KCC’s Foreign travel: Planes, Trains & Automobiles
On July 14 last year we informed you that officers of KCC had visited the following 13 countries: New Zealand, Iceland, Finland, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Moldova, [...]
Otterpool Park update
It’s always good to make things clear at the very beginning. Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) in relation to Otterpool Park are one of the developers [...]
£200 million has gone to 3 Kent County Council PFI contractors
Kent County Council (KCC) have three Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Contractors who between them receive payment for 11 schools all of which were built in the noughties. [...]
The End of the Grand Road? The Stainer empire totters toward disintegration.
“In December 1985 about 30 of the 50 tenants at the Grand issued proceedings in the High Court against Mr. Stainer(pictured) (the defendant) in his capacity as landlord.” [...]
The Long Read: Stillbirth – a silent tragedy
In East Kent, on average there will be a stillbirth or neonatal death every five days, that is 70 families every year devastated by the death of a baby, affecting whole [...]
The Stainers’ Last Stand?
Has the music finally come to an end for the Stainers (pictured)? Has the 33 years of incessant battling through numerous court cases, insolvency proceedings, an individual [...]
Meet the East Kent Housing bosses
If you are an East Kent Housing Tenant and had issues with P & R, there will be a meeting at Dover Discovery Centre, York St, Market Square, Dover CT16 1PH, Room 112 [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Overpayments 17/18
We want to tell you, we really do, but we can’t. It isn’t because we cannot tell you because of some legal reasons, it’s because Folkestone & Hythe [...]
Part 2: P & R Installation Company Ltd
A month ago we brought you a Long Read blog about P & R and how badly they were performing in relation to the £27 milllion pound central heating, emergency 24/7 gas and [...]
Stagecoach’s £132 million KCC funding.
Since the 1st April 2010 to the 31st March 2018, Stagecoach, the local bus company which serves much of East Kent and Folkestone & Hythe District have received £131.8 [...]
Are East Kent Housing turning a blind eye?
“It’s just not possible, really it isn’t possible”. However, East Kent Housing Ltd (EKH) – The UK’s first ‘super ALMO’, managing over [...]
Wanted – Help us help Michael Stainer.
Like all law-abiding citizens, we are firm believers in the rule of law. People who commit crimes should be apprehended, charged, prosecuted and if found guilty, sentenced [...]
The Long Read: Kent Police can extract mobile phone data without your knowledge, your consent or a warrant.
How important is your mobile phone to you? How important is the data on your phone? If your phone could talk what wouldn’t you want it to say about you? What about the [...]
Second jobs held by Kent Police staff include writers, charity workers & volunteers.
Teachers, Local Government Officers, Bookkeepers and Foster Carers are among second jobs and business interests registered by more than 650 staff working for Kent Police. [...]
Part 2: M & R Refurbishments Ltd.
In our first post about M& R Refurbishment Ltd (M & R), we informed you there had been allegations of overcharging and potential fraud by M & R on the external [...]
The Grand: Hidden in plain sight.
After a six month lay-off from court appearances following what he misleadingly described to High Court Registrar Raquel Angelo QC as a “serious accident”, it was good to [...]
Free Course – Interrogating data.
Data matters. Data – Facebook data – so it is claimed may well have influenced the Brexit Vote and is currently being investigated by our own MP, Damian Collins [...]
£15 million for Pensand House & Malborough Court, Hythe.
Bids in excess of £15 million pounds are being sought for the purchase of Pensand House (pictured) and Malborough Court in South Rd Hythe.(They are to the left of Hythe [...]
On Street Parking
Parking is an issue which many of you feel strongly about. Folkestone & Hythe District Council state there has been a substantial increase from on street & off street [...]
Councillors Expenses 2017/18
So we have crunched the data on Cllrs Expenses and for the fourth year in a row they are wrong. – Expenses include – subsistence (food drink) Travel, eg train, [...]
The Long Read: M & R Refurbishments Ltd.
East Kent Housing (EKH), the largest arms length management organisation in the country, recently employed a contractor to undertake external painting of its Council housing [...]
The Council “neither confirms nor Denies” the Allegations of sexual harassment/misconduct leading to Settlement Agreements.
Back in Sept 2017 we brought you the post about Jeremy Chambers (pictured) being dismissed for Gross Misconduct. The allegations were that Jeremy was placed on gardening [...]
Otterpool Park Update
Housing Minister Dominic Raab (pictured) has potentially fixed a £350,000 problem for Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC). Back in January of this year, [...]
Dymchurch Recreation Ground
It all began with two simple sentences in the minutes of the 11 Jan 2017 (agenda item 2) report made by Dymchurch Parish Council. The two simple sentences said: This led to [...]
Kent MP Expenses & Allowances
The most expensive MP in Kent for the first ten months of the financial year April 2017 – Jan 2018 is Charlie Elphicke MP of Dover. In second place is our own Damian [...]