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Small and independent retailers in Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ can apply for a Shop Front and High Street grant of up to £5,000 to spruce up their shop front and help entice more customers.As part of the Shop Front and High Street Improvement Grant Scheme, eligible businesses in Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ town centre and the neighbourhood parades can bid…

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council is encouraging everyone to get out and enjoy all that its beautiful local parks and green spaces have to offer this Love Parks Week.Love Parks Week is a national celebration led by Keep Britain Tidy highlighting the vital role green spaces play in boosting the health and wellbeing of residents…

All five Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ parks have retained their Green Flag Awards, with Tilgate Park achieving the status for an incredible 22 consecutive years.Tilgate Park, Goffs Park, Memorial Gardens, Worth Park and Ifield Mill Pond all kept their Green Flag Awards for 2024.The Green Flag Award is the international quality mark for…

Online theatrical experience Fathom, developed by Goat and Monkey Theatre, will be coming to a device near you next week as part of the Cultural Quarter pop-up programme in Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½.Fathom is an interactive online story that encourages participants to carve out 10 minutes a day to rekindle their creative curiosity and…

Four former councillors will receive prestigious honorary titles from Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council.On 10 June, the council’s Governance Committee recommended that the Mayor of Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½, Councillor Sharmila Sivarajah, convenes an Extraordinary Meeting of the Full Council on Friday 12 July to bestow the following titles:Colin…

This year’s Armed Forces Day event takes place between 10.30am and 3pm on Saturday 29 June in Memorial Gardens.The Surrey and Sussex Drum and Bugle Corps will lead a procession of standard bearers through from 10.30am, followed by speeches and the Armed Forces Day flag raising.Entertainment on the bandstand begins…

Monday 10 June saw the arrival at Gatwick Airport of 52 people from Mauritius. They were joined by 25 people who had earlier made the same journey. All 77 individuals were seeking accommodation.Their arrival in the UK follows the government’s offer of British Overseas Territories Citizenship, that is a British…

Phase one of the Western Boulevard bus service improvement scheme is nearing completion. Work will next focus on widening the junction between The Boulevard and The Broadway.To progress the next phases of these improvement works around the western section of The Boulevard, there is a need to put in place a temporary,…

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council is urging people with postal votes for the General Election to return them as soon as possible to ensure their vote is counted.More than 18,000 residents in the Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ constituency have signed up to receive a postal vote for the General Election. They will be mailed out first class to…

Around 4,000 children, parents and grandparents enjoyed a spectacular day at STEM in the Park on 18 May in Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s Memorial Gardens celebrating science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).The aim of STEM In The Park is to engage all ages in STEM activities by utilising teamwork, creativity and having fun while…