Anorak News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
LOCAL newspapers are in trouble. Tonbridge blogger explains why he’s no longing writing for the Kent Courier (part of DMGT’s Northcliffe, and offers Bee Shaffer and any other media students some work: This is how it is for local hacks: Are the senior people at the Courier group so divorced from reality that they can’t notice when they’ve [...]
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
The Hop Farm festival, the Kent bash which had Neil Young, Primal Scream and Supergrass among the acts when it debuted last July, has had expansion plans rejected by the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council.
Folkestone Gerald (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
234 Tonbridge Rd, Maidstone, Kent ME16 8SR Black Star Mon 17 Nov 2008
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Despite my having given up the weekly bind of writing the Central Tonbridge Community column (I know you'll all miss my reports about the Tonbridge Country market cake stall!) it was nice to see the paper reporting on the West Kent Book Fair which was held at Tonbridge School last weekend. (You missed it again? never mind there's another one next April) The report featured a picture of me together...
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Yes it's the West Kent Book Fair and Literary Event this weekend. It's incredible how quick they come around. I've been working on this one on and off, since August, so it will, I confess, be good to get this week out of the way. But that doesn't mean that I won't enjoy the day; and why shouldn't anyone. After all there are around 25 booksellers travelling from far and wide to be there, traditional...
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 18/10/2008
The poems have been judged and the winners, highly recommended and commended entries have been chosen. The are.... to be announced at the West Kent Book Fair and Literary Event on Sunday October 26th, Tonbridge School, Old Big School hall, at around 2-30pm just before the open mic poetry session, which I know you've all been eagerly anticipating....
Morocco Travel Information (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
Two cage fighters masterminded Britain's biggest cash robbery, stealing £53m from a cash depot in Kent before fleeing to Morocco , a court heard on Tuesday. Paul Allen, 30, and Lee Murray, 29, were at the heart of the raid on the Securitas depot in Tonbridge in February 2006, the Old Bailey heard. Allen was extradited back to Britain, while Murray is in jail in Morocco after he sought citizenship in...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Man was extradited from Morocco to face trial for heist at Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Nooooooo! Not KMFM!!!! They can't do it to us. Tonbridge it seems is about to loose it's friendly, purely local , radio station according to BBC Kent news. The Kent Messenger group are in trouble by all accounts and they have to go on a cost cutting drive to make ends meet. Tonbridge will almost certainly get the shitty end or the stick again I'm afraid, which means we'll loose the dulcet tones of...
Status-Q (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Hap snapped this picture of Rose and me in Tonbridge Castle car park last weekend trying to find somewhere to stay for the night (using a combination of an OS map and a wifi connection to my phone). I was successful in finding places, but not ones with any spare rooms at such short notice. [...]
Folkestone Gerald (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
234 Tonbridge Rd, Maidstone, Kent ME16 8SR Rob Peppers Only Part Time Band Mon 29 Sep 2008
Cally's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
An interesting Comment page in the Catholic Herald this week. Amongst the letters, there is this excellent one from Mr. Sean O'Connor or Tonbridge, Kent. SIR- I was astonished to read in Andrew Brown's review of Gerard Noel's book Pius XII: The Hound of Hitler the assertion [that] Pius XII contributed to causing the First World War and also contributed to causing the Second World War. I remember reading...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
The average imported monster truck event is at once both compelling and ridiculous, and this European Championship weekend of outsized pick-ups competing in the Kent countryside should be no different. Think too hard and you will realise you are simply applauding very large tyres, but there is something intrinsically awe-inspiring about seeing overblown, five-tonne toy cars drive over mere mortal...
Folkestone Gerald (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
234 Tonbridge Rd, Maidstone, Kent ME16 8SR Mac's Diner Thu 21 Aug 2008
Thrasher's Wheat (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
