Concerns about cancelled meetings
Leader of the opposition Liberal Democrat group at Horsham District Council has raised concerns that too many meetings are being cancelled.David Holmes (LDem, Horsham Park) noted that the Development...
View ArticleChance to meet the GPs shaping the future of NHS
GPs are now running local NHS services and they are inviting the public to help them shape your healthcare at a public launch event at the end of April.The Horsham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)...
View ArticleWEEKEND DEBATE: New hospital... golden opportunity or monumental bribe?
Horsham MP Francis maude has said there is a ‘powerful synergy’ between attaining a new public/private acute hospital for the area and development plans for 4,500 north of Horsham.But what do you...
View ArticleFrancis Maude: Funeral will be watched the world over
The deadline for this column means I’m unable to write about Baroness Thatcher’s funeral. What I can say for sure is that years of planning went into the event – not least by the lady herself.Readers...
View ArticleVIDEO: £8.5m compensation for Alfie Buck, born disabled after serious...
The family of Alfie Buck, seven, from Horsham, have spoken about their long legal battle for compensation.This week, the High Court awarded them £8.5m over what the family’s lawyers called a ‘catalogue...
View ArticleNick Herbert: Re-think on planning policy is welcome
Last Friday I met the Chairman and Chief Executive of Saxon Weald, the housing association which provides affordable homes for rent and for sale locally.We discussed housing and planning policy which...
View ArticleLove your local market - urges new roadshow
Shoppers are being urged to ‘love your local market’ as a roadshow to promote market traders nationwide visited Horsham last weekHorsham Markets, run by PJ Aldred and Marion Carter in the town centre...
View ArticleNik Butler: We should be voting because we expect better information
So the rains came down the floods did not come up and despite the almost constant deluge and downpour from above the various local parties seem likely to batten down their own hatches of disquiet to...
View ArticleRay Dawe: Neighbourhood plans would be a strong weapon
Looking at all the recent newsreel coverage of the death of Baroness Thatcher, one becomes acutely aware how much the world has changed.Those old newsreels portray a Britain that was a very different...
View ArticleNick Herbert: Re-think on planning policy is welcome
Last Friday I met the Chairman and Chief Executive of Saxon Weald, the housing association which provides affordable homes for rent and for sale locally.We discussed housing and planning policy which...
View ArticleNew North Horsham hospital looking less likely
Local GPs have expressed serious doubts over plans for a new acute hospital between Horsham and Crawley.After many years of debate, campaign, and both open and secret negotiations, the hospital plan...
View ArticleMotorcyclist in fatal collision at Newdigate
Police are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision in Newdigate, just across the border in Surrey, earlier today (Saturday April 20).The collision took place just after 1pm in Henfold Lane...
View ArticleDistrict’s ‘little oasis in the middle of all the madness’
Village profile on Mannings Heath and Nuthurst whose residents have held a close community spirit throughout the years.It’s nestled just a few miles south-east from Horsham on the A281 in the civil...
View ArticleFirm flying high as new contract won
A Horsham marketing consultancy is flying high after securing a contract to provide services for a leading London-based PR company.Claire Dilliway, director and owner of Sky High Marketing, which...
View ArticleVIDEO: Village care home awarded for its excellent standards
A village care home has been recognised for its excellence by Horsham District Council.Valerie Manor in Upper Beeding, which employs around 50 staff and looks after 23 residents, has picked up the...
View ArticleCOMMENT: Why we must draw a line under the debate for a new hospital and move...
By Christian Mitchell, Conservative Horsham District councillor for Holbrook West, Vice chairman electFor some 15 years the people of Horsham have campaigned for a new acute hospital with full A&E...
View ArticleConservative County councillor joins UKIP
John Livermore, the retiring Conservative County Councillor for Worthing West Division, who is not seeking re-election this year, after 16 years as a County Councillor has joined United Kingdom...
View ArticleMiddle East exporter swaps singing sheep for racehorses
Wealthy Middle East tycoons are snapping up trailers exported from Billingshurst for their prized racehorses.As distributors for Ifor Williams Trailers, Unlimited Trailers, off Coneyhurst Road, is...
View ArticleBusiness Blunders...and how to avoid them by Kerry Kyriacou
Communication is a means to an end, not the end itself.Half your employees do not know the strategy they are supposed to be following!And worse still this tends to be the people who deal with your...
View ArticleTractor mower wrecked in Plaistow blaze
A lawnmower tractor was destroyed in a blaze yesterday lunchtime (Sunday April 21). Firefighters were called to a house in Dunsfold Road, Plaistow, at around 1.20pm.The tractor was wrecked and part of...
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