Could Tony Vaughan MP Take Southern Water to Court Over Sewage?
Joining a briefing is easy. Holding a placard is easy. Posting angry words on social media is easy. The harder test is whether Folkestone and Hythe’s MP is prepared to do [...]
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Folkestone & Hythe GP Surgeries: Patient Experience and Access Scorecards
We have all heard the stock line: general practice is under pressure, staff are working flat out, and patients should be kind. All of that can be true. It can also be true [...]
Hythe Bay Bathing Water Warnings: Sewage Pollution and E. coli from Hythe to Dungeness
Hythe Bay’s “no swim” problem didn’t start in the 2020s. It has a paper trail that runs from the mid-1970s, through the coliform “fail” tables of the 1980s, into [...]
Southern Water Bills Rise as Sewage Spills Persist: 50 Years of Warnings on the Kent Coast
Southern Water customers are being asked to pay more again, and the public justification is that the money will “fix” the system. From April, the average bill is due to [...]
Tony Vaughan MP KC’s Rooftop Solar “Win-Win”: The £125m Claim, the Missing Small Print, and Why It Doesn’t Add Up
By the time you reach the bottom of Folkestone & Hythe MP Tony Vaughan KC’s rooftop-solar manifesto, you’re meant to bask in the warm glow of certainty: at last, a [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Millions Budgeted While Outline Permission Still Unissued; Homes England Recognises ‘Market Failure’ as 31 Dec 2026 Long-Stop Nears
By any normal measure, a council that “resolved to grant” outline planning permission, in April 2023, for a new settlement of this scale (8,500 homes) would be sprinting [...]
Deprivation Deepens in Folkestone & Hythe, Latest Data Shows
An initial look at the latest Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) shows Folkestone & Hythe has fallen further down England’s deprivation table. On the headline “rank [...]
Britain First protest at Lydd Town Hall; meeting cancelled over paperwork
Britain First supporters are planning to demonstrate outside Lydd Town Hall on Monday 3 November at 7.30pm. Kent Police have been notified; in an email seen by The Shepway [...]