Following the success of last year's Folkestone Multi-Cultural Festival which attracted thousands of visitors and residents to join in celebrations of the town's many different cultures, a bigger event is planned for 2008 - and the organisers are inviting participation from ethnic and other groups and also from schools which would like to their pupils to be involved.
Householders could end up paying an extra £70 into Whitehall coffers over the next three years unless the government fulfils its promise to give money raised through landfill tax back to councils, local government leaders have warned.
Conservative Hythe West Councillor, Linda Oliver, who is currently at the centre of a storm about failing to resign as a Councillor for Hythe West despite moving to Bath, failed to turn up to the key Shepway Council budget setting meeting at Shepway Civic Centre in Folkestone last night.
At last night's Shepway District Council budget meeting Lib Dem Councillor Peter Carroll slammed the ruling cabinet for a massive hike in spending on 'leadership and strategy'.
Shepway District Councillor and Local Liberal Democrat Party Chair Tim Prater has joined the calls for Conservative Councillors for Hythe West Linda and John Oliver to resign. The call in interviews with BBC South East and local radio station KMFM adds to those of local residents and the local Herald newspaper, who are also calling for her resignation.
Former Hythe Town Councillor and current Kent County Councillor Christopher Capon has been found to have breached the Councillors Code of Conduct THREE times by the Standards Committee at Shepway District Council. The Conservative Hythe Councillor was censured by the committee, which was the only punishment open to them.
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