Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

The story in today’s Crawley Observer about food hygiene standards of local business was endlessly fascinating.  There is nothing new about premises being inspected of course, but now the results are easier to find and easier to understand and compare.

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On Saturday there was a “Let’s face it” event in Broadfield, organised by the Christ the Lord church.  These events are where groups of residents get together to do something like clear out a pond or tidy up bits of land and the council helps out by supplying the tools for the job, a van […]

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I was just flicking through last week’s Crawley News before sending it to the recycling bin, and stopped to read a story about potholes in the town.

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The saga of our council leader’s trip to South Africa is continuing to occupy the attention of the local press, and this week’s installment is particularly amusing.   The visit was part of some sort of training, and I think its safe to say that  whether Bob Lanzer learned anything on the visit he has certainly […]

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This week’s Crawley News cleared up a little confusion I had about the previous week’s editorial.

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This does not appeal to me personally. I am not into dancing, except when I have got on the outside of a bottle of Breuilly and Rock El Casbah or Boogie Nights comes on the stereo, but this might appeal to those who have got hooked on Strictly Come Dancing:
Time to dance brings you […]

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Its not that I don’t like the proposed new Crawley Borough Council logo

It could have been a lot worse. I’m not even too concerned about it’s unfortunate resemblance to an MBNA logo

Its just that I like the one I did much more. I would go so far as to say that I am […]

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This month Crawley council unveiled its (slightly) controversial new logo.

The leader of the council says “we didn’t want to be too safe with the new logo and we wanted something that would stand out and that said something positive and distinctive about Crawley” Well it certainly stands out. Positivity is a bit subjective. […]

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After two years of work the Crawley Tories have come up with a design for a new Crawley Borough Council logo.

The predominance of blue in the logo comes as no surprise, but I wasn’t expecting a tree design. Very original. I wonder where they got the idea from… oh hang on…

Or even more […]

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According to last week’s Crawley Observer, Councillor Eade does intend to try and introduce prayers at Crawley council meetings, although whether she will still be so keen now that a similar motion of hers failed to be carried in Adur I don’t know.
With that in mind, it was interesting to see this report of the […]

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