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.
The Liberal Democrats in Shepway are fielding candidates in all County, District, Town and Parish Council elections taking place on June 4th.
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.
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.
Forthcoming Events in Shepway - email newsletter from Amanda Oates of Shepway Council for May 2009.
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.
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.
Park ward Councillor Lynne Beaumont has met with local PSCO's following several reported thefts from cars and reported attempted break-ins in the Downs Road and Dolphins Road area of Folkestone.
If you want a postal vote for the Kent County and European elections you need to act fast: the deadline is 5pm on Tuesday 19th May. If you are not on the electoral register, you can still register to vote in the June 5th elections if you act now!
Joanna Lumley has today met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown on behalf of the Gurkha Justice Campaign to discuss Gurkha rights. Joanna Lumley said Mr Brown had taken the matter "into his own hands" and would come up with a "solution" to the issue of residency rights by the end of May.
Former Lib Dem leader and MP, Royal Marine Commando, member of the Special Boat Service, and most recently, the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown has led a life packed with drama and adventure.
Try Something New Today (OK - Friday 15th May) at Sainsburys Park Farm, Folkestone. As part of the Channel Chamber's Digital Mentoring programme, they are organising a taster day - with a difference. They will be setting up laptops with mobile internet (thanks to Chamber members o2) at Sainsbury in Park Farm, Folkestone from 10am until 4.00pm on Friday 15th May.
