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Many more people in Â鶹´«Ã½ will be able to benefit from a change to eligibility rules for the Home Â鶹´«Ã½ Grant which provides funding for solar panels, insulation and air source heat pumps.The maximum annual income threshold for receiving a grant is now £36,000, previously £31,000, increasing the eligible pool of…

Â鶹´«Ã½ Borough Council is supporting more than 1,100 students from five Â鶹´«Ã½ schools as part of Love Local Jobs Foundation’s Dare to Dream programme.Dare to Dream is an inspirational programme created by the Love Local Jobs Foundation, a charity which supports the self-awareness, resilience, employability skills…

The Queens Square fountains were switched back on at the Spring Fun event on Saturday (16 March), bringing joy to hundreds of children.The fountains were switched back on by the Mayor of Â鶹´«Ã½, Councillor Jilly Hart, following a countdown, which was joined in by hundreds of visitors.Within seconds of the fountains…

All year 8 students in Â鶹´«Ã½ have attended a Safer Schools event, which aims to raise awareness of drug and knife crime and involvement in gangs and county lines.The event, which is organised by the Â鶹´«Ã½ Schools Pastoral Network Group with support from Â鶹´«Ã½ Borough Council’s Community Development Team, was…

A £128,000 fund has been created to support independent and small shops across the borough and to pay for town centre improvement works.Eligible businesses in Â鶹´«Ã½ town centre and the neighbourhood parades will be able to bid for grants of up to £5,000 toward significant visual improvements to their frontage, or…

Owners of long-term empty properties in Â鶹´«Ã½ could have to pay double Council Tax a year sooner from April 2025.At its meeting last night (Wednesday 13 March), Â鶹´«Ã½ Borough Council’s Cabinet recommended that a premium of 100 per cent is added to Council Tax bills for homes that are unoccupied and substantially…

The Leader of the Council has written to six government departments to urge them to take decisive action to address Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s housing emergency.Councillor Michael Jones and Councillor Ian Irvine, Cabinet Member for Housing, have written to Secretaries of State and Ministers at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing…

Twelve new sportspeople have been added to the sporting wall at K2 Â鶹´«Ã½.There are now 25 people from a wide array of sports honoured on the Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Sporting Excellence wall at the leisure centre.Each sporting hero is presented with a graphical portrait and information plaque, outlining their career highlights…

More than 250 people visited a jobs fair laid on by Â鶹´«Ã½ Borough Council last week with 21 potential employers and agencies to approach.Exhibitors included WH Smith, Cova Security Gates, Siemens and People’s Partnership, as well as One Resourcing which is recruiting for various roles at Gatwick airport.The Employ…

British Airways Holidays has signed up to be the next tenant of The Create Building.The company has signed a lease for the top (eighth) floor and will move into the building, on The Boulevard in Â鶹´«Ã½ town centre, in April.This signing follows the announcement in December that Varian Medical Systems Ltd had agreed a…