Folkestone's Multicultural Festival returns for its third year starting tomorrow - and its bigger and better than ever! The festival is run by Folkestone Town Centre Management and is based in the Town Centre, Bouverie Place, Sandgate Road, Guildhall Street, Rendezvous Street and Leas Cliff Hall with international performances exotic food samples and sounds.
Folkestone Charivari organisers Strange Cargo have announced that Charivari 2009 will take place this year on Saturday 11th July. The theme for this year is 'Money' and artist teams will be working alongside students from the district's Secondary schools to create carnival builds to reflect aspects of the theme. A Teachers Masterclass will take place on Wednesday 3rd June, when teachers will be taught how to make the walker costumes with their class when they get back to school.
The Labour Party have come 5th in the European Elections in Shepway and were just 15 votes of being pushed into an even more humiliating 6th place behind the BNP.
Wow - that was close, but we won! At around 6.30 on Friday, I was declared the new County Councillor for Folkestone West having beaten the sitting Conservative County Councillor (and leader of Shepway District Council!) by just 11 votes.
Liberal Democrat Ann Rimmer was elected as the newest Councillor on Sandgate Parish Council in the by-election for Sandgate Valley ward caused by the resignation of a Conservative Councillor.
The Liberal Democrats have taken both the Hythe West District and two Hythe West Town Council seats in by-elections gains from the Conservatives. Victorious new Councillors Neil Matthews, Darren Briddock and Sam Matthews took the seats vacated following the long awaiting departure of Conservative Councillors Linda and John Oliver, who moved to Somerset in late 2007.
The Liberal Democrats have taken the Folkestone West County Division from the Conservatives. Lib Dem candidate Tim Prater beat sitting councillor and the leader of Shepway District Council Robert Bliss by 11 votes after a nail-biting count and recount.
The Conservatives retained the Romney Marsh district seat on Shepway Council in the by-election held on 4th June. The result in full was:
The results are out for the elections to Kent County Council. The Conservatives sensationally lost Folkestone West (previously held by District Council leader Robert Bliss) to the Lib Dems in Shepway, but held the other five seats. Across Kent, the Lib Dem group is up one to seven, and are now the official opposition to the Conservatives after disastrous results for Labour saw them lose 18 of their 20 seats.
The international stage has been shaken by a series of reckless and illegal actions from Donald Trump’s White House. Liberal Democrat members have passed a new motion to bolster our national defence and strengthen our alliances with reliable partners.
For too long, tech giants have treated children as data to be mined, using addictive algorithms and harmful content to keep them scrolling. While some are calling for blanket bans, we know these are impractical and risk isolating vulnerable groups.
If the answer to “Is our nuclear deterrent working?” depends on what Donald Trump had for breakfast, then the answer is no, it’s not. And our deterrent is not truly independent.
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