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Rural Areas in Folkestone & Hythe District Still Receiving Slow Internet Speeds Nearly Two Years On.

May 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

Nearly 60% of people living on Romney Marsh do not receive broadband speeds of 10 Megabytes per second (Mbps). On Average 51% of the district receive download speeds of [...]

More than 3,000 Children Living In Poverty In Folkestone & Hythe District.

April 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

Child poverty in the Folkestone & Hythe district wards, has risen for the fifth year in a row. The number of children aged under 16 living in relative or absolute poverty [...]

Cllr Ian Meyers Steps Down From Cabinet

February 3, 2020 // 1 Comment

Cllr David Monk (Con), Leader of Folkestone & Hythe District Council has asked Cllr Ian Meyers (UKIP) – Romney Marsh Ward to step down from the Cabinet. No [...]

What’s It All About?

December 24, 2019 // 1 Comment

“What’s it all about?” my wife asked me one evening, just before she fell asleep. I didn’t know, but I didn’t like to admit it, and I lay awake all night thinking [...]

Slum Landlord, Double Payments, Overcharging and Killing Pensioners

October 15, 2019 // 2 Comments

Double payments, overcharging, lack of adherence to legislation and a failure to manage the P & R contract, and all the issues raised in Appendix 3: Audit report for East [...]

Climate Change: Act Local, Think Global to save our planet

September 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

If we are to save our planet we have to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees, if at all possible. And then we will have to reverse the trend: containing the change is simply [...]

Pollution levels on the rise across more than half of areas measured by Folkestone & Hythe District.

September 18, 2019 // 2 Comments

Mums are amazing! They have given each of us our lives, they carried us, cared for us and sustained us throughout the nine months we tend to spend in their womb. New research [...]

35 “affordable” homes may be coming to New Romney

August 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

At the next Planning & Licensing Committee to be held on the 27th August 2019, an outline planning decision for the development of 117 homes (30% affordable) in New [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent £5 million on Consultants for Princes Parade & Otterpool Park

July 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent £5 million on consultants for Princes Parade & Otterpool Park since March 2016. Both sites which our council wish to [...]

A history of the Romney Wimble sheep companies

May 11, 2019 // 4 Comments

One of the new sheep on the block after the local elections, who goes by the name of Romney Wimble Sheep, has the Shepwayvox Team rather concerned. This particular sheep has [...]

Exclusive: Three new breeds of Romney Marsh sheep

May 10, 2019 // 2 Comments

Exclusive: Romney Marsh is a place known worldwide for producing some of the worlds finest sheep (Ovis Aries). The sheep are docile and are well known for following their [...]

Local Elections 2nd May 2019: Thank You

May 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

All five thousand leaflets have been delivered across Folkestone Central ward where I – Bryan Rylands (pictured) – am standing for election on May 2nd. I’d [...]

Cllr Roger Wilkins cast doubt over Romney Marsh nuclear dump

February 6, 2019 // 2 Comments

According to Cllr Roger Wilkins at a meeting of Dymchurch Parish Council on Monday 4th February, he stated that the Romney Marsh Partnership and and Dungeness Site [...]

Romney Marsh nuclear dump plans alive since Sept 2017

February 1, 2019 // 6 Comments

Back in Sept 2018 we told you that Folkestone & Hythe District Council (F&HDC) were actively considering a Geological Disposal Facility. Now Kentonline Romney Marsh [...]

The Long Read: Marlie Farm Holiday Park

November 6, 2018 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

Geological Disposal Facility Update.

October 9, 2018 // 2 Comments

Romney Marsh Partnership is a quango. It was set up in 2012 to lead the delivery of the Romney Marsh Socio-Economic Plan. As an unelected quango with no mandate it has [...]

David Wimble – land of make believe – Part 3

January 26, 2018 // 1 Comment

Thank you, to each and every one of you who wrote to the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) about David Wimble‘s (pictured) claim that the Looker website online [...]

Is David Wimble a Fantasist: Part 2

January 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

So thirty seven of you have contacted us and informed us that you made contact with the Advertising Standards Agency over David Wimble‘s claim that the Looker website [...]

A Pedlar Of Foul Deeds? You Decide.

July 27, 2017 // 3 Comments

Income & Employment deprivation are the two largest factors affecting Central and Northern Folkestone and pockets on Romney Marsh according to Shepway District Council. [...]

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