Is Operation Brock “illegal”?
Updated 06.10.22 @18:08 Again and again and again. The issue of traffic jams blocking up the M20 and local roads has gone on for more than two decades, and regardless of who [...]
Rory Love
Cllr Rory Love’s application for Public Inquiry into stopping up road at Princes Parade accepted
Kent County Council Cllr Rory Love OBE (Con) (pictured) & Andy Weatherhead (Con) petition application for a public inquiry into the stopping up of the road at Princes [...]
Senior Council Officers and Cllrs rewarded handsomely for losing public purse tens of thousands of pounds
Between them they have lost the public purse tens of thousands of pounds and failed to keep the publication scheme up to date. The publication scheme aims to make the maximum [...]
Broadband slowly improving across the district
Once again the latest data released by Ofcom for Broadband connectivity and speeds across our area shows a very mixed bag. It shows that Hawkinge for instance has 38.4% [...]
Ex Mayor gets Dick out.
Ex Mayor of Folkestone Cllr Jackie Meade (Lab) May 2019/May20 ousted incumbent Kent County Council Tory Cllr Dick Pascoe, and took the Folkestone East seat in the KCC [...]
Learning from mistakes
We the Shepway Vox Team get it wrong sometimes. When we do we like to be open about our mistakes, and if necessary apologise. This is one of those ocassions where we need to [...]
Tories Dump The Monk
Updated: @11.50am – Feb 12 2022 So the local Tory party has dumped the Monk. In a selection battle for the 2021 KCC County Elections, Cllr Monk (pictured below left) [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Financial Irregularities
Irregularities in Cllrs expenses claims and paying P & R in breach of the Council’s contract both happened in 2018/19. Dr Susan Priest was the Head of Paid Service [...]
KCC trough feeding Cllrs receive £2 million in Allowances & Expenses
The trough feeders at Kent County Council all 81 elected Councillors have cost the Kent ratepayer nearly £2 million pounds in allowances & expenses for 2018/19. Below [...]
Cllrs Allowances & Expenses 2015/16 – 2018/19 in three graphs
Once again we have crunched the data on our Cllrs allowances & expenses and reproduced the data in three graphs which show what they have received in 2018/19, what they [...]
Happy New Year to you all.
First we must congratulate Cllr Rory Cassian Love for his award of an OBE. He was first elected in 1987 and stood in the Folkestone Harvey Ward. He came third in the vote [...]
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 [...]
Your councillors allowances & expenses Apr 17 – Mar 18
Once again for the third time in four years there are anomalies in our Cllrs allowances & expenses. The people who are responsible for ensuring Folkestone & Hythe [...]