So who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? A story in the Argus has the headline Dog sets light to house and nearly kills the cat. I had a mental picture of Muttley standing round the corner, back to the garage wall, box of matches in his paw, peeking round at firemen […]
Entries from January 16th, 2007
West Crawley County Local Committee
January 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Politics
The next meeting of the West Crawley County Local Committee is to be held on Wednesday, 24th January at 7:00pm. This committee covers (if I remember rightly) Broadfield, Bewbush, Gossops Green, Ifield, Langley Green, West Green and Southgate. The venue is the Holy Trinity School 6th form centre, Buckswood Drive, Gossops Green. There is a […]
Tags: Bewbush·Broadfield·BYCC·Crawley·Gossops Green·Ifield·Langley Green·Southgate·WSCC
Identity crisis
January 16th, 2007 · Comments Off on Identity crisis · Life
Broadfield is certainly a confusing place these days. it is split into two borough council wards – Broadfield North and Broadfield South, and yet one of it’s two primary schools is called Broadfield East. Now I find that, although the county council classes Broadfield as part of “West of Crawley” for the purposes of it’s […]
Tags: Broadfield·Crawley Council·WSCC
Humour
January 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
I am starting to get worried about my sense of humour. I now actually look forward to the ancient jokes on Soccer AM and this week was truly tickled by this: The other day I was hungry and all I had in the house was 24 pots of yoghurt, so I ate them all. How […]
Assassination at Waterloo
January 13th, 2007 · Comments Off on Assassination at Waterloo · Life
I am amazed by the obscure rotues information gets through sometimes. I found out this morning that the filming at Waterloo station this week was to do with the new Bourne movie again, and that information reached me via Sky Sports. I was watching Soccer AM and the news presenter Jeremy Thompson was a guest. […]
Waterloo Studios
January 12th, 2007 · Comments Off on Waterloo Studios · Work
It has been busy at the Waterloo Film Studio (previously known as Waterloo Station) this week. For the third time in 6 months the station has been full of movie cameras, lights, and assorted paraphernalia. The first time was only for a day or two over a weekend for a sequence in a Bollywood film. […]
Meeting the police
January 11th, 2007 · Comments Off on Meeting the police · Life
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 […]
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
