Cllr David Wimble’s Problem With Numbers
When a cabinet member says his party has 76 councillors at Kent County Council, but the official figure is 47, that is not a tiny slip. It is less a rounding error than a [...]
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Southern Water, Sewage and Kent’s Water Crisis Reach County Hall
Updated 18 March 2026 Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. W. H. Auden Cllr Stuart Heaver’s motion on water infrastructure is serious, overdue and [...]
Kent Councils’ Environmental Health Powers on Sewage: Who to Contact and What They Can Do
Yesterday, we looked at What Powers Does Kent’s Director of Public Health Have Over Sewage Pollution. Today, in the final part of this public health series, we turn to the [...]
Kent E. coli Cases, Sewage and the Public Health Risk
Professor Chris Whitty Chief Medical Officer for England – pictured – warned that sewage in rivers and seas is a public health problem, not merely an [...]
Folkestone & Hythe Council’s Offshore Ownership Blind Spot
Some councils publish policies that look a bit stale. Folkestone & Hythe District Council appears to prefer the full museum experience. Its public anti-money-laundering [...]
Kent and Medway Food Parcel Crisis: Trussell Data Exposes Hunger Across Every Council
If anyone in Kent and Medway still wants to pretend the cost-of-living crisis is basically over, the numbers have brought a shovel and are digging up that fantasy. In the [...]
Kent Wood-Burner Pollution: 78,380 Estimated Stoves and the Clean Air Powers Councils Aren’t Using
A set of EPC-based estimates, circulated via a British Medical Jornal (BMJ) rapid response and now re-summed and charted, suggests there are roughly 78,380 domestic [...]
Rough Sleeping in Kent: Snapshot Trends and District Hotspots
On one night each autumn, Kent’s 12 district councils go out and record how many people are sleeping rough. Not in hostels. Not in night shelters. Not sofa-surfing. Just [...]
Southern Water Sewage: The Hidden Cost to Kent’s Sea Swimmers and Seaside Businesses
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” [...]
Kent Councils’ Out-of-Area Temporary Accommodation: The FOI Numbers
When a council accepts that a household is homeless, it often has to find “temporary accommodation” fast. That can mean anything from a hotel or B&B to a short-term [...]
Kent County Council Budget: Reform UK’s Debt Pledge and the Risks Behind the Numbers
After more than seven hours of debate at Sessions House, Reform UK passed its first ever Kent County Council budget — and did it with a political flourish that could not [...]
Kent NHS Whistleblowing: Freedom to Speak Up Promises vs Tribunal Reality
THE NHS will always need whistleblowers. Healthcare is complex, rapidly changing and dangerous; staff are fallible, variably trained and widely spaced; and demands are huge [...]
South East Water Exposed: 14 Bewl Waters Lost to Leaks (2012–2025), Dividends Paid, Outages Mount, Regulators Investigate
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” W.H Auden In Kent and Sussex, fresh water – a most precious commodity, is now a kind of [...]
South East Water Firms Lost 127.97 Billion Litres to Leaks in a Year — Targets Missed, Fines Paid, Customers Still Left Short
“Water is the driving force of all nature.” – Leonardo Da Vinci “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” – W.H.Auden Fresh water [...]
Kent County Council’s Own Population Projections Show an Ageing Crisis That Depends on More Migration and Births – While Its Reform UK Leaders Attack Both
When the leader of Kent County Council, Cllr Linden Kemkaran – pictured, went on KMTV after Rachel Reeves scrapped the two-child benefit cap, her message was blunt. [...]
Kent’s £78.2m bus funding: where the money comes from — and where it goes next (Stagecoach, Arriva, Luxembourg, Delaware)
Kent’s buses are in line for £78.2 million of new funding. On paper, it is money to improve routes, cut fares and upgrade vehicles. In practice, a good part of it will be [...]
Kent MPs’ IPSA spending league table 2024–25: who claimed the most and least (total office, staffing, accommodation and travel costs)
Kent and Medway’s MPs claimed £3,591,044.17 in parliamentary staffing and “business costs” in the 2024–25 financial year (1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025), according [...]
Kent & Medway Homelessness by District (2022/23–2024/25): Section 21 Surges, While Thousands of Homes Sit Empty
Between 2022/23 and 2024/25, every council in Kent and Medway has been feeding detailed case-by-case homelessness data to Whitehall through the national H-CLIC system – the [...]
Mark Quinn: Quinn Estates’ Power, Philanthropy — and the Quinn Investments Accounts Behind Kent’s Biggest Developments
For most people in east Kent, the name “Mark Quinn” means big housing schemes, glossy CGI images and often fierce planning rows. Less visible is the quiet holding company [...]
Hythe Imperial Hotel, GSE Group and the Healey–Bowles Empire: Inside Kent’s Construction, Property and Truckstop Network. A Shepway Vox Investigation
When you walk along Hythe seafront, the Hythe Imperial Hotel & Spa looms over the promenade – a refurbished Victorian pile now marketed as a luxury coastal retreat. [...]
Why Folkestone & Hythe Backed the East Kent Unitary ‘Option 3A’ – Democracy, Devolution and the District’s Future Explained
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. Oscar Wilde Folkestone & Hythe District Council has formally backed the [...]
Exposed: Cllr David Wimble’s Misleading Kent SEND Transport Claims — Fact-Checked and Debunked
In a recent Looker “rant” Kent County Councillor David Wimble blames home-to-school transport (HTST) and “self-diagnosing” parents for council tax hikes, [...]
One Council or Five? Kent & Medway’s Local Government Overhaul
Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) is a plan to overhaul how councils are structured and run in Kent and Medway. In plain terms, it would replace the current two-tier [...]
Kent NHS: Staff Intimidation Linked to St George’s Flags and Far-Right Protests Risks Delaying Home Care
Health visitors and community nurses report intimidation amid a surge of flags and far-right protests. KCHFT brings in “yellow/red card” sanctions as leaders warn fear [...]
HMRC names & shames Alcaline and Shepherd Neame, among others, for NOT paying minimum-wage
Kent’s latest “name and shame” list from HM Revenue & Customs reads like a roll call of penny-pinching employers who failed to pay legal minimum rates. The current [...]