As the schools break up for their summer holidays I’d like to give you a date for your diaries, for when they come back in September. On Tuesday 26th September I’ll be holding my fifth annual jobs fair at the Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone. As in previous years this is open to students in […]
Housing developments like the Prince of Wales’s new village of Nansledan, near to Newquay in Cornwall, could be a model for local schemes, like the Otterpool Park garden town proposal, that has been brought forward by Shepway District Council. Nansledan follows the success of Prince Charles’s Poundbury development near Dorchester, which has used traditional building […]
On Friday last week, I attended the Kent Show at the county showground in Detling. The excellent weather brought out large grounds, which was good news for the exhibitors and the Kent Agricultural Society. The real highlight of the show is provided by the livestock, who have been carefully prepared to be at their best […]
Poor mental health can be a cancer of the mind for its victims, too often with devastating effects for sufferers and their families. We have many great local organisations, like Folkestone and District Mind, that provide valuable support for people, and particularly for those living alone, whose relative social isolation can make their problems worse. […]
Last Friday I attended the annual Canada Day service at Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, an important event for our community which has taken place every year since 1919. The cemetery contains the graves of 471 servicemen from the First World War, over 300 of whom are Canadian. For the last 98 years, primary school children from […]