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April 10, 2015, 4:26 am

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GATWICK has pledged to invest £20 million to create new links to airports across the UK if it is awarded a second runway.Airport bosses will spend the money to support new air services to and from Gatwick from around the UK in the 10 years following the opening of a second runway.The fund will be used to incentivise airlines to introduce new routes to regions currently not linked to Gatwick by paying for reserved flight slots and contributing towards the costs of marketing campaigns to...

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Toy Barnhaus to close for five days to make store bigger

April 10, 2015, 4:49 am

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TOY Barnhaus will close its County Mall store on Monday to undertake a major refit which will see the shop floor made about a fifth bigger. Co-owners Mark Buschaus and Stephen Barnes are celebrating their six year anniversary of opening their first store, on the shopping centre's first floor, by renovating it. They will be replacing the ceiling, putting in new lighting, extending the shop floor by knocking out a wall in the store room, and installing new fixtures which light up in the front...

Speed restrictions and lane closures on M23 from next week

April 10, 2015, 5:18 am

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RESURFACING and the installation of new signals on the M23 means there will be speed restrictions and lane closures overnight next week. From Monday there will be lane closures and a 50mph limit in place on the northbound carriageway at Junction 9 (Gatwick) between 8pm and 6am while carriageway resurfacing takes place, with the work due to finish at 6am on Sunday morning April 19). At Junction 11 (Pease Pottage) work to renew the signals means there will be lane closures in both directions...

Wildflowers to be planted along Northgate Avenue and you can help

April 10, 2015, 7:15 am

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RESIDENTS are being offered the chance to quite literally sow the seeds for a more attractive neighbourhood.Northgate Matters residents' forum is inviting people to help re-seed the wildflower beds in Northgate Avenue on Saturday from 12.30pm.The wildflower areas have been prepared for this year's seeds.Some of the areas were not fully prepared last year and the flowers were not as spectacular as had been hoped, so this year it is expected to be better.Anyone who wishes to take part should...

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April 10, 2015, 7:48 am

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A NEW swimming pool with water slides and fun features could be built at the K2 as part of plans to update the leisure centre. K2 Crawley, on Pease Pottage Hill, is owned by Crawley Borough Council and run by Freedom Leisure. It first opened in November 2005 and the council's cabinet member for leisure and cultural services, Chris Mullins, said he felt it was time to upgrade the facility. He said: "What we've got now is the little tiny toddlers' pool but we want to go to the next step and put in...

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April 10, 2015, 8:42 am

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A MAN has admitted driving a car while nearly three times the drink-drive limit.Darren Betham, from Falcon Close, Langley Green, pleaded guilty to the offence, committed on Langley Drive on March 8, at Crawley Magistrates' Court on March 25.When tested by police the 40-year-old gave a reading of 100 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 micrograms.Because of the high level of alcohol in his system, Betham was given a 12-month community order and ordered to...

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April 10, 2015, 9:09 am

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A CRAWLEY man has died in hospital two days after he was involved in a road crash. At 3.10pm on Easter Monday, a Mazda Premacy saloon and a Landrover collided in Plawhatch Lane, in Sharpthone, at the junction with Grinstead Lane. The sole occupant of the Mazda, Kenneth Edmondson, 83, from Park Way, Pound Hill, was taken to East Surrey Hospital with serious injuries, and sadly died there on Wednesday. A 22-year old Crawley Down man driving the Land Rover was unhurt, and his passenger, a...

Trust that runs services at Crawley Hospital rated as "good&...

April 10, 2015, 9:22 pm

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THE trust that runs services including the urgent treatment centre at Crawley Hospital has been rated as "good" by an independent regulator.The Care Quality Commission published its report into Sussex Community NHS Trust (SCT) on March 19.SCT delivers a range of healthcare services across West Sussex and cares for about 8,000 people a day.How its end-of-life care services respond to people's needs was rated as "outstanding" in the same report, but the safety of its inpatient...

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April 10, 2015, 10:30 pm

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Britain's Got Talent is back - and promising to be bigger and better than ever. The judging panel of Simon Cowell, Alisha Dixon, David Walliams, and Amanda Holden will once again be viewing some of the most talent – and most eccentric – acts ever to grace our screens. Talking ahead of the first episode in the ninth series of the show, Simon Cowell said: "I think this is about as good as we've done on any show. I like being on the show but more importantly the other three really like...

