Two people from Crawley won this year’s Buchan Country Park Photography Competition.

Vicky Rowe, won the adult competition with a black and white portrait image of her partner and son walking through the park – and – 11-year-old David King, won the young photographer award with a shot of a red damselfly sitting on a leaf.
The winning photographs, along with a selection of the others submitted for the competition, are on display at the Countryside Centre at Buchan Country Park.

There are concerns about the future of local health services after the Coastal West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group – or CCG – decided to award a contract for the delivery of new musculoskeletal services.

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are worried it would have a detrimental impact on some of their services.

Katie Armstrong, Chief of the CCG says their decision is in the best interests of patients.

However, Chair of West Sussex Health and Adult Social Care Select Committee, Margaret Evans, says that they want further reassurances that other services will not be negatively affected.
As of yet, the contract has not been signed.

Surrey needs to find £215 million over the next five years to provide for the expected 13, 000 school places needed.

Surrey taxpayers make a contribution of £6 billion to the national Exchequer annually but receive less than £1bn back.

Almost 3,000 extra school places will be made by the next academic year.
This September, more than 4-thousand-1-hundred extra places were created in time for the start of the academic year.

A man ended up in hospital with a broken jaw on Saturday when he was assaulted in Crawley after a night out.
The 20-year-old victim had been on Crawley High Street when the incident happened.

A teenage girl has gone missing from a care home in Crawley.

15-year-old Rebecca Mitchel-Pitcher was last seen leaving home at 4.15 in the afternoon yesterday.

Police believe she may be in Medway in Kent.

Rebecca is white, 5′ 9″ and of slim build with brown shoulder length hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing a grey hooded top with grey tracksuit bottoms and white trainers.
Anyone with any information can call Sussex police on 101.