Hythe Council Tax Up FIFTEEN Percent!
Conservative Hythe Town Council have voted in the last few weeks to increase their proportion of the total Council tax bill for local residents by a whopping 15%.
20 Jan 2008
Folkestone and Hythe News
Cheriton PACT Meeting
The next Cheriton area PACT (Police And Community Together) meeting will be held at St Andrews Church Hall on Thursday 31st January starting at 7.30pm. All local residents are welcome to attend and to raise issues on local policing, security and other issues affecting the area.
17 Jan 2008
Lib Dems: Folkestone Fire Service Consultation Misleading and Cuts Should be Cancelled
New research by the Liberal Democrats has shown up serious flaws in the information provided by Kent Fire and Rescue Service in their consultation on proposed cuts to Folkestone Fire Stations. The Liberal Democrats are saying that the information that has been provided in the consultation is misleading and not true.
16 Jan 2008
Stack in Operation: Folkestone and Hythe cut-off
Operation Stack (the closure of sections of the coast-bound M20) is again bringing chaos across Folkestone and Hythe. Phase 1 of Operation Stack (M20 closure Eastbound from J11 to J12) has been in place since yesterday as cross-channel services were disrupted by high winds. The backlog from that disruption and new delays due to a blockade of Calais by French fishermen has caused the implementation of the second stage of Operation Stack (closure Eastbound J8 Maidstone to J9 Ashford).
16 Jan 2008
Severe Weather Warning for Shepway
The Met Office have issued a severe weather warning for Kent, predicting a 60% chance of heavy and persistent rain to spread across Kent from the west during Tuesday 15th January, with up to 25mm likely in places. That rain will be accompanied by strong southerly winds with gusts to gale or severe gale force over South Eastern England.
14 Jan 2008
Lib Dems Welcomes Lydd Airport Meeting Postponement And Renew Calls for Public Enquiry
The Shepway Council meeting to decide on plans to expand London Ashford Airport, Lydd, has been postponed. The move has been welcomed by Shepway Liberal Democrat Group Leader Lynne Beaumont, who has been calling for the application to be called in to a full public enquiry.
14 Jan 2008
Shepway Conservatives Voted Down Chance to Hold Lydd Airport Meeting in Public
The Liberal Democrats have backed objectors to the expansion of a Kent airport who claim they are being excluded from the final debate on the issue. Scores of people are expected to attend a meeting to decide plans to build a new terminal and extend the runway at London Ashford Airport (LAA) in Lydd.
14 Jan 2008
Folkestone & Hythe M20 Service Station Opens for Business
Westernhanger Motorway Service Station at junction 11 of the M20 opened this week. The "Stop 24" service station is billed as the largest service area in the UK, and has been designed as a waiting area for those awaiting channel crossings via the Channel Tunnel and Dover.
13 Jan 2008
Lib Dem Folkestone deliver ZERO tax rise for SECOND year
More money for services but no rise in Folkestone's Council Tax: that's budget set by Folkestone Town Council for 2008-09. The budget was agreed by the Town Council at its 10 January Full Council meeting held at the University Centre Folkestone.
13 Jan 2008
One Week Left To Oppose Folkestone Fire Cuts
The public has just one week left in which to give its views on proposed changes to Kent Fire and Rescue Service.
11 Jan 2008
A New Nuclear Future for Dungeness?
Forty years after the start of the nuclear programme in England, we are none the wiser as to what to do with nuclear waste, not just for the next few years, but for the next 40,000 years.
LB
11 Jan 2008
RSPB Report Warns Bird Strike Risk a Major Hazard for Lydd
A new report warns that expansion of Lydd Airport in south-east Kent could create a serious bird strike risk to passenger aircraft.
10 Jan 2008