Free May Half Term holiday play events announced
The Mobile Activity Programme are free family play run by Shepway Council and funded by the Big Lottery and take a range of activities to venues across the district.
13 May 2009
Folkestone and Hythe News
Business and Voluntary Groups Pulling together to Give Folkestone a Lift!
Despite a high profile campaign Shepway District Council Cabinet surrendered the lease on the Folkestone Lift last month. This means that at the end of June they will no longer be running the service. To ensure that the lift does not rot into insignificance a new way forward will need to be found.
12 May 2009
Folkestone Multi-Cultural Festival plans to be launched on Saturday
Programme details of this year's Folkestone Multi-Cultural Festival are to be unveiled during an entertainment event in the Plaza at the Bouverie Place Shopping Centre this Saturday (May 16), 12am - 2pm. Music will be provided by the Whitstable Samba Band which will be one of the performers at the four-day fun-for-everyone festival, June 11-14, the third to be organised by Folkestone Town Centre Management.
11 May 2009
Valebrook Close footpath application submitted
Cheriton Councillor Tim Prater has submitted an "Application for Modification Order" to the Kent County Council Definitive Map and Statement to add the footpath, from the end of Valebrook Close to the Northern end of HR43, in Cheriton, Folkestone.
10 May 2009
Annual Sandgate Parish and Annual Council Meetings
The Annual Parish meeting and Annual Council meetings are being held on Tuesday 12th May. The Annual Council meeting will be at 6:45pm and the Parish meeting at 7:30pm both at the Sandgate Parish Council Offices and Library.
10 May 2009
Kent Trading Standards warn on traders working in Folkestone area
Kent Trading Standards has received several complaints about traders working in the Folkestone area. The traders have been cold calling residents without invitation and offering home improvement services such as roofing and driveways. Where work has been carried out it is often very overpriced and of poor quality.
9 May 2009
A Strong Team for Shepway: Liberal Democrat Candidates for County, District, Town and Parish elections on June 4th
The Liberal Democrats in Shepway are fielding candidates in all County, District, Town and Parish Council elections taking place on June 4th.
8 May 2009
Council Candidate Nominations in Shepway announced for June 4th Elections
The candidates for the June 4th elections to Kent County Council and by-elections to Shepway District Council, Hythe Town Council and Sandgate Parish Council have been released. Following their collapse in vote to under 2% across Shepway in the 2007 District Council elections, Labour have failed to stand a candidate in the Hythe West District Council by-election. Only the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives are standing in all elections across Shepway.
8 May 2009
2011 Folkestone Triennial
Preparations have begun for the 2011 Folkestone Triennial with the announcement that Andrea Schlieker, Curator of the 2008 exhibition and 2009 Turner Prize Judge, has been appointed to direct the second Folkestone Triennial.
8 May 2009
Art Beat E-Newsletter from Shepway Council - May 2009
Forthcoming Events in Shepway - email newsletter from Amanda Oates of Shepway Council for May 2009.
8 May 2009
Gurkha killed in Afghanistan by Suicide Bomb
Shepway Lib Dems have learned that another soldier from the 1st Battalion of the Royal Gurkha Rifles was killed yesterday by a suicide bomb in Afghanistan. The Liberal Democrats wish to express our sincere condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.
8 May 2009
Anger as Government reject 4 out of 5 Gurkha settlement test cases
Gurkha campaigners feel betrayed after the UK Border Agency rejected four out of five test cases for former Gurkha soldiers to settle in the UK. The news comes just one day after Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged to Gurkha Justice campaigner Joanna Lumley to take the matter into his own hands and come up with a "solution" to the issue of residency rights by the end of May.
7 May 2009