Sally Blake the former mayor of Crawley has passed away at the age of 84.

Sally was first elected to Crawley Borough Council in 1983 and represented the Gossops Green ward until 1991. She was re-elected in 2002 for Pound Hill North.

She was mayor from 2006 to 2008. She was the first Conservative mayor and only the second mayor to serve two consecutive terms of office.

She had lived in Crawley since the start of the Second World War.