Nobby Clarke at Folkestone Cricket Club is organising a summer club starting on 26th July. The club will run from 10-4pm and is for children aged 11 upwards, with activities including canoeing, archery and various sports for £5 per day.
This weekend there is a huge variety of entertainment in Folkestone - from carnival parades to concert bands and firework displays - and almost all of it is FREE!
Folkestone Town Council has agreed to act on the shameful state of street litter bins across Folkestone Town Centre. At their full Council meeting last night, a programme costing up to £3,000 to repaint key bins in the centre of town to improve the look of the Town Centre was agreed.
You may have read in the local press, about Mr Anthony Cowie, and the battle he is having with Shepway District Council (SDC).
We continue to hold the Conservative cabinet to account in many areas. Last month was a motion about Mr Anthony Cowie, and many, many questions to the Cabinet, asking for explanations for their decisions.
Liberal Democrat campaigner Ian Chittenden has won the Kent County Council by-election for the Maidstone North East County Council seat which became vacant following the sad death of Margaret Featherstone.
Folkestone Town Council agreed to support proposals to support Discover Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh with £5,000 of financial assistance and look into developing a new Tourism Information Point in the centre of Folkestone.
The remarkable spectacle of Charivari returns to Folkestone this Saturday (14 July). The carnival procession starts in Castle Hill Avenue at 2.30pm, and processes around town to arrive on The Leas between 3 and 3.30pm.
Shepway Liberal Democrat Councillor Lynne Beaumont will be appearing this afternoon on the "Richard and Judy" show on Channel 4. The show, hosted by Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan is broadcast live from 5pm every weekday.
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