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 [...]
Folkestone
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Long Read: Marlie Farm Holiday Park
It doesn’t make sense, it just doesn’t make sense.. Marlie Farm Holiday Park (New Romney, Kent) was purchased by Harts Holiday Camps Limited on the [...]
Another award for The Grand
It’s not all bad news at the Grand as litigator supreme Michael Stainer walked away with the award for the “Brass Neck Performance” of 2018. For a man who has a neck [...]
A bunch of muppets, dodgy data, & Pensand House & Marlborough Court.
One lunch time last week 29th Oct – 2nd Nov, I received an email. I opened it and read it and to my surprise found myself laughing at its contents. The email only [...]
Part 2: One A & E for East Kent?
The cost to build a new hospital at Canterbury would be in the region of £120 million. A hospital of this cost would be able to accommodate between 850 -900 beds, [...]
A Victory for the Public Interest.
EXCLUSIVE Our public face sent his Environmental Information Request to the Council on the 6th Jan 2017. Yesterday 31st Oct 2018, the First Tier Tribunal (General [...]