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Neighbour’s Cat Keeps Sh*tting in My Garden? High Court Says It Can Be a Statutory Nuisance (Get Video Evidence)

January 5, 2026 // 1 Comment

There are few phrases more likely to unite a nation than “cats have a right to roam”. And few more likely to start a neighbourhood cold war than “your cat has used my [...]

Part 3: Beyond the Slogans: Official Figures Show Britain Can’t Fund the NHS or Pensions Without Migration

January 5, 2026 // 0 Comments

This is the final part of our series exploring why migration matters, building on the arguments set out in Parts One and Two. Migration, asylum and the bigger demographic [...]

Part 2: Beyond the Slogans: Official Figures Show Britain Can’t Fund the NHS or Pensions Without Migration

January 5, 2026 // 0 Comments

This continues Part One of our blog series on why im/migration is necessary. Part Three will follow. The asylum headlines: big bills, small numbers At this point the [...]

Anti-Misogyny Lessons in Schools: What the Data Says About Boys and Girls

January 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

The Government has unveiled a new package of measures aimed at tackling what it calls a “national emergency” in violence against women and girls (VAWG), with schools [...]

Kent’s Pothole Stats Contradict Each Other: Press Release vs FOI Figures

January 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

Newspapers, or bloggers aren’t like the government… if we make state-ments we have to prove they’re true.  Kent’s highways story this winter has offered a gentle [...]

Why Benefit Fraud Makes Headlines — and Council Insider Fraud Rarely Does

January 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

A familiar story did the rounds in the run-up to Christmas: a benefits claimant exposed by covert video, prosecuted, and written up in a way that leaves little doubt about [...]

Otterpool Park’s 1001-Day Section 106 Delay Exposes England’s Planning Logjam

December 30, 2025 // 0 Comments

On 4 April 2023, Folkestone & Hythe’s Planning and Licensing Committee resolved to grant outline planning permission for Otterpool Park—a new garden town proposed at [...]

Folkestone & Hythe DC Funding 2025/26–2028/29: Core Spending Power, Council Tax and the Real Squeeze

December 28, 2025 // 0 Comments

On 17 December 2025, Government published the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement for 2026/27 to 2028/29 (a three-year settlement, with later years still subject [...]

Kent County Council Funding Explained: Why the “£50m Boost” and “£127m Increase” Are Both True (Fair Funding vs Core Spending Power)

December 26, 2025 // 0 Comments

If you ever want to start a festive row in a Kent WhatsApp group, don’t mention politics. Mention “extra government funding” — and then watch three people produce [...]

Draft NPPF 2025 Explained: What’s Changed Since 2024 and What It Means for Planning Decisions, Housing Numbers and the Green Belt

December 24, 2025 // 0 Comments

Yes — we know you love it. We know you wanted it under the Christmas tree. And the Government, in the spirit of festive excess, has delivered: a brand-new Draft National [...]

Reform UK’s Paranoid “Coup” Claim in Kent: Political Theatre Meets the Hard Limits of the Law

December 22, 2025 // 3 Comments

By any normal standard of political language, accusing the Prime Minister of plotting a “coup” against Kent County Council is the sort of thing you say when you’ve run [...]

Wood-Burner Boom in Folkestone & Hythe District: 1,356 Recorded Installs — and the Council’s Blind Spot

December 22, 2025 // 1 Comment

An Environmental Information request has forced Folkestone & Hythe District Council to put hard numbers on something residents have been arguing about for years: how fast [...]

Michael Hadwen at Kent County Council as Reform UK Creates Taxpayer-Funded Political Assistant Roles: Has He Already Been Appointed?

December 19, 2025 // 0 Comments

Updated: 19 Dec 15:55 Mr Michael Hadwen was in the Kent County Council chamber yesterday. On its own, that is not a crime, a scandal, or even unusual: local democracy is [...]

“Like Nuclear Weapons”: Kent County Council Approves Political Assistants — Taxpayer Cost Up to £98,564 a Year (Plus On-Costs)

December 19, 2025 // 0 Comments

“If my enemy has one, then I ought to have one.” That was the Christmas-season dilemma put to Kent County Council this week as members voted to approve taxpayer-funded [...]

Otterpool Park: More Than £76m Spent, 0 Homes Built — Ten Years After Folkestone & Hythe’s Garden Town Land Buy

December 18, 2025 // 0 Comments

More than £38,967,500 has been spent assembling land and property for Otterpool Park (according to the Land Registry and the council’s asset-register spreadsheet). Add [...]

Kent County Council Political Assistants: Reform UK Plan Could Cost Taxpayers Up to £98,564 a Year in Salaries (Plus On-Costs)

December 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council will be asked at Full Council tomorrow (Thursday 18 December) to approve the creation of Political Assistant (agenda item 11) posts for qualifying [...]

Part 2 – Lyminge Parish Council in Crisis: Missing Overtime Policy, Governance Gaps and Bullying Concerns

December 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

The follow-up to our earlier account is not pretty. Over the last few months of 2025, with the permanent clerk on leave and a temporary clerk in post, the parish council’s [...]

Kent & Medway ICB: DSF Loss, Long NHS Waits and Conflicts of Interest Concerns — What the Board Papers and Spending Data Reveal

December 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) went into its November 2025 board cycle carrying two burdens at once: worsening financial weather, and a governance question [...]

Princes Parade Write-Off and Oportunitas Valuation Error: Audit Scrutiny Intensifies as Folkestone & Hythe Audit & Governance Meeting Is Postponed

December 16, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Audit & Governance Committee was due to meet tomorrow evening (Wednesday 17 December, 6pm) to scrutinise the 2024/25 Statement [...]

Part 1: Beyond the Slogans: Official Figures Show Britain Can’t Fund the NHS or Pensions Without Migration

December 16, 2025 // 2 Comments

This three-part blog explores why, in a rapidly ageing, low-fertility Britain, migration is not a lifestyle choice but a basic requirement for keeping the country running. [...]

The Grand Folkestone: Residents Report Utility Billing Disputes, High Energy Charges and Unresolved Fire Door and Corridor Lighting Concerns

December 16, 2025 // 1 Comment

Residents at The Grand in Folkestone have contacted us with a new set of concerns about day-to-day management of the building — including what they describe as long-running [...]

Exclusive: The Shepway Vox Team Asks New Kent & Medway NHS ICB CEO Adam Doyle to Clarify Investigations After Procurement and Governance Concerns Emerge

December 16, 2025 // 0 Comments

Exclusive We, the Shepway Vox team, understand that a cluster of serious concerns has been raised inside NHS Kent and Medway’s ICB leadership orbit — including potential [...]

Bailiffs Return to The Grand Folkestone: £20,490 Unpaid CCJ Raises Fresh Service Charge Fears for Leaseholders

December 12, 2025 // 1 Comment

Bailiffs were reported at The Grand in Folkestone again on Monday 8 December, in what residents say was another confrontation over unpaid electricity linked to flats — a [...]

Freemasons in Local Government: How Secret Membership and £5bn Procurement Fraud Risk Are Undermining Trust in UK Councils

December 12, 2025 // 1 Comment

The government’s own anti-corruption documents and fraud figures leave little doubt: local government is now a frontline battleground against fraud and corruption – and [...]

Kent Life Expectancy by District and Constituency (2001–2024): Biggest Gaps, Biggest Gains and What It Means for Folkestone & Hythe’s Ageing Population

December 12, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent is often described as a single place with a single health story. The reality, once you look at the life-expectancy numbers, is very different. Across the county, people [...]

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