Across Shepway, thirteen Conservative Town and Parish Councillors, including two Town Mayors and a Parish Deputy Chair, and two People First Town Councillors have today been barred from sitting on their Councils.
Work starts this weekend to refurbish a motorway bridge near junction 8 of the M20 near Maidstone in Kent. The Chrismill bridge, which carries the motorway over the Maidstone East railway line, will be fully resurfaced and rewaterproofed, drainage will be improved and important components will be replaced.
Any interested person may inspect and copy the accounts and related documents of this body between the hours of 10am and 4pm on weekdays between 13 June and 8 July 2011.
Local Lib Dem Gary Fuller has hit out at Conservative controlled Shepway District Council for their failure to respond to his questions about their planned changes to refuse collection in Shepway.
Kent Trading Standards has received reports of businesses advertising the European Health Insurance Card or EHIC (formally known as the E111) for a fee of £9.99 to £19.99. These businesses are not affiliated with the NHS or any other government body.
On Saturday June 18, Folkestone/Shepway Cycle Forum and The Hub Cycle and Coffee Shop are holding a cycle events day to celebrate the start of National 'Bike Week' and the one year anniversary of "The Hub Cycle and Coffee Shop" in Sandgate. All welcome!
Kishor Gurung performs the works of Spanish, South American & the European composers at the Tower Theatre, North Road, Folkestone on June 23rd 2011 from 6.30pm.
Regular water quality tests on Sandgate beach, Kent, carried out by the Environment Agency to check compliance with standards set in the Bathing Water Directive showed that on both 4th and 18th May that the water had 'Two thumbs up' - water quality in the sample met the Directive's most stringent Guideline standards.
Kent County Council's new household waste recycling centre based at Mountfield Road, New Romney opens its doors to local residents on 23 May 2011. The site will replace the weekend freighter facility operating in New Romney and Lydd.
If you have visited a Kent hospital in the last few months, then the Kent LINk (Kent Local Involvement Network) would like to hear about your experiences, good and bad. Please take a few minutes to complete their online questionnaire, which can be accessed from the home page of their website www.thekentlink.co.uk or by going directly to http://www.thekentlink.co.uk/hospital-feedback.html
There is not much point pretending that the election results in Shepway for the Lib Dems - in common with much of the rest of the country - were other than awful.
The Liberal Democrats in Shepway lost all their seats on Shepway District Council in the 5th May local elections, with the Conservatives now holding 45 of 47 seats on Shepway District Council. On Folkestone Town Council, Lee Walker was elected as Liberal Democrat councillor for Harbour Ward. On Sandgate Parish Council, Gary Fuller was elected to Sandgate Valley ward, and Tim Prater was elected to Sandgate Village ward.
