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.....The council's former Labour leader, Chris Redmayne, said his party had worked very hard in Crawley on local matters and had tried to campaign on what it thought was important.

'Good fight'

"We've stuck with local issues and local matters. We've lost this council, but we'll be back," he said.

One candidate who failed to get elected in Crawley was Big Brother 6 runner-up Eugene Sully, who was the Labour candidate for Furnace Green.

The 29-year-old broadcast engineer said he thought he had put up a "good fight".

"I felt there were things that I could offer the local council... but I think I'm going to have to concentrate my efforts next year to try and run again," he said.

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