Following a request from Cheriton Councillor Tim Prater, the Shepway Public Rights of Way Officer has agreed to arrange a site meeting with a contractor to mark out the correct line of the path running from Valebrook Close to Pond Hill Road in Cheriton.
A Labrador-cross has been found abandoned in a dog exercise area in Radnor Park, Folkestone. He was caught by daybreak and taken to kennels from where he will be either re-united with his owners or found a new home.
Controversial plans to build an anaeobic digestion plant and materials recycling recycling facility at Otterpool Quarry in Sellindge will be discussed by Shepway District Council's Development Control Committee this week.
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With the start of the summer school holidays, Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) is urging parents to warn children of the dangers of fire and the potentially life-threatening consequences of deliberate fire setting.
Neil Matthews recently spent a day at the Folkestone Police headquarters, including a morning briefing with Chief Inspector Ivan Pickering, a tour of the headquarters and visit to the Community Safety Unit where a multi-agency approach is taken dealing with all kinds of community problems, from dog fouling to ASBOs.
EDF Energy has announced it is putting up gas prices by 22% and electricity prices by 17% for domestic customers. The firm has blamed the increase, which comes into effect on 25 July, on record wholesale energy costs.
Folkestone & Hythe's Lib Dem Parliamentary Spokesman Neil Matthews visited the RSPB reserve at Dungeness today with Lib Dem District Council Group Leader Lynne Beaumont.
Folkestone Liberal Democrat campaigner Gary Fuller has discovered that the Principal of Sussex Downs College, one of South Kent College's prospective merger partners, has visited all three of the South Kent campuses in the past couple of weeks.
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Liberal Democrat members have renewed our commitment to fix the front door of the NHS, restore patient choice, end dental deserts, and ensure preventative care is accessible before health problems turn into emergencies.
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