Last Christmas, Folkestone Park Ward Lib Dem Councillors, in conjunction with Broadmead Village Residents Association, hosted a Christmas Party for residents in Broadmead Village.
Almost 1,000 cannabis plants with a potential street value of tens of thousands of pounds have been discovered at an address in Morehall, Folkestone. A warrant was carried out by Kent Police at the house in St George's Road, Morehall on Thursday 3 July when the plants, which were at varying stages of growth, were found.
New Romney Coast Councillor Val Loseby has been working to get a strip of land tidied, and in doing so she discovered that the land had no owner! The strip of land in Littlestone, at the junction of Littlestone Road and Park Road, has now become an overgrown eyesore.
Suddenly the trees were gone: trees in Shorncliffe Road in Folkestone were cut down to half their size with not so much as a by-your-leave!
Lib Dem members from across Kent are invited to a Kent seminar featuring Norman Baker MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Transport in Maidstone. The seminar is on 27th September 2008, Invicta House, Maidstone from 09:30 - 13:00 (Registration from 09:00).
Park Ward Lib Dem Councillors will be holding a "surgery" for residents on the 1st Saturday of every month. They will be in Grace Taylor Hall in Broadmead Village, Folkestone from 10am to 12noon starting on Saturday 2nd August 2008.
Around 20 boxes of clothes will be making their way from Folkestone to Nepal on Saturday thanks to a collection of clothes led by the Nepali community in Cheriton.
Former Gurkha Padam Limbu has won a damages pay-out of £121,750 at the High Court today. Padam was shot shot in the right leg during an overseas training exercise in 2002 and was left with damaged tissue and nerves and still cannot walk long distances.
New charges but less parking: that's the situation at Folkestone West train station after Southeastern announced they are to introduce parking charges at the station. The cost will be £2 per day Monday to Friday (or £1.70 after 2pm).
The Liberal Democrats have won the Barton ward by-election to Canterbury City Council with Michael Steed winning the seat with a 292 majority. The majority has increased from 224 in May 2007 when the seat was last contested.
Morehall Councillor Tom McNeice has been helping a local resident with filling in the forms to make a claim in the Small Claims Court to enable her to reclaim an illegally held deposit on a motor vehicle. The forms are long and fairly complex and can be daunting to some people.
Sir Alan Beith, the longest-serving Liberal Democrat MP, is to launch his autobiography Alan Beith: A View from the North at this autumn's party conference in Bournemouth.
