Part 2: A big thank you to Kent Fire & Rescue Service
Kent Fire & Rescue Service (KFRS) don’t just attend home or commercial fires or road traffic collisions. As part of the service they have a dedicated Animal Rescue [...]
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A big thank you to Kent Fire & Rescue Service
Who could forget the sterling work Kent & Fire Rescue Service did during the earthquake in April 2007. Then just recently on Nov 8th at 7.30am, 50 Kent Fire & Rescue [...]
A Grand History
Between April 1981 and September 1981 the residents of the Grand made six written requests for a summary of costs for service charges to Michael Stainer (pictured circa [...]
Brexit: Preventing another Operation Stack
On the 23rd June 2016, 51.9% of the people of the United Kingdom voted in favour of leaving the EU. Now with Brexit just one hundred and eight days away, the Prime Minister [...]
Fixing a hole and saving a million
Folkestone Library is falling into disrepair and the holes need to be fixed to stop the rain from getting in. On Thursday 4th May 2017 David Monk was elected as a Kent County [...]
When one leaves, another arrives
On April 23rd 2018 a company was registered on the Luxembourg equivalent of Companies House. The name of this company was F55 Sterling Folkestone S. à r. l., Luxembourg an [...]
Otterpool Park Update: The first but not the last
Back in Jan of this year, Folkestone & Hythe District Council decided to set aside £3.675 million for land and property acquisition within the boundary of the Otterpool [...]
Staff losses & recruitment agency costs
Folkestone & Hythe District Council realise their biggest challenge to delivery of Council services is recruiting and retaining key skills in some areas of their work, [...]
GP Patient numbers up by a 1,000
In Sept 2017 seven of eight practices in Folkestone applied for permission to close their patient lists on the basis that they were “unable to take on more patients [...]
Homelessness & Housing
Under the umbrella of the Rainbow Centre working with Churches Together in Folkestone, the Winter Shelter will open its doors to the homeless on Monday December 3rd and will [...]
Royal Victoria Hospital sells for £1.25 million
EXCLUSIVE Back in March 2018, we brought you the post: Do you believe in coincidence? This speculated that a company by the name of RVH Folkestone Limited owned and [...]
Princes Parade “viable” without 150 homes says Folkestone & Hythe District Council
EXCLUSIVE It is now known that to make Princes Parade “viable” according to Folkestone & Hythe District Council, the 150 residential properties are not [...]
Black Days for the Unreasonable Stainers
Like an out-of-control juggernaut hurtling towards the precipice with no-one at the wheel, the Grand slides towards disaster. To be fair, there was someone at the wheel, [...]
The Long Read: Horn Street Stench, Part 2
Since we brought you Part 1 of The Horn Street Stench in early October 2018, more details about raw sewage backing up in toilets and baths and the stench have emerged. Horn [...]
Princes Parade Business Plan Delayed
Exclusive: Princes Parade Business Plan was to be discussed behind closed at the Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet, to be held on the 12th Dec. This will not [...]
Part 2: Betrayed by East Kent Housing
“All’s well that ends well.” ― William Shakespeare, After our post about Arthur on Monday, his life is in the process of being transformed. He was when our [...]
Breaking News: Who is in charge at the Grand?
Following the shock new of the bankruptcies of Michael and Doris Stainer and the liquidation of more of their companies, just who is running the day-to-day activities at the [...]
Betrayed by East Kent Housing
Arthur is 86. He has served in our armed forces and has been betrayed by one of his ward Cllrs, by Cllr Alan Ewart- James Cabinet member for Housing (pictured below left), by [...]
Peter Principle alive & well at East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust
The Peter principle is alive and well at East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust. If for one moment one believes that the proposal for a new Hospital at Canterbury, [...]
Kent MP Costs For 2017/18
All Kent MP’s have cost the UK Taxpayer the sum of £2,697,412, for the financial year 2017/18. (All information is drawn from IPSA’s website.). This is a 3.85% increase [...]
Part 3: One A & E for East Kent?
Below are the average emergency response journey times by postcode, for taking patients to either the A & E at the William Harvey Hospital Ashford and the QEQM Margate in [...]
The Grand Farewell: High Court Bankrupts the Stainers
Thirty two years after residents of the Grand first confronted Michael Stainer in Court, and three and a half years after HMRC arrested Stainer, his wife Doris and Robert [...]
We will remember them
For the Fallen With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, [...]
Otterpool Park Update: £18.9 million for land/property acquisitions
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet meeting on the 14th Nov will recommend to full council that it borrows an additional £10 million (the annual interest cost [...]
Transforming NHS Health Care in East Kent
“It’s about all the hospitals continuing to contribute, and all the hospitals doing something, but not all the hospitals doing everything.” Susan Acott [...]