teachers, school leaders and support staff.But the school, on Crawley Lane, is determined not to become complacent and is consulting parents, staff and residents on whether it should become an...

Broadfield man admits being in charge of "dangerously out of...

February 23, 2015, 6:18 am

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A MAN has pleaded guilty to being in charge of a Staffordshire bull terrier dog which bit a woman in Broadfield. Tyler Bygraves appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court last Wednesday (February 18) where he admitted being either the owner or person responsible for a dog which was dangerously out of control and caused injury. Bygraves, from Seaford Road, in Broadfield, was in charge of a black and white Staffie which, on October 12 last year, bit Kimberley Evans, in Heather Walk, also in...

Plans to improve access to Three Bridges Station agreed

February 23, 2015, 8:45 am

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COUNCILLORS have supported recommendations to make changes over how commuters can access Three Bridges station.Crawley Borough Council's cabinet agreed last Wednesday to allocate £430,000 to a scheme which will involve major alterations to the forecourt and Haslett Avenue East directly in front of the station.The changes will involve the current taxi drop-off area becoming a dedicated 20-minute drop-off and pick-up point for cars, the removal of a bus stop and the widening of the footpath...

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February 23, 2015, 9:00 am

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THE number of complaints made about Crawley Borough Council and the services it provides fell slightly at the end of last year.The council's performance monitoring scrutiny panel is set to meet on Tuesday, February 24 to debate the 121 complaints made between October and December 2014.The number is down on the 125 received in the three previous months and just up on the 119 made from October to December 2013.The most complaints between October and December last year were made to the Crawley...