Its official! Crawley’s inhabitants are the fattest in Sussex. I think I can vouch for that… Must be something in the water because I have put on 5 or 6 stone since moving here from London, although that could be down to marital contentment and middle-age spread. In the Crawley Observer this story takes up […]
Entries Tagged as 'Sure Start'
Fatwick City?
September 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Life
Tags: Crawley·Cycling·Food·Local Papers·Medicine/Health·Sure Start
Child poverty in Crawley
August 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
The other day Antonia wrote about some statistics released by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with particular emphasis (obviously) on how they apply to Oxford. Just as obviously I could not resist looking them up to see how the JRF think we are doing in Crawley. It is worth mentioning something first about how the figures […]
Tags: Bewbush·Broadfield·Crawley·Family·Furnace Green·Ifield·Langley Green·Maidenbower·Maths·Pound Hill·Scandals·Southgate·Statistics·Sure Start·Three Bridges·Tilgate
The sights of Broadfield
September 30th, 2005 · Comments Off on The sights of Broadfield · Life
I had to go off to the tip today to throw away all the rubbish I have been accumulating at the side of the house. On the way back I decided to have a look at a couple of places in Broadfield I have not had much of a chance to visit. First of all […]
49 Up
September 14th, 2005 · Comments Off on 49 Up · Politics
Today’s Guardian carried a piece about the programme ’49 Up’ showing on ITV tomorrow. 49 Up is the follow-up to the original 7 Up documentary and its 7-yearly visits to a group of people born in 1956 (if my maths is right) One quote in there struck a chord as it fitted in well with […]
Tags: Sure Start·TV
Sure Start
September 14th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Politics
First of all there was the story itself about the findings of a report into the effectiveness of the government’s Sure Start programme. The part of it which grabs the attention is that it shows no overall improvement in areas covered by the scheme. However, I have to agree with comments made that we should […]
Tags: Broadfield·Sure Start
