Lingfield will host part of the BBC Children in Need Appeal’s Rickshaw Challenge.

The One Show features the event each year which is a major fundraiser for the appeal.  The Rickshaw Challenge will travel through the Tandridge district before arriving in Lingfield around 7 pm on Saturday 10th November. The One Show presenter, Matt Baker, will pedal alongside six young riders who have all been supported by BBC Children In Need funded projects.  The team will start at Calais and travel through Kent before heading to the Lingfield and Dormansland Centre on the High Street.

Their progress will be broadcast on The One Show throughout the week.

A violent burglary took place in Bewbush in Crawley on Monday night.  

Police were called to Jewel Walk to a report that two people had been attacked with a baseball bat.  Three men forced their way into the property and demanded money before leaving empty handed. A 29 year old man was taken to hospital with facial injuries and a cut to his head. A 64 year old woman received bruising to her leg and face.  

One of the men was described as black, over 6 feet tall, wearing all black and a a black leather mask and gloves. The second was black, slim, also wearing black with the same type of mask, and wearing white latex surgical gloves. The third man was white and stockier than the other two.  He was wearing a black woollen balaclava and white latex surgical gloves.

Anyone with information should contact Sussex police online quoting serial 1355 on 15/10.

Burns specialists at Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead are warning about the dangers of preventable burns injuries at home.

The warning comes ahead of this year’s national Burns Awareness Day on Wednesday on finding a year-on-year increase in referrals to its paediatric burns unit.  Almost half of the children admitted with burns during the last year were treated for scalds; the majority of which happened in the child’s own home.