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Crawley Rugby Club win plane pull challenge at Gatwick Airport
ANYONE boarding a flight at Gatwick on Friday may have thought they were going mad if they looked out the window to see Gary Lineker trying to pull a plane along the runway.Their eyes weren't playing...
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Crawley woman who has beaten breast cancer twice now helping...
HAVING had to fight breast cancer twice in the last few years Tracy Twinn could be forgiven if she wanted to keep all memories of it firmly at the back of her mind.But, recognising that her story can...
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Man taken to hospital after being repeatedly punched in the face...
A MAN has been taken to hospital after being repeatedly punched in the face in an unprovoked attack outside a Crawley supermarket. At about 6.30pm on Monday (March 10) the 36-year-old victim was...
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Crawley suicide bomb suspect Abdul Waheed Majeed's family 'still...
THE leader of Crawley's Muslim community has said some members of Abdul Waheed Majeed's family are still hopeful he may return home. The 41-year-old is believed to be responsible for a suicide bombing...
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Police investigate after driver finds vandal has placed sugar in...
THIS is surely a contender for the strangest crime of the week. Police are investigating after a driver found that someone had put sugar in their petrol tank. The apparent attempt to disable the...
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Labour and Conservative failure to agree on Crawley Local Plan...
CRAWLEY'S Labour group has been told to "get real" while the Tories have been accused of deliberately dodging their responsibilities in a row over future housing developments.Every local authority has...
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St Catherine's Hospice appeals for more nurses to join its team
ST Catherine's Hospice is holding a recruitment drive to add to its team of nurses who support terminally ill patients in wards and out in the community.The hospice, based in Malthouse Road, Southgate,...
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Burglars hold woman at knifepoint and force her to open safe in...
A WOMAN has been held at knifepoint and forced to open a safe in an early-morning raid on a pub. At about 5.30am this morning (Thursday) two men broke into The Greyhound pub in Charlwood, waking up a...
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Police hunt thug who attacked victim with a baseball bat after...
POLICE are appealing for help to catch a thug who attacked a man with a baseball bat outside a pub. Shortly before 9.50pm on Tuesday a man in his 20s was outside The Air Balloon pub, in Brighton Road,...
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COLUMN: How some pupils see certain punishments as rewards
IN his regular column Paul Kennedy, head teacher at Holy Trinity School, in Gossops Green, lifts the lid on life around the school. This month he focuses on punishments and whether they might actually...
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Women urged not to walk Crawley streets alone at night following...
YOUNG women have been urged not to walk Crawley's streets alone late at night following the latest in a series of rapes in the town.In the early hours of Saturday morning a woman was raped in the...
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Is this the most pointless crime of the week?
WHO knows what they intended to do with it - but this has to be the most pointless crime of the week. A thief has stolen a windscreen wiper from a vehicle. It was taken in Pagewood Close either on...
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Firefighters called out to Pound Hill church
FIREFIGHTERS were needed to stop water leaking from a heater at a church in Pound Hill yesterday (Wednesday). The crew from Crawley Fire Station isolated the water supply at St Barnabas Church in Worth...
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Crawley council ticks off driver for parking in disabled bay
A COUNCIL worker who parked in a disabled bay at K2 Crawley has been told it was "unacceptable" to do so. A Crawley Borough Council employee parked a council van at the leisure centre, off Pease...
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Calls for Ifield road to be made safer following death of...
RESIDENTS living close to where a pensioner was hit by two cars, causing him to later die from his injuries, have called for the road to be made safer. Bernard McNeill, 77 of Faygate Lane, Faygate, was...
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Thief steals 17 Easter eggs from car in Ifield
POLICE are investigating the theft of 17 Easter eggs from the boot of a car.Officers were called to Dewar Close, in Ifield, at 6.30am on Saturday to a report a car had been broken into. Between 10pm...
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2 arrests after 8 garages are broken into in Gossops Green
TWO men have been arrested after a number of garages were broken into in Gossops Green.Eight garages were broken into in Derwent Close and Rother Crescent on Saturday, with an attempt made to hotwire a...
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Woman caught at Gatwick Airport with £47,000 of cocaine...
A WOMAN who attempted to smuggle drugs into the country by hiding them in her vagina has been jailed.Border Force officers at Gatwick Airport arrested Estelle Brett, 20, from Wickham Road in Brockley,...
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New ambulance station planned for Crawley which could lead to...
PLANS have been submitted to build a new ambulance base in Manor Royal – which could lead to the closure of Crawley's current ambulance station in West Green.The proposed Make Ready Centre, which would...
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Crawley dog comes second at Crufts - after getting up at 2.30am...
A CRAWLEY pooch will be holding his head a little higher during walkies after winning a second place ribbon at Crufts.The red Irish setter, called Thai, who lives with his owner Linda Richardson in Wye...
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