Folkestone and Hythe News

Underage sale of alcohol and tobacco

Kent Trading Standards are calling on the public to help to stop underage alcohol and cigarette sales, and to be extra vigilant as end of exam parties and the school summer holidays begin.

9 Jul 2013
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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.

TP
13 Jun 2013
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