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New revised bus services will provide direct route between West...

May 18, 2015, 5:11 am
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WEST Green residents having to travel to Langley Green to get to the doctors' will have a direct bus service to get them there and back from the end of this month. Concerns were raised following the closure of the GP surgery in West Green about the fact patients now having to use Leacrcoft Surgery in Langley Green had no easy way of getting there. From May 30, Metrobus will amend the 801 and 802 services to travel between the two neighbourhoods three days a week. The service will provide four...

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Crawley scaffolder fined £18,000 for putting lives of...

May 18, 2015, 5:28 am
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A CRAWLEY scaffolder has been fined for putting workers' lives at risk by not making sure they were safe from falling. Michael Alldis, trading as Southern Tube Scaffold of Buckswood Drive, Gossops Green, has been prosecuted after workers were put at risk during refurbishment work. Following a complaint from a member of the public, the Health and Safety Executive, HSE, visited the site at Upper High Street, Winchester, where Michael Alldis was contracted to provide a four lift scaffold and...

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Topless man pepper-sprayed by police after disturbance in...

May 18, 2015, 10:14 am
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A YOUNG man who was "hoping initially to calm the situation" when police were called to a disturbance ended up being pepper sprayed after shouting in an officer's face while topless. Police officers were called to Hambleton Court, in Southgate, at about 7.20pm on March 28. When they arrived they found an injured person in a communal hallway, who they spoke to. At Crawley Magistrates' Court on April 29, prosecutor Melanie Wotton explained how Alexander Verster then got involved. She told the...

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Crawley Beer and Cider Festival moves location for 2015

May 18, 2015, 7:00 pm
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THE amber nectar will be flowing from a new location at this year's Crawley Beer and Cider Festival.The event is now in its third year and is moving from Three Bridges Football Club to the Civic Hall in the town centre.The indoor venue will help punters remain dry if the weather is against them, but there will also be an outdoor marquee and hot food served.At least 40 different beers, plus ten ciders and perries, will be on sale from £3 a pint.Joint organiser Nigel Bullen said: "We...

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Fears about future of Northgate chemists' and shops as doctors'...

May 18, 2015, 11:15 pm
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FEARS about the future of a chemist's and a parade of shops have been expressed after plans to move a neighbourhood doctors' surgery into the town centre were approved.Northgate Surgery, run by Saxonbrook Medical, is relocating from Woolborough Road to Cross Keys House, in Haslett Avenue West, which the practice partners own the lease to.The new surgery is going to open on June 1, where it will be temporarily based alongside the walk-in centre which is closing in September.Patients have...

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PHOTOS: Residents evacuated after fire in Three Bridges

May 18, 2015, 11:33 pm
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VIDEO: Smoke pours out of first floor apartment window at Three...

May 18, 2015, 11:47 pm
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THIS video shows smoke billowing out of a top floor window at an apartment block in Three Bridges in the early hours of this morning. Chris Oxlade, county councillor for Bewbush and Ifield West, who lives nearby, shot the footage after residents were evacuated at about 12am in Beverley Mews. Six fire engines were sent to the scene.

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TRAVEL: M23 closed between Crawley and Pease Pottage after crane...

May 19, 2015, 12:23 am
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A CRANE being moved along the M23 this morning collided with a transit-sized van. The motorway has been closed in both directions between Crawley and Pease Pottage after the vehicles collided on the northbound on-slip of the motorway at Junction 10A, the Maidenbower junction, just before 7.10am. Both drivers are reported to be injured and both southbound and northbound carriageways have been closed to allow the air ambulance to land. Sussex Police are asking drivers to avoid that area, follow...

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Crawley bus service to stop visiting Ifield estate

May 19, 2015, 1:12 am
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RESIDENTS on an Ifield estate won't be able to get to the town centre so easily after Metrobus cut the number of buses serving it from five an hour to just one.From May 30, Route 2 buses will no longer call at the bus stop which serves the Orchard Estate, off Ifield Avenue.Instead the 526/527, which runs far less frequently – and, unlike the 2, not on Sundays – will serve the estate.The estate has been cut out of Route 2 so that buses can run on the rest of the route every ten...

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UPDATE: Van driver air-lifted to hospital after collision with...

May 19, 2015, 1:44 am
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A VAN driver and his passenger have been taken to hospital after their vehicle collided with a slow moving crane vehicle on the M23 this morning. The collision occurred on the northbound slip road at Junction 10A, Maidenbower just before 7.10am. The motorway was temporarily closed in both directions between Crawley and Pease Pottage for the scene to be dealt with and casualties attended to. An air ambulance, which landed on the southbound carriageway, took the driver of the van, a 50-year old...

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PICTURE OF THE WEEK: Beautiful photo of heron taken minutes...

