The Sandgate Society are holding an exhibition entitled "Sandgate - A Walk Down Memory Lane" on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st March from noon onwards in the Reading Room above the Old Fire Station on Sandgate High Street.
This is the update for the month of February, for Sandgate, Cheriton, and surrounding areas.
On Thursday, Kudos Television (as part of their new drama "The Tunnel") are staging a bomb disposal sequence in folkestone involving emergency vehicles including police cars and a bomb squad running flashing lights as well as actors in uniforms.
Kent Highways will start ootway reconstruction works in Coolinge Lane on 11th February. These works involve the replacement of the existing footway surface with a newly constructed asphalt layer, together with localised kerb replacement works and new pedestrian guard railing.
Kent County Council will be carrying out patching repairs to the carriageway of Coolinge Lane, Folkestone between its junctions with Shorncliffe Road and Audley Road starting on 18 February 2013 and taking approximately 5 days to complete.
On Sunday 30th December PCSO Mark Ball attended One Stop in Cheriton Road in relation to a report of Shoplifting. From viewing the stores CCTV Officer Ball identified the male who was subsequently arrested.
Question from Lib Dem Councillor Lynne Beaumont to Shepway Full Council on 14th February.
The Ofsted report on its January inspection of Pent Valley Technology College in Surrenden Road, Folkestone has given the school an assessment of "Good". they say:
I don't often feel the need to say this, but actively quite proud of Folkestone and Hythe MP Damian Collins today for having supported Equal Marriage in Parliament last night.
During January there has been only 1 reported incident of crime in the ward. A pedal cycle was stolen from outside Churchill House. I would remind anyone with a bike to use a good quality lock and secure the bike properly when not being used.
A number of Sandgate residents will have noticed over the Christmas period that the streetlight decorations were having more than their fair share of "issues". After the first day of lighting, there was rarely a day they were all on, and on a number of days, very few were lit at all.
Kent County Council are consulting on a proposal to transfer the management and running of Sandgate Library to Sandgate parish Council from this summer.