Further to discussions today (11 January) between Dover District Council and Shepway District Council Cabinet Members, it is the intention of both Cabinets to progress the move to a shared corporate management team, starting with the appointment of a joint Head of Paid Service between both authorities.
Kent County Council gives notice that A259 Sandgate Road, Folkestone will be closed to east bound through traffic, on or after 12 January 2011 for up to 2 days. The road closure is necessary for emergency gas repairs.
Have you recently received an e-mail warning you to "Check your receipts"?
Kent Highway Services have notified that it is necessary to close Clifton Gardens, Folkestone on Thursday 6 January 2011 for up to a day. The planned work times are between 7.00 am and 5.00 pm.
On Tuesday, 15th February, a very special concert comprising of Gospel, Community and School choirs will be held at Folkestone's Leas Cliff Hall. The concert starts at 7pm, and is in aid of the Mayor's charities B-4-8s and Folketone Rainbow Centre.
Families have just two more weeks to submit their child's primary school application.
Trading Standards are concerned that some locally advertised 'home working schemes' are fronts for scams or illegal money lending (also known as 'loan sharking').
Shepway Civic Centre and their housing offices in Shorncliffe Road will close at 4pm on Friday 24 December and re-open at 8.30am on Tuesday 4 January.
In the Lords at 9.49 pm on Monday 21st December, Royal Assent was notified to the Identity Documents Act. All existing ID cards...
I was over in the House of Commons yesterday and bumped into three Labour MPs I have known for many years. Two of them were former Ministers -although not in the Cabinet - and all 3 have been around a long time. They had a laugh with me about the DCLG Select Committee which had taken place that day. I had, apparently, "been mauled by a kitten": their words not mine. Shapps - the thin half of the hilarious Laurel and Hardy duo at DCLG - is continuing with his anal obsession about other people's income by enquiring about the costs of the "Kemp operation!".
BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson has written about the bugging and reporting of comments by Vince Cable by two Telegraph undercover reporters. Nick dismisses the revelations that some Lib Dems are not happy with all government policy, saying "the idea that Lib Dems are worried about child benefit and housing cuts would not come as a surprise to anyone who follows politics". Quite.
Kent County Council have reported that they have refilled salt bins across Shepway following the recent snow and ice.
