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West Sussex Fire And Rescue Service Boosted By New Appliance

Photo: The new aerial ladder platform

Photo Credit:  West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service

West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service and West Sussex County Council have taken delivery of a new aerial ladder platform.  

The appliance can extend a ladder and firefighters to rescue people from blocks of flats and direct large quantities of water on to a fire from above.  The state of the art aerial ladder platform cost £610,000 and will be based at Horsham Fire Station.  It replaces one which has been in service for 18 years.

West Sussex has a second aerial ladder platform based in Worthing. Surrey has similar appliance at Leatherhead Fire Station which was borrowed by the London Fire Brigade to fight the Grenfell Tower fire last year.

Football Update

Crawley Town beat Lincoln 3-1 at home on Saturday.  Harry Kewell’s men move up to 9th place in League 2, moving to within two points of the play-offs in their fifth successive home win.

Merstham remain in 12th place in the Bostik Premier League despite losing 1-0 away to Tonbridge Angels.

In the Bostik South Division, East Grinstead won 2-1 away to Sittingbourne, and Horsham won 2-1 at home to Phoenix Sports.  South Park lost 2-1 away to Walton Casuals.

It was bad news for both our local teams in the Combined Counties Premier Division.  Redhill lost 3-0 away to second place Bedfont Sports, and Horley Town lost 2-0 away to Godalming Town.

High Court victory is Plane Justice

Chris Quinlan spoke to Tim Bowling about Plane Justice’s part in the successful High Court action against the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) Route 4 Gatwick flight path.

In 2016 the CAA decided to bring in new Sat Nav technology (rather than the previous beacon system) and changed Route 4 to a new route for a consultation period. This meant planes now flying over villages such as Newdigate, Salfords, Leigh, Horley which lead to over 12,000 complaints from local residents.

Several groups formed to try overturn the flight path changes, one of which was Plane Justice, headed by Chris Quinlan.

Route 4 decision quashed

Despite petitions and lobbying campaigns the CAA eventually decided to make Route 4 permanent. Plane Justice took them to the High Court and following a judicial review the Route 4 decision was quashed. Gatwick Airport and the CAA will now look again at the route of the flight path.

You can hear the full interview now on the Susy Radio Listen On Demand service.

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Crawley Wasps LFC In Sussex Women’s Challenge Cup Final

Photo:  Crawley Wasps attacker Toni Smith evades an Eastbourne challenge
Photo credit: Andrew Hazelden 
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Crawley Wasps Ladies’ won 2-0 over Eastbourne LFC in the Sussex Women’s Challenge Cup semi-final on Sunday.

The victory puts Wasps into their third successive final in the competition.  

Having faced Women’s Super League side Brighton in the past two years, they will now face Lewes in this year’s final on 22nd March.

 

 

New Footbridge Replaces Footpath Railway Crossing in Salfords

Network Rail has closed the Dean Farm foot crossing and replaced it with a footbridge in Salfords.  

The opening of the £1.5 million footbridge means that Dean Farm crossing over the Brighton mainline is now closed.  The crossing was the country’s busiest in terms of the number of trains going over it; more than 760 trains a day pass through the area at speeds of up to 90 miles an hour.  The new footbridge was built over Christmas and craned into place on Boxing Day.  It links Copsleigh Avenue with a network of paths the other side of the line. A group of parents and children from Salfords School were the first to use the new bridge yesterday.  

Nationally, Network Rail has closed more than a thousand level crossings, many of which are in the South East.