Cayman Islands

Southern Water Sewage: The Hidden Cost to Kent’s Sea Swimmers and Seaside Businesses

February 19, 2026 // 4 Comments

Updated: 20/02/26 @ 14:50 This is a long read, because the devil is in the detail — and, in this case, the detail is the difference between “a reassuring icon on a map” [...]

From Kent Fields to Cayman Waterfront: The Offshore Life of Pentland Homes Boss James Nettlam Tory

November 24, 2025 // 0 Comments

When residents in Folkestone, Hawkinge or Ashford argue with Pentland Homes over traffic, contamination or yet another field turning into “executive homes”, the man who [...]

Southern Water: No clue how much undiluted raw sewage they’ve pumped into our seas for 34 years

February 22, 2023 // 7 Comments

Exclusive They don’t have a clue. Not a single idea of how much undiluted raw sewage they pump into our rivers and seas. Is it plausible that the closing of St [...]

Offshore Companies based in Tax Havens own the Procurement Portal used by our Council

September 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

The road to hell, so they say, is paved with good intentions. So it was on the 25 Sept 2019, at full council, Cllr Lesley Whybrow (Green) (pictured) moved in Opposition [...]

Bats, badgers, threatened species & lethal levels of contamination on former officers mess, Hawkinge

May 17, 2021 // 4 Comments

In 2015, Tom Goldsmith set up a petition on Change.org which gained 407 signatures. The title of the petition was: Say No to the development on the Hawkinge officers Mess and [...]

Council have lost £1.4 million of income due to Covid-19

October 22, 2020 // 1 Comment

It was inevitable and the inevitable has happened, but they are NOT alone. All councils are being hammered financially by the Covid-19 pandemic. Between April 1st and August [...]

Part 2: KCC Pension Fund is divesting from fossil fuels but still investing in countries who do not uphold LGBT rights

September 11, 2020 // 1 Comment

The KCC Pension Fund total investments were valued at £6.6bn on 31 December 2019. Just three months later, on the 31st March 2020, the pension value had shrunk to £5.7 [...]

Land Banking Leads to a Grand Cayman Lifestyle

July 9, 2020 // 4 Comments

“Buy land,” said Mark Twain. “They’re not making it any more.” “Then once you’ve bought it, sit on it for a while, apply for planning permission, and sell it on [...]

KCC Pension Fund slowly but surely divesting from assets which kill humans and destroy the planet

August 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

For its 135,000 investors it is good news, so is it for the rest of us. Kent County Council’s Pension Fund is slowly but surely divesting pension assets from [...]

Property & Land Held in Each Kent District by Overseas Companies.

November 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

In conjunction with Ian Driver, a blogger from Thanet, we the Shepwayvox Team, bring you a district by district comparison of how many properties (includes land) are held in [...]

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