Nick Somers, one of our local PCSOs, was in our road this afternoon delivering a leaflet to all houses advertising something called a street briefing. The idea seems to be that they will hang around in our street for a couple of hours next Tuesday evening with their mobile CCTV van and anyone who wants […]
Entries from January 11th, 2007
Meeting the police
January 11th, 2007 · Comments Off on Meeting the police · Life
Tags: Broadfield·Crawley·Crime/ASB·Police
Park & Ride
January 11th, 2007 · Comments Off on Park & Ride · Politics
According to the Crawley Observer there was a proposal by Crawley Town FC to use part of their car park as a lorry park, apart from on match days. A number of Broadfield residents objected and the proposal was turned down by the borough council for planning reasons. Even if planning permission had been granted […]
Tags: Cars·Crawley Council·Parking·Town Planning·Traffic·WSCC
Defections
January 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Politics
The recent move of a Tory councillor to the Liberal Democrats has resulted in a lot of the usual calls for her to resign her seat and re-stand for her new party in a by-election, or to at least declare herself as an independent instead. Predictable, and not entirely without merit, but how often does […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Lib Dems·Tories
Tory defeat on council housing
January 11th, 2007 · 36 Comments · Politics
This evening there was yet another extraordinary council meeting about the proposed ballot for the transfer of council housing. Since the last meeting the Lib Dem group has grown in size by 50% and in influence by several hundred percent, and after a tedious but well-behaved debate Labour’s amendment was carried by 18 votes to […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Housing·Newspapers
Fifty Thousand
January 11th, 2007 · Comments Off on Fifty Thousand · Technology
I am not overly obsessed with visitor statistics – every package seems to come up with a different answer and I’m not sure that any of them are right. Besides that I don’t know whether to be interested in hits, pageloads, unique visitors or what, and even they are influenced by the time interval used […]
Form a queue
January 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
Anyone who wants to give me a kicking should form a queue. I will be at the front waiting to kick myself. On Monday I bought another weekly season ticket and was so chuffed about it being two pounds cheaper than last year, despite the much-heralded price rises, that it was not until today I […]
