Tracey Crouch (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Am off from work (Aviva) this week so am spending the week meeting people and organisations that I don't get to see when campaigning is limited to the weekend. Today I met with a gentleman who is lobbying for a Hindu temple/community centre and I have to say he made a very compelling case! After a good lunch in Chimi Changas, I headed off to the Medway Maritime for a meeting with the Chief Executive...
From Under the Stone (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
For lots of events this week and the most up-to-date information on happenings, check out the All Day Breakfast, Blueskypie, Stepuptothemic and What's On Folkestone sites - links on the right of the page. Highlights include: Saturday 28, Folkestone Town Centre, 10:30AM is the Christmas parade. Saturday 28 at The Lanterns, Lonestar comedy Club. Music will be provided by the excellent Diane Dunn. Compere...
Romney Marsh Times (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
A local man has been charged with murder after a woman was stabbed to death in Greatstone, near New Romney, Kent on Friday morning (20th November). Paul Fender, also from Greatstone, has been remanded in custody and is to appear at Folkestone Magistrates' Court tomorrow. The woman was identified as Karren Martin by Police yesterday. She was treated by paramedics at the scene in Hardy Road but later...
Romney Marsh Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Blog post by Donald Worsley, Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Folkestone and Hythe. Ed Miliband’s decision to rule out a new Nuclear Power Plant for Dungeness is to be deeply regretted and one with which I fundamentally disagree. A new Plant at Dungeness would have secured more than 4000 jobs for Lydd and surrounding villages. Now their future as viable communities must be very...
From Under the Stone (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
It is always a pleasure to receive letters, notes and emails from 'the big guys,' especially those of a more polemical nature. In this vein, From Under the Stone was delighted to receive a letter from Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (and Herald letters page regular) Donald Worsley. Kent County Council (almost totally blue) favour building a lorry park capable of holding thousands of vehicles...
My Kent (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Shepway an area of Kent few people have heard of, a district named after an ancient meeting place that was better known several hundred years earlier than it is today. The name was chosen in the 1970s when the former borough councils amalgamated into a district. The reason for the choice of name has been lost in history; it does not reflect the beauty or historic past of the district. A better name...
From Under the Stone (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Largely ignored by most of the media, Folkestone and Hythe's Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Donald Worsley has given his reaction to the government announcement that the Dungeness site will not be considered for a new power station. In a press release sent to From Under the Stone today but dated November 9, Mr Worsley calls the decision a 'hammer blow' for the Marsh and states 'Ed Miliband’s...
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...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Folkestone MP Michael Howard tells Kent County Council that a lorry park to take cross-Channel freight traffic will be built "over his dead body".
. (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...
UK Money (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
A study by the Office of Fair Trading (The OFT) has found that estate regularly misdescribe the homes they are selling. The report shows that 24% of estate agents are not complying with consumer protection laws. Despite this, it seems that consumers still prefer to deal with a high street estate agent rather than rely entirely on the Internet. The Internet is perhaps no more impartial than the high...
Free Range Family (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
One of the HE mum's arranged a trip to a lecture by Christopher Lloyd; part of the Folkestone Book Festival His lecture was on his book, "What on Earth Evolved?", which covers from the big bang to modern day. His lecture basically boiled down those billions of years into a 24 hour time line - it was brilliant. The lecture was aimed at Key stage 2, (whatever age group that is), so Rye was...
From Under the Stone (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
£15,000 of grant funding was allocated by members of the public at the Tower Theatre, North Road, Folkestone, on Saturday. Tim Prater, Liberal Democrat Kent County Councillor for Folkestone West, held the ‘You Decide’ event. Each applicant had 3 minutes to put forward their case before a public vote decided where the grants were allocated. Emailing From Under the Stone, Cllr Prater...
Romney Marsh Times (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Round up for planning applications submitted for Sandgate and Folkestone for week ending 8th November 2009. This does not include Hawkinge, Hythe and Lyminge. Sandgate Address Holy Trinity Church Sandgate Road Work Crown reduction of 30% to two eucalyptus trees situated within a conservation area. Application Y09/0997/SH Folkestone Address Doves Ltd, 94 Foord Road Work Installation of shopfront and...
Free Range Family (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
27th October 2009. Excellent day. I nearly didn't go because once again I was feeling rotten and running a temperature of nearly 39 degrees. But as I'd suggested this as an event for the HE group I kinda felt like I had to go. Rather fortitiously too, I'd forgotten about the clocks going back on Sunday, so there I was thinking I'd be late, only in the end to be about half hour early! Kent Wildlife...
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