Archaeonews (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The best view of a newly discovered archaeological site in Kent is from the trains thundering past a few feet away. Passengers heading towards the Ramsgate ferry ports glance incuriously out at what was a jungle of brambles and nettles a few weeks ago, not realising that they are seeing almost 2,000 years of history rewritten.[...] Source
BBC News (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
A 55-year-old man is arrested following a Kent Police drugs raid on a property in Ramsgate.
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
This just in: There will be a Sung Tridentine / Extraordinary Form / 1962 Missal Mass at St Ethelbert’s in Ramsgate, Kent, this coming Saturday, September 13 at 2.00pm. Everybody is welcome to attend. Whilst we have had low Mass every week for the last couple of years this will, I think, be the first Missa [...]
Eastcliff Matters (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
GO-AHEAD FOR CHILDREN'S CENTRE Gazette 08:00 - 15 August 2008 A New children's centre is to open at Priory Infant School in Cannon Road, Ramsgate. The centre, costing about £250,000, has been given the go-ahead by Kent County Council.It is part of the Government's Sure Start scheme which aims to have centres in every UK community by 2010. The children's centre will offer a range of health, adult education...
BIGNEWS MARGATE (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
Reminded by Eastcliffe's article in the yourthanet (newspaper) "What goes around comes around.." in which Thanet's media tycoon, vents on the future of aviation at Kent International I think I may have stumbled upon the an acceptable means of air transport even for rich Luddites such as he. I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of the above airship is, except distracting drivers around Blackheath...
auntie joanna writes (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
...is an island. It's part of Kent, but not part of Kent. Water all round it. Lots of crucial history. We were there to speak at a Deanery meeting at St Ethelbert's in Ramsgate. Ethelbert was the King to whom St Augustine was sent with his mission from Rome. It was lovely being on the Kent coast - it's still real English seaside. At Walmer the beach had fishing boats and tarry ropes and lobster pots...
Just Gambling (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008
Another story from the BBC: Four men and three youths from London are being questioned by police after a robbery at a bookmaker’s in Kent. The men were arrested after a chase by police and dog handlers starting in Collards Close, Ramsgate, following a robbery at Coral’s in Newington Road. Nearly £500 was taken from the till [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 26/02/2008
A man whose body was found at a house in east Kent has been named by police as a 26-year-old from Ramsgate.
The Big Blog (Free subscription) | 26/02/2008
I don't want to be one of those people who will harp on about something but will idly stand-by and not do anything so on Saturday I made my way down to the East Kent Maritime Museum in Ramsgate to show my support and have a look around as I hadn't been there for probably [...]
Just Gambling (Free subscription) | 22/02/2008
Another story from the BBC: Traditional seaside amusement arcades could go out of business after changes in the gambling laws, a Kent MP has told the House of Commons. Stephen Ladyman said businesses in his constituency, which includes Ramsgate, Broadstairs and Sandwich, were badly affected by the new Gambling Act. Family arcades had seen a 15% loss in [...]
networked_performance (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
Message in a Bottle: From Ramsgate to The Chatham Islands by Layla Curtis - On May 25, 2004, fifty bottles containing messages were released into the sea off the south-east coast of England near Ramsgate Maritime Museum, Kent. The intended destination of the bottles is The Chatham Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. The islands, [...]
pasta and vinegar (Free subscription) | 28/12/2007
“Message in a Bottle” is an intriguing locative media art project by Layla Curtis: “Fifty bottles containing messages were released into the sea off the south-east coast of England near Ramsgate Maritime Museum, Kent. The intended destination of the bottles is The Chatham Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. The islands, which are 800km east of [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/11/2007
Alison Allington, 41, from Ramsgate in Kent, gives £20 a month to charity through her company's payroll giving scheme.
Daniel Hannan (Free subscription) | 23/09/2007
I’m sure it was the wrong thing to do. On the other hand, I’m not sure what the right thing would have been. Beware of flying objects when reading a newspaper Last night, I took the last train from Ramsgate to London. I had spent the day in Kent at a series of rallies encouraging people to sign the Telegraph petition for a referendum on the Euro-constitution – which I hope to tell you about another...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/08/2007
Film News: Victorian seaside town draws Hoskins, Blethyn -- Ramsgate, a Victorian seaside town in the county of Kent on England's east coast, isn't exactly in the movie mainstream. But that's what producer Elaine Wickham and writer-director Jan Dunn like about it.
