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London-based practice Tonkin Liu has won planning permission for its £2 million scheme to overhaul the seafront at Dover in Kent
Thanet Press Releases (Free subscription) | yesterday
South Thanet MP, Stephen Ladyman, welcomes local funding boost.News that all our local councils have received a funding boost has been welcomed by local MP, Stephen Ladyman. The Local Government Settlement for 2010-11 announced today includes above inflation increases for Kent, Thanet and Dover Councils.Stephen Ladyman, MP for South Thanet, said:"Kent has a 3.2% increase, Thanet 1.1%, Dover 0.5%,...
Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Eye understands that there is some form of competition on the Devil's Lantern tonight. Apparently it has the potential to help the Bluebell Railway convert a coach so that the mobility impaired can enjoy the railway. This from Poser 500... Any chance of a plug on your blog? Later this evening, the ITV Meridian East region (essentially Kent & Sussex) local television news programme at 6pm will include...
lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
GEOGRAPHICALLY speaking, East Kent is in southeast England. In economic terms, it is a chunk of the Britain's northern industrial region that somehow fell into a warp in the space-time continuum and ended up in the wrong part of the country. Not only is it a former coalmining area, but it was once at the forefront of shipbuilding, albeit for the Royal Navy rather than the merchant marine. It has been...
From One End of Kent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
From the other end of Kent, to this End of Kent comes news of the latest Conservative councillor to be found expressing racist views. Read all about it here . The Conservative Party are keen to downplay this incident, suspending Bromley Cllr. Peter Robbins and saying "There is no room for racism in the Conservative Party.” If only this were true. If the Conservative Party wants to be taken...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Operation Stack - where lorries waiting to cross the Channel from the Port of Dover park on the M20 in Kent - is lifted.
Romney Marsh Times (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Traffic chaos is expected in South East Kent this evening - 18th November - after Police implemented phase one of Operation Stack, closing the M20 coastbound between junction 11 (Hythe) and junction 12 (Cheriton) at Folkestone. Operation Stack is implemented when ferries to France are delayed or cancelled and lorries are parked on the coastbound carriageway of the M20 while they wait. The motorway...
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Gordon’s visited Kent last Thursday. It didn’t take long for the effects of this visit to be felt though, by Saturday the storms were raging across Kent: “Dover port was closed just after midday on Saturday due to the high winds but reopened at 1630 GMT. Kevin Richardson from the Port of Dover Authority said there were [...]
. (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Human Events Never done any of these but these events look good 06 March triandrun Spring Ballbuster 11 April Kingston Breakfast Run Date To Be Confirmed Middle Distance Half Iron Aquathlon Date To Be Confirmed The blueseventy GreatBig OpenWater Swim (July) x 2 events though the year http://www.velocity-events.co.uk/ Event Calendar 2010 March 7th Maidstone Duathlon -Harrietsham 9.5k run-42k bike-3.5k...
Edward II (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
A post about Edward II's somewhat mysterious journeys around Kent and Essex in the late summer and autumn of 1321, encompassing piracy and an attack on Southampton in which the king himself may have been implicated. In the Westminster parliament of August 1321, the Marcher lords and their allies, who had recently devastated the lands of Edward II's favourite Hugh Despenser and his father in Wales and...
The Journey of Infinite Possibilities (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Our Life On the Estate in Cobham We have been in our new caretaker/housekeeper positions since 5th September and in the full on grip of autumn. Such a beautiful season with colours so spectacular and landscapes so breathtaking ... unless you're the one who has to rake up the leaves EVERY day! It has been a mild, humid autumn which means the weeds have been growing - a new experience for us here! Philip...
Romney Marsh Times (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Wind and rain have battered SE Kent today - 14th November - as the worst storm of the year moved East across the country. At its peak, wind speeds of nearly 90 miles an hour resulted in cross channel ferry crossings being suspended, delays to train services from Ashford and power cuts to parts of Romney Marsh. Sea France, LD Lines and P & O Ferries all experienced significant delays on their cross...
Time for Change: Campaign for an Independent Green... (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The South Coast NHS has released details of the lung cancer rates in the area.East Kent: Thanet and parts of Dover have a rating of 70 dbl.Areas around Heathrow such as Hounslow and Hillingdon have rating from 66 down to 54. Nearby Richmond near the flightpath has a rating of 45.No specific ratings exist for each of the Thanet towns.As you can see – and not unexpectedly – living near and...
Romney Marsh Times (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
A little boy’s dream came true at the Port of Dover recently when, responding to a request from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Port allowed eight-year-old Theo to transform his love of big ships into reality. Theo is recovering from leukaemia and asked the Make-A-Wish charity, which grants magical wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening illnesses, if they could make his...
Delaware Liberal (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The weather is really bad for our friends in lower Delaware. Stay safe down there! DOVER — Governor Jack Markell has declared a state of emergency for Kent County and Sussex County to better enable response to the current storm, effective at 6 p.m. Earlier today, Gov. Markell authorized the Delaware National Guard to position heavy [...]
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