Crawley Borough Council has elected its news mayor

Councillor Raj Sharma was elected at the Annual Crawley Borough Council meeting last Friday.

Sharma was elected to represent Southgate ward in 2014.

He was born in Delhi in India, in 1952 and moved to Crawley in 1992.

The Mayor’s charity for 2016/17 is Crawley Community Youth Service , which aims to encourage young people to be positive role models who can create engaged vibrant and equal communities throughout Crawley.

Patients from St Catherine’s Hospice Neurological Clinic got stuck in with a sausage making workshop last week.

With the help of hospice nurses and volunteers, five patients who have a range of neurological conditions including Parkinson’s and Motor Neurone Disease came together to make sausages using patient Pat’s best-selling recipe.

Pat, a retired butcher from Handcross, shared his recipe for his best-selling Old Sussex sausages with other patients and hospice staff, after hospice wide departments came together to arrange the special workshop.

St Catherine’s Catering Team provided equipment and gaining support from Flanagan Butchers in Crawley Down and Teresa Collins, from St Catherine’s Therapy Team provided the sausage making machine.

A company has been ordered to pay massive costs after it broke Health and safety laws

Spirit Pub Limited was ordered by Her Honour Judge Henson QC at a sentencing hearing at Chichester Crown Court on may 20 to pay a fine of £120,000 and costs of £10,000

The prosecution was brought by Crawley Borough Council who alleged that the company had failed to ensure the health and safety of staff between March 2013 and September 2014.

The company pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.

Crawley Council Environmental Health Officers investigated the case after a staff member at Gatwick Manor burnt her face, arms and body while filtering oil from a deep fat fryer in September 2014.

A man has died and a woman was seriously injured when an Audi car left the road and collided with a tree at Rusper on Sunday evening.

The blue Audi A3 was reported to have been found on its roof on Faygate Lane by a passing motorist at at twenty past nine in the evening.

Emergency services attended and found that a passenger, a 53-year-old man from Dorking, had died at the scene.

The driver, a 36-year-old woman from Faygate, sustained serious, potentially life-changing injuries.

Anyone who witnessed the crash or who may have seen the Audi in the area around that time is asked to email collision.appeal@sussex.pnn.police.uk or call 101 quoting Operation Twickenham.

Weary shoppers now have a place to rest thanks to a new bench installed in The Martlets in Crawley town centre.

The area outside Topshop is home to the bench, enabling those who need it to rest between the walk from Queens Square to County Mall.

The project began in 2014 after Town access group members received a letter from a resident who found it difficult to navigate the cobbles due to mobility problems.

With the support of Crawley Borough Council, TAG members began the project in their twenty-first year of campaigning for better access.

To celebrate the installation of the bench the Mayor of Crawley and Chairman of TAG, Councillor Chris Cheshire gathered with TAG members to test it out.