Crawley, and especially Langley Green, has been bracing itself for the verdict in the fertiliser bomb trial, which finally arrived today. It is a sensitive time, but then so was the time of the raids and arrests and we managed that without any major disturbances of the peace.
Last time the council and police managed to calm everything down extremely well, and that was without a lot of warning so I am fairly confident everything will be OK now. Our journey home takes us through Langley Green and already there was a veritable convention of TV camera crews at the community centre and plenty of police on the streets.
At least we don’t need to waste any time wondering what will be on the front pages of the local rags this week!
Grim times, but even so you have to appreciate the irony that the Langley Green mosque is located on Martyrs Avenue.
Start to worry if the BNP try and get mileage out of this, 2 days before elections.