The next Cheriton area PACT (Police And Community Together) meeting will be held at St Andrews Church Hall on Thursday 31st January starting at 7.30pm. All local residents are welcome to attend and to raise issues on local policing, security and other issues affecting the area.
New research by the Liberal Democrats has shown up serious flaws in the information provided by Kent Fire and Rescue Service in their consultation on proposed cuts to Folkestone Fire Stations. The Liberal Democrats are saying that the information that has been provided in the consultation is misleading and not true.
Operation Stack (the closure of sections of the coast-bound M20) is again bringing chaos across Folkestone and Hythe. Phase 1 of Operation Stack (M20 closure Eastbound from J11 to J12) has been in place since yesterday as cross-channel services were disrupted by high winds. The backlog from that disruption and new delays due to a blockade of Calais by French fishermen has caused the implementation of the second stage of Operation Stack (closure Eastbound J8 Maidstone to J9 Ashford).
The Met Office have issued a severe weather warning for Kent, predicting a 60% chance of heavy and persistent rain to spread across Kent from the west during Tuesday 15th January, with up to 25mm likely in places. That rain will be accompanied by strong southerly winds with gusts to gale or severe gale force over South Eastern England.
The Shepway Council meeting to decide on plans to expand London Ashford Airport, Lydd, has been postponed. The move has been welcomed by Shepway Liberal Democrat Group Leader Lynne Beaumont, who has been calling for the application to be called in to a full public enquiry.
The Liberal Democrats have backed objectors to the expansion of a Kent airport who claim they are being excluded from the final debate on the issue. Scores of people are expected to attend a meeting to decide plans to build a new terminal and extend the runway at London Ashford Airport (LAA) in Lydd.
Westernhanger Motorway Service Station at junction 11 of the M20 opened this week. The "Stop 24" service station is billed as the largest service area in the UK, and has been designed as a waiting area for those awaiting channel crossings via the Channel Tunnel and Dover.
More money for services but no rise in Folkestone's Council Tax: that's budget set by Folkestone Town Council for 2008-09. The budget was agreed by the Town Council at its 10 January Full Council meeting held at the University Centre Folkestone.
The public has just one week left in which to give its views on proposed changes to Kent Fire and Rescue Service.
Forty years after the start of the nuclear programme in England, we are none the wiser as to what to do with nuclear waste, not just for the next few years, but for the next 40,000 years.
A new report warns that expansion of Lydd Airport in south-east Kent could create a serious bird strike risk to passenger aircraft.
Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg MP has used his first Commons appearance as leader to urge Gordon Brown to do more to help hard up families who face higher fuel bills. Speaking at Prime Minister's Question Time, he called on the Prime Minister to press gas and electricity companies to "end the scandal of the poorest families paying the most for their energy needs".
