A man has been shot dead by police during a Flying Squad operation to prevent a suspected armed robbery attempt in New Romney. The policeman involved in the shooting has since been named as one of the two officers who shot Charles De Menezes last year at Stockwell Tube Station.
Kent Police have lost £52,000 of the money they spent preparing for the force mergers which abandoned in July. The mergers were opposed by the Liberal Democrats and the dropping of the merger plans welcomed. It has now been revealed that of the total £152,042 that Kent Police spent on preparing for the merger, only £100,000 will be refunded by the Government.
Liberal Democrat News (LDN) gives you the whole picture, covering news about the party that you will not find in the national media. Thousands of Liberal Democrats are already reading Lib Dem News to keep in touch with news and policy and also to join in party debates and gossip.
The shortlisted Liberal Democrat candidates for the Folkestone and Hythe Parliamentary seat at the next General Election have been announced, with Lib Dem members having the final choice on 17 November.
Lib Dem and anti-ID card campaigner Darren Briddock is one of the first in the country to receive a new "Chipped" passport. The new passport contains limited "biometric" data on a machine readable chip, and have only been issued in the UK for the past few weeks.
The Autumn 2006 edition of the Kent & Medway Networks (KMN) Newsletter for Patient and Public Involvement in Health Forum Members in Kent and Surrey has been released. This publication gives an update on some of the work of the PPI Forums supported by KMN, and is available to download from this web site.
The Lib Dems have launched a bid in Parliament to save freight services through the Channel Tunnel. British freight will no longer be taken through the Channel Tunnel after 30th November, because the Government is to end financial support of the service.
Chris Took has been reselected as Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Ashford Constituency. Chris fought the general election for the Liberal Democrats in 2005 and increased their vote by more than 1,000.
The Lib Dems have launched the annual Winter Lib Dem Draw, with a top prize of a £2,000 holiday and over 50 other prizes. Shepway residents are being asked to take part in the draw which has given away over £50,000 worth of prizes in the last ten years - giving a great chance of bagging a valuable prize!
Shepway MEP Sharon Bowles has written to Eurostar to press them to retain services from Ashford following the announcement that services from the station will be slashed. Eurostar have announced that the Ashford to Brussels service would be cut completely whilst the number of trains from Ashford to Paris will fall to three.
A motion to Folkestone Town Council from Councillor Peter Gane has resulted in Kent County Council making a firm commitment to a date to resolve the long-running lorry parking problem in the Cheriton High Street lay-by opposite Tesco.
Shepway District Council have forced through a plan to sell land in Weymouth Road for a housing development against the wishes of 97.5% of local residents and Folkestone Town Council.