May 19, 2015, 3:30 am
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THIS beautiful photo by reader Michael Page has rather a sad story to it.Michael, from West Green, took the photo of the heron flying over Worth Park's lake.He explained: "Sadly 30 minutes later he was found dead in the water."No one is sure how this happened, but this photo shows how graceful the heron is in flight."Your photo could be next week's Picture of the Week. Send your snaps to editor@crawleynews.co.uk

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Asda shoplifter fined after stealing pork pies

May 19, 2015, 3:46 am
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A MAN has been fined £50 after stealing £23 worth of items from Asda, including pork pies and a milkshake. Robert Conn, from St Joan Close, Langley Green, admitted a charge of theft when he appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on May 1. On April 9 the 35-year-old stole the meat pies, a Galaxy drink and a Philips electric razor from the supermarket in Pegler Way.

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Langley Green man pleads guilty to driving without due care and...

May 19, 2015, 3:49 am
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A MOTORIST has been convicted of driving without due care and attention on Christmas Eve through Copthorne. Dilshad Ahmed was charged with committing the offence in Kitsmead on December 24. The 49-year-old, from Heron Close, Langley Green, pleaded guilty at Crawley Magistrates' Court on April 22 and was fined £37. He was also ordered to pay further costs of £105 and had his licence endorsed with three penalty points.

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New chicken shop set to open in Crawley in place of music shop

May 19, 2015, 3:59 am
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A POPULAR chain of takeaway chicken shops wants to open its first restaurant in Crawley. Barjindar Majhail has submitted plans to Crawley Borough Council to open a Dallas Chicken and Pizza shop on Northgate Parade. The application is to transform the former Hobgoblin Music shop on the neighbourhood parade. If approved the eat-in restaurant and takeaway will serve halal chicken and pizza. The shop would be open throughout the day and into the evening and for nighttime trade as well. The...

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Crawley mum and daughter doing tandem skydive for charity

May 19, 2015, 4:45 am
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A MOTHER and daughter are planning to fling themselves from a plane in tandem skydives to raise money for charity.Viv Bristow, 59, from Ashdown Drive, Tilgate, and her daughter Sarah O'Connell have decided to "do something a little crazy" by jumping from 10,000 feet.They are raising money for Home-Start Chams (Crawley, Horsham and Mid Sussex), a charity that supports families with young children. It is close to their hearts, because Sarah herself received support following the birth...

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HE SURVIVED: Broadfield man talks about crazy stag do where...

May 19, 2015, 11:00 pm
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WHO needs enemies when you have friends like these?It's an old proverb which has been used for centuries to suggest those who love you can be far more cruel than those who hate you.Broadfield plumber Mark Longley could conceivably feel that the phrase has never been more apt than it is for him following what has gone down as one of the most extreme stag dos of all time.The 33-year-old went to Butlins in Bognor Regis with 31 friends, including his best man Steve West, not knowing his fate.He...

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Gala Bingo slammed after Crawley manager continues game despite...

May 19, 2015, 11:15 pm
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GALA Bingo has been slammed after a game continued in Crawley despite an elderly woman collapsing, leaving her shocked relatives fearing she had died.The 86-year-old woman, who has not been named, fell unconscious after suffering a "medical episode" at Gala Bingo, on Queensway, in the town centre, at 7.55pm last Tuesday.Family members frantically called for help as they feared the worst and the manager initially stopped the game but then ordered it to continue as paramedics arrived...

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Elderly man facing 4 child sex charges may not face trial as he...

May 20, 2015, 12:05 am
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AN elderly man who faces charges of indecent assault and gross indecency with a girl under 14 may not face trial as he is "unlikely to survive for much longer".Richard Baines, 70, was due to appear at Crawley Magistrates' Court last Wednesday to face four child sex charges.But his solicitor told the court he was "not in a fit medical state" and asked for the case to be adjourned so that reports could be conducted to verify this.Baines, from Hillview Road, Worthing, is alleged...

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Lightning strikes house in Gossops Green and sets fire to curtain

May 20, 2015, 1:51 am
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LIGHTNING struck a house in Gossops Green yesterday (Tuesday) evening and set fire to a wall and curtain. Firefighters were called to Rother Crescent at about 6.40pm after the lightning hit the roof and set fire to a wall. One engine was sent from Crawley Fire Station but the fire was out by the time they arrived and the crew removed an area of roof insulation and damped it down using a hose reel to make sure it did not reignite. They then used a thermal imaging camera to check the area and left...

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Metrobus launching new 24-hour route through Crawley to Gatwick...

May 20, 2015, 2:12 am
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A NEW 24-hour bus route is going to start running through Crawley at the end of the month.Metrobus is launching its second 24-hour service in the town when the Gatwick Direct route 200 starts running at night from May 30.The new night service will link Bewbush, Gossops Green, Ifield, Langley Green, Manor Royal and Gatwick Airport every hour through the night, seven days a week.The 200 route already runs regularly throughout the day.Normal fares will be charged and usual bus passes will be...

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