Charles Kennedy has criticised the police for their support of a Bill to allow the detention of terror suspects for 90 days without charge. Charles said that Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police…
Kent Police may be amalgamated with the Surrey and Sussex forces in a series of proposals put forward by the home secretary Charles Clarke. The restructuring proposals, which could see the number of…
News that the skateboard park at Folkestone Sports Centre may be closed over the winter in response to complaints from local residents about noise has been balanced by the re-opening in the last few…
Plans for a lorry park for up to 1,500 trucks are being unveiled by Dover Harbour Board today. The Board said it would end Operation Stack, where lorries wait on the M20 when port operations are…
Speaking on the Nick Ferrari LBC Breakfast show this morning, the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone gave his backing to Local Income Tax as a replacement for Council Tax. Shepway Liberal Democrats have…
New figures on the take up of Pension Credit show that 1,753 pensioners in Folkestone & Hythe constituency are missing out on money that is rightfully theirs.
Kent Ambulance Service is pleading with people to stop sending out a terrifying hoax email about the dangers of hypodermic needles being planted in cinema seats. The email has reached epidemic…
As ballot papers go out to Conservative party members nationally in the increasingly bitter contest to replace Michael Howard as leader, the Shepway Liberal Democrats "Meeting the Challenge" Policy…
In an edition of Shepway News published in May last year we ran an article which stated that "the last Conservative budget in Shepway led to a £700,000 black hole in Council finances". We did not…
Cross-Channel ferry operator Hoverspeed is to end its service from Dover to Calais, resulting in the loss of "many" jobs, it confirmed on Friday.
