Folkestone & Hythe District

Tony Vaughan MP KC’s Rooftop Solar “Win-Win”: The £125m Claim, the Missing Small Print, and Why It Doesn’t Add Up

January 24, 2026 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

Folkestone & Hythe War Memorials & Roll of Honour: Remembering All Who Fell on Land, Sea and Air

November 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe’s roll of honour stretches from village greens to the cliff-top memorials that face France. On The Leas, the Folkestone War Memorial carries around [...]

Deeply Concerning Persistent Absence Rates in Folkestone & Hythe Schools Post-Covid

March 10, 2025 // 0 Comments

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Folkestone & Hythe has experienced a significant surge in persistent absence rates across both primary and secondary schools. [...]

Part 2 – Land/Property Ownership by Companies & Organisations in Folkestone & Hythe District

January 31, 2025 // 0 Comments

Who owns the vast swathes of land and property in our district matters. It matters because land is a scarce resource – as Mark Twain put it, ‘they aren’t making it any [...]

Exclusive: Tory election result letter by Chairman Stephen James to their members

May 8, 2023 // 15 Comments

Exclusive As you know by now, the Tories in Folkestone & Hythe took a battering at the polling stations across the district on 4 May 2023. Within 48 hours the Chairman [...]

Irony & Solutions

April 28, 2023 // 1 Comment

Saying one thing and doing another is something our local Tories are good at. Let me explain, Recently I received a Tory leaflet through my door, as I suspect have many of [...]

Part 2: Housing, Housing, Housing, we need more housing

April 23, 2023 // 3 Comments

Over the last week, I have been asked about housing while out and about on the Campaign trail. I have answered questions to the best of my knowledge, and with the three sets [...]

Fuel Poverty: Hythe sees largest rise in fuel poverty, while Folkestone Central remains in first position

March 5, 2023 // 0 Comments

While our MP Damian Collins received taxpayers cash to heat his second home, 11% of households in the Folkestone & Hythe District were living in fuel poverty in 2020, [...]

Fly-tipping in Folkestone & Hythe District rises 52%, the highest in Kent

January 31, 2023 // 3 Comments

The number of recorded fly-tipping incidents between 2020/21 and 2021/22, across the Folkestone & Hythe District has grown by 52%, according to the latest statistics [...]

Part 3 – Census data for Folkestone & Hythe District

July 4, 2022 // 2 Comments

The census data shows the over 65+ population in the Folkestone & Hythe district has gone from from one in five in 2011, to one in four in 2021, and by 2028, this will [...]

Cllr Russell Tillson charged with 5 counts of historical sexual abuse.

March 22, 2022 // 4 Comments

Updated 23.3.22 @20:40 Parish & Town Cllr Russell Douglas Tillson (72) appeared at Sevenoaks Magistrates court today – Tuesday 22.03.22, and was charged with [...]

Brexit voters lost the jobs of the 800 P & O workers?

March 19, 2022 // 1 Comment

Updated Saturday 19.3.22 @ 18:30 Antonio Cirale, is not a name you have probably heard of prior to the last few days. He is the man behind International Ferry Management Ltd [...]

Rural & Affluent Areas of Folkestone & Hythe District see rise in Child Poverty

November 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

The release of the data by the DWP & HMRC for the number of children living in relative & absolute low income families (child poverty), have for the year end (31 [...]

2,338 hours of untreated diluted sewage discharged into sea of Folkestone & Hythe District in 2020.

August 11, 2021 // 5 Comments

Southern Water owned offshore in the tax haven of Jersey, discharged untreated diluted sewage into the sea of the Folkestone & Hythe District coastline for two thousand [...]

Are sexual assault and harassment figures in local schools reflective of the reality experienced?

May 30, 2021 // 2 Comments

On a cold wet Monday morning in January 2019, the Shepway Vox Team released a guest post written by two young ladies who attended two secondary schools here in the district. [...]

Broadband slowly improving across the district

May 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

Once again the latest data released by Ofcom for Broadband connectivity and speeds across our area shows a very mixed bag. It shows that Hawkinge for instance has 38.4% [...]

Ex Mayor gets Dick out.

May 7, 2021 // 6 Comments

Ex Mayor of Folkestone Cllr Jackie Meade (Lab) May 2019/May20 ousted incumbent Kent County Council Tory Cllr Dick Pascoe, and took the Folkestone East seat in the KCC [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District had highest levels of loneliness in Kent during pandemic

April 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

More people in Folkestone & Hythe District reported feeling lonely, always or often, during the pandemic, than any where else in Kent, according to data released by the [...]

Latest Covid Map show deaths “due to Covid” rose by 39% in Folkestone & Hythe District between Nov & Dec 2020

January 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

Deaths “due to Covid” deaths across the district of Folkestone & Hythe jumped by 38.62% in one month. Between Nov and Dec 2020 the number of Covid deaths grew [...]

Latest Covid Map

January 10, 2021 // 2 Comments

Covid has affected all neighbourhoods in the Folkestone & Hythe District without exception. Between Mar and Nov 2020 there were 145 deaths due to Covid. across the [...]

Breaking News: Debenhams & Civic Centre to be used in Covid-19 Vaccination Programme rollout.

January 7, 2021 // 7 Comments

Exclusive: Updated 17:30 07/01/21 The Shepway Vox Team have learnt the Civic Centre and the former Debenhams building are to be used in the Covid-19 Vaccination Programme [...]

Roll Out of Covid-19 Vaccine across the district to begin on the 11th January

December 23, 2020 // 5 Comments

Updated 24/12/20 @08:45 The Covid-19 Vaccine program has begun in the Folkestone & Hythe District. Oaklands Surgery in Hythe began the role out last week to patients in [...]

The value of local news

December 15, 2020 // 3 Comments

This is a guest post by Journalist Susie Boniface (pictured) aka @fleetstreetfox. Whenever someone asks me what my best story is, I always say “how do you define [...]

My Busy Hobby

December 11, 2020 // 2 Comments

This is the second blog of a number we’ll be running prior to Xmas written by residents of the district. This blog post is about their hobby. Here is a little [...]

An end to money for nothing?

December 9, 2020 // 6 Comments

Updated 12/12/20 @09:15 It has been the most blatant transfer of money from the poor to rich, and it has been going on since we joined the EU. Even now having all but left, [...]

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