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David Wimble Helicopter Gift: The Alcaline Flights, KCC Register and Looker Adverts

May 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

Cllr David Wimble’s KCC declaration says his September Alcaline Aviation helicopter lift was a gift. His Facebook trail points to three 2025 flights. Now The Looker, the [...]

FHDC Procurement Card Receipts: Why Restaurant Bills Still Need Explaining

May 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

FHDC’s officer subsistence figures allow £6.88 for breakfast, £9.50 for lunch, £3.76 for tea and £11.76 for supper — £31.90 for the whole day. Yet five [...]

Romney Marsh Flood Risk: Cllr Tony Hills Warns Sea Defences Must Be Strengthened

May 13, 2026 // 1 Comment

Cllr Tony Hills speaks to The Shepway Vox Team about sea defences, flooding, warming waters, sewage, planning and why Romney Marsh must not be treated as somewhere that can [...]

Farage Helicopter Row: How Reform’s David Wimble Put His Boss in the Spotlight

May 12, 2026 // 2 Comments

Nigel Farage now faces questions over undeclared helicopter travel linked to a Reform UK donor. The delicious Kent twist? The trail was opened up by Reform’s own Cllr David [...]

KCC Prayer Row: Reform Councillors Defy Legal Warning

May 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

No pothole has ever been filled by filming councillors saying the Lord’s Prayer. No care package has ever been arranged by singing the national anthem into a webcast. There [...]

KCC Adult Social Care: £62m Rise And Three Directors In One Year

May 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council says adult social care is improving. The payments data says it’s getting dearer. The audit report says the savings governance was weak. And since Reform [...]

KCC Spending: The £75m Rise, The £158m Mystery, And The Adult Social Care Reality

May 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s published payments over £250 rose by £75m in a year. Adult social care climbed by £62m. Children’s services appeared to fall by £97m. And more [...]

KCC Asset Sales: £84m Raised, But Full Property Ledger Remains Hidden

May 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council says it has raised more than £84m from surplus property disposals over five years. The trouble is not the headline number. The trouble is what the public [...]

Folkestone & Hythe DC’s Leas Cliff Hall Contract: The £13.2m ATG Payment Trail Behind a £10m Deal

May 11, 2026 // 2 Comments

The council’s own papers show a 20-year RPI-linked deal, no profit-share, falling ticket sales, patchy monitoring — and a public contract register that still tells [...]

Folkestone Silver Spring Site: Channex and the BVI Trail Behind Aldi, Burger King and Costa

May 10, 2026 // 1 Comment

Aldi, Burger King and Costa are heading for the old Silver Spring site. But behind the shiny signs and paper cups sits a corporate trail running from Folkestone to Purley, [...]

Otterpool Park Update: £24m Paid Out, Sewage Works Approved, Delivery Questions Remain

May 8, 2026 // 1 Comment

Before a single Otterpool Park home has been built, Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s own payment data shows nearly £24m in Otterpool equity, share-capital and [...]

FHDC Council Chairs and Allowances: Who Got Which Seat

May 7, 2026 // 0 Comments

The music stopped at Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s annual general meeting on Wednesday 6 May 2026. Cllr Paul Thomas got the big civic chair, most committee [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Temporary Accommodation Bill Hits £1.52m

May 7, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s published payments for temporary accommodation reached £1,520,865.70 in 2025/26 under just two descriptions: Bed & Breakfast [...]

FHDC Temporary Accommodation Contracts Show £570k Spending Gap

May 7, 2026 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s temporary accommodation trail shows two contract periods where the published payments appear to exceed the published values by a [...]

Stodmarsh Nutrient Credits: Will Kent’s New Pollution Offset Market Unlock Homes or Just Sell Clean-River Promises?

May 6, 2026 // 1 Comment

For years, Stodmarsh has been the wetland that stopped the bulldozers. Now councils and private firms say nutrient credits can unlock thousands of homes. That may be [...]

Section 21 Eviction: When Missing Landlord Paperwork Can Stop Possession

May 6, 2026 // 0 Comments

A Folkestone tenant facing a steep rent rise and a no-fault eviction notice may have more protection than the landlord appears to think There’s an old truth in housing law: [...]

New Folkestone Society Chair Matthew Jones on Heritage, Regeneration and Folkestone’s Future

May 5, 2026 // 3 Comments

A conversation with Matthew Jones, Chair of the New Folkestone Society, with Tony Quarrington also joining the discussion, on Folkestone’s past, present and future — from [...]

Reform UK Runs Kent. KCC’s Oracle Cloud Bill Has Risen 134%

May 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s new finance system may be necessary. But with the bill now heading past £30m, the question is brutally simple: how is this saving the people of Kent [...]

Kent Trading Standards: Fighting Organised Crime on Our High Streets

May 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

A BBC investigation has exposed the ugly new reality facing Trading Standards officers: threats, intimidation, weapons, criminal shopfronts, illegal tobacco, illicit vapes [...]

Folkestone’s Got Its Hat On

May 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

There are days when Folkestone can look like it’s had a hard paper round. We know the issues. We write about them often enough. Empty shops. Rough sleeping. Public money [...]

Kent Fire Response Times Raise Safety Questions

May 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent Fire and Rescue isn’t simply getting busier. The more serious story is that it’s getting slower at reaching life-threatening incidents, while false alarms, road [...]

Palantir in Kent NHS: Trusts, Patient Data and the FDP Rollout

April 30, 2026 // 0 Comments

“The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion.” Nigel Lawson meant it as politics, but it works as a warning too. The NHS is not just another public body. [...]

Reform-Led Kent Council Acted Unlawfully Over Young Asylum-Seeking Care Leaver

April 29, 2026 // 3 Comments

A vulnerable young asylum seeker turned 18. Kent stopped treating him as a child in care and started treating him like somebody else’s problem. The High Court has now said [...]

Folkestone Invicta Women: Building the Future of Girls’ Football in East Kent

April 29, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone Invicta Women won the league and cup in their first season, stepped up a division in their second, and are now building something bigger than results: a visible [...]

Folkestone Regeneration: Can £22m Heal A Town Of Two Halves?

April 28, 2026 // 5 Comments

Folkestone’s regeneration scheme began with a painful truth: the town was being described as “a town of two halves”. Now KCC is leading the transport and public realm [...]

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