Category: Weekly Blog

Continuing to Allow Local Businesses To Thrive

Last Friday I attended a breakfast for local businesses, organised by Barclays Bank at the Three Hills Sports Centre in Folkestone. We had an excellent cross section of local firms present, involved in diverse sectors including insurance and financial services, the creative industries, hotels and catering, and providers of adult social care.   One of […]

Giving British Children the Education They Deserve

The government has launched a new consultation on the future provision of grammar schools in this country. The purpose is to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential through education, regardless of their wealth or personal circumstances.   We already benefit from grammar schools in Kent, and we can see that […]

Reopening of the Dover to Folkestone Railway

This week has seen the re-opening of the Dover to Folkestone railway line, after its closure following storm damage at the end of last year. The closure of the line has been a major inconvenience for all rail passengers in East Kent over the last nine months, and I would like thank them for their […]

Britain's Borders

Xavier Bertrand, the President of the Haut-de-France region, which includes the towns of Calais, Lille and Amiens, has called for major reforms to the management of the border between our two countries. Under his proposals, new ‘hotspots’ would be created where refugees currently living in and around the camp in Calais, known as ‘The Jungle’, […]

Congratulations!

Congratulations to everyone who received their A level and BTEC results last week. We have seen some excellent results from all of the schools in the District, which reflects the hard work of the students and their teachers, as well as the support they will have received from their friends and family. The Folkestone School […]

Operation Stack Consultation

Last Friday Highways England published their consultation on the design and management of the Operation Stack relief lorry park. The consultation will be open until 23rd September, and you can find out more about it by visiting the Highways England website. They have also organised a series of public information events about the proposals, starting […]

Final Consultation On Lorry Park

On Friday this week the Department for Transport will publish the details of the final consultation on the delivery of the Operation Stack relief lorry park, at the Stanford West site. The decision over the preferred location for the lorry park has been made by the government and this final consultation concerns the details of […]

An exciting time for sports fans

This Saturday will witness the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The event brings together billions of sports fans watching around the world, who will follow the 10,000 athletes competing in over 300 events across 28 different sports. There is truly nothing else like the Olympics. Folkestone will be […]

Last Weekend's Delays Were Unacceptable

Massive disruption returned to our roads last weekend, as a result of long check-in delays at the Port of Dover. The lengthy queues were caused by detailed passenger and passport checks being carried out by the French border force at the ferry port. This was in response to the heightened level of security threat in […]

An opportunity to re-write the rules

Last week I met with John Gale and Terry Noakes at the Folkestone Trawlers Association, to discuss the outcome of the referendum on Britain leaving the European Union, and its impact on our local fishing industry. This is now an opportunity to re-write the rules as the UK prepares to withdraw from the Commons Fisheries […]

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