Housemates convinced giant Southern Water bill cannot be theirs

April 11, 2015, 12:00 am

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A HOUSEHOLD of two are concerned they are being charged for a neighbour's water usage after being told they are using more than the average family of six on a daily basis.George Williams' bill from Southern Water has more than quadrupled since 2013, when a water meter was installed at his address, and has now reached an all-time high of £48.60 a month.Southern Water has charged Mr Williams, who lives with his brother-in-law Christopher Twiner, for using an average of 669 litres a day.In...

Emergency services close part of Crawley town centre as fire...

April 11, 2015, 1:27 am

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EMERGENCY services shut part of the in Crawley town centre as fire crews tackled a blaze behind a row of shops.Firefighters from Crawley Fire Station were called to The Broadway just before 7.30pm last night to reports of a fire behind the row of shops including Evans Cycles and Affogato coffee shop.A total of three fire engines were sent to the area by the junction with Cross Keys.Fire crews spent more than an hour extinguishing a fire which started in an industrial sized bin behind the shops...

Parties for disadvantaged Crawley kids set to be scrapped

April 11, 2015, 1:30 am

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A PARTY organiser is urging the council to allow him to continue putting on play events for disadvantaged children at community centres in Crawley. David Irving and his wife Clare run Bouncy Rainbows, a company that puts on themed children's parties, featuring entertainers, ball pools and soft-play areas. While the couple normally charge between £150 and £250 for putting on such a party, between October and December last year they put on four special parties in community centres in...

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April 11, 2015, 2:30 am

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FANS are being encouraged to cycle to Crawley Town's penultimate home game of the season.The club and Crawley Borough Council are supporting the initiative as part of the Cycle Crawley campaign.Fans using a bicycle to get to the match will receive a free ticket and be able to take part in a stadium lap of honour before the match. They will also be able to get their bike checked for free, take home cycle route maps and a take part in a free raffle.As well as supervised bike parking during the...

Sussex Police withdraw controversial anti-rape posters after...

April 11, 2015, 3:17 am

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POLICE have apologised for any offence caused and announced a new poster designed to prevent rape in and around nightspots in Crawley and Sussex will be scrapped.Earlier this week Sussex Police launched a new campaign to prevent rape and serious sexual offences in and around pubs, bars and clubs in Crawley and other nightspots by highlighting how people can intervene to prevent sex attacks by looking out for people who could be at risk.As part of the part of this new oepration a poster was...

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April 11, 2015, 7:56 am

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April 11, 2015, 8:38 am

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PEOPLE researching their family history can now trawl through a new online database for ancestors who may have gone to school in the county.Admission registers from about 100 schools in West Sussex, most of which date from the 1870s to 1914, have been digitised and indexed by the website Find My Past.The registers vary in the level of detail they provide, but usually record a child's name and date of birth, when they joined the school, the father's name and address, any previous school and the...

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April 11, 2015, 8:50 am

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A MUM-OF-THREE is running the London Marathon to raise funds for St Catherine's Hospice – just two weeks after running the Brighton Marathon.Gemma Meenaghan, from Wakehams Green Drive, Pound Hill, took up running in 2010 after the birth of her third child and says she soon became addicted to it.The 37-year-old will be running her 14th and 15th marathons when she takes on the Brighton Marathon on April 12 and the London Marathon on April 26.She said: "I secured a place for London with...

Decision to be made on whether KFC drive-thru can open in Crawley

April 11, 2015, 10:45 pm

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PLANS to wing the Colonel's secret recipe to Crawley by opening a KFC drive-thru close to Gatwick Airport will be decided on tomorrow.Crawley Borough Council's development control committee will meet on Monday to debate whether the plans can go ahead.The application is to build an outlet on land off Ring Road North close to the airport's South Terminal.Cobra Restaurants, the company behind the bid, has said it will create 60 full and part-time jobs at the site.Customers would be given the choice...

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April 12, 2015, 12:30 am

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IF asked to name a venue where music legends The Who, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix all played there is a fair chance you will not immediately think of Crawley. This perhaps shows just how much the music scene has changed since the 1960s because back then the town was a regular destination for singers and bands on the cusp of greatness. And one building in particular was at the centre of this - the Starlight Ballroom. The High Street spot - where the Turtle Bay, Morrisons and Travelodge...

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April 12, 2015, 1:29 am

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A MUM of two who had recently found out her husband was having an affair, crashed her vehicle into a parked car following a day-long drinking session in which she consumed more than two bottles of wine. Crawley Magistrates' Court heard on April 1 how Cheryl Ward's car collided with another vehicle just 150 yards from the home of her friend in Lowdells Lane, East Grinstead, where she had been drinking. She was arrested after police were called to reports of a road traffic collision on the...