With over 3,500 applications made so far to local authorities alone for street parties to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, this year looks set to be a bumper year for celebrations. To help party organisers ensure that events run smoothly, whether on public or private land or in your own home, the Association of British Insurers has produced a guide.
Kent Trading Standards is advising consumers of the recall of two batches of Morrison Supermarkets own brand cooked turkey breast due to incorrect date coding. The wrong use by date has been applied and eating the products could be a risk to health.
At a Shepway Council meeting last night, Council leader Robert Bliss announced that Shepway Council had bowed to public pressure and that pay and display parking would not be introduced in high streets in New Romney, Hythe and Sandgate, and Sandgate Road and Tontine Street in Folkestone.
Sandgate Business "The Sewing Space" are running a series of Bunting Days on Saturdays through April and May for local people and businesses to come and make bunting together for the summer!
Kent County Council have published a schedule of all programmed grass cutting / weed management services effective from 1 April 2012. The schedule gives a County wide specification and a district-by-district landscape operations schedule.
Kent Police Authority have extended their consultation on the new Kent Policing Model for on-line responses to 5 April.
Nominations are now open for the Kent Try Angle Awards 2012 to recognise and celebrate exceptional young people across Kent who are trying to DO THEIR BEST.
Kent County Council is due to carry out essential maintenance work on Enbrook Valley, Enbrook Road, Fremantle Road and Romney Avenue (their entire lengths) in preparation for future surfacing. Only one road will be closed at a time.
This Saturday 17th March 2012 at The Chichester Memorial Hall, Sandgate
Veolia Water has announced it is introducing a ban on the domestic use of hosepipes from 5 April in order to conserve water supplies.
Are you handy with a hammer or perfect with a paintbrush?
As a County Councillor, I'm often asked about potential sources of funding for local community projects. As a County Councillor I give local residents the decision in where County Council grants go in Folkestone West & Sandgate through "You Decide" - more details of the 2012/13 You Decide process for Folkestone West & Sandgate will be on this website soon.
