Controversial plans to build an anaeobic digestion plant and materials recycling recycling facility at Otterpool Quarry in Sellindge will be discussed by Shepway District Council's Development Control Committee this week.
For members who would like to go to federal party conference in Bournemouth but have not yet registered, the next price increase is fast approaching! Sign up before 31st July for the advance booker rate of £89. The late booker and on site registration rate will be £117, so make sure you catch this last-chance discount.
With the start of the summer school holidays, Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) is urging parents to warn children of the dangers of fire and the potentially life-threatening consequences of deliberate fire setting.
Neil Matthews recently spent a day at the Folkestone Police headquarters, including a morning briefing with Chief Inspector Ivan Pickering, a tour of the headquarters and visit to the Community Safety Unit where a multi-agency approach is taken dealing with all kinds of community problems, from dog fouling to ASBOs.
EDF Energy has announced it is putting up gas prices by 22% and electricity prices by 17% for domestic customers. The firm has blamed the increase, which comes into effect on 25 July, on record wholesale energy costs.
Folkestone & Hythe's Lib Dem Parliamentary Spokesman Neil Matthews visited the RSPB reserve at Dungeness today with Lib Dem District Council Group Leader Lynne Beaumont.
Folkestone Liberal Democrat campaigner Gary Fuller has discovered that the Principal of Sussex Downs College, one of South Kent College's prospective merger partners, has visited all three of the South Kent campuses in the past couple of weeks.
Folkestone Park Ward Lib Dem Councillor, Bev Rolfe, is campaigning to have the Broadmead Village Pond de-silted. However, both Shepway District Council and the Environment Agency are proving hard nuts to crack!
Lib Dem Councillor Tim Prater has reported graffiti on the green cable box in Firs Lane, Cheriton, to Shepway Council to be removed. Shepway Council have said that they will remove any graffiti in the area - on their property or elsewhere.
Cheriton Councillor Tim Prater is pressing Shepway Council to cut grassy areas of Risborough Lane, Folkestone, where the grass is nearly 1m tall!
Cheriton Councillor Tim Prater has demanded that Shepway Council take urgent action to remove a swastika and other racist graffiti from a wall that directly overlooks a children's playground in Cheriton.
A new web site designed to act as a single resource to find events happening in and near the Cheriton and Morehall areas of Folkestone has been launched by local Councillor Tim Prater. The site - www.cheritonevents.org.uk - offers FREE listings of events open to Cheriton and Morehall residents, including for those under 18.