July 2016

On Saturday 6th August a mass demonstration will be taking place in Hythe, against Development across Shepway & Ashford. Demonstrators will gather from 10.30AM onwards  in Douglas Avenue (opposite Waitrose car park) to move off at 11am. The Kent countryside (like elsewhere) has now [Click to Read More]

If you are free today and have nothing better to do, why not pop along to Sunflower House, Foord Rd, Folkestone, for a free Training Day on how to Investigate Companies from 11 am – 5pm bring a laptop, Learn how to ‘Investigate a Company’ Would you like to learn about SDC’s [Click to Read More]

Some casual research earlier this year in to the activities of Oportunitas Limited (OL) led to the profile of one Alan Ewart-James, Hythe Town Councillor and Shepway District Council Councillor(below): he the resigned OL director, he was also an officer of East Kent Housing and Hythe Against [Click to Read More]

If there has been unauthorised and fraudulent expenditure at Shepway District Council, is our external auditor Grant Thornton able to investigate?  Yes, but to investigate they will have to ask Shepway District Council for more money to carry out the investigation. Is this something Shepway [Click to Read More]

Each quarter Shepway District Council (SDC) must publish purchase orders above £5000. SDC as we have informed you say they will not release the PO’s for inspection, while the accounts are open. What are SDC hiding when they MUST publish the purchase orders above £5000? The Annual Fraud [Click to Read More]

SDC are being both patronising and disingenuous regarding our public face access to the accounts which are open to inspection until Friday 12th August. They have refused access to the Purchase Orders, this we believe is utter financial nonsense as do the many accountants we have spoken to as well. [Click to Read More]

Cllr Brian Copping (below) who represents the, East Folkestone Ward on Folkestone Town Council (below) has abused his position as a Councillor and brought the office of Councillor into disrepute. We call on Cllr Copping to step down with immediate effect. This story starts in 1996, 20 years ago. [Click to Read More]

SDC’s Planning Advisor, Mr. C Lewis, has been a busy person, in the last financial year 2015/16. For most of it, he does what he does at SDC, but then in November & December 15 he free’s himself from his desk and strides forth to various meetings and training courses. (All dates of [Click to Read More]

The Residents of the troubled Grand, not to be confused with holiday makers who stay in the 17 apartments owned privately by Mr.and Mrs Michael Stainer of which more later, were alarmed to see workmen doing safety checks on the west facing balconies. Chunks of plaster had come crashing down by the [Click to Read More]

Jeremy Chambers, a Shepway District Council Corporate Director (below) has been very hospitable on our behalf. Jeremy took seven people to lunch on Wednesday 3rd June 2015, at Blooms Folkestone. and we footed the bill, all £254.60 of it. (All information is taken from inspection of SDC’s [Click to Read More]