Elderly woman charged with motoring offences
AN elderly woman has been charged with a series of motoring offences in East Grinstead.Beryl Lehan is accused of driving a Volvo without due care and attention, failing to stop after an accident and...
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Power tools targeted in spate of thefts from vans
TOOLS worth thousands of pounds were stolen in a spate of thefts from vans. Police are urging drivers not to leave anything of value in their vehicles following the break-ins in East Grinstead and the...
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Plans to make East Grinstead bridge safer scrapped
PLANS for safety measures at an East Grinstead bridge are to go back to the drawing board.East Grinstead town councillors had presented West Sussex County Council with possible solutions to make the...
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Trio in court over hammer attack on boy, 14
THREE people have appeared in court after a teenage boy was attacked with a hammer in Broadfield Barton in May.The 14-year-old was taken to Royal Sussex County Hospital but is not believed to have...
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Crawley postal worker stole £4,000 worth of packages
A POSTAL worker stole thousands of pounds worth of packages to fund her own lavish lifestyle. Long-serving Royal Mail employee Jane Davies went "wildly off the rails" as she embarked on a major crime...
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Martell's fined £15,000 for dumping waste in East Grinstead
A FAMILY-RUN firm has been fined £15,000 for illegally dumping tonnes of waste in East Grinstead. Martell's was responsible for disposing of soil, concrete, metal cabling, plastics, treated wood, brick...
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Woman "shredded medical records to cover up mistake that...
AN admin worker has told an inquest she was asked to destroy vital medical records to prevent a care home being shut down.Lisa Martin said she was told by her manager Meera Reed to shred documents that...
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Cafe owner cleared of raping drunk student
A MAN who was charged with the rape of a 21-year-old woman has been cleared by a jury. Terry Sleet, of Sheridan Place, East Grinstead, owner of Robertsons tea room in Station Road West, Oxted, stood...
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ASBO teen convicted of damaging his own mum's car
A TEENAGER has been convicted of vandalising his own mother's car. Kean Lamb, of Copthorne Bank, Copthorne, was charged with damaging the wing mirror of the Peugeot 307 belonging to Olive Lamb on...
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Man fined for taking paperboy's BMX while drunk at 7.30am
A MAN has been fined £200 after taking a stolen bike while drunk.Ronald Motlhokodise, from Attlee House in Lansbury Road, Broadfield, appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court last Wednesday charged with...
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Five boys arrested after man assaulted outside petrol garage
FIVE boys have been arrested following an attack on a man outside a petrol station in Pound Hill. The man was leaving a Co-op store at the Texaco garage on Balcombe Road at about 10.30pm last night...
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Cyclist admits masturbating in front of women at Crawley bus stop
A MAN has admitted twice masturbating in public – once in front of two shocked women in a Langley Green street and on the other occasion at a bus stop.Azeem Faleela Gafoor appeared at Crawley...
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UPDATE: One of five arrested for robbery and GBH is teenage girl
POLICE have said four boys and a girl were arrested following an alleged robbery at a petrol station in which a man was assaulted, and not five boys as they first stated. Sussex Police have clarified...
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Crawley flashers exposed themselves on bus and in supermarket
CRAWLEY flashers have been seen exposing themselves in a supermarket, on a bus and even at a nature reserve.Police have also been called to public gardens and woodland after reports of offenders being...
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More boozy brawls in East Grinstead as alcohol-related crime...
DRUNKEN brawls are on the increase as the number of East Grinstead crimes linked to alcohol rockets.There were 80 alcohol-related offences in the town between January and August including possession of...
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VIDEO: East Grinstead driver captured "drifting"...
A VIDEO has caught the moment a daredevil driver "drifted" around an East Grinstead residential street corner. The footage, which was uploaded to video sharing website YouTube on Friday, November 8,...
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East Grinstead thief stole Poppy Appeal box on Remembrance Sunday
A CALLOUS criminal stole a Poppy Appeal collection box from an East Grinstead petrol station on the morning of Remembrance Sunday. In a strikingly similar incident that occurred at the same location...
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Woman, 19, attacked in Bewbush on way home from house party
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to an incident in which a 19-year old woman was attacked in Sullivan Drive, Bewbush, while walking home from a house party. The attack took place on Friday, November...
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BREAKING NEWS: 62-year-old cautioned for East Grinstead Poppy...
A 62-year-old man has been cautioned after stealing a Poppy Appeal tin. The East Grinstead man was arrested for theft on Friday after a member of staff at Ashdown Gate Residential Home, where he lives,...
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WANTED: Man suspected of breaking jaw of victim who was shopping...
POLICE have released the image of a man they want to trace on suspicion of breaking another man's jaw. A 27-year old local man was punched outside a newsagent's in Langley Green at about 10.30am on...
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