Shepway Community Chest Grants 2016
The Shepway Community Chest scheme is now open and the deadline for completed applications is 5pm on Monday 1 August 2016.
The Shepway Community Chest scheme is now open and the deadline for completed applications is 5pm on Monday 1 August 2016.
The news is... there is no news.
Despite residents, campaigners and councillors from Folkestone and Sandgate insisting that for the new Shorncliffe development to go ahead required a widened road bridge at Horn Street, Shepway Development Control decided... against making that a condition on the developer.
There has been an increase in ther number of large lorries parking (and often "overnighting") on Sandgate Esplanade.
Liberal Democrats have always believed that Britain should be outward facing, collaborating with other countries to tackle global challenges. Our membership of the European Union allows us to do that.
I am devastated and I am angry. Today we wake to a deeply divided country. Nigel Farage's vision for Britain has won this vote, but it is not a vision I share.
As Counting Officer for the SHEPWAY voting area at the referendum held on 23 June 2016 under the European Union Referendum Act 2015, and having been authorised to do so by the Regional Counting Officer, I hereby give notice that I have certified the following:
In my opinion, a decision to leave the European Union would be a major tragedy.
Dear Reader
Yeah, right. I was always voting Remain.
This morning with my kids all I could think about was the family who've woken up with their lives changed forever.
A year ago, I posted about the inability of Shepway District Council to accept an online debit / credit card payment for the renewal of a parking permit.