June 2014 Events List from Discover Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh
Sunday 1st: The Leas Village Fete
Tim is honoured and delighted to have been elected as:
In May 2023 Tim was re-elected to all the above seats for four more years. At the District Council AGM on 24th May 2023, he became Deputy Council Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance and Governance.
Previously, Tim has served on Folkestone Town Councillor for Cheriton from 2006-2011, and Shepway District Councillor for Cheriton from 2007-2011, Kent County Councillor for Folkestone West from 2009-2013. He has sat on Sandgate Parish Council for Sandgate Village since 2011.
Contact Tim by email to tim@prater.uk, call 07956 276118 or write to 98a Sandgate High Street, Folkestone CT20 3BY. As a District Councillor he runs monthly surgeries at the 1st Sandgate Farmers and Makers Market of every month at the Chichester Hall, 70 Sandgate High Street from 11am-12.30pm. No appointment needed: just turn up.
Sunday 1st: The Leas Village Fete
A new business will be opening in Sandgate next Monday 19th May at 2pm - all are welcome to go along!
There seems to be more trouble for the Step Short Arch project. During construction works on site, BIG problems have been discovered with drains that the project was planning to use, with water from those drains not passing down the drains as expected by instead leaking out of the cliff face below the Leas.
Southeastern are running a competition for keen photographers in the Folkestone area to showcase your work to mark the end of the project to redevelop Folkestone West station.
BBC One are looking for people who live in interested homes in Kent and would be happy to try a home swap holiday for a new TV series.
Over the weekend a Folkestone resident received a scam inheritance letter from Mr Cai Xu.