Folkestone and Hythe News

Broken Park Bench and Table

A Special Sort of Idiot

It takes a special kind of malicious idiot to vandalise a bench in a park. It stops other people using it, could see someone get hurt, and of course leads to a repair that will cost them, their neighbours, family and friends and everyone else tax money to repair it.

12 Jul 2019
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Sandgate Street Waste Bin with Dog Waste Sticker

Only Bin and Done it...

I today requested Folkestone and Hythe District Council if they could reprint and replace the faded and mainly damaged "Dog Waste" stickers on bins across the area with new stickers.

9 Jul 2019
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Lib Dem Leadership Ballot

Lib Dem Leadership Ballot

All Party members for whom the Party has an email address should have received yesterday their personalised email to vote in the Leadership Election.

2 Jul 2019
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Doug Wade and Tim Prater

Canada Day 2019: 100 Years of Giving Thanks

Always an honour to attend the Canada Day parade to Shorncliffe Cemetery and watch the children place flowers on the graves. This year, on the 100th anniversary of the start of the event, it felt even more special to lay the wreath on behalf of Sandgate Parish Council.

1 Jul 2019
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Princes Parade

Summating the Motion to Save Princes Parade

In summating the motion to Save Princes Parade and reply to the debate on Wednedsday 26th June, I said something like the below (you need to react to what other people say, so it's a bit fluid!).

27 Jun 2019
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Ann Rimmer

In Memory of Ann Rimmer

We're really sorry to have heard that former Lib Dem Sandgate Parish Councillor Ann Rimmer died yesterday after a short battle with cancer.

27 Jun 2019
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Princes Parade

District Council in Knife-edge vote to Save Princes Parade

In the first ever full council debate on the future of Princes Parade, Folkestone and Hythe District Council passed a motion to Save Princes Parade from development and instead build a new swimming pool and leisure centre at Martello Lakes. The motion was proposed by Lib Dem Councillor Tim Prater and seconded by Green Councillor Lesley Wybrow, ond was won by 15 votes to 14.

27 Jun 2019
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