Pride 2025: We Hear You
We are sad the Folkestone Pride organisers have felt they had to exclude political parties from this year’s event. However, we fully understand why this decision has been taken.
MHCFHLD
1 Jun 2025
Kent's Blue Badge of Shame
Kent County Council renewal times for blue badges for the disabled is now in excess of FOUR months. That's longer than the renewal notice period. almost guaranteeing that existing passes will lapse before a new one arrives.
TP
30 May 2025
Reform UK Kent County Council Cancel Culture
Cancelling the meetings needed to make change.
30 May 2025
Caesars Way Folkestone - S73 planning application - FH/25/222 (KCC/FH/0003/2025
What it would do is put up to 40 additional lorry movements every night (up from zero allowed now) past residential dwellings
30 May 2025
Reporting Back
Tim Prater Reporting Back from KCC: May 2025
A monthly update from Tim Prater as County Councillor for Cheriton, Sandgate and Hythe East.
30 May 2025
Fun for All Promised at Lower Leas Park Play Area
A major refurbishment of the district’s flagship play area has been given the green light by cabinet members.
23 May 2025
National News
Choose a brighter future with the Liberal Democrats | Election Broadcast
View the latest Liberal Democrat Party Political Broadcast.
29 Jan 2026
Holocaust Memorial Day Statement
On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered in the Holocaust, and the millions of others killed under Nazi persecution.
ED
27 Jan 2026
Children & Families
A Harms-Based Approach to Social Media
Big tech companies should not be allowed to profit at the expense of children’s wellbeing.
VC
20 Jan 2026
Health, Care & the NHS
Our plan to end the A&E corridor crisis
30,000 people wait for over 12 hours in A&E departments every single week - it's a national scandal and we have a plan to stop it.
ED
13 Jan 2026
Trump’s pharma price hike
What the Government is doing, and why we’re opposing it
HM
2 Jan 2026
A Liberal councillor who made LGBT+ history
Sam Green was the first openly gay politician ever elected in the UK – and possibly the world.
ED
19 Nov 2025
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