Kent

Turner gallery gets £8.1m grant

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Millions of pounds are promised to help build a contemporary art gallery at a seaside town.

CCTV call after attacks on taxis

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Taxi drivers in West Sussex are calling for more funding for CCTV cameras after a series of attacks in Crawley.

School gets healthy award as term ends

East Grinstead Courier (Free subscription) | yesterday

Ending the year in style, Plaxtol Primary School students are celebrating attaining Healthy Schools status. The award, which is a Kent County Council and NHS initiative, recognises healthy practices in schools, such as not eating junk food and ...

Five fire appliances called to house blaze

East Grinstead Courier (Free subscription) | yesterday

Five fire engines were called to Hildenborough on Tuesday after a house went up in flames. Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called at 9.04am after the first floor of a three-storey building in Lower Street caught fire. ...

Gun death mother launches charity

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

The mother of Clare Bernal who was shot dead by an ex-boyfriend campaigns for more family justice centres.

This is how anti-terror laws get used

Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday

From the BBC: A police force has apologised after a disabled child and his parents claimed they were detained at a Channel crossing point under the Terrorism Act. Julie Maynard, of Ware, Hertfordshire, was taking a day trip to Calais through the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone, Kent. The detective constable accused Ms Maynard and her husband Leslie [...]

• Terror police detain disabled boy - Prophecy Fellowship Forums
• Apology over 'terror detention' for parents - The Independent
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British Jury Hears How a Frustrated Student ‘kills Ghanaian Doctor’ After Failing Exams

Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

A law student killed a Ghanaian female doctor who treated him like a son after he ’snapped’ from the pressure of failing his exams, a British jury heard Monday. The fully packed Maidstone Crown Court in Kent, south-east of London was also told how the renowned celebrated consultant paediatrician Dr Victoria Anyetei, whose murder in [...]

Lambeth Conference: Queue for the Queen

Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

Tomorrow the massed ranks of Anglicanism will decamp from the brutalist University of Kent campus in Canterbury, site of the Lambeth Conference, to London. There they will march through the streets to demand an end to world poverty and then - a bit of a non sequitur this - will repair to the genteel surroundings of the garden at Buckingham Palace for a tea party with the Queen. Openl...

Bringin it home

Camp4u (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

Adam Groves reports on Kent Williams unauthorised use of an endorsement letter as well as his attack on fellow Republican for their attack him for selling out to Naifeh as well as taking donations from Democrat leadership. Williams says.... "they haven't accomplished very much in their home districts. It's people like this who are killing our Republican Party ... I dare say that if a Democrat introduced...

ACCESS clients immobilized when buses don't show

Seattle Pos (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

Jo Sheely, who lives with her daughter on Kent's East Hill, knows what it's like to have disability rob you of the ability to get around on your own.

Broncos Sign CB Jack Williams; Top 2 Picks Remain Unsigned

Mile High Report (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

The Denver Broncos on Tuesday signed cornerback Jack Williams, whom they selected in the fourth round (119th overall) of the 2008 NFL Draft from Kent State University. As per club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. Williams (5-foot-9, 185 pounds) totaled 20 takeaways (13 interceptions, 7 fumble recoveries) in 44 career games (37 starts) at Kent State. He finished his collegiate career with...

Brown urged to cancel new coal power plants

Greenpeace UK blogs (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

Stop Climate Chaos activists were at Kingsnorth in Kent this morning to urge the Prime Minister to abandon plans for a new generation of coal-fired power plants. They planted flags outside the existing power station as a symbol of opposition to Kingsnorth 2, a new development which, if it gets the go-ahead, will be the first new coal plant to be built in the UK for 30 years. Developer E.ON UK plans...

Ashok Sinha: A coal-fired power station in Kingsnorth will exacerbate climate change

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

Ashok Sinha: A new coal-burning power station in Kent would send our climate-change targets up in smoke

Stop the Kingsnorth coal rush

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

Comment is free: Ashok Sinha: A new coal-burning power station in Kent would send our climate-change targets up in smoke

Coal-fired power stations will lock UK into a high-emissions future, say MPs

An Inconvenient Blog (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

The government will come under increased pressure today to ban new coal-fired power stations such as the one planned for Kingsnorth in Kent unless they are equipped to trap and store carbon pollution underground, as a committee of MPs publishes a critical report. The environmental audit committee urges ministers to make it clear that coal [...]