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27th January 2022Graffiti artists find their work blitzed by high-pressure sprayers in clean-up
GRAFFITI artists' unsightly scrawlings are set to be sprayed into oblivion as part of a programme to spruce up local communities. Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council has eradicated 30 ...
21st January 2022Scandal-hit sewage firm Southern Water pledges to change
SEWAGE company Southern Water has pledged to make “transformational” changes to its local infrastructure to protect Kent’s local environment amid spillage concerns. Kent County ...
Council pays £7m to buy Maidstone House - full details
MAIDSTONE House, the six floor building in King Street, has been bought by the borough council. The authority is currently a tenant but has secured the office space as part of £7.07m ...
STOLEN: Thieves rip out three parking machines belonging to council
THREE parking machines belonging to Maidstone Borough Council were stolen at the weekend. The units were ripped out of the ground in Mote Park andCollege Road. Another appears to have been ...
PARK & RIDE CLOSURE: Lib Dems launch petition to save it - full story
ALMOST 1,500 people have signed a petition to save the Maidstone Park and Ride (P&R) service. Liberal Democrats have launched theappeal to highlight Conservative-led Maidstone Borough ...
JABS ON WHEELS: Catch the pop-up bus in Maidstone for vaccines and boosters
MAIDSTONE residents are being encouraged to getjabbed in the coming weekat a pop-up vaccination centre on wheels. Vaccine and boosters will be on offer at the 'walk in' bus ...
ROAD WORKS: Nine major Maidstone schemes announced this year - full details
KENT County Council has announced projected start dates for nine significant road schemes making up the Maidstone Integrated Transport Package. - A249 Bearsted Road widening from Bearsted ...
Housing provider offers Christmas gift of counselling
A SOCIAL housing provider is to provide support to its tenants over the festive period into the new year. Golding Homes is offering a Tenant Support and Wellbeing Service as a Christmas gift to ...
Tonbridge & Malling council helps Afghan family resettle after airlift escape
Tonbridge and Malling has welcomed its first family from Afghanistan following the summer’s mass airlift of civilians fleeing the Taliban. The couple and their four children, who are belived ...
CANCELLED: Crunch secret meeting on scrapping of Park & Ride has been shelved
A SECRET meeting to challenge the decision to scrap Maidstone's Park and Ride service has been postponed until the new year. The "call in" by Liberal Democrats and Labour to oppose the ...