Dirty Air, Green Silence: Folkestone & Hythe’s PM2.5 Failure
Folkestone & Hythe is above the World Health Organization guideline for PM2.5. The council doesn’t directly monitor PM2.5. It has no Smoke Control Areas. It logged 129 [...]
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Farage Helicopter Row: How Reform’s David Wimble Put His Boss in the Spotlight
Nigel Farage now faces questions over undeclared helicopter travel linked to a Reform UK donor. The delicious Kent twist? The trail was opened up by Reform’s own Cllr David [...]
KCC Prayer Row: Reform Councillors Defy Legal Warning
No pothole has ever been filled by filming councillors saying the Lord’s Prayer. No care package has ever been arranged by singing the national anthem into a webcast. There [...]
Otterpool Park Update: £24m Paid Out, Sewage Works Approved, Delivery Questions Remain
Before a single Otterpool Park home has been built, Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s own payment data shows nearly £24m in Otterpool equity, share-capital and [...]
Reform UK Runs Kent. KCC’s Oracle Cloud Bill Has Risen 134%
Kent County Council’s new finance system may be necessary. But with the bill now heading past £30m, the question is brutally simple: how is this saving the people of Kent [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Expenses: Officers Get Higher Meal Allowances Than Councillors
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” George Orwell wrote, and at Folkestone & Hythe District Council that principle appears to have [...]