The Run Gatwick half marathon and 5K will be taking place in Crawley this Sunday.

Starting on Southgate avenue the route will see participant run through Crawley, past Gatwick Airport, up to Charlwood and back down, finishing at Southgate park.

There will be road closures in place and residents are advised to plan travel times around the diversions.

Voters will be heading to the poll today to vote in Local Elections.

In Surrey, residents will be voting for councillors on two unitary authorities which will replace the county, district and borough councils from April 2027.

In Sussex all 120 seats across the two county councils are up for grabs while there also partial borough elections for Crawley.

Polls open at 7am and will close at 10pm tonight. Voter are reminder to bring ID with them.

Results will come out over night and into tomorrow.

A coroner has ruled the death of a 12-year-old girl after she was hit by a falling branch while playing on a rope swing was an accident.

Brooke Wiggins died in November 2024 after a large tree branch in Banstead, snapped off and crushed her.

The inquest had heard Surrey County Council had failed to inspect the tree months earlier and had not carried out work that could have made inspecting safety issues easier.

But Assistant Coroner Ivor Collett dismissed the criticism and said Brooke’s death was a “shocking accident”.

Terence Herbert, SCC’s chief executive, said he extended his “sincere condolences” to Brooke’s family and friends.

The graves of two soldiers who died in World War One have been identified in Belgium.

The identifies of the unnamed soldier were named by the ministry of defences as Lance Corporal William Voice MM, from Horsham, and Lance Corporal Lionel Weller Sandell from Worthing.

Lance Corporal Voice was killed in repeated shelling in August of 1917 and Lance Corporal Weller was killed in open warfare in 1918.

Services were held for both soldier on Tuesday.

A gang who stole high-performance cars across Surrey and West Sussex have been jailed.

Romaine Simpson, Charlie Hart and Kayden Brown, admitted conspiring to steal vehicles at Guildford Crown Court.

The men targeted Audi RS cars in Stoneleigh and Copthorne last year, breaking into houses to steal keys and drive vehicles away while owners slept.

Simpson, was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison. Hart and Brown, of Carshalton, were jailed for two years and three months and 16 months respectively.

A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was also given a youth referral order, a criminal behaviour order and a driving ban by magistrates in February.