New look for Horsham compliance consultants
A LEADING Horsham firm Elementus, specialising in workplace compliance and employing 70 people, has relaunched itself as Assurity Consulting. The company, based in Redkiln Way, believes their new...
View ArticleVillage green fight
THE FIGHT is on to get a field east of Billingshurst re-designated as a village green as it has faced years of planning applications.Village residents are joining forces to prevent housing development...
View ArticleNew leisure centre branded ‘wholly inadequate’
A FORMER director of Horsham District Council has contacted the County Times this week to break his silence and launch a scathing attack on his former employer and cabinet member Jonathan Chowen (Con,...
View ArticleLaw firms expanding
WEST Sussex and Surrey law firms showing signs of growth, says Law Society report.New research from the Law Society has revealed that legal practices in West Sussex and Surrey are continuing to see an...
View ArticleBarn burgled
A HENFIELD barn has been burgled of tools valued at hundreds of pounds. A large Dewault chopsaw, two Stihl chainsaws, a Stihl hedge trimmer, nail gun and circular saw were all swiped in the burglary...
View ArticleUPDATE: Suspected human remains ‘could be ancient’
SUSPECTED human remains were discovered on the A23 near Handcross this week. Detective Inspector Tracy Edwards said: “Following an extensive and thorough search of the site by specialist search...
View ArticleMissing Horsham woman
Police are appealing for help in tracing a missing Horsham woman.Jennifer Marsh, 59, of Littlehaven Lane, Horsham, was reported missing at 8.30pm last night (Wednesday May 30) from her home address.She...
View ArticleUPDATE: Man airlifted after lampost collision
A man has been airlifted to hospital following a collision involving a car and a lampost on Albion Way in Horsham this evening (Thursday May 31).Sussex Air Ambulance landed on the Bishopric crossroads...
View ArticleVIDEO: Air ambulance takes off with crash victim
Emergency services were called to Albion Way, Horsham, just after 5.15pm last night (Thursday May 31) following a collision involving a car and a lamp post. “The 31-year old local male driver was taken...
View ArticleCouncillor offered training after free parking permit blunder
Andrew Dunlop’s work as an advisor to the Prime Minister made his error national news.As featured in The County Times on March 22, Mr Dunlop was abusing the use of his parking permit whilst travelling...
View ArticleNeighbour saves man from Horsham flat fire
Horsham firefighters have rescued a man from a fire in his ground floor flat after a concerned neighbour heard his smoke alarm sounding.The noise from the smoke alarm at flats in Moore Court, Granary...
View ArticleLiberal Democrat elected chairman
A Liberal Democrat councillor has been elected as chairman of Horsham District Council for the next year.Leonard Crosbie (Trafalgar), who is one of eight Liberal Democrat councillors on the district...
View ArticleWest Sussex County Council defends cuts in tour of day care centre
The County Council has defended their decision to make changes in care for disabled people at Horsham’s Strawford Centre during an exclusive tour of the facilities.In recent weeks the County Times has...
View ArticleNew Horizons for disabled people
Whether it is making hanging baskets on the Arun Valley railway line or ordering a drink in a town coffee shop, West Sussex County Council’s Horizons is providing new opportunities for people with...
View ArticleBillingshurst auction house booming
A specialist garden sculpture and decoration auction, both antique and contemporary, totalled over £1.6m in Billingshurst at the end of May.Summers Place Auctions, in Stane Street, associated with...
View ArticleHanding the column over to students
Readers may remember that a couple of weeks ago I wrote about my visit to Tanbridge House School in Horsham.I really enjoyed my discussions with students and so I invited them to write this week’s...
View ArticleUPDATE: Rusper road re-opened after accident
Capel Road in Rusper has re-opened following an accident this morning (Friday June 8).Police attended the scene shortly after 11am after the collision between a Landrover and lorry.Diesel was spilt and...
View ArticleVandalised Roffey site prompts call for action
A derelict site in Roffey which has seen spates of vandalism is on the verge of being transformed , a welcome change for its neighbours.The plot, on the corner of Littlehaven Lane and Crawley Road...
View ArticleHorsham schoolboys meet Schools Minister
Two high-achieving Year 9 pupils from Horsham’s Forest School met Schools Minister Nick Gibb and renowned scientist Lord Robert Winston when they spent the day at Imperial College in London.Edwin...
View ArticleFallen tree closes Cowfold road
A fallen tree has closed the A281 in Cowfold this afternoon (Friday June 15). Queueing traffic has been reported in both directions between the A272 junction and the B2110 junction.
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