Section: Kent

Today’s GPs are overloaded; there are too few of them, and they don’t have sufficient time to consult with their patients face-to-face.

The proposed Channel pushback policy for refuges will sink the UKs reputation as a humane society and bring us into dangerous legal territory

The democratic deficit and the growing disconnect between residents and the Council is evident  in FHDC’s latest Place Plan for Folkestone Town Centre – adding to 20+ other strategic plans from recent years. 

Willesborough Windmill is a landmark South East of Ashford, run by a small but enthusiastic group of volunteers

Let’s save Princes Parade from all concretisation,
And preserve our Green Spaces for the future generation.

Hythe Protest: Denouncing the loosening of planning regulations which will make the development of a historic part of Hythe even easier.

It’s not on the map. Kent does not seem to feature in tourism sites aiming to appeal to the differently-abled

All over the plot, various plants are flourishing side by side, rather than in segregated beds. This is known as companion planting.
Some of this is unintended. Waving his arm over a patch of rudbeckia and marigolds, Ed explained that he had intended to rotate that patch from flowers to vegetables this year, but the flowers were determined to flourish again in the same place!

Although e-scooters are only legal if used on private land unless part of a government trial, thousands have been bought with a cost of as little as £300. They have become a common sight throughout the country and a hazard. To date, at least four people have died and many others have been injured, some of them with life changing injuries.

Now schoolchildren in the summer holidays can lose themselves in a maze cut into a corn field. Then it’s pumpkins galore at local Kent farmer