Kent Police requires improvement on investigating crime
Kent Police police are failing to meet required standards at investigating crime, according to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) that raises questions over whether [...]
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Wimble’s Looker Magazine, applies for £19,000 from Council’s High Street Fund
Cllr David Wimble (Ind) (pictured) is never a man far away from controversy or fake news. Just recently we informed you he’d made a complaint about Fred Miller of [...]
Council Tax rises to add to cost of living misery for Kent residents
Two down, three to go. It’s that time of the year Parish Councils, District Council’s the County Council, Kent Police and Kent Fire & Rescue Service (KFRS), [...]
Kent County Council Draft Budget – it ain’t good news
On Thursday Feb 10, 2022, Kent County Council [KCC] will be setting it’s budget. But before we begin, we wish to draw your attention to a matter which needs raising. [...]
Otterpool Park update: Borrowing, hidden soft market testing and a Dodgy man in charge
To purchase Folkestone racecourse site from the Reuben Brothers for £25 million; which included Monk’s private fishing lake, the council borrowed the money, but [...]
The charmed lives of Cllr Ray Field & Cllr Clive Goddard
Have Cllr Ray Field (Ind – Harbour Ward) and Cllr Clive Goddard (Con – Wallend & Denge Marsh) broken the Council’s Code of Conduct by knowingly or [...]
Assaults and abuse of Kent frontline emergency staff continues throughout pandemic
Obviously, assaults on emergency workers are unacceptable. That is so obvious as to be trite, but for the avoidance of doubt, that is our starting point. Anything we can do [...]
Digital Judas betrays us all
Mobile phones, long a tool of liberation, have now become a digital Judas, regardless who we are, or where we are from. Mobile phones have helped tens of thousands of [...]
Kent Safeguarding Children Multi-Agency Partnership predicted the future.
On Tuesday 29th Sept, shortly before 8pm, a homeless man was attacked on Tontine Street, Folkestone. He was taken to hospital with head and back injuries. He was attacked [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Land Assemby for Otterpool Park cost £37.7 million to date
On the 4th Feb 2020 it was announced Cllr Ian Meyers (UKIP) had stepped down from his Cabinet position “to allow him more time to care for family members.” [...]
Kent & other Police forces take too much data from victims’ phones, says watchdog
Almost two years ago to the day, we ran the blog post The Long Read: Kent Police can extract mobile phone data without your knowledge, your consent or a warrant. That post [...]
Foreign Criminal Organisation Perpetrate Ransomware attack on £600m Kent County Council owned company
Following on from our first report on the ransomware attack 12 days ago, a Kent County Council (KCC) spokesperson has revealed to the Shepwayvox Team that it was: “A [...]
District homeless housed in B&B’s where county line gang members operating from during covid-19 crisis
County line gang members are operating from B&B rooms in the district where Folkestone & Hythe District Council have housed vulnerable homeless people during the [...]
Kent Police Have Chosen NOT To Use Their Drones During Covid-19 Lockdown
At the beginning of covid-19 lockdown there was drone footage appearing across the national press of people seemingly flouting the lockdown. One instance was the people [...]
Cllr Clive Goddard “relieved” he will NOT be charged for Electoral Violations
Exclusive In Oct 2019 and Jan 2020 we brought you posts about Cllr Clive Goddard (Con) (pictured), Cllr for Walland & Denge Marsh and whether he would be charged for [...]
Cllrs Under Criminal Investigation By Kent Police for Leaking Commercially Sensitive Information
Exclusive A handful of Folkestone & Hythe District Cllrs are under criminal investigation by Kent Police; for leaking the commercially sensitive information about how [...]
Would You Stand By This Man?
Updated April 23 2021 @10:15am A year ago, we called Michael Stainer A Grand Fantasist and a Grand Failure. Now, as yet another legal defeat batters the sinking Michael [...]
Love Is All You Need
Monday morning at 5am as the day begins, all you need is love, love is all you need. However, that is not what a growing number of people of another race, disability, sexual [...]
Emergency workers deserve better.
It seems inconceivable to most of us that anyone would wantonly attack, injure or in any other way assault a nurse, fire officer paramedic or police officer. Yet every day [...]
Are Kent Police still a force to be reckoned with?
In the last two years Kent Police have recorded 157 burglaries of dwellings in our district. And 72 recorded burglaries on business and community buildings. In this time [...]
The Long Read: Vigilantes or Crime Stoppers? The Two Faces of FAPAC. (Part 1 & 2)
Fair Play and FAPAC: Crime Prevention or Vigilantism? Lucky Dover residents now enjoy the protection of one of the first Business Crime Reduction Partnerships (BCRP) in the [...]
Local Elections May 2nd 2019: Appearance Matters
Appearance matters so the Council says and in Folkestone Central ward, that statement is a load of rubbish. Companies are upping and leaving due to drug dealing, [...]
Gerrymandering in Folkestone & Hythe District Elections?
EXCLUSIVE It would appear from evidence that is publicly available Gerrymandering could be happening in the Folkestone & Hythe District elections which are to be held on [...]
Knife Crime in Kent at highest levels ever.
Kent has recorded the biggest increase of knife crime in England and Wales, up 152% since April 2010, according to The Guardian. Figures for Kent show a threefold increase in [...]
A big thank you to Kent Fire & Rescue Service
Who could forget the sterling work Kent & Fire Rescue Service did during the Folkestone earthquake in April 2007. Then just recently on Nov 8th at 7.30am, 50 Kent Fire [...]