Folkestone and Hythe News

Going on Holiday Soon? Do you know your rights?

For the first time, millions of holiday-makers travelling in the European Union this summer will be protected by comprehensive passenger rights - whether travelling by air or rail, and now also by ship, bus and coach.

5 Jul 2013
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Kent's "Safe and sensible street lighting" plan. Cough.

If you have a difficult policy, give it a name you can't disagree with. That seems to be the Kent County Council approach to streetlighting. Faced by trying to make savings (and reduce the number of lights they have to maintain) they have come up with a two stage policy of first turning off a lot of streetlights, and then secondly switching many more to part-time working so they would be turned off at midnight (or thereabouts) until pretty much dawn.

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13 Jun 2013
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NO2ID Back Clegg on the Snoopers Charter

NO2ID have welcomed the news that Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has vetoed the snooper's charter resulting in it being dropped from the Queen's speech. The coalition government promised to "end the storage of internet and email records without good reason" and the Communications Data Bill was opposed from many members of parliament from all political parties.

9 Jun 2013
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